SOCIAL NETWORKING ICONS CARD LOGOS NEWSROOM Customer Login EMAIL NEWSLETTER In The Time of War & Master of the Road to Nowhere [hc] by Carol Emshwiller [OUT OF PRINT] TITLE : In The Time Of War And Other Stories Of Conflict A COLLECTION by Carol Emshwiller PUBLICATION DATE : May 2011 EDITION : Jacketed Hardcover COVER ART : Ed Emshwiller PRINT RUN : Unsigned INTRODUCTION : Ursula K. Le Guin & Phyllis Eisenstein ISBN : 978-1-848631-53-3 SYNOPSIS : In this double-header collection featuring the very best of Carol Emshwiller -- with one half of the book featuring stories set in times of relative peace and the other half in war -- the author demonstrates how, in the words of the Philadelphia Enquirer , she "has never lost her capacity to surprise." In In The Time Of War And Other Stories Of Conflict : Soldiers go off to burn the library and the books of the enemy; a general saves a little girl; a woman steals a wounded imprisoned general of the enemy to work in her fields; and a doctor doesn't remember what side he's on but helps the wounded anyway. "Looking back at my anti-war stories," the author says, "I can see that I always want to have a character from one side fall in love with a character of the enemy's side." In Master Of The Road to Nowhere and Other Tales of the Fantastic : Aliens try to take over the world through our dogs; a woman