Beyond Armageddon
Subtitle: Twenty-One Sermons to the Dead
Contributors: Walter Miller (Editor); Martin H. Greenberg (Editor)
Publisher: Plume
Published: October 3, 1986
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 387
ISBN-13: 9780917657962
Subjects: War stories, American; Science Fiction - General; Fiction - Science Fiction; Science Fiction; Science fiction, American; Fiction / General; Fiction; Nuclear warfare
First sentence: For the most part, this book is about the aftermath of Megawar, but in a frequent speculative scenario, the last "war" in the world, rather than beginning with sneak megabangs by a superpower, escalates from a murderous scuffle where both sides are out of boundsin a place such as Iran, Cuba, Pakistan, Nicaragua; the scuffle builds through angry frustration to a few rounds of kiloton-level tactical violence, and thence to the insane confrontation: the last called bluff.