A Separate War & Other Stories
This is a short story collection. I like anthologies, and this one was pretty good. The stories are: A Separate War: the end of The Forever War told from the perspective of Marygay. Diminished Chord: love and music on an old harp like instrument. Giza: genetic engineering to enable space mining. Foreclosure: let's get rid of those nasty squatters. Four short novels: eventually it came to pass that no one ever had to die... For White Hill: artists as collateral damage in an interstellar war Finding My Shadow: biological warfare in Boston. Civil Disobedience: global warming in a post Bush world. Memento Mori: a very short story about modern medicine. Faces: life as a draftee on a planet with a noxious atmosphere. Heartwired: viagra for the soul. Brochure: a badly polluted Earth reopens as a Disney resort. Out of Phase: a shape shifting alien learns about power on Earth, to the detriment of the Earthlings. Power Complex: the same shape shifting alien learns about real power. Fantasy for Six Electrodes and One Adrenaline Drip: a script involving love (or at least sex) and murder in a world with immersion entertainment.