There Won't Be War [Paperback]

Harry Harrison (Author), Bruce McAllister (Editor)

Book Description

Publication Date: November 1991

A 'Hopeful' Science Fiction anthology co-edited by Harry Harrison and Bruce McAllister notable for the inclusion of the early Charles Stross story 'SEAQ and Destroy' which has not been collected elsewhere.

Editorial Reviews

From School Library Journal

YA-- A collection of short stories by well-known science-fiction writers, all of which share an antiwar theme. Some are humorous, such as Isaac Asimov's ``Frustration;'' others, such as William Tenn's ``The Liberation of Earth,'' are poignant. Kim Stanley Robinson's ``Lucky Strike'' and James Morrow's ``Known but to God and Wilber Hines'' are about past conflicts, taking real events and twisting them into ``what if'' themes. A valuable addition to sci-fi collections both for the insight these stories bring into the struggle for peace, and for the historical view of the impact of war.
- Susan McFaden, Fairfax County Public Library, VA
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Product Details

• Paperback
• Publisher: Tor Books (November 1991)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0812519418
• ISBN-13: 978-0812519419
• Product Dimensions: 7.1 x 4.1 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.8 ounces
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,314,973 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Bruce McAllister is known primarily for his literary fiction and fantasy, science fiction and thriller fiction, which he's been publishing professionally since he was sixteen. He was born in 1946 in Baltimore, MD, to a peripatetic Navy family with an Annapolis-graduate father who served with NATO during the Cold War and an underdog-championing anthropologist/archeologist mother whose specialties were Early Man and Native American studies. As children, he and his brother Jack lived in Florida, Washington D.C., California and Italy. From l974 to l997 he taught at the University of Redlands in southern California, where he helped establish and direct writing programs. Since l998 he has worked as a writing coach and book and screenplay consultant. His short fiction has appeared in literary quarterlies, national magazines, original anthologies, "year's best" anthologies and college readers; won awards from Glimmer Train magazine and the National Endowment for the Arts; and been a finalist for the Hugo, Nebula and New Letters awards. His non-fiction articles on sports, popular science and writing have appeared in a variety of magazines and newspapers. He has three wonderful children--Annie, Ben and Elizabeth--and lives in Costa Mesa, California, with his wife, choreographer Amelie Hunter.