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  • The New Centurion: A Tale of Automatic War
    ...hive.org/details/newcenturionata00eastgoog/page/n5] Anthologized ''British Future Fiction 1700-1914'', ed. I. F. Stone. vol. 6 (of 8 vols.). London: Pickerin ...ed by Stone in the volume "The Next Great War." In his review of ''British Future Fiction'' (''SRFA Review'' #254-55 [Sept.-Dec. 2001]), Alan Sandison, notes
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  • Danger! (story)
    ...90). The story was written a year and a half before the outbreak of World War I. Clarke notes Doyle was quite as deliberate as [[Wells, H. G.|Wells]] had been [in ''War of the Worlds'' and elsewhere]. He wrote, he said, in order 'to direct publ
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  • In a Conning Tower
    ...n apolitical, non-propaganda attempt by a future UK Secretary of State for War to give, in the words of the author, "'a faithful idea of the possible cour
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  • Body Armor: 2000
    ...ered armor in R. A. Heinlein's Starship Troopers and J. Haldeman's Forever War. See Supertanks below, this section. Rev. Barry H. Reynolds, FR #91, 9.5
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  • American War: A Novel
    ...audiobook from Audible.com.[https://www.audiobooks.com/audiobook/american-war-a-novel/285041] ...ces Prophesying War]]''; cf. in some key points Frederik Pohl's ''The Cool War''.[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cool_War]
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  • The Quiet War
    '''McAuley, Paul. ''The Quiet War''.''' London: Gollancz, 2008. New York: Pyr, 2009.[http://www.isfdb.org/cgi ...e Quiet War'' combines elements of space opera, terraforming colonization, future technowar, ecocatastrophe and sociopolitical fantasy [...].
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  • Fail-Safe
    ...d (unfortunately!) petty-much realistic fiction, bordering on SF on future-war of the thermonuclear variety. ...in Jenni G. Halpin, review of "Under the Shadow: The Atomic Bomb and Cold War Narratives," ''SFRA Review'' #306 (Fall 2013): pp. 15-16.[http://sfra.org/r
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  • Wells, H. G.
    ...Herbert George.''' Note evaluation by I. F. Clarke, ''[[Voices Prophesying War]]'', ch. 3, p. 87: ...nsion of science and mechanism' and 'the absolute revolution in the art of war that science and mechanism are bringing about'. (Quoting Wells, ''Anticipat
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  • Across Real Time
    '''Vinge, Vernor. ''Across Real Time.''''' Combining ''The Peace War'' (1984) and ''Marooned in Realtime'' (1986). Garden City, NY: Doubleday, n ...iction). ''Marooned in Realtime'' is a detective story sequel set in a far-future with pathetically few human beings, divided up into "high-techs" and "low-t
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  • Science Fiktion
    ...offers a steampunk takedown of the logic of the Cold War. In this imagined future, two nations compete for global dominance: Uniterr, an exaggeration of the ...Kornbluth's ''[[The Space Merchants]]'' and Pohl's sequel ''The Merchants' War'' (1984).[http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?11825]
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  • New Toys for Robocop Soldiers
    ...r in R. A. Heinlein, ''Starship Troopers'', and J. Haldeman, ''The Forever War'' (cited under Fiction).
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  • Who?
    Near-future Cold-War intelligence novel featuring a badly injured American scientist who gets cy
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  • Cobra (novel series)
    ...ven implanted nanocomputers for fire control and combat reflexes. When the war is over, nobody wants them around, and they are exiled to a world of their ...and contrast fighting suits, as in [[Starship Troopers]] and [[The Forever War]].
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  • Discoveries and Inventions of the Nineteenth Century
    ...on future-war produced in the UK and Western Europe in the run-up to World War I. Routledge acknowledges how "the wise and good" look forward a time of pe ...sider that the more costly and ingenious and complicated the implements of war become, the more certain will be the extension and the permanence of civili
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  • The General
    ...a tale of nation building. . . . [where] nationhood . . . develops out of war." As part of "the book's computer-centered theology[,] . . . computer compo
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  • Science Fiction by Gaslight
    .... is long and useful; includes sections on "Marvelous Inventions," "Future War," and significant stories by E. P. Butler, J. B. Harris-Burland, J. K. Jero
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  • Lifekeeper
    ...while the intellectuals wander topside in nomadic tribes. The coms worship war and destruction. The hero, a com Exceptional, looks into a computer malfunc
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  • Supertanks
    Anthology of 10 future-war stories featuring high-tech tanks and other weaponry. The tanks are mobile
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  • Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams
    "[[Autofac]]," 5 March 2018. As in the story, "after a nuclear war, a small community of survivors" finds themselves "challenged by an automat ...emphasis.[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foster,_You%27re_Dead!] "In a near-future dystopia, the United States is divided between high-tech, hysterically para
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  • 1922 (stage play)
    ...es adjusted accordingly), Zacharias Rumpler is granted a wish to visit the future. For the ''Clockworks2'' theme note the vision of the 20th century, general ...balloon-taxis abound), and finds equally “stupid” and “terrible” armies of war machines that automatically fight each other. After inadvertently ruining a
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  • Starship Troopers
    ...ree men against "hive-communism." Cf. and contrast Joe Haldeman, ''Forever War'' (cited this Category). Discussed by H. B. Franklin, ''Robert A. Heinlein'
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  • Superiority
    ...e does not ensure its victory. See under Background citation for M. Boot's War Made New; see also Matthew Appleton's review of The Best Military Fiction,
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  • THINGS TO COME (film, 1936)
    ...rrible war. Final portion includes a visual celebration of machines of the future. Discussed by W. Warren Wagar in "Steel-Gray Saviour," q.v. under Literary
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  • Buck Rogers Rides Again: RMA
    ...volution' in High-Tech Systems Promises Big Profits & for the US Risk-Free War." ...g/wiki/Revolution_in_military_affairs] was not news to those following the war wonks in the Soviet Union and later the West, but this story was significan
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  • Science Fiction Models of Future Order Systems
    '''Livingston, Dennis. "Science Fiction Models of Future Order Systems."''' ''International Organization'' 25 (Spring 1971): 254-70. ...and R. Theobald and J. M. Scott, Teg's ''1994: An Anticipation of the Near Future''. Refers briefly to other S.F. works, including "prophetic novels" by H. G
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  • La guerre au vingtième siècle
    ...Albert]], author and illustrator. ''La guerre au vingtième siècle''''' (''War in the 20th Century''). In ''La Caricature'', 1883. Paris: Georges Decaux, ...be able to create new instruments of war," hence, new ways (and costs) of war. Clarke finds Robida a relative "lightweight" (p. 83) but Robida's work her
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  • Frederick Soddy: Promise and Danger of Atomic Energy (and Weapons) — 1915
    ...Nobel Prize in Chemistry, warned publicly of the future dangers of atomic war."[https://journals.sagepub.com/toc/sthd/14/2] ...e draws a more compelling picture in the opening to his "Alchemy to Atomic War" essay.
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  • The Great War and Modern Memory
    '''Fussell, Paul. ''The Great War and Modern Memory'''''. Oxford, UK: Oxford UP, 1975. ...ant for ''Clockworks 2'', in noting as a central fact of the war novel and war itself the "image of the vulnerability of flesh to metal" and the stress he
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  • The Battle of the Swash
    ...nt Macdonald, Kate, Richard Bleiler, and Stephen Donovan, eds. ''Political Future Fiction: Speculative and Counter-Factual Politics in Edwardian Fiction''. L ...ences of a Volunteer'' (1871), so see for the theme of future war with the future part of our past. Immediately relevant here, according to Ellis,
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  • Verne, Jules
    ...ificance for future-war stories, see I. F. Clarke's ''[[Voices Prophesying War]]''. ...stands halfway between the earlier occasional and incidental treatment of future warfare in fiction and the full development on that theme in the last fifte
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  • Walkaway
    ...e; love and romance; a post-scarcity gift economy; revolution and eventual war; and a means of finally ending death."[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walkaw ...df] Pak asks, instructively, concerning pretty-much-current and quite-near-future, technology in ''Walkaway'' (so see for importance of technology in communi
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  • Homo Deus
    ...ith an equally [...] provocative book, turning his focus toward humanity's future and our quest to upgrade humans into gods. ...humankind has managed to do the impossible and rein in famine, plague, and war. [...] For the first time ever, more people die from eating too much than f
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  • The Battle of Dorking
    ...French, German, and Portuguese: see I. F. Clarke's ''[[Voices Prophesying War]]'' pp. [224]-26 and passim. ...gical devices could have a decisive effect on the outcome of a battle or a war" (Clarke ch. 1, p. 3; see also ch. 2, pp. 45-47).
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  • The Black Mirror and Other Stories: An Anthology of Science Fiction from Germany and Austria
    ...o the German contribution to Future War novels (cf. ''[[Voices Prophesying War]]'') and Marvell notes those of " Hans Dominik [... where] the hero is usua
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  • Anno Domini 2071
    I.F. Clarke cites ''2071'' as usefully typical in ''[[Voices Prophesying War]]'', ch. 5, "From the Somme and Verdun to Heroshima and Nagasaki." ...e the Dutch writer and social commentator, Pieter Harting, looked into the future and in ''Anno Domini 2071'' revealed how universal happiness would be sure
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  • BioShock
    ...wers of Ryan and the followers of an unseen rebel called Atlas. During the war, citizens of Rapture overused ADAM, deforming them physically and mentally. ''BioShock'' utilizes the steampunk aesthetic of creating a future with anachronistic elements. For example, ''BioShock'' contains advanced ge
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  • Hardfought
    ...ace, military setting" and in a kind of meditation on the "futility of the war ideal." ...other is Prufax, a (post) human fighter being indoctrinated in the ways of war against the Senexi. Primed for her first battle, little does she know she
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  • Final Frontiers: Science Fiction and Techno-Science in Non-Aligned India
    ...and the global non-aligned movement that emerged as a response to the Cold War and decolonization. Today, we see the trend of science fiction writers bein ...he uses of weapons" should be immediately relevant for the theme of future war.
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  • Clipper of the Clouds
    ...ls attention to how recently-invented or future "machines could be used in war" as seen in "a remarkable episode" in ''Clipper'' where one of Robur's adve
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  • Solution Unsatisfactory
    ...st nuclear energy uses in Heinlein's ''[[Blowups Happen]]'' and the future war motif elsewhere.[https://tinyurl.com/y5c58zj2] Cf. and strongly contrast th
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  • Rebels Against the Future: The Luddites and Their War on the Industrial Revolution
    '''Sale, Kirkpatrick. ''Rebels Against the Future: The Luddites and Their War on the Industrial Revolution (Lessons for the Computer Age).''''' Reading,
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  • Legion of the Damned (novel series)
    Space opera/future-military SF. ...ighting-suit stories such as ''[[Starship Troopers]]'' and ''[[The Forever War]]''.
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  • CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE FIRST AVENGER
    ...n on "The Gernsback Continuum," or, alternatively put, giving "The Way the Future Was," as seen in 1940s comic books. In the science-fictional parts of ''C.
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  • Voices Prophesying War
    '''Clarke, I. F. ''Voices Prophesying War: Future Wars 1763-3749.''''' 1966. Second Edition. Oxford, UK, and New York City: O See for discussions of such future-war (and related relevant topics) in such works as
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  • Hardware (comic)
    ...trast the armor and its uses in ''[[Starship Troopers]],'' ''[[The Forever War]],'' ''[[Forever Peace]]'', [[IRON MAN]], and Ripley in an exoskeleton figh Mentioned and quoted in Mark Dery's [[Black to the Future: Interviews with Samuel R. Delany, Greg Tate, and Tricia Rose]].
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  • THINGS TO COME
    ...rrible war. Final portion includes a visual celebration of machines of the future. Discussed by W. Warren Wagar in "[[The Steel-Gray Saviour: Technocracy as
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  • The Pinocchio Gambit
    Basically a technologist defection story set in a near future when a Cold War-style conflict between the USA and "red China" starts to heat up and go ver ...rt A. Heinlein's ''[[Starship Troopers]]'', Joe Haldeman's ''[[The Forever War]]'' and their successors — and for OTHER early examples see Leonard G. He
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  • Derian, James Der, "War Games: The Pentagon Wants What Hollywood's Got"
    '''Derian, James Der. "War Games: The Pentagon Wants What Hollywood's Got."''' ''The Nation'' 270.13 ( ...preparation for real world contingencies.' Its motto is telling: 'All But War Is Simulation'" (41-42). See under Fiction O.S. Card's ''[[Ender's Game]]''
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  • LAWNMOWER MAN 2: JOBE'S WAR
    '''LAWNMOWER MAN 2: JOBE'S WAR.''' Farhad Mann, dir. USA: Allied Films / Allied Entertainments, 1995. ...that last image, cf. and strongly contrast Cole being interrogated in the future underworld at the beginning 12 MONKEYS (1995), and passim. For motorcycles
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  • The Microsoft-Google AI War
    ...able here.[https://www.wbur.org/onpoint/2023/06/06/the-microsoft-google-ai-war] ...riority alongside other societal scale risks such as pandemics and nuclear war."
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