TY - STAND KW - Male author KW - English author AU - Paul J[ames] McAuley (b. 1955) AU - Joe [Joseph William] Haldeman (b. 1943) AB -

The story starts in the dystopia of an Earth destroyed in war and under a dictatorship, but, given the conceit of the volume in which it first appeared, a boy is given an intelligent weapon and uses it to overthrow the dictatorship and become a new dictator.

BT - Future Weapons of War C5 -

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(b. 1955)

C7 - 2007 CY - Riverdale, New York DA - 01/2007 LA - eng N1 -

Rpt. in his A Very British History: The Best Science Fiction Stories of Paul McAuley, 1985-2011 (Hornsea, Eng.: PS Publishing, 2013), 313-29 with an author’s note on 432. 

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The story starts in the dystopia of an Earth destroyed in war and under a dictatorship, but, given the conceit of the volume in which it first appeared, a boy is given an intelligent weapon and uses it to overthrow the dictatorship and become a new dictator.

PB - Baen PP - Riverdale, New York PY - 2007 SP - 43 EP - 65 T2 - Future Weapons of War TI - “Rocket Boy” ER -