“Rocket Boy”
| Year for Search |
2007
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| Secondary Title |
Future Weapons of War
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| Author | |
| Annotation |
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. |
| Pagination |
43-65
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| Published Date |
2007 |
| Publisher |
Baen
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| Place Published |
Riverdale, New York
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| Full Text |
2007 McAuley, Paul J[ames] (b. 1955). “Rocket Boy.” In Future Weapons of War. Ed. Joe [Joseph William] Haldeman (Riverdale, NY: Baen, 2007), 43-65. 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. PSt 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. |
| Additional Publishers |
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. |
| Holding Institutions |
PSt |
| Author Note |
(b. 1955) |