@booklet {8975, title = {{\textquotedblleft}Rocket Boy{\textquotedblright}}, howpublished = {Future Weapons of War}, year = {2007}, note = {

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.\ 

}, month = {2007}, pages = {43-65}, publisher = {Baen}, address = {Riverdale, New York}, abstract = {

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.

}, keywords = {English author, Male author}, author = {Paul J[ames] McAuley (b. 1955)}, editor = {Joe [Joseph William] Haldeman (b. 1943)} }