“Rocket Boy”
| Title | “Rocket Boy” |
| Year for Search | 2007 |
| Authors | McAuley, Paul J[ames](b. 1955) |
| Secondary Authors | Haldeman, Joe [Joseph William](b. 1943) |
| Secondary Title | Future Weapons of War |
| Pagination | 43-65 |
| Date Published | 2007 |
| Publisher | Baen |
| Place Published | Riverdale, New York |
| Keywords | English author, Male 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. |
| 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) |
| 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. |
