Showing results for "Peace" in Anthologies & Short Stories

Heed the Slammers Battle Cry! A warrior's truth: "In the long run, everybody's dead. So screw the long run!" Patriotic hoo-ha may be well and good for recruitment parades, but David Drake's battle-hardened mercenaries know it takes tanks, guns, and grit to win when the real fighting flares. Yet peace brings its own problems to old soldiers - for killing potential enemies in battle is self-limiting, but once the killing starts in peacetime, there may be no end to the madness.

This short story is from the anthology Mitigated Futures. Twelve science fiction stories about the oncoming future, each of them representing a possible glimpse of what could be just around the corner... or much further down the corridor. These stories previously appeared in places like Clarkesworld Magazine, The Year's Best SF, Subterranean Magazine, and in various anthologies. They deal with the future of war, our climate, and technology's effect on our lives.

The Alien is about a man who has an alien show up mysteriously in his bedroom uninvited. The alien makes demands for him to go on some errands like stopping at take away restaurants to order a large quantity of food. His appearances become more and more frequent and there are times when the man does get upset, though there are also some seemingly miraculous things that happen. After some time the alien grows on him and sees him as a friend.