Deserts of Fire: Speculative Fiction and the Modern War

First printing per number line
No date other than year. Source of date unknown but matches Amazon.com as of 2022-03-21.
Cover artist credit per copyright page & rear cover
Cover design by Lesley Worrell per copyright page & rear cover
Divided into sections, each with a one- or two-page introduction by the editor (the titled essays in the index here). Each story is preceded by an author bio.
Story titles are all given in quotes, but this seems a stylistic decision by the editor and so quotes have not been included here
"Excerpt from Corrosion" is titled as per publication

Year	Reviewer	Publication
2016	Paul Di Filippo	Locus Online
2017	Samira Nadkarni	Strange Horizons, 16 January 2017
2017	Norman Spinrad	Asimov's Science Fiction, May-June 2017

Page	Title	Author(s)	Type
1	Introduction (Deserts of Fire)	Douglas Lain	Essay
5	Vietnam Syndrome	Douglas Lain	Essay
9	The Big Flash	Norman Spinrad	Novelette
33	The Village	Kate Wilhelm	Short Story
43	Terrorism	Douglas Lain	Essay
47	The Frozen One	Tim Pratt	Short Story
55	The Language of Monsters	Michael Canfield	Short Story
77	In the Loop	Ken Liu	Short Story
93	Wasps/Spiders	Brendan C. Byrne	Short Story
103	Weapons of Mass Destruction	Douglas Lain	Essay
107	Text of Colin Powell's Speech to the UN Security Council Cut Up with Regret	Anonymous	Short Fiction
111	The Seventh Expression of the Robot General	Jeffrey Ford	Short Story
119	Shock, Awe, and Combat	Douglas Lain	Essay
123	Over Here	Ray Vukcevich	Short Story
135	Shaytan, the Whisperer	Pedro Iniguez	Short Story
147	Five Good Things About Meghan Sheedy	A. M. Dellamonica	Short Story
167	The People We Kill	Audrey Carroll	Short Story
177	Light and Shadow	Linda Nagata	Short Story
199	Mission Accomplished	Douglas Lain	Essay
203	Winnebago Brave	Rob McCleary	Short Story
217	Seeing Double	Ray Daley	Short Story
223	Life After Wartime?	Douglas Lain	Essay
227	Sealed	Robert Morgan Fisher	Short Story
233	Unzipped	Steven J. Dines	Short Story
243	The Sun Inside	David J. Schwartz	Novella
283	Excerpt from Corrosion	Jon Bassoff	Short Fiction
307	War Is Over? (Do We Want It?)	Douglas Lain	Essay
311	Noam Chomsky and the Time Box	Douglas Lain	Short Story
343	Arms and the Woman	James Morrow	Novelette

Title		Year	Publisher	Format	Type	Catalog ID	Cover Artist	Pages
Deserts of Fire: Speculative Fiction and the Modern War		2016	Night Shade Books	eBook	Anthology		Richie Pope
Deserts of Fire: Speculative Fiction and the Modern War		2020	Gateway / Orion	eBook	Anthology

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