Harry Turtledove
The Best military Science Fiction of 20th century
(editor)
INTRODUCTION …………………………………………………………..Harry Turtledove
AMONG THIEVES…………………………………………………………. Poul Anderson
SECOND VARIETY…………………………………………………………. Philip K. Dick
HERO ………………………………………………………………………………Joe W. Haldeman
SUPERIORITY …………………………………………………………………Arthur C. Clarke
ENDER'S GAME ………………………………………………………………Orson Scott Card
HANGMAN ……………………………………………………………………..David Drake
THE LAST ARTICLE ……………………………………………………….Harry Turtledove
THE GAME OF RAT AND DRAGON…………………………….. Cordwainer Smith
NIGHT OF THE VAMPYRES………………………………………….. George R. R. Martin
TO THE STORMING GULF…………………………………………….. Gregory Benford
WOLF TIME…………………………………………………………………… Walter Jon Williams
THE SCAPEGOAT…………………………………………………………… C. J. Cherryh
DRAGONRIDER……………………………………………………………… Anne McCaffrey
Sing, goddess, of the accursed rage of Akhilleus Son of Peleus, which gave pain to countless Akhaioi, Sent the many sturdy souls of warriors to Hades, and left their bodies as spoil for all the dogs And birds of prey…
It is well that war is so terrible, or we should grow too fond of it
Here at the dawn of the third millennium C.E., we don't like to think about actually fighting wars. We hope we've outgrown them. For more than half a century, we've had the chance to wreck our civilization, and we haven't taken it. This says something good about us as a species, maybe even something surprisingly good. Perhaps-just perhaps-we aren't really so stupid as we often give signs of being.