Showing posts with label Matt Gallagher. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Matt Gallagher. Show all posts
Friday, January 6, 2017
Know Your Enemy, by Matt Gallagher
More from the Wired Magazine Science Fiction issue. Know Your Enemy is a tribute to Haldeman's The Forever War, and rings very true. It's set in the future but that's not particularly important--the point is the relationship of war veterans to the rest of society. We are in a period where we glorify military service beyond measure, partly to make up for the guilt of putting the soldiers in harm's way. The protagonist in the story, a female Marine, reflects on this and many other things about being a disabled vet. It's a good story, solidly written and allows drawing your own conclusions. I give it 3 stars.
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