Future Wars... and Other Punchlines

Future war may be future hell - but there'll also be future hilarity. War, as the general said, is hell, but it also has its humorous moments, though the humor may be grim, and you "had to be there" to get the joke.

• Future war may be future hell — but there’ll also be futurehilarity. War, as the general said, is hell, but it also has its humorousmoments, though the humor may be grim, and you “had to be there” toget the joke. War is likely to continue into the future, and into space, nomatter how many idealistic speeches are made and U.N. sponsored treaties getsigned, and so will the wartime jokes, ranging from slapstick to gallows humor.And if “you had to be there” to get the point, some of the bestwriters in science fiction are on board to put you there, including David Drake,Frederik Pohl, Howard F. Waldrop, and Christopher Anvil.