War Games
 Laugh in War’s Face!
With the deft touch of a Keith Laumer, hard-SF master and legendary Analog regular Christopher Anvil brings together mind-bending ideas and grim-but-true black humor in the face of war’s utter destruction in this mega-compilation of Anvil’s adventure masterpieces edited by modern-day SF master, Eric Flint!
“[H]is characters are science-fiction descendents of Odysseus, the scheming fast thinker who dazzles his opponents with his footwork.”
— Best-seller David Weber on SF legend, Christopher Anvil.
Cover Art by Alan Pollack
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 Hardcover
This is a work of fiction. All the characters and events portrayed in this book are fictional, and any resemblance to real people or incidents is purely coincidental.
First printing, December 2008
Distributed by Simon & Schuster
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New York, NY 10020
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Anvil, Christopher.
War games / by Christopher Anvil ; edited by Eric Flint.
p. cm.
ISBN 1-4165-5602-8
1. Science fiction, American. 2. War stories, American.
I. Flint, Eric. II. Title.
PS3551.N9W37 2008
813'.54--dc22
2008032555
Printed in the United States of America
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ISBN-13: 978-1-4165-5602-2
ISBN-10: 1-4165-5602-8
Copyright© 2008 by Christopher Anvil
All rights reserved, including the right to reproduce this book or portions thereof in any form.
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Acknowledgments
"Truce By Boomerang" was first published in Astounding, December 1957.
"A Rose By Other Name . . ." was first published in Astounding, January 1960.
"The New Member" was first published in Galaxy, April 1967.
"Babel II" was first published in Analog, August 1967.
"The Trojan Bombardment" was first published in Galaxy, February 1967.
"Problem of Command" was first published in Analog, November 1963.
"Uncalculated Risk" was first published in Analog, March 1962.
"Torch" was first published in Astounding, April 1957.
"Devise and Conquer" was first published in Galaxy, April 1966.
"War Games" was first published in Analog, October 1963.
"Sorcerer's Apprentice" was first published in Analog, September 1962.
"The Spy in the Maze" was first published under the title "The Problem Solver and the Spy," in Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, December 1965.
"The Murder Trap" was first published in The Man From U.N.C.L.E. Magazine, January 1967.
"Gadget vs. Trend" was first published in Analog, October 1962.
"Top Line" was first published in Analog, February 1982.
"Ideological Defeat" was first published in Analog, September 1972.
The Steel, the Mist, and the Blazing Sun was first published in 1980 by Ace Books.
"Philosopher's Stone" was first published in Analog, January 1963.
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