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eBook Category: Horror Nebula Award(R) Nominee, Nebula Award(R) Preliminary Ballot Nominee
eBook Description: August 6, 1945: From the depths of a dark cave near Hiroshima, the ancient evil of the living dead greets the new evil of modern warfare at the dawn of the atomic age.

eBook Publisher: Fictionwise.com, Published: Extremes: Fantasy and Horror from the Ends of the Earth, 2000
Fictionwise Release Date: November 2001

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Words: 3596
Reading time: 10-14 min.
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B. J. Thrower’s main character in "Original Child" is complex enough to keep us guessing about his conflicting emotions and his motives. We share his sights and insights in post-atomic Hiroshima, walk beside him through the streets and horrors, and we follow his transformation. I highly recommend this story to everyone, even if you don’t normally read horror or dark fantasy. -Marcia Hanson, Fictionwise Recommender

Lord Louis Mountbatten, the last British viceroy and governor general of India, was assassinated by Irish nationalists (my former countrymen), who blew up his private boat in August, 1979. Before his death, he carefully stipulated that no representative of Japan be allowed to attend his funeral services because of the atrocities committed by Japanese troops during World War II.

What amazed me about this was that Mountbatten never seemed to comprehend that the Japanese paid for their war crimes when America dropped the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. He might have felt more personal gratification had Great Britain delivered the bombs, but I imagine it was easier to hate them until he died than accept the truth.

I know that the Japanese answered for their sins on another August day, thirty-four years before Mountbatten's death. I know it to be true because I was there. I am there still.