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All the Last Wars at Once [MultiFormat]
eBook by George Alec Effinger
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eBook Category: Science Fiction Hugo Award Nominee
eBook Description: In bitter satire "All the Last Wars at Once"--a Hugo Award finalist for best short story--humanity has subdivided into its many warring factions: blacks against whites, women against men, gays against straights, Jews against Christians, Christians against Protestants, until even the individual wars against him/herself.
eBook Publisher: Fictionwise.com, Published: Universe 1, ed. Terry Carr, 1971
Fictionwise Release Date: October 2004
Available eBook Formats [MultiFormat - What's this?]: Adobe Acrobat (PDF) [221 KB], eReader (PDB) [31 KB], Palm Doc (PDB) [18 KB], Rocket/REB1100 (RB) [17 KB], Microsoft Reader (LIT) [78 KB] - PocketPC 1.0+ Compatible, Franklin eBookMan (FUB) [90 KB], hiebook (KML) [49 KB], Sony Reader (LRF) [41 KB], iSilo (PDB) [15 KB], Mobipocket (PRC) [19 KB], Kindle Compatible (MOBI) [47 KB], OEBFF Format (IMP) [28 KB]
Words: 5241 Reading time: 14-20 min.
Microsoft Reader (LIT) Format: Printing DISABLED, Read-Aloud ENABLED
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We interrupt this p--
--upt this program to-- --terrupt our regularly scheduled programming to bring you this bulletin pieced together from the archives of the General Motors Corporation. "Good afternoon. This is Bob Dunne, NBC News in New Haven, Connecticut. We're standing here in the lobby of the Hotel Taft in New Haven, where the first international racial war has just been declared. In just a few seconds, the two men responsible will be coming out of that elevator. (Can you hear me?) "--elevator. Those of you in the western time zones are probably already--" The elevator doors opened. Two men emerged, smiling and holding their hands above their heads in victorious, self-congratulatory boxers' handshakes. They were immediately mobbed by newsmen. One of the two men was exceptionally tall, and black as midnight in Nairobi. The other was short, fat, white, and very nervous. The black man was smiling broadly, the white man was smiling and wiping perspiration from his face with a large red handkerchief. "--C News. The Negro has been identified as the representative of the people of color of all nations. He is, according to the printed flyer distributed scant minutes ago, Mary McLeod Bethune Washington, of Washington, Georgia. The other man with him is identified as Robert Randall La Cygne, of La Cygne, Kansas, evidently the delegate of the Caucasian peoples. When, and by whom, this series of negotiations was called is not yet clear. "At any rate, the two men, only yesterday sunk in the sticky obscurity of American life, have concluded some sort of bargaining that threatens to engulf the entire world in violent reaction. The actual content of that agreement is still open to specu--" "--or at any later date."
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