Dispatches from a Future War by Rod Carstens

There are worse fates than death. There was Mike who had ‘died’ three times and he was still fighting the war.
There was Maria who was having a hard time distinguishing between virtual deaths and the real thing. There was Juan who salvaged the ‘dead’ only to see them returned to the front. He didn’t know how much longer he could do it.

Christian McCloud was a cyberpunk journalist he was no soldier. He fashioned downloads from celebrities memories. Now he was in the middle of a war. He was downloading the memories of the young men and women fighting this war but technology had changed the rules. War had always been about living and dying now technology was blurring the lines between the two.

Christian found himself straddling that line with these young soldiers trying to tell their stories. He found himself becoming one of them.

Category: Science Fiction – Cyberpunk