"...human conflict leading to institutionalized violence."
-Foreword, p. 9.
In "Kings Who Die," war, too dangerous on Earth, is waged in space.
In "Wildcat," nuclear war destroys all life on Earth.
(Thus, these two stories agree about something.)
In "Cold Victory," a "civil war" involves three planets, Earth, Mars and Venus, because it is a conflict within the Solar Union.
(What we can do with words!)
In "Inside Straight," the war is between two extra-solar planets colonized by human beings.
(Our first step outside the Solar System in this collection.)
In "Details," well-meaning extra-solar intervention on twentieth century Earth causes more wars than it prevents.
(Thus, this story is about wars that are all too familiar to us.)
"License" is about war in the sense that it is about a society that has to cope with the fact that war is too dangerous to wage on Earth and cannot be moved into space.
"Strange Bedfellows" is about a human conflict but not one that leads to institutionalized violence. Also, the author's introduction to this story seems to have no bearing on the story so is there some mistake here?
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