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Lies Through Which We Tell the Truth

July 13, 2020
Lies Through Which We Tell the Truth
Lies Through Which We Tell the Truth

Lies Through Which We Tell the Truth

August Cole, Matt Gallagher, Linda Nagata, and Doyle Hodges
July 13, 2020

In this episode, Doyle Hodges, executive editor of the Texas National Security Review, chats with three authors of recent fiction related to military security that explores questions of how technology, society, and the distance between people and violence affects our conception of war and security. Hodges is joined by Linda Nagata, author of The Last Good Man, a near-future science fiction novel that explores a private military company and what they are capable of doing when they use autonomous weaponry combined with surveillance; August Cole, co-author of Burn-In, a counter-terrorism story that looks at the way American society is going to be transformed by everyday automation and robotics; and Matt Gallagher, author of Empire City, which is an alternate dystopian history set in a contemporary America that won the Vietnam War.

 

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