My Father's Name Is War

For readers unmoved by medals and myths, who remember war not as glory but as grief.

My Father's Name Is War is a veteran's reckoning with memory, disability, and the empire that shaped them. In the tradition of The Things They Carried, this debut short story collection refuses to sanitize conflict or glorify sacrifice.

The Global War on Terror did not take place.

These violent hallucinations reveal what did.

• A futuristic weapons program uses nostalgia and shame to enforce battlefield obedience.
• Virtual reality therapy rekindles a longing for wartime in a broken veteran.
• A South Korean magnate's passion project threatens to rewrite the logic of global power.

These nine transmissions include fictions, fever dreams, and fragments of philosophy that trace the psychic and political debris left behind by protracted conflict. Drawing on science fiction, horror, poetry, and psychological realism, Bauder examines the machinery of the security state and the human lives caught in its gears.

For fans of literary fiction, complex narratives, and postwar reckonings.