Ann Wilson 15 min read

In a far-future war, the alien officer Joste can barely look at the captured human he must interrogate, sickened by the enemy, and half-hoping the prisoner resists and gives him excuse for force.

Ann Wilson's 1992 story is a military-SF space opera set in her Terran Empire fan-fiction universe. Vivid, dramatic, imaginative. Read it for a tense interrogation-room drama told from the alien enemy's viewpoint, exploring hatred, war, and the humanity of a captive foe, an evocative entry in a devoted fan writer's richly worked-out original space-opera saga.

In its time

Published in 1992, during the 1990s, the web age dawns.

Reading it

15 min read (a short story, a single idea, delivered and gone).