Bullet Points 8

by Nathan W. Toronto, Lena Ng, Alexander Hay

Bullet Points captures the complexity, tragedy, and hope of warfare and violence in human and nonhuman society, with reprints and original stories every three months. The January 2025 issue (Volume 8) presents stories with post-apocalyptic



Lena Ng, “The Night We Saw the Stars”: A mother, haunted by an alien invasion, brings hope to her child.
Alexander Hay, “_XPLOD_”: Simmonds might actually be responsible for the destruction of reality. Actually.
Joyce Frohn, “Boots”: A soldier gets a present for Christmas.
Bishop Garrison, “Conscription”: Bryce Parson serves time in Hellsmouth, which used to be Seattle.
Ralph Benton, “War Hero”: Trooper ‘Lab Rat’ Reed gets into his tokatank for a secret mission.
D.J. Thiess, “Granny Heloise's Fertilizer Bomb”: Jean desperately searches for a secret family recipe.
JT Gill, “Bombardier”: Ben destroys every target he sees, until he can't see a target.

Bonus

Nathan W. Toronto, “Bullet Points Annual Report”: Bullet Points is a growing market for speculative military fiction, with a mission to build understanding of the military experience.
Nathan W. Toronto, “ The Military Science Fiction Podcast, with Rick Partlow, Josh Hayes, Jeffery H. Haskell, and James S. Aaron”: War geeks, unite! A new podcast celebrates military science fiction.

88 pages, Kindle Edition

Published January 3, 2025

About the author

Nathan W. Toronto loves words because they give meaning to life. He believes that everyone has a great story to tell, and his passion is finding stories that achieve a more peaceful world, whether he writes them or someone else does. He is the author of Rise of Ahrik, Revenge of the Emerald Moon, and Redemption of the White Planet (forthcoming), a trilogy about the meaning of love, gender, and war in society. He also edits and publishes Bullet Points, a print and digital magazine of military science fiction, and is the author of How Militaries Learn: Human Capital, Military Education, and Battlefield Effectiveness, an academic book about how armed forces become professional.

Nathan holds a PhD in international relations from The Ohio State University and speaks Arabic, Spanish, and Hebrew. He has taught military operations, decision-making, and strategy for over a decade. He has lived in ten countries and visited some two dozen others, developing a firm belief that Mexican food is the best, at least for lunch and dinner.