My Father's Name Is War: Collected Transmissions

My Father's Name Is War is a veteran's reckoning with memory, disability, and the empire that shaped them.

The Global War on Terror did not take place. But you were there, a participant. Perhaps not of time or location but of consequence, surely. Come, I will show you.

Come and see.

A futuristic weapons program employs nostalgia and shame to ensure micromanaged compliance on the battlefield. Virtual reality therapy sessions rekindle a longing for wartime in a lost combat veteran. A South Korean magnate's passion project threatens to upend our ideas of global governance, one interaction at a time. Bauder's debut short story collection invites readers to examine the complexities of war and its consequences, urging a review and a parting of ways with the gross excesses of the security state.

The Collected Transmissions feature nine works spanning multiple genres, including science fiction, psychological realism, philosophy, poetry, and horror.

I don't know if this book will sway anyone, but my God, it certainly has something to say. It will grip you close and spit on you. It will spew fire on your ideas. - Veronica, Goodreads

I like to think of myself as someone who's fairly educated in the realm of the state/methods of control/conflict/the military complex because I studied a lot of it in school; this was a more powerful read, and a better educator because of that, than any other piece of reading I have ever had on the subject. So much so that I'm considering emailing my professors to suggest they add it to their reading lists. - Lola, Goodreads