Alex Jablokov’s short fiction has appeared in a variety of magazines over the years. The braided novel Future Boston, containing a number of his stories, some of which also appeared in Asimov’s, has recently been reissued by Fantastic Books (www.fantasticbooks.biz). He acknowledges the invaluable assistance of the members of the Cambridge Science Fiction Workshop and the Rio Hondo Writer’s Workshop in improving this story. In his new tale, we see that the remnants of war can remain actively deadly long after the war itself seems over. It can take decades to take care of … The Last of Operation Shroud