Sweet Dreams Sweet Princes Author:Mack Reynolds, Michael Banks Nuclear War Is Only A Swordthrust Away! — The Universal Disarmament Treaty, which banned post 1900 weapons, should have ended war forever. But under its limitations a new kind of fighting evolved: stylized gladiatorial combat, fought with swords and trench knives, spears and clubs. Corporations and nations take their disputes to the arena, and th... more »e proceedings are televised to the world's idle, drug-happy masses.
But a scientist whose knowledge could result in a "breakout scenario" for world dominance has disappeared. Who has him? The world's major powers are accusing one another of kidnapping, and suddenly the Big One is only a swordthrust away...« less