Salvador (short story)
"Salvador" is a science fiction short story by American writer Lucius Shepard. Originally published in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fict ion in 1984, the following year it won the Locus Poll award for Best Short Story, the SF Chronicle award for Short Story and was nominated for the Hugo and Nebula awards for Best Short Story.[1]
| "Salvador" | |
|---|---|
| Author | Lucius Shepard |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Genre(s) | Science fiction |
| Published in | The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction |
| Publication type | Magazine |
| Publication date | April 1984 |
Plot summary
The story follows Dantzler, a soldier in the Special Forces of the US Military. He and his platoon are in El Salvador looking for Sandinista patrols prior to an invasion of Nicaragua. The soldiers rely on ampules, drugs that help them stay calm and focus their rage, and discover that their increasing use of the drug make it difficult to distinguish between reality and hallucination.
gollark: I do, in fact, have somewhat important things on my computer.
gollark: I want hardware and software which is less likely to randomly leak information or have security flaws. It's *really* bad for cloud providers.
gollark: And more bizarre artificial segmentation with overclocking and RAM speeds.
gollark: Well, obviously no security is perfect, but it's also obviously better to not have flaws in your very CPU.
gollark: You just *don't care* about unpatchable hardware security flaws?!
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