The Dogs of War: military fiction anthology OPEN FOR SUBMISSION
by Pup Matthias
Art by SabretoothedErmine
War. War never changes. Obvious Fallout reference aside, and yet it’s a subject that our fandom never fully explored. Especially in an anthology, but that changes. The new war theme anthology The Dogs of War is OPEN FOR SUBMISSION. Headed by our own Fred Patten, this anthology, as stated, covers the topic of war, but that doesn’t mean every story has to be your typical “war” story.
These [stories] may be serious or humorous, featuring battle action or the boredom of peacetime, from grim battlefields to recruiting stations. Warfare from Bronze Age battles to Middle Ages warfare to far-future interstellar battles. Anything with a military or army (or navy) theme and animal characters.
You are free to tell your war story the way you want. You can do an All Quiet on the Western Front or a MASH. Do something modern or travel to the past or future. Plus any genre of your choosing from sci fi to fantasy to steampunk to whatever your creative mind can come up with. But that leaves us with a question. How did Fred come up with doing a war theme anthology?
Frankly, it was by accident. Wikipedia ran an 1876 political cartoon by John Tenniel about the then-current political/military tensions in the Balkans that was based on Shakespeare’s famous line about “the Dogs of War” from his Julius Caesar. I realized that none of the furry specialty presses had published an anthology of military stories yet. I proposed it to FurPlanet before someone else used the theme.