The War That Wasn't

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Genres

Cyberpunk, Hard Science Fiction, Neurodiversity, Military Science Fiction, Russian Fiction, and Novels

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Death, Violence, and Profanity

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Publication Date

Jul 27, 2026

Page Length

202 pages

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The War That Wasn't

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Blurb

A father's love knows no bounds but those freely chosen…

Winston was a soldier, fighting a war we couldn't lose. Until it expanded, and then we couldn't win. Left behind in a Chinese prison camp in the middle of Russia, he and his fellows were subject to experimental neuroconditioning to render him harmless. But 'harmless' is relative.

His youngest daughter found herself fighting that same treatment at home, so Winston and his oldest daughter took back the skills he'd had taken from him. Now it was time to fight a losing war once again. The only question was how much he'd sacrifice this time around…

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Genres

Cyberpunk, Hard Science Fiction, Neurodiversity, Military Science Fiction, Russian Fiction, and Novels

Trigger Warnings

Death, Violence, and Profanity

Type of Ending

Series

Not part of a series

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Publication Date

Jul 27, 2026

Page Length

202 pages

Available Formats

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Author

Jed is a J3E Press emerging artist, having written his first published short story in November 2022, and since then publishing only two others before becoming one of the founding members of J3E Press. One of those stories, though, took third place in the 2026 High Caliber Awards, and his poetry has been seen a bit more widely. Was in the Army from 1995 to 2020, deploying everywhere from Bosnia to the Central African Republic. Maybe Iraq a few too many times and Afghanistan, too. He retired as a Master Sergeant, specializing in Psychological Operations, having trained originally as a Russian linguist.

Publisher

J3E Press, LLC