My Experiences in the Third World War

These relate the adventures of a Russian KGB agent in an alternate historical timeline, in which World War 3 has broken out, this being an apocalyptic conflict in which the United States and the Soviet Union are allies.

The three stories were supposed to be chapters of a commissioned larger book (to be called Reminiscences of the Third World War) rather than a collection.

Savoy Books had been convicted the year before in High Court for selling bootleg records imported from America.

[4] In "The Lovebeas", deadly fallout from years of orbital nuclear testing by the world's governments is slowly killing all life on Earth.

Going to Canada, "Leaving Pasadena", and "Crossing into Cambodia", It was reprinted in The Opium General and other stories by Harrap in 1984.