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The real-world horror at the center of Karin Lowachee's Warchild

Andrew Liptak
Feb 15, 2021
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Three books in a spiral stack. The book on the top is Warchild by Karin Lowachee, and features a person on the cover stepping through a portal with a gun.
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This post was originally published back in May 2015 on the B&N Sci-Fi & Fantasy Blog. It’s been lightly edited and updated.

The book was Warchild, by a debut author named Karin Lowachee. The place was YMCA Camp Abnaki, where I worked as a counselor alongside my friend Sam Gallagher. The year was 2002, and we were both teenage science…

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