Child soldiers

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

Image: Andrew Liptak

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…