In a battered outpost of a ruined future, the war is over—but the battle between conquerors and the conquered has only grown stranger. Lieutenant Bolgar, a hard-bitten soldier from the victorious side, is obsessed with one reckless mission: to claim a kiss from a woman who looks at him with something colder than hatred. For Bolgar, it's not romance. It's rebellion, revenge, and the last desperate assertion of power in a world where power has become a bitter joke. Henry Slesar's A Kiss for the Conqueror is a sharp, unsettling tale of postwar tension, pride, and the twisted meanings of victory. With lean prose and a darkly ironic edge, it imagines a society where old enmities still smolder beneath the surface, and where even the smallest human gesture can become an act of defiance. What begins as a crude, impulsive plan builds into a chilling confrontation between male arrogance and a world that has learned to answer domination with contempt. Brutal, sly, and unforgettable, this is science fiction with a sting in its tail—a story about power, humiliation, and the dangerous need to be seen. This edition has been fully restored with modern typesetting, custom cover design.