The Year's Best Military & Adventure SF series continues! Selected from the top print and online markets, these stories represent the best in modern military sf, space opera, and adventure sf. Tales of brave military men and women, thrilling derring-do, and edge-of-your-seat suspense. Stories to get your blood racing, your heart pounding, and your fingers turning the pages. Stories to challenge, provoke, thrill, and entertain. Stories that prove the new Golden Age is now!. This intriguing anthology explores the human race's violent potential but also bends toward exploration and the triumph of the human spirit, with brave tales that take the reader on a fascinating, thought-provoking, enjoyable journey
Contents;
Preface • essay by David Afsharirad
Introduction • essay by David Weber
Cadet Cruise [RCN] • / short fiction by David Drake
Tethers / short fiction by William Ledbetter
Unlinkage / novelette by Eric Del Carlo
Not in Vain [Black Tide Rising] / novelette by Kacey Ezell
Between Nine and Eleven / short story by Adam Roberts
Sephine and the Leviathan / novelette by Jack Schouten
The Good Food / short fiction by Michael Ezell
If I Could Give This Time Machine Zero Stars, I Would / short story by James Wesley Rogers
Wise Child [Liaden Universe] / novelette by Sharon Lee and Steve Miller
Starhome / novelette by Michael Z. Williamson
The Art of Failure / short fiction by Robert Dawson
The Last Tank Commander / novelette by Allen Stroud
One Giant Leap / short story by Jay Werkheiser
The Immortals: Anchorage [Symphony of War Shorts • 2] / novelette by David Adams
Backup Man / short story by Paul Di Filippo
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The Year's Best Military & Adventure SF series continues! Selected from the top print and online markets, these stories represent the best in modern military sf, space opera, and adventure sf. Tales of brave military men and women, thrilling derring-do, and edge-of-your-seat suspense. Stories to get your blood racing, your heart pounding, and your fingers turning the pages. Stories to challenge, provoke, thrill, and entertain. Stories that prove the new Golden Age is now!. This intriguing anthology explores the human race's violent potential but also bends toward exploration and the triumph of the human spirit, with brave tales that take the reader on a fascinating, thought-provoking, enjoyable journey
Contents;
Preface • essay by David Afsharirad
Introduction • essay by David Weber
Cadet Cruise [RCN] • / short fiction by David Drake
Tethers / short fiction by William Ledbetter
Unlinkage / novelette by Eric Del Carlo
Not in Vain [Black Tide Rising] / novelette by Kacey Ezell
Between Nine and Eleven / short story by Adam Roberts
Sephine and the Leviathan / novelette by Jack Schouten
The Good Food / short fiction by Michael Ezell
If I Could Give This Time Machine Zero Stars, I Would / short story by James Wesley Rogers
Wise Child [Liaden Universe] / novelette by Sharon Lee and Steve Miller
Starhome / novelette by Michael Z. Williamson
The Art of Failure / short fiction by Robert Dawson
The Last Tank Commander / novelette by Allen Stroud
One Giant Leap / short story by Jay Werkheiser
The Immortals: Anchorage [Symphony of War Shorts • 2] / novelette by David Adams
Backup Man / short story by Paul Di Filippo
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