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The Year’s Best Military SF & Space Opera: First Annual Edition

The Year’s Best Military SF & Space Opera: First Annual Edition. Book One of a new Series (Year's Best Military and Adventure SF), featuring the best stories of the year from the top magazine and online venues with a military and adventure science fiction theme. With an introduction by best-selling military science fiction author David Drake and selected by editor David Afsharirad from the top short story markets in the field, here are the most thrilling, pulse-pounding, and thought-provoking stories of the past year. Stories of future military men and women, space opera on a grand scale, and edge-of-your-seat adventure tales in the pulp tradition, from giants of the genre to brilliant up-and-comers.

Contents:

Preface (The Year's Best Military SF & Space Opera) • essay by David Afsharirad

Excitement! Adventure! Science Fiction! • essay by David Drake

Codename: Delphi [The Red] (2014) / short story by Linda Nagata

Persephone Descending (2014) / novelette by Derek Kunsken

The End of the Silk Road (2014) / novelette by David D. Levine

Picket Ship (2014) / novelette by Brad R.Torgersen

Decaying Orbit (2014) / short story by Robert R. Chase

Morrigan in the Sunglare (2014) / short story by Seth Dickinson

Light and Shadow (2014) / short story by Linda Nagata

Icarus at Noon (2014) / short story by Eric Leif Davin

Soft Casualty [Freehold Short Fiction] (2014) / short story by Michael Z. Williamson

Palm Strike's Last Case (2014) / novelette by Charlie Jane Anders

Brood (2013) / novelette by Stephen Gaskell

Stealing Arturo (2014) / novelette by William Ledbetter

Rules of Engagement (2014) / novelette by Matthew Johnson

Ten Rules for Being an Intergalactic Smuggler (the Successful Kind) (2014) / novelette by Holly Black

War Dog (2014) / short story by Mike Barretta [as by Michael Barretta]

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  • Format
  • paperback
  • Pages
  • 576
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 9781476780580
  • Genres
  • anthologies, fiction
  • Release date
  • 2015