David Afsharirad

The Year's Best Military and 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. Selected from the top markets, both print and digital, The Year’s Best Military and Adventure SF Volume 3 offers up the cream of the crop in short science fiction today. 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! Plus, you be the judge! INTERACTIVE READER VOTING. One story from this anthology will be chosen via proctored online voting for The Best Military and Adventure Science Fiction Reader's Choice Award, presented at DragonCon in Summer 2017. For more information, go to Baen.com. At the publisher's request, this title is sold without DRM (Digital Rights Management). About The Year’s Best Military and Adventure Science Fiction 2015: “Baen’s fan-guided anthology series roars into its second year with a collection of stories just as eclectic as the first. . . . Afsharirad has put together a refreshing military and SF anthology that will be enjoyed by a wide range of readers.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review) About The Year's Best Military SF and Space Opera Volume 1: “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 . . . ”—Publishers Weekly (starred review) “[A] nice eclectic mix of magazines—hardcopy and digital—and original anthologies. Afsharirad seems to have cast his nets admirably wide. . . . The variety of styles and topics and themes, and the high level of craft in this assemblage, prove that this subgenre is flourishing. . . . [The collection] should be welcome by raw recruits and veterans alike.”—Locus

The Year's Best Military & Adventure SF Volume 3

Ken Liu

Alan Baxter

Kevin J. Anderson

Robert Silverberg

Alex Shvartsman

Mike Resnick

Cat Rambo

Eric S. Fomley

Deborah Walker

Timeshift: Tales of Time is an anthology of 38 short stories of time and time travel by 36 incredible authors of speculative fiction. From time travel to time dilation, time manipulation, time zones, futures, alternate realities, and many other variations on the theme of time, these stories represent some of the strongest stories on time in recent memory.Stories include:"All the Wealth in the World" by Alan Baxter, "Ravages of Time" and "Letting Go" by Alex Shvartsman, "An Old-Time Girl" by Barbara Krasnoff, "The Day the Future Invaded" by Beth Powers,"Moments" by Brandon Crilly, "A Murder of Crows" by Brenda Anderson, "Where There's a Will" by Brian K. Lowe, "Futures" and "Aardvark Says Moo" by Cat Rambo, "Again" by David Afsharirad, "Sibyl" by Deborah Walker, "What Does a Time Machine Cost?" by Elliotte Rusty Harold, "Twins Again" by Éric Picholle, "You Can Always Change the Past" by George Nikolopoulos, "Afternoon Break" by Gregg Chamberlain, "Grandma Was a Time Machine" by H.L. Fullerton, "1-9-4-Blue-3-7-2-6-Gamma-Tetrahedron" by Ian Randal Strock, "Going Back for Seconds" by Jez Patterson, "Long Lines of Communication are Easily Tangled" by John Dromey, "Memories of My Mother" by Ken Liu, "The Last of Time" by Ken Poyner, "Time Zone" by Kevin J. Anderson, "Now Open" by KJ Kabza, "In Defense of the End of the World" by Leah Cypess, "Repeat Performance" by Liam Hogan, "The Vitruvian Farmer" by Marcelina Vizcarra, "My Ribs a Cage" by Marissa Harwood, "Isaac Intrepid's Paradox" by Mike Resnick, "They Have Been at a Great Feast of Languages, and Stol'n the Scraps" by Robert Bagnall, "Tempus Fugitive" by Robert Jeschonek, "The Assassin" by Robert Silverberg, "Unveiled" by Ron Friedman, "A Time for Peace" by S.R. Algernon, "When the World Stopped" by Siri Paulson, "The First Time they Murder Billy" by Stephen S. Power, "Proceedings from the First and Only Sixteenth Annual One-Woman Symposium on Time Manipulation" by Stewart Baker, "One Year Later" by Wendy Nikel

Tales of Time

Timeshift

The Year's Best Military and Adventure SF series roars into its fifth year, with more stories of derring-do, military combat, and edge of your seat suspense. Thrilling tales of grand science fiction adventure and military action. Selected from the top print and digital markets, these stories are guaranteed to challenge, provoke, and entertain. Plus, you be the judge! INTERACTIVE READER VOTING. One story from this anthology will be chosen via proctored online voting for The Best Military and Adventure Science Fiction Reader's Choice Award, presented at DragonCon in Summer 2019. For more information, go to Baen.com. At the publisher's request, this title is sold without DRM (Digital Rights Management). About The Year’s Best Military and Adventure Science Fiction 2015: “Baen’s fan-guided anthology series roars into its second year with a collection of stories just as eclectic as the first. . . . Afsharirad has put together a refreshing military and SF anthology that will be enjoyed by a wide range of readers.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review) About The Year's Best Military SF and Space Opera Volume 1: “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 . . . ”—Publishers Weekly (starred review) “[A] nice eclectic mix of magazines—hardcopy and digital—and original anthologies. Afsharirad seems to have cast his nets admirably wide. . . . The variety of styles and topics and themes, and the high level of craft in this assemblage, prove that this subgenre is flourishing. . . . [The collection] should be welcome by raw recruits and veterans alike.”—Locus

The Year's Best Military & Adventure SF, Volume 5

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. Plus, you be the judge! INTERACTIVE READER VOTING. One story from this collection will be chosen via proctored on-line voting as Year's Best Military SF and Space Opera, with the award to be presented at DragonCon in September 2015.M At the publisher's request, this title is sold without DRM (Digital Rights Management). About The Year's Best Military SF and Space Opera: "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 . . . "¾Publishers Weekly (starred review) Contributors: Brad R. Torgersen Michael Z. Williamson Charlie Jane Anders Linda Nagata Seth Dickinson William Ledbetter Eric Leif Davin David D. Levine Stephen Gaskell Michael Barretta Derek Kunsken Holly Black Robert R. Chase Matthew Johnson

The Year's Best Military SF & Space Opera

STORIES FROM THE FIRST NAME IN SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY! Fifteen stories spanning the SF/F genres—all by a David. Includes stories by David Drake, David Weber, Gregory Benford & David Brin, D.J. Butler—and more! Science Fiction and Fantasy with Maximum Dave The history of science fiction and fantasy is littered with stories by Davids of distinction. Now, for the first time, an anthology by people named David, for everyone. Read along as editor David Afsharirad guides you through the strange, wonderous imaginations of the great Davids of the field, past and present. Fifteen tales by David Weber, David Drake, Gregory Benford & David Brin, David B. Coe, D.J. Butler, Avram Davidson, David H. Keller, and many more. Herein you will find: a Depression-era magic man who comes face-to-face with an ancient evil. A once-promising filmmaker whose fate depends on a movie-producing AI. A shape-shifting detective on the trail of a pack of werewolves. A sentient tank who must confront one of its own. And a diner regular who gets more than he bargained for when he orders the soup du jour. Featuring David-inspired cover art by celebrated artist David Mattingly, The Chronicles of Davids delivers maximum Dave! Remember: with a name like David, it has to be good! Contributors: David Weber David Drake D.J. Butler Gregory Benford & David Brin David B. Coe Barry N. Malzberg Dave Freer Avram Davidson D.L. Young David Boop Hank Davis Dave Bara David H. Keller David Carrico David Hardy At the publisher's request, this title is sold without DRM (Digital Rights Management). About The Chronicles of Davids: “Afsharirad brings together some of the genre's most beloved authors with David as their first name in a collection that covers time travel…space opera…AI trouble.. and military sf…a fun collection of imaginative Davids.”—Booklist About The Year’s Best Military and Adventure Science Fiction series, edited by David Afsharirad: “Baen’s fan-guided anthology series roars into its second year with a collection of stories just as eclectic as the first. . . . Afsharirad has put together a refreshing military and SF anthology that will be enjoyed by a wide range of readers.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review) “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 . . . ”—Publishers Weekly (starred review) “[A] nice eclectic mix of magazines—hardcopy and digital—and original anthologies. Afsharirad seems to have cast his nets admirably wide. . . . The variety of styles and topics and themes, and the high level of craft in this assemblage, prove that this subgenre is flourishing. . . . [The collection] should be welcome by raw recruits and veterans alike.”—Locus

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