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![Lost Signals: A Terran Republic Anthology by [Charles E. Gannon, Doug Dandridge, Gray Rinehart, Barbara Krasnoff, Kacey Ezell, Mike Massa, Robert E. Waters, Robert R. Chase, Joelle Presby, Alex Shvartsman, Walter H. Hunt, Vonnie Winslow Crist, Alan Brown, Lawrence M. Schoen, Alistair Kimble, Griffin Barber, Robert E. Hampson, Tom Doyle, Rick Boatright, Marc Miller, Jean Marie Ward]](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51zbgjWlv3L._SY346_.jpg)
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Ever-turbulent humanity has reached out to the stars and found itself challenged by several “exosapient” species whose motivations are as unusual as their physical forms. Troubleshooters like Caine Riordan must contend with both humans and aliens during this epic plunge into the high-stakes exploration, statecraft, and warfare that churn and change our post-contact world.
But no world is defined just by the characters who occupy center stage. “Lost Signals” digs deep into the lives—and struggles—of those beyond the spotlight by bringing together twenty new voices and new stories in a format that blurs the line between fact and fiction in the Consolidated Terran Republic.
With stories by:
Charles E. Gannon
Gray Rinehart
Barbara Krasnoff
Kacey Ezell
Mike Massa
Robert E. Waters
Robert R. Chase
Joelle Presby
Alex Shvartsman
Doug Dandridge
Walter H. Hunt
Vonnie Winslow Crist
Alan Brown
Lawrence M. Schoen
Alistair Kimble
Griffin Barber
Robert E. Hampson
Tom Doyle
Rick Boatright
Marc Miller
Jean Marie Ward
- LanguageEnglish
- Publication dateJanuary 26, 2021
- File size2027 KB
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Dr. Charles E. Gannon is a Distinguished Professor of English (St. Bonaventure University) and was a Fulbright Senior Specialist in American Literature & Culture from 2004-2009.
Dr. Gannon's series include hard-sf interstellar epic (the Caine Riordan series, set in his Terran Republic universe, nominated for three Nebulas, two Dragons, and winner of the Compton Crook Award) and epic slipstream fantasy (the forthcoming Broken World series). He also collaborates with Eric Flint in that author's New York Times Best Selling series "Ring of Fire series" as well as with Steve White in the NYT Bestselling "Starfire" series. He has also worked in universes/shared worlds such as War World, Man-Kzin Wars, the Honorverse, etc.) and in various anthologies and Analog SF Magazine. You can visit and learn more about his various SF universes and projects--past, present, and future-- at: www.charlesegannon.com.
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- Publisher : Beyond Terra Press (January 26, 2021)
- Publication date : January 26, 2021
- Language : English
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Go to his website at: www.charlesegannon.com
Dr. Charles E. Gannon is a Distinguished Professor of English (St. Bonaventure University) and was a Fulbright Senior Specialist in American Literature & Culture from 2004-2009.
Dr. Gannon's series include hard-sf interstellar epic (the Caine Riordan series, set in his Terran Republic universe, nominated for three Nebulas, two Dragons, and winner of the Compton Crook Award) and epic slipstream fantasy (the forthcoming Broken World series). He also collaborates with Eric Flint in that author's New York Times Best Selling series "Ring of Fire series" as well as with Steve White in the NYT Bestselling "Starfire" series. He has also worked in universes/shared worlds such as War World, Man-Kzin Wars, the Honorverse, etc.) and in various anthologies and Analog SF Magazine. You can visit and learn more about his various SF universes and projects--past, present, and future-- at: www.charlesegannon.com.
Along with about 50 other SF writers (such as Larry Niven, Ben Bova, John Hemry/Jack Armstrong, and Greg Bear), he is a member of SIGMA, the "SF think-tank" which advises intelligence and defense agencies (cf. www.sigmaforum.org). In his role as a subject matter expert on advanced military/defense/intel concepts, he has been featured on the Discovery Channel, NPR, Fox, and a wide variety of other national media outlets.
His earlier work includes various products and flash fiction for the gaming industry. He worked as both author and editor for Games Design Workship on their award-winning games "Traveller," "2300 AD," "Dark Conspiracy," and "Twilight: 2000."
Dr. Gannon has many credits in non-fiction; his most noteworthy is his book "Rumors of War and Infernal Machines: Technomilitary Agenda Setting in American and British Speculative Fiction." Now in second edition, it won the 2006 American Library Association Award for Outstanding Book, and was the topic of discussion when he was interviewed by NPR (Morning Edition).
Dr. Gannon has been a Fulbright Fellow at Liverpool University, Palacky University (Czech Republic), and the University of Dundee. He also received Fulbright and Embassy Travel grants to these countries, as well as The Netherlands, Slovakia, England, and Italy. Holding degrees from Brown (BA), Syracuse (MS), and Fordham (MA,PhD), he has published extensively on the interaction of fiction, technology (particularly military and space), and political influence.
Prior to his academic career, Dr. Gannon worked as a scriptwriter and producer in New York City, where his clients included the United Nations, the World Health Organization, and The President's Council on Physical Fitness.
Jean Marie Ward writes fiction, nonfiction and everything in between. Her first novel, WITH NINE YOU GET VANYR (written with the late Teri Smith) finaled in both the science fiction/fantasy and humor categories of the 2008 Indie Awards. She has published stories in ASIMOV’s and many anthologies, including ATHENA’S DAUGHTERS, THE MODERN FAE’S GUIDE TO SURVIVING HUMANITY, TALES FROM THE VATICAN VAULTS, the award-winning HELLEBORE AND RUE, WERE-, and the multi-award nominated DRAGON’S LURE.
Her first art book, ILLUMINA: THE ART OF J.P. TARGETE, provided an in-depth look at award-winning artist J.P. Targete’s covers and conceptual art. Her second nonfiction title, FANTASY ART TEMPLATES, marries the superb illustrations of artist Rafi Adrian Zulkarnain with pithy descriptions of over one hundred fifty creatures and characters from science fiction, fantasy, folklore and myth.
A former assistant producer of the local access cable TV program MYSTERY READERS CORNER, Ms. Ward edited the respected webzine CRESCENT BLUES (www.crescentblues.com) for eight years, and co-edited UNCONVENTIONAL FANTASY, a six-volume collection of fiction, non-fiction and art celebrating the fortieth anniversary of World Fantasy Con. She has also contributed interviews and articles for publications as diverse as the then SciFi Channel’s SCIENCE FICTION WEEKLY, the bestselling military strategy volume STRATEGY STRIKES BACK, Romance Writers of America’s ROMANCE WRITERS REPORT and BUZZYMAG.com. Her web site is JeanMarieWard.com.
Born in the Year of the Dragon, Vonnie Winslow Crist is author of award-winning short stories, poems, and books. An active member of the Horror Writers Association, Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers Association, Society of Children's Book Writers & illustrators, and National League of American Pen Women - she taught creative writing for the Maryland State Arts Council for 10 years.
"Beneath Raven's Wing" is winner of The International Edgar Allan Poe Festival's Saturday Visiter Award and a Finalist for the Imadjinn Award. "The Enchanted Dagger" is a Compton Crook Award Finalist and Maryland Writers Association Book Award Winner. Both "Owl Light" and "The Greener Forest" are eFestival of Words Short Story Collection Award Winners. "The Greener Forest," "The Enchanted Dagger," and "Owl Light" were voted among the Top Ten books for Young Adults in the P&E Reader's Poll.
As an illustrator, she's had over 1,000 illustrations published in books, magazines, and calendars.
She is an avid JRR Tolkien and CS Lewis fan, and a firm believer in the magical world that surrounds us! A clover-hand who has found so many 4-leafed clovers she keeps them in jars, Vonnie is quite fond of Harry Potter & Hogwarts, The Hunger Games, A Song of Ice & Fire, Star Wars, Star Trek, and everything Faerie!
Barbara Krasnoff was born and bred in Brooklyn -- and has the accent to prove it. Her short fiction has appeared in over 35 publications, including Abyss & Apex, Mythic Delirium, Amazing Stories, Electric Velocipede, Space and Time, Mythic Delirium and Apex. Anthologies include Memories and Visions: Women's Fantasy & Science Fiction , Such A Pretty Face, Broken Time Blues, Subversion, Fat Girl in a Strange Land, and three issues of Clockwork Phoenix. In fact, her short story "Sabbath Wine," which was a finalist for the 2016 Nebula Award, appeared in Clockwork Phoenix 5. A full listing can be found on her website BrooklynWriter.com.
Her mosaic novel The History of Soul 2065, made up of intertwining short stories following generations of two Jewish families, will be published by Mythic Delirium Books in July, 2019.
Barbara is also the author of a YA non-fiction book, Robots: Reel to Real. To pay the rent, she works as a freelance tech journalist and reviewer.
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Lawrence M. Schoen holds a Ph.D. in cognitive psychology, is a past Astounding, Hugo, and Nebula, nominee, twice won the Cóyotl award for best novel, founded the Klingon Language Institute, occasionally does work as a hypnotherapist specializing in authors’ issues, and is a. cancer survivor.
His science fiction includes many light and humorous adventures of a space-faring stage hypnotist and his alien animal companion. Other works take a very different tone, exploring aspects of determinism and free will, generally redefining the continua between life and death. Sometimes he blurs the funny and the serious. Lawrence lives near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania with his wife and their dog.
Tom Doyle has survived Harvard, Stanford, and cancer, and he writes in a spooky turret in Washington, DC. He is an award-winning author of science fiction and fantasy, and you can find the text and audio of many of his short stories on his website: www.tomdoyleauthor.com
Tom Doyle’s latest novel, Border Crosser, tells the far-future adventures of Eris, a psychologically extreme secret agent whose shifting loyalties cause chaos wherever she goes in the galaxy.
Tom is also the author of the contemporary fantasy American Craft trilogy from Tor Books. In the first novel, American Craftsmen, two modern magician-soldiers fight their way through the legacies of Poe and Hawthorne as they attempt to destroy an undying evil--and not kill each other first. In the sequel, The Left-Hand Way, the craftsmen are hunters and hunted in a global race to save humanity from a new occult threat out of America's past. In the third book, War and Craft, it's Armageddon in Shangri-La, and the end of the world as we know it.
Joelle Presby was born in France, raised in Cameroon, and now lives in the United States. She writes science fiction and fantasy. Website: joellepresby.com.
Alistair Kimble is a Special Agent with the Federal Bureau of Investigation, working a variety of matters over the course of his career. He currently processes crime scenes as a member of the FBI Denver's Evidence Response Team. Alistair served in the U.S. Navy where he dangled from helicopters while performing search and rescue operations as well as mission support for NASA projects such as the Mars Pathfinder, space shuttle recoveries at Edwards AFB, and X projects like the X-36 tailless fighter.
Iron Angels, an urban fantasy detective novel, co-written with Eric Flint (author of the bestselling 1632 series), was chosen by Publishers Weekly as one of its top 10 science fiction, fantasy & horror picks for the fall of 2017 and was released on September 5th 2017 from Baen Books.
Alistair's short fiction can be found in the Fantastic Detectives edition of the Fiction River anthology series, edited by Kristine Kathryn Rusch, and volumes 44 & 47 of the Grantville Gazette.
Mike Massa has lived an adventurous life including stints as a university researcher, a tech entrepreneur, an investment banker and a U.S. Navy officer (1130). In addition to the usual military deployments, he has lived outside the US for several years as a civilian, mostly in South America and Europe. Newly published, Mike is married and enjoys the challenges of three sons and a growing cohort of grandsons all of whom check daily to see if today is the day they can pull down the old lion. Not yet...
Griffin spent his youth in four different countries, learning three languages, and burning all his bridges. Finally settled in Northern California and retired from a day job as a police officer in a major metropolitan department, he lives the good life with his lovely wife, crazy-smart daughter, tiny bengal, and needy dog. 1636: Mission to the Mughals, co-authored with Eric Flint, was his first novel. 1637: The Peacock Throne is now available. He’s also collaborated with Kacey Ezell on a novel set in their Last Stop Station Universe, titled Second Chance Angel. He’s also collaborated with Chuck Gannon, penning Man-Eater and Infiltration, novellas set in The Murphy’s Lawless annex of the Caine Riordan Universe.
He has a number of short stories set in different universes coming out in 2022.
Robert E. Hampson, PhD, is a Neuroscientist and author. By day, he is a professor at Wake Forest School of Medicine, studying how our brains encode memory. By night, he writes military, adventure and hard-science Science Fiction as well as nonfiction articles explaining science to the general public.
Robert's SF writing career began with several pieces of short fiction published in 2015. He now has three collaborative novels in the Four Horsemen Universe (Seventh Seal Press) and two solo novels—one forthcoming in 2023 from Baen Books. He has co-edited two anthologies, published more than 25 works of short fiction.
Dr. Hampson's scientific career has concentrated on understanding the effect of drugs, disease, and injury on human memory. As lead scientist for Braingrade, Inc., he is helping to develop a medical device to restore human memory function. He is a teacher, researcher, reviewer, scientific journal editor, and consultant. His website is http://REHampson.com.
Gray Rinehart retired from the U.S. Air Force after a rather odd career. “Eclectic,” he likes to call it. During his first and second assignments, he researched and wrote the first edition of Quality Education. He is the only person to command an Air Force tracking station, write speeches for Presidential appointees, and have his music played on The Dr. Demento Show.
After retiring from active duty, Gray became a Contributing Editor for Baen Books, and also spent several years on the staff of the Industrial Extension Service at North Carolina State University. His fiction has appeared in Analog Science Fiction & Fact, Asimov's Science Fiction, Orson Scott Card's Intergalactic Medicine Show, several anthologies, and elsewhere. His first novel is slated to be published by WordFire Press. He is also a singer/songwriter with two albums of mostly science-fiction-and-fantasy-inspired songs—two of which have been featured on The Dr. Demento Show.
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Open the book and hold on to your hat because, after some short, framing news articles it starts off with a bang with Gannon’s fast-paced, slam-bang opening story, “The Persistence of Visions.” The title is, in itself, a nod to a 70’s Hugo winning story and anthology, but this military sci-fi story is it’s antithesis.
Next is “Botwright” by the inimitable Gray Rinehart. Cover ups of corporate greed, murder, and sexual harassment are revealed in the person of the loved one of one of the victims. Unforgettable. Favorite quote? “Asimov was a starry-eyed idealist.”
It’s followed by one of my favorite stories in the anthology – “Blaming Caine” by Barbara Krasnoff, who brings her very human touch to the story a daughter who lost her parents. They were part of 800 people who died when the Tyne blew up – “collateral damage” in one of the frequent attacks on Riordan, to try to stop him from telling what he’s discovered. She does an offbeat investigation and comes to unexpected conclusions.
Two of the offerings in the anthology tell the same story, but from very different viewpoints. “Only Human” by Kacey Ezell is the tale of a brave Indonesian translator, a young woman who helps the guerilla human fighters resisting the off-world invaders of the Arat Kur and the Hkh’Rkh, with their corporate and clone quisling human allies. “Only Animals” by Mike Massa tells the same story from the viewpoint of one of the Hkh’Rkh – who are obsessed with honor and both admire the young “clawless female” human for her honorable actions and are confused by human women and children entering the fight – he thinks (due to species differences) at the behest of human males. Both stories talk about the tenacity of the human spirit.
Next comes ”Extraction” by Robert E. Waters. It’s in the POV of the Hkh’Rkh war leader of the failed invasion of earth, rumored by the news flash preceding it to be dead, but wanted for crimes against humanity if alive. How he got out (if he got out) is a tale of intrigue, betrayal, and surprises.
I really enjoyed “The Information Assayer” by Robert R. Chase. Lots of insight as well as a great plot where an independent reporter uncovers a hornet’s nest of intrigue. Quote: “You shut down the flow of information and think you are gaining control,” he said. “It’s like blocking the nervous system because you don’t like pain. There’s a disease where that happens naturally. It’s called leprosy.” Great story.
“Survival Turnips” by Joelle Presby is told from the point of view of the clone soldiers that were made by traitorous humans to help the alien invaders. They’re still human, clones or not, as this story amply demonstrates.
The next offering, by Alex Shvartsman, is “Among the Blind.” It is, oddly enough, an affecting plea for humanity to embrace their innocent cloned brothers instead of mistreat or use them. It’s also an amazing adventure.
“Alone” by Doug Dandridge. This short story has the courageous Japanese Space Navy doing David to the exosapients’ Goliath… And, oh! It’s great. This one made me cry. I’m going to look for other stories by Dandridge.
I love Walter H. Hunt’s writing and his story, “Unreclaimable Losses, ” was no exception. This one was, surprisingly, a hard-boiled detective story – noir in the future as it were. And while the losses were not reclaimable, the P.I. still solved the case.
For a change of pace, the archeological “From the Stars” by Vonnie Winslow Crist is rather like a game of Tomb Raider crossed with The Librarians. Those familiar with the Caine Riordan series will not be surprised it is set on Delta Pavonis 3.
I have a construction background, so “Common Ground” by Alan Brown touched me with the way the engineers of two species that had been at war learned to work together and even be friends – in part because they both rolled their eyes (or the alien equivalent) about their pushy, clueless, and demanding bosses.
Lawrence M. Schoen’s wry humor and readability are showcased in his story, “Beauty in Monochrome” where corporate greed and military necessity meet (formerly adversarial) aliens on a barren world and see there is something for them to “go into business together” about. Marvelous and fun.
Another gumshoe story – this one with a French investigator and his partner – has enough twists and turns for a roller coaster. I enjoyed “Sub Rosa” by Alistair Kimble.
In “Crate 88” author Griffin Barber asks us to examine why anyone would steal, among other things, a chicken cloning lab and a transformer needed to refuel ships on this all-but-abandoned outpost. Can the local police and a representative of a newly-established interstellar inspectorate suss it out, save the outpost, refuel a stranded ship and – in the process – set some precedents for the new oversight body?
The next one is a story styled as an executive summary of a technical report. “Deep Cold” by Robert E. Hampson also has a personal note from the guy who wrote the report to the man he delivered it to, giving his personal reasons for being sure certain off-world tech is too scary to consider using.
In war the word collaborator has very negative connotations, but the story “Collaborator” by Tom Doyle reminds us that motives matter, and sometimes collaboration can be a wonderful thing.
Done in the style of a popular science magazine article, “The Banjo and the Shift Drive” by Rick Boatright explains (to us laymen) interstellar “Shift” or FTL works.
“A Fragment of Empire” by Marc Miller is a science fictional metaphor for how far-flung colonies – in this case, star systems – can break off of their attachment to central authority and set up their own independent governments.
The last story in the anthology – “The Ellsberg Variations” by Jean Marie Ward – is wonderful and a fitting bit of closure to this visit to the world of the future Terran Republic.
Told from a wide variety of viewpoints, both human and alien, they are not limited to any one faction of the main conflict opting instead Io provide brief glimpses into the lives of isolated individuals and how they are impacted by the larger scale events of the first several novels of the mainline series. Organized around excerpts from news service reports of those events it is easy to place each story in the bigger flow without demanding a lot of recall of the main novels. Each story is essentially a quick dive in and out from a single viewpoint although in the case of at least two of the stories opposing viewpoints of the same encounters.
Do yourself a favor and keep this collection on your phone or in your purse or backpack for those times you have only a few minutes to travel beyond the present and enjoy the ever growing Caineverse.
Overall, this is a great collection of stories well worth your time