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The Year's Best Military & Adventure SF 2015 by [David Ashfarirad]

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The year’s best military SF, space opera, and adventure SF stories. The second of a new series featuring the best stories of the year from the top magazines and online venues with a military and adventure science fiction theme.

The new Golden Age of short science fiction has arrived! Selected from the premier print and online markets in the field, here are stories to challenge, provoke, thrill, and entertain. Stories of future military men and women, space opera on a grand scale, and edge-of-your-seat adventure science fiction in the grand pulp tradition. The second volume in an on-going series, The Year’s Best Military and Adventure Science Fiction, features stories by giants of the genre and the hottest new voices.

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 2016. For more information, go to Baen.com.

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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

Editor David Afsharirad lives in Austin, Texas. He is a graduate of the University of Texas at Dallas and North Carolina State University, where he earned an MFA in creative writing. A life-long reader and writer of short fiction, his stories have appeared in various magazines and journals.

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Editor David Afsharirad lives in Austin, Texas. He is a graduate of the University of Texas at Dallas and North Carolina State University, where he earned an MFA in creative writing. A life-long reader and writer of short fiction, his stories have appeared in various magazines and journals. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B01FIJ2CX0
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Baen Books; 1st edition (June 7, 2016)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ June 7, 2016
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 1510 KB
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Print length ‏ : ‎ 348 pages

Best Sellers Rank: #1,736,812 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #3,099 in Science Fiction Anthologies (Kindle Store)
- #5,596 in Science Fiction Anthologies (Books)
- #9,071 in Military Science Fiction (Kindle Store)

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Eric Leif Davin
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Eric Leif Davin, Ph.D., teaches labor history and popular culture at the University of Pittsburgh. He is the winner of the Eugene V. Debs Foundation Literature Prize for his essay, "The Very Last Hurrah: The Defeat of the Labor Party Idea, 1934-1936." He is the author of "Crucible of Freedom: Workers' Democracy in the Industrial Heartland", "Radicals in Power: The New Left Experience in Office", and "Partners in Wonder: Women and the Birth of Science Fiction." He is a contributor to many history books. ---- He is also a fiction writer. His story, "Icarus at Noon," in the May, 2014 issue of Galaxy's Edge magazine, was reprinted in a 2014 anthology, "The Best of Galaxy's Edge," and the 2015 Baen Books "Year's Best Military SF and Space Opera". Story, "Twilight on Olympus," in Galaxy's Edge, Mar.-Apr., 2015, reprinted in Baen Books anthology, "Year's Best Military and Adventure Science Fiction," 2016, as well as "The Best of Galaxy's Edge, 2015-2017." Story, "Ghost Dance" also in the latter anthology. ---- His debut novel, "The Desperate and the Dead," appeared in 2014. It can be found on Lulu.com by title. The sequel, "The Scarlet Queen," appeared in 2016. Novel: "The Great Strike of 1877" appeared in 2018. He can be reached at ericdavin@hotmail.com or eric.leif.davin@gmail.com. Visit his web site at: http://ericleifdavin.vpweb.com/ or follow him on Twitter @Eric_Leif_Davin.
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The 2019 DragonCon Dragon Award winner for Best Science Fiction novel (title: A STAR-WHEELED SKY) Brad R. Torgersen's award-winning stories have appeared in numerous magazines and anthologies. A veteran and Chief Warrant Officer in the United States Army Reserve, Brad has also served in half a dozen different countries. Married for 25 years to his very first audio narrator, Brad lives with his family in the Intermountain West. He can be found most often at his Facebook page, and occasionally writes non-fiction for both his personal blog, and the Mad Genius Club group blog. A political Classical Liberal, Brad believes in having an open mind—so long as you don't let your brains fall out.
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BG-expat

Pretty Good Reading!!! I am enjoying this book-but doing some skipping

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on November 12, 2021

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Some real gems and a few clunkers. As an old fart-I am prone to skip over a dead end. Worth the money and time I spent on this volume!!!

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S. Heise

A little over half the stories are excellent. Couple fillers

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on July 10, 2016

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A little over half the stories are excellent. Couple fillers. The rest are entertaining. This is a solid second entry to a great series covering my favorite niche of SF. Keep up the great work guys! I wish it could include more stories......be longer.

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Mel Vineyard

Four Stars

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on September 3, 2016

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I liked the variety of military sci-fi.

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Charlie Garefino

I love "Combat SciFi"......this, not so much.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on May 6, 2017

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Disappointing. Killed some time but nothing about it is "Great" or "Best" unless the genre has sunk to new lows. Read it, tossed it.

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J. Bohrer

Very little Military SF and Adventure in this book.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on August 10, 2016

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Very little Military SF and Adventure in this book. I was surprised that Baen published this thing.

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Amazon Customer

Worth the read.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on November 5, 2017

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Awesome! Lots of great stories and action!

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Daniel

A pretty specific target audience, but fans of this genre should rejoice at the material.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on September 21, 2016

I have been a fan of the short story for a very long time and there were years when I read more short story collections than novels. But if you had asked me, even a year ago, if I would have been interested in reading a collection of "military and adventure science fiction" stories I would probably have thought, "No way." But over the course of the past year (maybe two), I have read a number of books for this blog that would fall in the military or adventure sci-fi category that I have really liked.

As one might expect with an anthology like this, there is quite a variety of works - some quite good and others not to my taste.

One story stood out to me, head and shoulders above the rest: "Remember Day" by Sarah Pinsker. The story doesn't deal with the actions of war, but the aftermath. It's beautiful and haunting in such a simple way.

The opening story, "The Siege of Denver" by Brendan DuBois, is a little more typical military sf story with an alien invasion and the tough human (woman) fighter off to do everything she can to protect a food and medical supply. It's a strong opening story and sets the appropriate tone for the book,

"For the Love of Sylvia City" by Andrea M. Pawley was a nice combination of military sci-fi and ecological disaster. I appreciated this story a lot.

Claudine Griggs' "Helping Hand" was very short and simple but also quite beautiful. It's a tale of helplessness in space.

I've been a fan of Brad Torgersen's work for a while now. After what I thought was a disappointing recent novel, I was a bit wary going into his short story "Gyre (the Successful Kind)." It is a pretty solid adventure story, though I couldn't help but constantly compare the story's hero to some cinematic adventurers (all played by Harrison Ford) which actually took me away from the story because I kept thinking that it was too much of a stereotype/rip-off of other characters. Still...a fun tale.

"Twilight on Olympus" by Eric Leif Davin starts out feeling like it will be a <em>Martian</em> rip-off, but winds up being a sweet, though sad, story of life and reflection.

The rest of the stories were just fair for me. It did surprise me that the stories by some of the bigger 'names' in sci-fi didn't have much impact on me. Still this was a good assortment and I've got some new names to look for when I do my book shopping.

This collection contains:

Preface - David Afsharirad
"The Siege of Denver" - Brendan DuBois
"Save What You Can" - David Drake
"For the Love of Sylvia City" - Andrea M. Pawley
"The Wizard of the Trees" - Joe R. Lansdale
"Helping Hand" - Claudine Griggs
"Morrigan in Shadow" - Seth Dickinson
"Remember Day" - Sarah Pinsker
"Gyre" - Brad R. Torgersen
"Twilight on Olympus" - Eric Leif Davin
"The Trouble with Telepaths" - Hank Davis
"This is the Way the Universe Ends: With a Bang" - Brian Dolton
"The Tumbledowns of Cleopatra Abyss" - David Brin
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Looking for a good book? Military and Adventure Sci-Fi fans can rejoice at this anthology of <em>The Year's Best Military and Adventure SF 2015</em>, edited by David Ashfarirad.

I received a digital copy of this book from the publisher, through Edelweiss, in exchange for an honest review.

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jdp

Weber's intro excels

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on October 30, 2017

Several good stories, Weber's intro excels but most run of the mill.

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