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About R.P.L. Johnson
R.P.L. Johnson is an award winning writer of science fiction short stories and has won both the Writers of the Future Award and the Jim Baen Memorial Award for Science Fiction.
He lives in Melbourne, Australia with his wife and two sons and pays the bills as a structural engineer as he works to complete his upcoming novel, "The View from Infinity Beach".
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We've got nowhere else to go, and no bugger's coming to save us.
We're either doing this or we're gonna die trying, because it all depends on you.
There is no going back. So lock, load, and get ready to rumble!"
SNAFU: Last Stand is a collated anthology of short stories of a final battle, no matter where it is or who it involves.
It's the Battle of Thermopylae, the Alamo, the Battle of Mirbat, the First Battle of Mogadishu, the Battle of Hel, and Custer’s Last Stand, all rolled up into one badass monster-fighting basket of SNAFU-style action.
Recommended by and foreword written by Hollywood director/producer Tim Miller, the visionary behind Deadpool, Terminator: Dark Fate, and Netflix's Love, Death & Robots, in which many SNAFU stories already feature.
Don't miss out, 'cause from this, there ain't no comin' back...
Be they straight-up monsters or nightmares behind a human mask, they track us and they kill us.
Sometimes, they play with their food, where death would be a kindness. But there is hope.
There are those who search out the monsters, those who hunt the hunters.
These are their stories.
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Featuring 13 stories of military horror by some of the best known and emerging writers in the genre.
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"By now I've read the entire SNAFU series and I can wholeheartedly recommend 'em -- every one of them delivers the goods."
—Tim Miller, Director of Deadpool
SNAFU: Wolves at the Door will bring the bite, with soldiers fighting for their lives against were-animals.
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In the blackest night or under the full moon, danger is lurking.
It’s survival at all costs when you’re fighting against an enemy that could tear you apart – or convert you to the other side.
Against the backdrop of an untamed wilderness or the dark depths of the city, the ultimate clash between the forces of man and nature rages on.
Whether battling the monster within or a war around them – these soldiers may find the cost could prove too great.
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Special Forces.
The very sharpest edge of any military throughout history.
Now, they face their greatest challenge yet.
Undead, mutations, monsters, all the things no-one ever believed could happen are here in the pages of SNAFU: Black Ops.
Read tales from existing bestselling series by Jonathan Maberry, Nicholas Sansbury Smith, Hank Schwaeble, John O'Brien, and James Lovegrove, along with some of your SNAFU favourites in this collection of the very best stories by the very best writers of military horror.
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Full list of stories and contributors:
Back to Black - Jonathan Maberry & Bryan Thomas Schmidt (A Joe Ledger/Rot & Ruin crossover novella)
The Waking Dragon - RPL Johnson
The Clash of Cymbals - Richard Lee Byers
Black Tide - James A. Moore & Charles R. Rutledge
Raven’s First Flight - Alan Baxter
Sons of Apophis - Christine Morgan
Seal Team Blue - John O'Brien (A New World novella)
A Debt Repaid - Tim Marquitz & J. M. Martin
Ground Zero - Kirsten Cross
Deepest, Darkest - Hank Schwaeble (A Jake Hatcher novella)
Raid on Wewelsberg - Seth Skorkowsky
God-Killers in our Midst - James Lovegrove & N.X. Sharps (A Pantheon series novella)
Extinction Lost - Nicholas Sansbury Smith (An Extinction Cycle novella)
Kade Morton is a young man far from home. He's been told that humanity's future lies in space, but Excalibur Station is just as cramped and dirty as the tenements he left behind on Earth. He is unaware that the station holds a secret that could change the course of humanity. A secret Kade together with some new friends are about to uncover at their peril.
As the forces of old Earth tighten their grip on his adopted home, Kade becomes an unlikely hero in the station's war of independence. Humanity stands on the brink of its next great adventure and Kade has finally found a future worth fighting for. But when his dream is about to be snatched from him, he has to face a terrible dilemma.
Forced to choose between his friends and the fate of a new world, what will he do?
The View from Infinity Beach is a fast-paced science fiction adventure for freedom fighters of all ages from Writers of the Future and Jim Baen Award winning author R.P.L. Johnson.
Buy The View from Infinity Beach and join the resistance today!Your passage to unforgettable worlds of imagination and escapism. From the farthest reaches of the universe to the innermost workings of the human heart and mind... Let tomorrow's masters of science fiction and fantasy books take you on a journey that will capture your imagination.
A peaceful warrior tries to impose peace on warring alien races, even if that means destroying the world to save it.
From survivors on a sky city to salvage specialists hunted by space pirates...biological warfare to an immortal woman cursed for eternity, this is a non-stop look into the Science Fiction & Fantasy greats of tomorrow.
“Keep the Writers of the Future going. It's what keeps sci-fi alive.” —Orson Scott Card
Writers of the Future has become the most respected and significant forum for new talent in all aspects of speculative fiction. Never before published first-rate science fiction and fantasy stories selected by top names in the field. Authors and artists discovered by Writers of the Future have gone to publish more works than other Writing Contest. It is a leading showcase of creative writing.
Writing Contest Judges: Kevin J. Anderson, Doug Beason, Gregory Benford, Orson Scott Card, Eric Flint, Brian Herbert, Nina Kiriki Hoffman, Dr. Yoji Kondo, Anne McCaffrey, Rebecca Moesta, Larry Niven, Frederik Pohl, Jerry Pournelle, Tim Powers, Mike Resnick, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Robert J. Sawyer, Robert Silverberg, Dean Wesley Smith, K.D. Wentworth, Sean Williams and Dave Wolverton (AKA David Farland).
Illustrating Contest Judges: Robert Castillo, Vincent Di Fate, Diane Dillon, Leo Dillon, Dave Dorman, Bob Eggleton, Laura Brodian Freas, Ron Lindahn, Val Lakey Lindahn, Stephan Martiniere, Judith Miller, Cliff Nielsen, Sergey Poyarkov, Shaun Tan, H.R. Van Dongen and Stephen Youll.
Since 2007, Baen Books and The National Space Society have sponsored The Jim Baen Memorial Short Story Award, to honor the legacy of Jim Baen and to promote the ideals of forward-thinking, positive science fiction. Here gathered together for the first time are the best of the best of the first decade of the Jim Baen Memorial Award. Winners and runners-up whose stories dared imagine a bright future in which humankind has shaken off the shackles of gravity and moved into that limitless realm known as “outer space.” Each tale is set in a plausible, near-future setting, and yet the variations are as limitless as the imaginations of the array of authors represented. Stories that ask, “What if?” Stories that dare to say, “Why not?” Stories that continue the grand science fiction tradition, looking to the future with a positive outlook on humanity's place in the universe.
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William Ledbetter is a Nebula Award winning writer with more than fifty speculative fiction stories and non-fiction articles published in markets such as Fantasy & Science Fiction, Jim Baen's Universe, Writers of the Future, Escape Pod, Daily SF, the SFWA blog, and Ad Astra. He's been a space and technology geek since childhood and spent most of his non-writing career in the aerospace and defense industry. He administers the Jim Baen Memorial Short Story Award contest for Baen Books and the National Space Society, is a member of SFWA, the National Space Society of North Texas, a Launch Pad Astronomy workshop graduate, is the Science Track coordinator for the Fencon convention and is a consulting editor at Heroic Fantasy Quarterly. He lives near Dallas with his wife and three spoiled cats.
Technology and mythology collide in this gripping debut thriller from Writers of the Future and Jim Baen Memorial Award winning author R.P.L. Johnson.
High in the Karakorum Mountains, on the disputed Line of Control between rival nuclear powers, Captain Jonathan Rose of the Royal Engineers leads a rag-tag rescue team to save the survivors of a crashed plane.
His return to the Karakorums, the brutal mountain range that doomed his last expedition and took the life of his best friend, is thrown into chaos when he discovers that one of the survivors is carrying a secret that could shatter the fragile peace between the two nations. Worse still, members of his hastily assembled rescue team are plotting against him to steal the secret for themselves.
Caught in the crossfire between Special Operations forces from two different nations, Rose must lead the survivors to safety across glaciers and through the ruins of a long-abandoned, subterranean civilisation.
And deep in the mountain, an ancient presence, dormant since the dawn of civilisation is starting to stir...
This page-turning action thriller is guaranteed to satisfy readers of A.G. Riddle, Matthew Reilly and James Rollins and will keep you turning pages 'til the very end.