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Weird World War III Paperback – October 6, 2020
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What if the United States had gone to war with the Soviet Union? What if these rival superpowers had fought on land, sea, air, and the astral plane? What if the Soviets and Americans had struggled for dominion across parallel dimensions or on the surface of the moon? How would the world have changed? What wonders would have been unveiled? What terrors would have haunted mankind from those dark and dismal dimensions? Come closer, peer through a glass darkly, and discover the horrifying alternative visions of World War III from some of today’s greatest minds in science fiction, fantasy, and horror.
Includes new stories by David Drake, Brad R. Torgersen, Mike Resnick, Sarah A. Hoyt, and many more!
About the Contributors:
“Drake couldn’t write a bad action scene at gunpoint.”—Booklist on David Drake
"He's one of the most talented authors I've ever read."—Larry Correia on Brad R. Torgersen
“[A] tour de force: logical, built from assumptions with no contradictions . . . gripping.”—Jerry Pournelle on Sarah A. Hoyt
"Lostetter remains at the forefront of innovation in hard science fiction.”—Publishers Weekly on Marina J. Lostetter
Contributors:
David Drake
Brian Trent
Mike Resnick
Erica Satifka
Brad R. Torgersen
Kevin Andrew Murphy
Dr. Xander Lostetter and Marina J. Lostetter
Martin L. Shoemaker
Sarah A. Hoyt
Deborah A. Wolf
Stephen Lawson
Ville Meriläinen
Peter J. Wacks and Bryan Thomas Schmidt
Alex Shvartsman
C.L. Kagmi
Nick Mamatas
T.C. McCarthy
Eric James Stone
John Langan
- Print length320 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherBaen
- Publication dateOctober 6, 2020
- Dimensions6.13 x 0.9 x 9.25 inches
- ISBN-101982124911
- ISBN-13978-1982124915
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- Publisher : Baen (October 6, 2020)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 320 pages
- ISBN-10 : 1982124911
- ISBN-13 : 978-1982124915
- Item Weight : 13.6 ounces
- Dimensions : 6.13 x 0.9 x 9.25 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #1,326,399 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #3,584 in Science Fiction Anthologies (Books)
- #14,818 in Military Science Fiction (Books)
- #23,122 in Science Fiction Adventures
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About the authors
Martin L. Shoemaker is a programmer who writes on the side… or maybe it’s the other way around. He told stories to imaginary friends and learned to type on his brother's manual typewriter even though he couldn't reach the keys. (He types with the keyboard in his lap still today.) He couldn't imagine any career but writing fiction... until his algebra teacher said, "This is a program. You should write one of these."
Fast forward 30 years of programming, writing, and teaching. He was named an MVP by Microsoft for his work with the developer community. He is an avid role-playing gamemaster, but that didn't satisfy his storytelling urge. He wrote, but he never submitted until his brother-in-law read a chapter and said, "That's not a chapter. That's a story. Send it in." It won second place in the Baen Memorial Writing Contest and earned him lunch with Buzz Aldrin. Programming never did that!
Martin hasn't stopped writing (or programming) since. His work has appeared in Analog, Galaxy's Edge, Digital Science Fiction, and select service garages worldwide. His novella "Murder on the Aldrin Express" was reprinted in The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-First Annual Collection and in Year's Top Short SF Novels 4. Learn more at http://Shoemaker.Space.
SCIENCE FICTION AUTHOR
As an author, Martin has sold stories to the following markets:
"Not Close Enough", in Analog Science Fiction and Fact, May 2013.
"Murder on the Aldrin Express", in Analog Science Fiction and Fact, September 2013.
"Brigas Nunca Mais", in Analog Science Fiction and Fact, March 2015.
"Il Gran Cavallo", in Galaxy's Edge #5, November 2013.
"Pallbearers", in Galaxy's Edge #7, March 2014.
"Murder on the Aldrin Express", in The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-First Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois.
"Murder on the Aldrin Express", in The Year's Top Short SF Novels 4.
"The Night We Flushed the Old Town" in Therefore I Am: Digital Science Fiction Volume 2.
"Father-Daughter Outing", the cover story for Heir Apparent: Digital Science Fiction Volume 4.
"Gruff Riders" in The Gruff Variations: Writing for Charity Anthology, Vol. 1
His writing has also won the following awards:
Writers of the Future, Quarter 1, 2011: Finalist, "The Mother Anthony"
Writers of the Future, Quarter 2, 2011: Honorable Mention, "Father-Daughter Outing"
Writers of the Future, Quarter 3, 2011: Honorable Mention, "Scramble"
Writers of the Future, Quarter 4, 2011: Semi-Finalist, "A Most Auspicious Star"
The 2012 Jim Baen Memorial Writing Contest: Second Place, "Scramble"
Writers of the Future, Quarter 1, 2012: Finalist, "One Last Chore for Grandpa"
Writers of the Future, Quarter 2, 2012: Honorable Mention, "Incoming"
Writers of the Future, Quarter 3, 2012: Honorable Mention, "Fog Traffic"
Writers of the Future, Quarter 4, 2012: Honorable Mention, "Mama's Little Angel"
Writers of the Future, Quarter 1, 2013: Honorable Mention, "The Books of Cheswick"
Writers of the Future, Quarter 2, 2013: Honorable Mention, "Killing Buddy"
Writers of the Future, Quarter 3, 2013: Honorable Mention, "In Its Shadow"
Writers of the Future, Quarter 1, 2014: THIRD PLACE, "Unrefined"
In addition, he has self-published seven stories and a collection, and has more in the works.
SOFTWARE ARCHITECTURE ANALYST
Martin is a software developer with 29 years experience in the industry. He has worked in the fields of color science, on-line shopping, databases, material handling, medical imaging, and customer relations management.
His most popular presentations are his UML courses, which he wrote and presents. As a side effort in his UML work, Martin has written two books on UML:
UML Applied: A .NET Perspective from Apress.
Ulterior Motive Lounge: UML, 80s Flicks, and Bunny Slippers, the world's first UML comic strip. Originally published online in 2009, this successful comic strip let Martin use humor and simple examples to teach UML to a wide audience. It is now collected in a version for Kindle.
Peter J. Wacks, born as Jebediah Jason Zarathustra Janney Shults, was quickly reminted to a sane name yet never really recovered a sense of normalcy in his life.
Peter (or Zarth, whatever, it’s cool) has travelled to 37 countries, hitchhiked across the United States (very funny, no, he didn’t hitchhike to Hawaii), and backpacked across Europe. He loves fast cars, running 5Ks, space travel, and armchair physics.
In the past, Peter has been an actor and game designer, but he loves writing most and has done a ton of it, which can be found by looking him up online (even if it seems a little cyber-stalkery, don’t worry, go for it!)
Since he doesn’t think anyone reads these things anyway, he will mention Strawberry Daiquiris, Laphroaig, great IPAs, and really clever puns are the best way to start conversations with him.
Are you still there?
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Go Read.
Twitter: @PeterJWacks
FB: https://www.facebook.com/PJWacks/
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The themes explored are also new or familiar themes with interesting twists. Plus the USA-USSR angle gives it another piquant lens.
So all in all, I had a great time reading the collection.
Lovely revel at the end.
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