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Contents:

• Preface (The Year's Best Military SF & Space Opera) - essay by David Afsharirad
• Excitement! Adventure! Science Fiction! - essay by David Drake
• Codename: Delphi - (2014) - shortstory by Linda Nagata
• Persephone Descending - (2014) - novelette by Derek Künsken
• The End of the Silk Road - (2014) - novelette by David D. Levine
• Picket Ship - shortstory by Brad R. Torgersen
• Decaying Orbit - (2014) - shortstory by Robert R. Chase
• Morrigan in the Sunglare - (2014) - shortstory by Seth Dickinson
• Light and Shadow - (2014) - shortstory by Linda Nagata
• Icarus at Noon - (2014) - shortstory by Eric Leif Davin
• Soft Casualty - shortstory by Michael Z. Williamson
• Palm Strike's Last Case - (2014) - novelette by Charlie Jane Anders
• Brood - (2013) - novelette by Stephen Gaskell
• Stealing Arturo - novelette by William Ledbetter
• Rules of Engagement - (2014) - novelette by Matthew Johnson
• Ten Rules for Being an Intergalactic Smuggler (the Successful Kind) - (2014) - novelette by Holly Black
• War Dog - (2014) - shortstory by Mike Barretta

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.

Table of Contents:

• "The Siege of Denver" by Brendan Dubois
• "Save What You Can" by David Drake
• "For The Love Of Sylvia City" by Andrea M. Pawley
• "The Wizard of The Trees" by Joe R. Lansdale
• "Helping Hand" by Claudine Griggs
• "Morrigan In Shadow" by Seth Dickinson
• "Remember Day" by Sarah Pinsker
• "Gyre" by Brad R. Torgersen
• "Twilight on Olympus" by Eric Leif Davin
• "The Trouble With Telepaths" by Hank Davis
• "This Is The Way The Universe Ends: With A Bang" by Brian Dolton
• "The Tumbledowns Of Cleopatra Abyss" by David Brin

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!

Table of Contents:

• Preface - essay by David Afsharirad
• Introduction - essay by David Weber
• Cadet Cruise - (2016) - short fiction by David Drake
• Tethers - (2016) - short fiction by William Ledbetter
• Unlinkage - (2016) - novelette by Eric Del Carlo
• Not in Vain - (2016) - novelette by Kacey Ezell
• Between Nine and Eleven - (2016) - short story by Adam Roberts
• Sephine and the Leviathan - (2016) - novelette by Jack Schouten
• The Good Food - (2016) - short fiction by Michael Ezell
• If I Could Give This Time Machine Zero Stars, I Would - (2016) - short story by James Wesley Rogers
• Wise Child - (2016) - novelette by Sharon Lee and Steve Miller
• Starhome - (2016) - short fiction by Michael Z. Williamson
• The Art of Failure - (2016) - short fiction by Robert Dawson
• The Last Tank Commander - (2016) - novelette by Allen Stroud
• One Giant Leap - (2016) - short story by Jay Werkheiser
• The Immortals: Anchorage - (2016) - novelette by David Adams
• Backup Man - (2016) - short story by Paul Di Filippo

The Year's Best Military and Adventure SF series roars into its fourth 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 guaranteedd to challenge, provoke, and entertain.

Table of Contents:

• Preface - essay by David Afsharirad
• The Secret Life of Bots - (2017) - novelette by Suzanne Palmer
• The Snatchers - (2017) - short story by Edward McDermott
• Imperium Imposter - (2017) - short story by Jody Lynn Nye
• A Thousand Deaths Through Flesh and Stone - (2017) - short story by Brian Trent
• Hope Springs - (2017) - novelette by Lindsay Buroker
• Orphans of Aries - (2017) - novelette by Brad R. Torgersen
• By the Red Giant's Light - (2017) - short story by Larry Niven
• Family Over Blood - (2017) - novelette by Kacey Ezell
• A Man They Didn't Know - (2017) - short story by David Hardy
• Swarm - (2017) - short story by Sean Patrick Hazlett
• A Hamal in Hollywood - (2017) - novelette by Martin L. Shoemaker
• Lovers - (2017) - novelette by Tony Daniel
• The Ghost Ship Anastasia - (2017) - novelette by Rich Larson
• You Can Always Change the Past - (2017) - short story by George Nikolopoulos
• Our Sacred Honor - (2017) - novelette by David Weber

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.

Table of Contents:

• "Love in the Time of Interstellar War" by Brendan DuBois
• "Going Dark" by Richard Fox
• "Scrapyard Ship" by Felix R. Savage
• "Broken Wings" by William Ledbetter
• "A Song of Home, the Organ Grinds" by James Beamon
• "Once on the Blue Moon" by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
• "Crash-Site" by Brian Trent
• "Thirty-three Percent Joe" by Suzanne Palmer
• "Hate in the Darkness" by Michael Z. Williamson
• "Homunculus" by Stephen Lawson
• "Not Made for Us" by Christopher Ruocchio
• "The Erkennen Job" by Chris Pourteau