Jaym Gates - War Stories

KEN LIU ( www.kenliu.name) is an author and translator of speculative fiction, as well as a lawyer and programmer. His fiction has appeared in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Asimov’s, Analog, Clarkesworld, Lightspeed, and Strange Horizons , among other places. He is a winner of the Nebula, Hugo, and World Fantasy awards. He lives with his family near Boston, Massachusetts. Ken’s debut novel, The Grace of Kings , the first in a fantasy series, will be published by Saga Press, Simon & Schuster’s new genre fiction imprint, in 2015. Saga will also publish a collection of his short stories.

KARIN LOWACHEE was born in South America, grew up in Canada, and worked in the Arctic. Her first novel WARCHILD won the 2001 Warner Aspect First Novel Contest. Both Warchild (2002) and her third novel Cagebird (2005) were finalists for the Philip K. Dick Award. Cagebird won the Prix Aurora Award in 2006 for Best Long–Form Work in English and the Spectrum Award also in 2006. Her books have been translated into French, Hebrew, and Japanese, and her short stories have appeared in anthologies edited by Julie Czerneda, Nalo Hopkinson, and John Joseph Adams. Her fantasy novel, The Gaslight Dogs , was published through Orbit Books USA.

T.C. McCARTHY is an award winning and critically acclaimed southern author whose short fiction has appeared in Per Contra: The International Journal of the Arts, Literature and Ideas, in Story Quarterly and in Nature . His debut novel, Germline , and its sequel, Exogene are available worldwide and the final book of the trilogy, Chimera , was released in August 2012. In addition to being an author, T.C. is a PhD scientist, a Fulbright Fellow, a Howard Hughes Biomedical Research Scholar, and a winner of the prestigious University of Virginia’s Award for Undergraduate Research. Visit him at www.tcmccarthy.com.

LINDA NAGATA is the author of multiple novels and short stories including The Red: First Light , a near–future military thriller nominated for the 2013 Nebula award. Among her other works are The Bohr Maker , winner of the Locus Award for best first novel; the novella “Goddesses,” the first online publication to receive a Nebula award; and the story “Nahiku West,” a finalist for the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award. Though best known for science fiction, she also writes fantasy, exemplified by her “scoundrel lit” series Stories of the Puzzle Lands . Linda has spent most of her life in Hawaii, where she’s been a writer, a mom, a programmer of database–driven websites, and lately an independent publisher. She lives with her husband in their long–time home on the island of Maui.

CARLOS ORSI, is a Brazilian writer and science journalist with two SF novels and three short story collections published in his native country. In the English language, his stories have appeared in Needle – A magazine of Noir, Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine , and in the anthologies Tales of the World Newton Universe (Titan Books) and Rehearsals for Oblivion (Elder Signs Press). He lives in the city of Jundiai, Sao Paulo state, in Brazil, with his wife and a cat, and works in the University of Campinas (Unicamp).

JAY POSEY is the author of the Legends of the Duskwalker series of novels published by Angry Robot Books, and is a senior narrative designer at Ubisoft/Red Storm Entertainment, where he has spent many years contributing as a writer and game designer to Tom Clancy’s award–winning Ghost Recon and Rainbow Six franchises. He blogs occasionally at jayposey.comand spends more time than he should hanging around Twitter as @HiJayPosey.

MIKE SIZEMORE writes a lot of stuff that ends up in development hell out in LA which is why he’s so pleased that people get to read his story here. A few years ago he created something called Slingers which was sort of ‘Ocean’s 11 in space’ that almost became a TV show. Since then he’s written a bunch of pilots and feature scripts and also adapted Howl’s Moving Castle for the London stage with Stephen Fry. He’s currently working on Caper , a digital series about super heroes pulling a heist without becoming super criminals that will air on YouTube in January 2014. He also has a bunch of short stories and comic book stuff in the works so hopes you’ll have plenty more of his work to read soon. Oh and Warren Ellis once called him “nine kinds of wrong” after he put Peter Parker’s Aunt May in a sex–suit so consider that fair warning.

JANINE K. SPENDLOVE is a KC–130 pilot in the United States Marine Corps. In the Science Fiction and Fantasy World she is primarily known for her best–selling trilogy, War of the Seasons . She has several short stories published in various anthologies alongside such authors as Aaron Allston, Jean Rabe, Michael A. Stackpole, Bryan Young, and Timothy Zahn. She is also the co–founder of GeekGirlsRun, a community for geek girls (and guys) who just want to run, share, have fun, and encourage each other. A graduate of Brigham Young University, Janine loves pugs, enjoys knitting, making costumes, playing Beatles tunes on her guitar, and spending time with her family. She resides with her husband and daughter in Washington, DC. She is currently at work on her next novel. Find out more at www.JanineSpendlove.com.

JAMES L. SUTTER is the Senior Editor and Fiction Editor for Paizo Publishing, as well as a co–creator of the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game. He’s the author of the novels Death’s Heretic and The Redemption Engine , the former of which was ranked #3 on Barnes & Noble’s Best Fantasy Releases of 2011 and was a finalist for both an Origins Award and the Compton Crook Award for Best First Novel. In addition to numerous game books, most notably Distant Worlds and City of Strangers , James has written short stories for such publications as Escape Pod , Apex Magazine , Beneath Ceaseless Skies , Geek Love , and the #1 Amazon bestseller Machine of Death . His anthology Before They Were Giants pairs the first published short stories of speculative fiction luminaries with new interviews and advice from the authors themselves. For more information, visit jameslsutter.comor find him on Twitter at @jameslsutter.

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This anthology is a work of fiction. All the characters and events portrayed in these stories are either fictitious or are used fictitiously.

War Stories: New Military Science Fiction

Trade Paperback ISBN: 978–1–937009–26–7

Cover Art © 2014 by Galen Dara

Title Design © 2014 by Jaym Gates

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