The winner of the third annual Year’s Best Military and Adventure Science Fiction Readers’ Choice Award is “Wise Child” by Sharon Lee & Steve Miller.

The award was decided by a public vote among the 15 short stories in Baen Books’ The Year’s Best Military and Adventure SF, Vol. 3, edited by David Afsharirad.

The Readers Choice Award was presented at the Baen Traveling Roadshow at Dragon Con in Atlanta this past weekend, with Baen editor Jim Minz accepting for Lee and Miller.

Sharon Lee told her readers of blog:

Thanks to everyone who voted for Tolly and Disian.  Steve and I are very proud authors, indeed.

The winning authors receive an inscribed plaque and a $500 prize.