David Afsharirad has revealed the table of contents for his next collection of The Year’s Best Military and Adventure SF, picked from short fiction published in 2015.
- Preface by David Afsharirad
- Introduction by David Weber
- “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
- “Remembery 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 volume is slated for publication in June. It’s available for preorder from Amazon and
Baen ebooks.
Baen once again will host a readers’ poll for best story from the collection. The official name now is The Year’s Best Military and Adventure SF Readers’ Choice Award. The voting site is not yet live, but will be by the time the book is released. Like last year, winner will be announced at DragonCon.
Update 03/09/2016: Corrected title, added art and preorder links.
Editor David Afsharirad with Michael Z. Williamson, first winner of the Year’s Best Military SF and Space Opera Award (as it was then called) for his 2014 story “Soft Casualty.”