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About the Authors

Larry Correia is the New York Times best-selling author of the Monster Hunter International series, the Grimnoir Chronicles, the Saga of the Forgotten Warrior, the Dead Six thrillers with Mike Kupari, Gun Runner with John D. Brown, Servants of War with Steve Diamond, novels set in the Warmachine universe, and The Adventures of Tom Stranger, Interdimensional Insurance Agent on Audible, as well as a whole lot of short fiction. Before becoming an author, Larry was an accountant, a gun dealer, and a firearms instructor. He lives in Yard Moose Mountain, Utah, with his very patient wife and children.


Kacey Ezell is a retired USAF instructor pilot with 3000-plus hours in the UH-1N Huey and Mi-171 helicopters. When not beating the air into submission, she writes sci-fi/fantasy/horror/noir/alternate history fiction. She is a two-time Dragon Award Finalist for Best Alternate History and won the 2018 Year’s Best Military and Adventure Science Fiction Readers’ Choice Award. She has written multiple bestselling novels published with Chris Kennedy Publishing, Baen Books, and Blackstone Publishing. She is married with two daughters. You can find out more and join her mailing list at www.kaceyezell.net.


Robert Buettner’s “1957” is set within the universe of his upcoming novel 1957: Distant Lightning, which will be his eleventh novel, and his first novel of alternate history.

He was a Quill Award nominee for Best New Writer of 2005, and his debut novel, Orphanage, was a Quill nominee for Best SF/Fantasy/Horror novel of 2004, a national bestseller, and has been called a classic of modern military science fiction. The Orphan’s Legacy trilogy, which followed on to the five Orphanage books, was a National Bestselling series in its own right. Orphanage and its seven follow-on novels have been compared favorably to the works of Robert Heinlein, and several have been translated and republished in Chinese, Czech, French, Japanese, Russian, and Spanish.

Buettner’s short fiction, comprising two novellas and eleven short stories, has been published in various anthologies, some of which have been national bestsellers.

His nonfiction Afterword appears in the 2009 republished anthology of Robert Heinlein’s works The Green Hills of Earth/The Menace From Earth.

He has been a National Science Foundation Fellow in Paleontology, has prospected for minerals in Alaska and the Sonoran Desert, served as a U.S. Army Intelligence Officer, as a Director of the Southwestern Legal Foundation, has practiced law in Colorado, twelve other states, five foreign countries, and served as General Counsel of a unit of one of the United States’ largest private companies.

Elected as an undergraduate to the academic history honorary Fraternity Phi Alpha Theta, he is a certified underwater diver, and has climbed and hiked the Rockies from Alberta to Colorado. He lives in Georgia with his family and more bicycles than a grownup needs.

Visit him on the web at www.RobertBuettner.com.


Griffin Barber is a retired police officer living in Northern California who has written across the subgenres of speculative fiction. He’s collaborated with Kacey Ezell on an original novel of their own devising, Second Chance Angel, and with Eric Flint on two 1632 Novels, 1636: Mission To The Mughals and 1637: The Peacock Throne. He’s also been privileged to play in Chuck Gannon’s Caineverse, authoring the novellas Man-Eater and Infiltration for the Murphy’s Lawless series. He has short fiction in several anthologies, from Laurell K. Hamilton’s Fantastic Hope, John Ringo’s Black Tide Rising universe, and the We Dare: No Man’s Land.


D.J. (Dave) Butler has been a lawyer, a consultant, an editor, a corporate trainer, and a registered investment banking representative, and he is now a Consulting Editor for Baen Books. His novels published by Baen Books include the Witchy War series: Witchy Eye, Witchy Winter, Witchy Kingdom, and Serpent Daughter, and In the Palace of Shadow and Joy, as well as The Cunning Man and The Jupiter Knife, co-written with Aaron Michael Ritchey. He also writes for children: the steampunk fantasy adventure tales The Kidnap Plot, the Giant’s Seat, and The Library Machine are published by Knopf. Other novels include City of the Saints from WordFire Press and The Wilding Probate from Immortal Works.

Dave also organizes writing retreats and anarcho-libertarian writers’ events, and travels the country to sell books. He tells many stories as a gamemaster with a gaming group, some of whom he’s been playing with since sixth grade. He plays guitar and banjo whenever he can and likes to hang out in Utah with his wife, their children, and the family dog.


Nicole Givens Kurtz is an author, editor, and educator. She’s the recipient of the Ladies of Horror Grant (2021), the Horror Writers Association’s Diversity Grant (2020) and the AtomaCon Palmetto Scribe Award of Best Short Story 2021. She’s been named as one of Book Riot’s Six Best Black Indie SFF Writers. She’s also the editor of the groundbreaking anthology SLAY: Stories of the Vampire Noire. Her novels have been a finalist in the Dream Realm Awards, Fresh Voices, and EPPIE Awards for science fiction. She’s written for White Wolf, Apex Magazine, Fiyah, Realm (formerly Serial Box), and Baen.

Nicole has over forty short stories published as well as numerous novels and three active speculative mystery series. She’s a member of the Horror Writers Association, Sisters in Crime, and Science Fiction Writers of America. Find out more about her work at www.nicolegivenskurtz.net.


Laurell K. Hamilton is an American multi-genre writer. She is best known as the author of two series of stories, Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter and Merry Gentry.

Her New York Times bestselling Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter series centers on Anita Blake, a professional zombie raiser, vampire executioner and supernatural consultant for the police, which includes novels, short story collections, and comic books. Six million copies of Anita Blake novels are in print. Her New York Times bestselling Merry Gentry series centers on Meredith Gentry, Princess of the Unseelie Court of Faerie, a private detective facing repeated assassination attempts.

Both fantasy series follow their protagonists as they gain in power and deal with the dangerous “realities” of worlds in which creatures of legend live.

Laurell was born in rural Arkansas but grew up in northern Indiana with her grandmother. Her education includes degrees in English and biology from Marion College (now called Indiana Wesleyan University).


Craig Martelle has been a full-time author for over six years at the time this anthology was published. He has over five million words in publication with over twenty series, mostly science fiction with some fantasy and thrillers. His favorite is science fiction with a thriller angle.

Craig is retired from the Marine Corps where he served as an enlisted Russian crypto-linguist before earning his commission and working in all the intelligence disciplines—human, technical, air, ground, and even counterintelligence.

After he retired, he went to law school and earned his JD where he immediately went into business consulting as a leadership coach and business analyst. Being a lawyer helps get one into the corner office, but once there, making the most impact for a company is done through good leadership and consistent application of continuous improvement techniques. Craig saved his clients forty million dollars over seven years. But he grew tired of always being gone from home.

During his life, Craig always had a book with him and has read thousands of novels, mostly science fiction. With that understanding of story structure, character development, and flow, he embarked on his own journey.

Craig turned his hand to writing that book he always wanted to write and found that he liked it. A lot. He’s been writing ever since. If you want to see some of his other stories, you can find them here: craigmartelle.com.

Justice is a theme that is consistent throughout his books along with characters who have a military background. Craig’s career in the Marine Corps gave him plenty of topics and character quirks for a lifetime of stories.


Sharon Shinn has published thirty novels, three short-fiction collections, and one graphic novel since she joined the science fiction and fantasy world in 1995. She has written about angels, shape-shifters, elemental powers, magical portals, and echoes. She has won the William C. Crawford Award for Outstanding New Fantasy Writer, a Reviewer’s Choice Award from the Romantic Times, and the 2010 RT Book Reviews Career Achievement Award in the Science Fiction/Fantasy category. Follow her at SharonShinnBooks on Facebook or visit her website at sharonshinn.net


S. A. Bailey has been a farmhand, pizza boy, projectionist, roustabout, soldier, brawler, substitute teacher, In-School Suspension coordinator/babysitter, cab driver, security guard, private investigator, drunkard, opiate addict, and wretch. His writing, both his Jeb Shaw novels, and his blogging/commentary/oversharing on politics and life have inspired a small but loyal and possibly rabid following. He can be found on Facebook, Instagram, and Patreon at the S.A. Bailey Project. He can be found in East Texas, where he currently holds a day job as factory worker making medical devices, while trying to figure out how to turn his side hustles into a full-blown lifestyle.


G. Scott Huggins grew up in the American Midwest and has lived there all his life, except for interludes in the European Midwest (Germany) and the Asian Midwest (Russia). He is currently responsible for securing America’s future by teaching its past to high school students, many of whom learn things before going to college. His preferred method of teaching and examination is strategic warfare. He loves to read high fantasy, space opera, and parodies of the same. He has a column in the magazine Sci Phi Journal. He wants to be a hybrid of G. K. Chesterton and Terry Pratchett when he counteracts the effects of having grown up. When he is not teaching or writing, he devotes himself to his wife, their three children, and cats. He loves bourbon, bacon, and pie, and will gladly put his writing talents to use reviewing samples of any recipe featuring one or more of them. You can also follow him on Facebook.


Chris Kennedy is a Science Fiction/Fantasy author, speaker, and small-press publisher who has written over forty books, published more than three hundred others, and is a Webster Award winner and three-time Dragon Award finalist. You can get his free book, “Shattered Crucible,” at his website, chriskennedypublishing.com.

Called “fantastic” and “a great speaker,” he has coached hundreds of beginning authors and budding novelists on how to self-publish their stories at a variety of conferences, conventions, and writing guild presentations. He is the author of the award-winning #1 bestseller, Self-Publishing for Profit: How to Get Your Book Out of Your Head and Into the Stores.

Chris lives in Coinjock, North Carolina, with his wife, and is the holder of a doctorate in educational leadership and master’s degrees in both business and public administration. Follow Chris on Facebook at www.facebook.com/ckpublishing.


Rob Howell is a founder of the Eldros Legacy fantasy setting and an author in the Four Horsemen Universe, the publisher of New Mythology Press, including his work as editor of the Libri Valoris anthologies of heroic fantasy.

He is a reformed medieval academic, a former IT professional, and a retired soda jerk.

His parents quickly discovered books were the only way to keep Rob quiet. Without books, it’s unlikely all three would have survived.

You can find him online at: www.robhowell.org, on Amazon at www.amazon.com/-/e/B00X95LBB0, and his blog at www.robhowell.org/blog.


Michael F. Haspil is a veteran of the U.S. Air Force and had the opportunity to serve as an ICBM crew commander and as a launch director at Cape Canaveral. He hosts the Quantum Froth Dispatches podcast, which examines storytelling through pop-culture classics and shares author interviews.

When he isn’t writing, you can find him sharing stories with his role-playing group, cosplaying, computer gaming, or collecting and creating replica movie props. He devotes the bulk of his hobby time to assembling and painting miniatures for his tabletop wargaming addiction.

His novel, Graveyard Shift, an urban fantasy story about an immortal pharaoh out to stop an ancient vampire conspiracy in modern-day Miami, was well received by critics and readers alike. Michael is currently working on other stories within the world of Graveyard Shift, some tie-in fiction for the Black Library, as well as other novels and short stories. He’s also a part-time amateur Aegyptologist, tabletop general, antiquarian, and vampire hunter. He doesn’t do weddings.


Christopher Ruocchio is the author of The Sun Eater, a space opera fantasy series from DAW Books. He also co-edited the military SF anthology Star Destroyers, as well as Space Pioneers, a collection of Golden Age reprints showcasing tales of human exploration, both from Baen books. He is a graduate of North Carolina State University, where a penchant for self-destructive decision-making caused him to pursue a bachelor’s in English Rhetoric with a minor in Classics. An avid student of history, philosophy, and religion, Christopher has been writing since he was eight years old, and he sold his first book—Empire of Silence—at twenty-two. The Sun Eater series is available from Gollancz in the UK, and has been translated into French and German.

Christopher lives in Raleigh, North Carolina, where he spends most of his time hunched over a keyboard writing. When not writing, he splits his time between his family, procrastinating with video games, and his friend’s boxing gym. He may be found on both Facebook and Twitter at @TheRuocchio.


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