When Marine Private Oliver Chadwick Gardenier is killed in the Marine barrack bombing in Beirut, somebody who might be Saint Peter gives him a choice: Go to Heaven, which while nice might be a little boring, or return to Earth. The Boss has a mission. He's a Marine: He’ll choose the mission.

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There’s gold in the skies—and other valuable minerals, too. With billions up for grabs, asteroid mining has jumpstarted the private space industry. But maneuvering an asteroid close to the Earth in order to mine its riches is tricky, and soon “close” becomes “too close.” Planetary destruction is about to become a grim reality unless the burgeoning space industry can stop the asteroid.

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Dr. Phillip Theophrastus Gribbleflotz, the world's greatest alchemist, was a man history had forgotten. But when the town of Grantville was transported by a cosmic accident from modern West Virginia to central Germany in the early seventeenth century, he got a second chance at fame and fortune. Applying his superb grasp of the principles of alchemy to the muddled and confused notions the Americans have concerning what they call “chemistry,” Gribbleflotz leaves obscurity behind.

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Before he was a lieutenant in the Royal Cinnabar Navy, Daniel Leary was a cadet with a well-earned reputation for finding trouble. So when he invites Cadet Pennyroyal to accompany him on leave to a high-end gambling establishment, she knows that things are likely to get . . . interesting. Just how interesting—and dangerous—she’ll have to wait to find out. A new prequel story set in the RCN series, from master of military SF, David Drake.

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An unexplained phenomenon known only as the Ring of Fire has transported the town of Grantville, West Virginia in time and space, from the year 2000 and the soils of the United States of America to the Europe of 1632. Grantville is now situated on a bend in the river Leutra, in Thuringia. But what happened to the tiny village of Milda, which previously occupied that time and space? Find out in an all-new story, set in Eric Flint’s best-selling Ring of Fire series, by best-selling author David Brin.

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In the shadowy world of Dungeons & Dragons, no one must be more disciplined than the enigmatic Dungeon Master. But are DMs the objective masters of their domains—or fickle gods cursed with the same tragic flaws that plague mere mortals? In this month’s free nonfiction essay, former game writer and editor Bob Kruger shines the spotlight on the Dungeon Master and attempts to answer the questions at the heart of D&D.

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