The Year's Best Military and Adventure SF, Volume 4 – eARC

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The Year's Best Military and Adventure SF series continues! Selected from the top print and online markets, these stories represent the best in modern military sf, space opera, and adventure sf.

The Year's Best Military and Adventure SF series roars into its fourth year, with more stories of derring-do, military combat, and edge of your seat suspense. Thrilling tales of grand science fiction adventure and military action. Selected from the top print and digital markets, these stories are guaranteedd to challenge, provoke, and entertain.

Plus, you be the judge! INTERACTIVE READER VOTING. One story from this anthology will be chosen via proctored online voting for The Best Military and Adventure Science Fiction Reader's Choice Award, presented at DragonCon in Summer 2018. For more information, go to Baen.com.

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This is a work of fiction. All the characters and events portrayed in this book are fictional, and any resemblance to real people or incidents is purely coincidental.

Look for the final version on June 5, 2018

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ISBN-13: 978-1-4814-8332-2

“Preface” copyright © 2018 by David Afsharirad.
“The Secret Life of Bots” copyright © 201 by Suzanne Palmer. First appeared in Clarkesworld, Issue 132, September, 2017. Reprinted by permission of the author.
“The Snatchers” copyright © 2017 by Edward McDermott. First appeared in Analog Science Fiction and Fact, March/April, 2017. Reprinted by permission of the author.
“Imperium Imposter” copyright © 2017 by Jody Lynn Nye. First appeared in Infinite Stars, ed. by Bryan Thomas Schmidt. Reprinted by permission of the author.
“A Thousand Deaths through Flesh and Stone” copyright © 2017 by Spilogale, Inc. First published in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, May/June 2017. Reprinted by permission of the author.
“Hope Springs” copyright © 2017 by Lindsay Buroker. First appeared in Beyond the Stars: New Worlds, New Suns, ed. by Ellen Campbell, series ed. Patrice Fitzgerald. Reprinted by permission of the author.
“Orphans of Aries” copyright © 2017 by Brad R. Torgersen. First appeared in Rocket’s Red Glare, ed. by James Reasoner. Reprinted by permission of the author.
“By the Red Giant’s Light” copyright © 2017 by Spilogale, Inc. First published in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, November/December 2017. Reprinted by permission of the author.
“Family over Blood” copyright © 2017 by Kacey Ezell. First appeared in Forged in Blood, ed. by Michael Z. Williamson. Reprinted by permission of the author.
“A Man They Didn’t Know” copyright © 2017 by David Hardy. First appeared in Rocket’s Red Glare, ed. by James Reasoner. Reprinted by permission of the author.
“Swarm” copyright © 2017 by Sean Patrick Hazlett. First appeared in Terraform, December 2017. Reprinted by permission of the author.
“A Hamal in Hollywood” copyright © 2017 by Martin l. Shoemaker. First appeared in Rocket’s Red Glare, ed. by James Reasoner. Reprinted by permission of the author.
“Lovers” copyright © 2017 by Tony Daniel. First appeared in Forged in Blood, ed. by Michael Z. Williamson. Reprinted by permission of the author.
“The Ghost Ship Anastasia” copyright © 2017 by Rich Larson. First appeared in Clarkesworld, Issue 124, January 2017. Reprinted by permission of the author.
“You Can Always Change the Past” © 2017 by George Nikolopoulos. First appeared in Mike Resnick’s Galaxy’s Edge, Issue 25, March 2017. Reprinted by permission of the author.
“Our Sacred Honor” copyright © 2017 by David Weber. First appeared in Infinite Stars, ed. by Bryan Thomas Schmidt. Reprinted by permission of the author.

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