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AWARD-WINNING AND BEST-SELLING AUTHORS CONTRIBUTE NEW STORIES: All-new fiction from Dragon Award winner and New York Times best-selling author David Weber, Dragon Award nominee D.J. Butler, best seller Jody Lynn Nye, indie best sellers Chris Kennedy and Mark Wandrey, and more. Also featuring an introduction by multi-award-winning and New York Times best-selling author Larry Correia.
It is 2185 CE. Humans now live throughout the Solar System, but their most ambitious adventure is about to begin. The starship Victoria will carry over 10,000 colonists to a new world outside the solar system. The larger-than-life exploits of those colonists will become legendary. The colonists will build a new civilization, and the actions of a few individuals will become famous—and infamous—forever marking their new colony with the Founder Effect.
Contributors:
• Larry Correia
• Mark H. Wandrey
• Les Johnson
• Christopher L. Smith
• David Weber
• Daniel M. Hoyt
• Brad R. Torgersen
• Monalisa Foster
• Sarah A. Hoyt
• Chris Kennedy
• Vivienne Raper
• Jody Lynn Nye
• Brent M. Roeder
• Catherine L. Smith
• Philip Wohlrab
• D.J. Butler
Cover Art by Sam Kennedy
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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 November 3, 2020
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ISBN-13: 978-1-9821-2509-7
Copyright © 2020 by Robert E. Hampson and Sandra L. Medlock
Additional copyright information:
“Foreword: Legends” copyright © 2020 by Larry Correia; “Descent” copyright © 2020 by Mark H. Wandrey; “Confession” copyright © 2020 by Les Johnson; “Somnum Exterreri” copyright © 2020 by Christopher L. Smith; “Kamakura” copyright © 2020 by Words of Weber, Inc.; “Sonny Stirs” copyright © 2020 by Daniel M. Hoyt; “Stowaway” copyright © 2020 by Brad R. Torgersen; “Cerberus Project” copyright © 2020 by Monalisa Foster; “Alas Roanoke” copyright © 2020 by Sarah A. Hoyt; “The Legend of Jimmy Vee” copyright © 2020 by Chris Kennedy; “On the Trail of the Sügenhound” copyright © 2020 by Vivienne Raper; “No Word for Princes” copyright © 2020 by Jody Lynn Nye; “The Loss of Beaver Flight” copyright © 2020 by Brent M. Roeder; “Jack Daw Days” copyright © 2020 by Catherine L. Smith; “Redemption” copyright © 2020 by Philip Wohlrab; “Looneytunes” copyright © 2020 by D.J. Butler; “Fire From Heaven” copyright © 2020 by Words of Weber, Inc. and Mark H. Wandrey.
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