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John G. Hemry (aka Jack Campbell)
DEAD END
John G. Hemry (a.k.a. Jack Campbell) is the author of the best-selling Lost Fleet series under the pen name Jack Campbell (Dauntless July 2006, Fearless January 2007, other volumes to follow). Under his own name, he’s also the author of the ‘JAG in space’ series, the latest of which is Against All Enemies. His short fiction has appeared in places as varied as the latest Chicks in Chainmail anthology (Turn the Other Chick) and Analog magazine (which published his Nebula Award-nominated story Small Moments in Time). John’s nonfiction has appeared in Analog and Artemis magazines as well as BenBella books on Charmed, Star Wars, and Superman. John is a retired US Navy officer who lives in Maryland with his wife (the incomparable S) and three great kids.
Bud Sparhawk
BROADSIDE ALLIANCES
Bud Sparhawk began writing science fiction stories in 1975 and, after two sales, stopped writing for thirteen years. Since again taking up the pen, his stories and articles have appeared frequently in Analog, Asimov’s, and other SF magazines as well as anthologies. Bud has been a three-time finalist in the Nebula’s Novella cate-gory in 1998, 2002, and 2006. More information may be found at
http://sff.net/peo-ple/bud_sparhawk
Lawrence M. Schoen
THRESHER
Lawrence M. Schoen holds a Ph.D. in cognitive psychology, with a special focus in psycholinguistics. He spent ten years as a college professor, and has done exten-sive research in the areas of human memory and language. His background in the study of behavior and the mind provide a principal metaphor for his fiction. He cur-rently works as the director of research and chief compliance officer for a series of mental health and addiction treatment facilities. He's also one of the world's foremost authorities on the Klingon language, having championed the exploration of this con-structed tongue and lectured on this unique topic throughout the world. Among other writing endeavors, he is currently expanding “Thresher” to novel length. He lives in Philadelphia with his wife, Valerie, who is neither a psychologist nor a speaker of Klingon.
Patrick Thomas
DERELICTION OF DUTY
Patrick Thomas is the author of over 75 published short stories and more than sixteen books including seven books plus two spin-offs in the popular fantasy humor series Murphy’s Lore.
Patrick co-edited Hear Them Roar and the upcoming New Blood vampire anthology. He has edited for Fantastic Stories and Pirate Writings. His novellas appear in Go Not Gently from Padwolf and Flesh and Iron from the Two Backed Books imprint of Raw Dog Screaming.
His stories have sold to many anthologies including Until Somebody Loses an Eye, Hardboiled Cthulhu, Dark Furies, Clash of Steel 3: Demon, Unicorn 8, Jigsaw Nation, Crypto-Critters Vol. 1 & 2, The Dead Walk Vol. 2 & 3, and Warfear. Patrick is penning three issues of a comic mini-series with artist Daniel Horne. His Graveyard Angel series is currently being serialized in Cthulhu Sex magazine. He has a short story collection coming out from Elder Signs Press as well as a novella in another Two Backed Books collection centered around Kali. Terrorbelle, The Daemor, and the DMA will also be getting their own collections in the near future.
Patrick continues to write the syndicated satirical advice column Dear Cthulhu. Please visit his website at http://www.patthomas.net
Tony Ruggerio
PERSPECTIVE
Tony Ruggiero has been publishing fiction since 1998. His science fiction, fan-tasy, and horror stories and novels have appeared in both print and electronic medi-ums. His published novels include Team of Darkness and Aliens and Satanic Creatures Wanted: Humans Need Not Apply. Tony is also a contributing author to The Fantasy Writers’ Companion from Dragon Moon Press. Other collaborative work in-clude the anthologies The Writers for Relief Anthology and No Longer Dreams.
Upcoming novels from Dragon Moon Press, Alien Deception(2006) and Alien Revelation(2007).
Tony retired from the United States Navy in 2001 after twenty-three years of service. He and his family currently reside in Suffolk, Virginia. While continuing to write, Tony teaches at Old Dominion University, Saint Leo University, and Tidewater Community College in Norfolk, VA.
C. J. Henderson
SHORE LEAVE
C.J. Henderson is the creator of both the Jack Hagee hardboiled detective series and the Teddy London supernatural detective series. He is the author of some forty novels and books, everything from The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction Movies to Black Sabbath: The Ozzy Osbourne Years. A professional writer for some thirty years, he has also had published some thousands of non-fiction articles as well as hundreds of short stories. In the wonderful world of comics, he has worked with everyone's characters—from Archie to the Punisher and from Batman to Cherry Poptart. He tries to finish at least 10,000 words a day, but often will settle for 80 or 90, especially if an episode of Hercules or Xena is on.
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Now Announcing
The First Annual
Reader’s Choice Awards
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Interested in participating? It’s easy . . .
Read Breach the Hull and/or So It Begins and let us know which story was your favorite from each book!
Prizes
The author of the story with the most votes
will receive a commemorative trophy.
Five randomly selected respondents will win a selection of
five patches based on the artwork from Breach the Hull.
Rules and Regulations
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Duplicate or repeat votes will be disqualified.
Those directly involved with either publication and their families are barred from entry.
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Coming in 2010 from Dark Quest Games
In association with MilSciFi.com
The Alliance Archives
Martial Role-Playing Games
a percentile-based, initiative-driven gaming system
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Beyond the cradle of Earth, humanity's first offworld colony is threatened by an age old enemy: man himself.
Based on the award-winning military science fiction series, The Alliance Archives; experience role-playing game combat taken to its highest level— reality.
John C. Wright’s NULL-A CONTINUUM
From Tor Science Fiction ISBN: 978-0-765-35537-9 paperback edition
Return to the Null-A future, where Gilbert Gosseyn must pit his wits against Enro the Red and the shadow-being The Follower, while he is hurled through unimaginable distances in space and time and alternate eternities to fend off the death, and complete the rebirth, of the Universe itself!
Patrick Thomas’s
MYSTIC INVESTIGATORS
Down these mean streets filled with monsters and magic,
walks a new breed of sleuth—the Mystic Investigators.
From Dark Quest LLC ISBN: 978-0-979-69014-3
James Daniel Ross’s Radiation Angels:
ISBN: 978-1-594-26452-8 THE KEY TO DAMOCLES
From Mundania Press
Follow Captain Todd Rook as he leads the Angels through a planet's artificial anarchy, along the path of urban warfare, and into the depths of space, to rescue a world's population and gain control of The Key to Damocles.
From Dragon Moon Press
Tony Ruggiero ’s Team of Darkness Chronicles: OPERATION FACE THE FEAR
Commander John Reese faces his ultimate enemy—himself.
From Dark Regions Press
James Chamber’s RESURRECTION HOUSE
Part of Dark Regions Press's New Voices in Horror series, Resurrecti
on House presents some of James Chambers's most chilling and shocking stories, including three never-before-published tales.
From Dark Quest, LLC
ISBN: 978-0-979-69015-0
Mike McPhail’s SO IT BEGINS
The battle rages on in book two of the award winning Defending the Future Series. Witness sixteen accounts of hardcour military science fiction, from planetside combat to fleet actions up among the stars.
Watch for Book Three . . . BY OTHER MEANS
From Bold Venture Press
C J Henderson’s BET YOUR OWN MAN
The top hardboiled stories by the seminal tough guy writer of our times—tales in every genre that, in the words of Detective Story Magazine, "sing with the blood and sweat of life.”
From Hadley Rille Books
ISBN: 978-0-9819243-3-5
Lawrence M. Schoen’s BUFFALITO DESTINY
"Lovely, sharp and witty, not to be missed." —Jay Lake
Journey with the Amazing Conroy as his plan to lease his buffalo dogs for toxic clean-up makes him a target of eco-terrorists, as he searches for his true destiny across space and time.
From Flying Pen Press
SPACE PIRATES
"Danielle Ackley-McPhail’s Carbon Copy is like an Honor Harrington short story with an Asimovian pun at the end."
—Chris Paige, Reviewer
An absolute 'must' for dedicate fans of robust science fiction adventure . . . a series of fifteen swashbuckling short stories of piracy in outer space by some of the best new writers working today.
—Midwest Book Review
ISBN 978-0-981-89570-3
From Ace Books
Jack Campbell’s
THE LOST FLEET: RELENTLESS
After successfully freeing Alliance POWs, “Black Jack” Geary discovers that the Syn-dics plan to ambush the fleet with their powerful reserve flotilla in an attempt to annihilate it once and for all. And as Geary has the fleet jump from one star system to the next, hoping to avoid the inevitable confrontation, saboteurs contribute to the chaos.
Watch for Book Six . . . THE LOST FLEET: VICTORIOUS.
Jack McDevitt’s
THE DEVIL’S EYE ISBN 978-0-441-01635-8
“Why read Jack McDevitt? The question should be: Who among us is such a slow pony that s/he isn't reading McDevitt?”
—Harlan Ellison
Interstellar antiquities dealer Alex Benedict receives a cryptic message asking for help from celebrated writer Vicki Greene—who has been mind-wiped. The answers to this mystery lie on the most remote of human worlds, where Alex will uncover a secret con-nected to a decades-old political upheaval—a secret that somebody desperately wants hidden, though the price of silence is unimaginable . . .
Watch for . . . TIME TRAVELERS NEVER DIE
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