In Harm's Way

by Bud Sparhawk, Mike McPhail (Editor), Robert Greenberger

Overview

When fire and steel meet flesh and bone, a soldier learns a hard truth: you’re not fighting for Glory and Honor, but for survival, for you and your comrades, and you will be damned if you’re going to leave any of them behind.

Join us for twelve tales of military heroism and courage in the face of a hostile enemy.

With stories by Brenda Cooper, Bud Sparhawk, David Sherman, Robert E. Waters, Jeff Young, James Chambers, Lisanne Norman, Robert Greenberger, Aaron Rosenberg, Christopher M. Hiles, Eric V. Hardenbrook, and Danielle Ackley-McPhail

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781942990208
Publisher:	eSpec Books
Publication date:	10/01/2019
Series:	Defending The Future , #8
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	200
Sales rank:	781,861
File size:	3 MB

Table of Contents

Brenda Cooper - Children of the Last Battle

Bud Sparhawk - Comrades in Arms

David Sherman - Contained Vacuum

Robert Waters - Medicine Man

Jeff Young - Bucket Brigade

James Chambers - Beach on Nellus

Lisanne Norman - Hope's Children

Robert Greenberger - The Oath

Aaron Rosenberg - Slingshot

Christopher M. Hiles - Something to Live For

Eric Hardenbrook - Sympathetic

Danielle Ackley-McPhail - No Man Left Behind

Editorial Reviews

08/26/2019

This impressive anthology of 12 military science fiction stories pairs suspense with heart, showcasing oppressive regimes, deeds of heroism in the wake of alien invasions, and the depths of limitless, unknown space. Brenda Cooper’s “Children of the Last Battle” is a heartrending story of one woman’s attempts to keep a group of children safe, even as their enemies from another world close in around them. David Sherman’s “Contained Vacuum” follows a ship’s crew as they explore an abandoned space-going vessel and find that it has been swarmed by enemy aliens. James Chambers’s “A Beach on Nellus” tells of a government agent’s mission to obliterate a prisoner on a distant planet who holds the fate of two worlds in her hands. These tales are meticulously detailed and sometimes blur together in their thematic similarities, evoking a constant sense of urgency and desperation in high-stakes situations. Readers of military science fiction will appreciate the authors’ inventiveness as they make old tropes new again. (Oct.)

Publishers Weekly