The Year's Best Military & Adventure SF 2015. The second of a new series (Year's Best Military and Adventure SF) featuring the best stories of the year from the top magazines and online venues with a military and adventure science fiction theme. The new Golden Age of short science fiction has arrived! Here are stories to challenge, provoke, thrill, and entertain. Stories of future military men and women, space opera on a grand scale, and edge-of-your-seat adventure science fiction in the grand pulp tradition, featuring stories by giants of the genre and the hottest new brilliant up-and-comers. Contents: Preface (The Year's Best Military & Adventure SF 2015) • essay by David Afsharirad Introduction (The Year's Best Military & Adventure SF 2015) • essay by David Weber The Siege of Denver (2015) • short story by Brendan DuBois Save What You Can [Hammer's Slammers] (2015) / novelette by David Drake For the Love of Sylvia City (2015) /• short story by Andrea M. Pawley The Wizard of the Trees (2015) / novelette by Joe R. Lansdale Helping Hand (2015) / short story by Claudine Griggs Morrigan in Shadow (2015) / novelette by Seth Dickinson Remembery Day (2015) / short story by Sarah Pinsker Gyre [Sargasso Containment] (2015) / novelette by Brad R. Torgersen Twilight on Olympus (1999) / short story by Eric Leif Davin The Trouble with Telepaths (2015) / short story by Hank Davis This Is the Way the Universe Ends: with a Bang (2015) / short story by Brian Dolton The Tumbledowns of Cleopatra Abyss (2015) / novelette by David Brin

The Year's Best Military & 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. Tales of brave military men and women, thrilling derring-do, and edge-of-your-seat suspense. Stories to get your blood racing, your heart pounding, and your fingers turning the pages. Stories to challenge, provoke, thrill, and entertain. Stories that prove the new Golden Age is now!. This intriguing anthology explores the human race's violent potential but also bends toward exploration and the triumph of the human spirit, with brave tales that take the reader on a fascinating, thought-provoking, enjoyable journey Contents; Preface (The Year's Best Military & Adventure SF: Volume 3) • essay by David Afsharirad Introduction (The Year's Best Military & Adventure SF: Volume 3) • essay by David Weber Cadet Cruise [RCN] • (2016) / short fiction by David Drake Tethers (2016) / short fiction by William Ledbetter Unlinkage (2016) / novelette by Eric Del Carlo Not in Vain [Black Tide Rising] (2016) / novelette by Kacey Ezell Between Nine and Eleven (2016) / short story by Adam Roberts Sephine and the Leviathan (2016) / novelette by Jack Schouten The Good Food (2016) / short fiction by Michael Ezell If I Could Give This Time Machine Zero Stars, I Would (2016) / short story by James Wesley Rogers Wise Child [Liaden Universe] (2016) / novelette by Sharon Lee and Steve Miller Starhome (2016) / novelette by Michael Z. Williamson The Art of Failure (2016) / short fiction by Robert Dawson The Last Tank Commander (2016) / novelette by Allen Stroud One Giant Leap (2016) / short story by Jay Werkheiser The Immortals: Anchorage [Symphony of War Shorts • 2] (2016) / novelette by David Adams Backup Man (2016) / short story by Paul Di Filippo .

The Year's Best Military & Adventure SF series roars into its fourth year, with more stories of derring-do, military combat, and edge of your seat suspensen. Thrilling tales of grand science fiction adventure and military action. Selected from the top print and digital markets, represent the best in modern military sf, space opera, and adventure sf, these stories are guarentted to challenge, provoke, and entertain. Contents; - Preface (The Year's Best Military & Adventure SF: Volume 4) • essay by David Afsharirad - The Secret Life of Bots (2017) / novelette by Suzanne Palmer - The Snatchers (2017) / short story by Edward McDermott - Imperium Imposter [View from the Imperium] (2017) / short story by Jody Lynn Nye - A Thousand Deaths Through Flesh and Stone (2017) / short story by Brian Trent - Hope Springs (2017) / novelette by Lindsay Buroker - Orphans of Aries (2017) / novelette by Brad R. Torgersen - By the Red Giant's Light (2017) / short story by Larry Niven - Family Over Blood [Grainne War] (2017) / novelette by Kacey Ezell - A Man They Didn't Know (2017) / short story by David Hardy III - Swarm (2017) / short story by Sean Patrick Hazlett - A Hamal in Hollywood (2017) / novelette by Martin L. Shoemaker - Lovers [Grainne War] (2017) / novelette by Tony Daniel - The Ghost Ship Anastasia (2017) / novelette by Rich Larson - You Can Always Change the Past (2017) / short story by George Nikolopoulos - Our Sacred Honor [Honor Harrington Universe] (2017) / novelette by David Weber .

The Year's Best Military & Adventure SF series enters its fifth year! 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 fifth 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 guaranteed 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 2019. For more information, go to Baen.com. About The Year’s Best Military and Adventure Science Fiction 2015: “Baen’s fan-guided anthology series roars into its second year with a collection of stories just as eclectic as the first... Afsharirad has put together a refreshing military and SF anthology that will be enjoyed by a wide range of readers.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review) About The Year's Best Military SF and Space Opera Volume 1: “This intriguing anthology explores the human race’s violent potential [but] also bends toward exploration and the triumph of the human spirit, with brave tales [that] take the reader on a fascinating, thought-provoking, enjoyable journey . . . ”—Publishers Weekly (starred review) “[A] nice eclectic mix of magazines—hardcopy and digital—and original anthologies. Afsharirad seems to have cast his nets admirably wide... The variety of styles and topics and themes, and the high level of craft in this assemblage, prove that this subgenre is flourishing... [The collection] should be welcome by raw recruits and veterans alike.”—Locus