The Year’s Best of Military SF and Space Opera Stories. Book One of a new Series featuring the best stories of the year from the top magazine and online venues with a military and adventure science fiction theme. PLUS: Interactive Reader Voting for Best Story in Collection! Award presented at DragonCon in Summer 2015.<br><br>With an introduction by best-selling military science fiction author David Drake and selected by editor David Afsharirad from the top short story markets in the field, here are the most thrilling, pulse-pounding, and thought-provoking stories of the past year. Stories of future military men and women, space opera on a grand scale, and edge-of-your-seat adventure tales in the pulp tradition, from giants of the genre to brilliant up-and-comers.<br><br>Plus, <i>you </i>be the judge! INTERACTIVE READER VOTING. One story from <i>this </i>collection will be chosen via proctored on-line voting as <i>Year's Best Military SF and Space Opera</i>, with the award to be presented at DragonCon in September 2015. For more information, go to Baen.com.<br><br><b>About <i>The Year's Best Military SF and Space Opera:</i></b><br>&quot;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 . . . &quot;—<i>Publishers Weekly </i>(starred review)<br><br><b>Contributors:</b><br><br>Brad R. Torgersen<br>Michael Z. Williamson<br>Charlie Jane Anders<br>Linda Nagata<br>Seth Dickinson<br>William Ledbetter<br>Eric Leif Davin<br>David D. Levine<br>Stephen Gaskell<br>Michael Barretta<br>Derek Kunsken<br>Holly Black<br>Robert R. Chase<br>Matthew Johnson