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This novella originally appeared in the anthology Full Spectrum 3 (1991), edited by Lou Aronica, Amy Stout and Betsy Mitchell. It can also be found in the anthology The Year's Best Science Fiction: Ninth Annual Collection (1992), edited by Gardner Dozois.

A collection of superb science fiction stories offers works by the writers who were invited in 1994 to attend the prestigious Sycamore Hills Writers' Conference, including Robert Frazier, Carol Emshwiller, Gregory Frost, and Bruce Sterling, among others.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction: Fun in the Burn Ward - essay by John Kessel and Mark L. Van Name and Richard Butner
• Bicycle Repairman - novelette by Bruce Sterling
• The Marianas Islands - shortstory by Karen Joy Fowler
• Sex Education - shortfiction by Nancy Kress
• The Hardened Criminals - novelette by Jonathan Lethem
• The Escape Artist - shortstory by Michaela Roessner
• Body & Soul - shortstory by Robert Frazier
• The Fury at Colonus - novelette by Alexander Jablokov
• Homesick - shortstory by Maureen F. McHugh
• Ledoyt (excerpt) - shortfiction by Carol Emshwiller
• The Miracle of Ivar Avenue - (1996) - novelette by John Kessel
• Missing Connections - novelette by Mark L. Van Name
• That Blissful Height - novelette by Gregory Frost
• Horses Blow Up Dog City - shortstory by Richard Butner
• The First Law of Thermodynamics - (1996) - shortstory by James Patrick Kelly
• The Turkey City Lexicon: A Primer for SF Workshops - essay by Lewis Shiner

TOP AUTHORS PAY TRIBUTE TO A MASTER. David Drake has left an indelible mark on the science fiction and fantasy genres. He is considered the Grand Master of Military Science Fiction. Now, top authors in the field pay tribute to the man and his work in this all-new collection of stories and essays.

David Drake has left an indelible mark on the science fiction and fantasy genres. Now, top authors in the science fiction and fantasy field pay tribute to the man and his work in this all-new collection of stories and essays.

Best-selling author David Drake has been creating topnotch military science fiction, space opera, and fantasy novels and stories for decades. In this all-original collection that appears as Drake is a Special Guest of the 2015 World Fantasy Convention, a stellar line-up of writers pays tribute to Drake with stories as broad in range as his own fiction. Each one comes with an illuminating afterword explaining the connection of the story to Drake and his work.

In Eric Flint's "A Flat Affect" a king is no match for a pair of storytellers

Gene Wolfe takes us to a strange and wondrous future in "Incubator"

Larry Correia examines what it's like to face Hammer's Slammers from "The Losing Side"

S.M. Stirling offers an insider's view of "Working with Dave, or, Inmates in Bellevue"

Mur Lafferty shows what happens when a fairy visitor receives an unexpected welcome in "The Crate Warrior, the Doppelganger, and the Idea Woman"

The book also features two new pieces from Drake himself: "The Great Wizard, Cabbage," a comic historical fantasy, and "Save What You Can," the first new Hammer's Slammers story in nearly a decade!

With more stories from editor Mark L. Van Name, Cecelia Holland, T.C. McCarthy, Barry N. Malzberg, Sarah Hoyt, Tony Daniel, John Lambshead, Hank Davis, Eric S. Brown, and Sarah Van Name, as well as appreciations from Baen Publisher Toni Weisskopf and Tor founder and Publisher Tom Doherty, Onward, Drake! is a collection that fans of Drake's fiction--and anyone who enjoys a good story--will not want to miss!

Table of Contents:

• The Great Wizard, Cabbage - shortfiction by David Drake
• Incubator - shortfiction by Gene Wolfe
• A Flat Affect - shortfiction by Eric Flint
• SUM - shortfiction by Cecelia Holland
• David Drake - essay by Tom Doherty
• The Crate Warrior, the Doppelgänger, and the Idea Woman - shortfiction by Mur Lafferty
• Working with Dave, or, Inmates in Bellevue - essay by S. M. Stirling
• Hell Hounds - shortfiction by Tony Daniel
• Technical Advantage - shortfiction by John Lambshead
• Saracens - shortfiction by T. C. McCarthy
• The One That Got Away - shortfiction by Eric S. Brown
• Appreciating Dave - essay by T. K. F. Weisskopf
• Swimming from Joe - shortfiction by Barry N. Malzberg
• The Village of Yesteryear - shortfiction by Sarah Van Name
• The Trouble with Telepaths - shortfiction by Hank Davis
• A Cog In Time - shortfiction by Sarah A. Hoyt
• All That's Left - shortfiction by Mark L. Van Name
• The Losing Side - shortfiction by Larry Correia
• Save What You Can - shortfiction by David Drake

TWO WOLVES IN A GALAXY OF LARGER PREDATORS

Jon Moore: nanotech-enhanced solider-of-fortune.

Battlewagon Lobo: A.I.-equipped intelligence and weapons platform (think: a fortress on wheels) of enormous destructive potential.

Two very dangerous wolves in a galaxy of deadly corporate and paramilitary predators. But Moore has grown weary of the killing and just once he'd like to finish a job without leaving a trail of blood behind him. Not going to happen. Not on a pristine planet called Macken, where two gigantic corporations vie for control of the local jump gate and access to the riches of an undeveloped world. Dealing with a kidnapping and extortion scheme is only the beginning for Moore and Lobo. Next they must survive an enormous bounty placed on Moore's head long enough to rescue yet again the young woman they accidentally delivered into the wrong hands. But with the help of an old lover and under-the-table support from the mercenary outfit that made him, Moore just might beat the odds, save the girl, and get out of this one a little richer and one step closer to making it back to the strange world of his origin.

One Jump Ahead: the first novel in the Jon & Lobo series

Save the Boy--Save the Galaxy!

Pinkelponker. Funny name. Dangerous planet. It's one of the darkest secrets in the human-inhabited space--a planet under a centuries-long quarantine. A planet of mutant seers and psychics whose very existence threatens the galactic balance of power. But a young boy with extraordinary precognitive abilities has surfaced, and a cult leader seeking ultimate power wants to possess him, body and soul. Now the boy's future rests with a treacherous con man and with the one person who can understand the boy's strange destiny. For it is a destiny that master mercenary Jon Moore shares--since he, too, is a son of Pinkelponker!

Military SF with an adventurous flourish--here is the second entry in Mark Van Name's thoughtful and hard-hitting "Jon and Lobo" saga!

It began as a favor to a woman trying to get away from an abusive husband.

Jon Moore grew up in a prison laboratory. When he escaped with nothing but his body's nanotech enhancements and more anger than even a long lifetime could wash away, an entire planet died behind him. Memories of the things he'd done still haunted him; because of them, he often ended up helping those in need.

His kindnesses frequently didn't work out well. This one really didn't work out well. It hurled Jon and Lobo, the intelligent assault vehicle and Jon's only friend, down an accelerating, ever more dangerous spiral involving:

• Private armies and government covert ops teams
• A courtesan who always seems a step ahead of him
• Rival superpowers that define Good in terms of their own advantage and Ethics as whatever doesn't get in the way of their Good
• And a brilliant, amoral scientist to whom human beings are just more experimental animals--and who might be Lobo's creator.

Jon and Lobo take the reader on a headlong rush through armed enemies and untrustworthy allies and encounter what just might be the worst danger their partnership will face: the truth.

Jon Moore knew that better than most, having learned to fight to survive before he'd hit puberty. So when a former comrade, Alissa Lim, asks for his help in rescuing a group of children pressed into service by rebels on a planet no one cares to save, he agrees. Only later does he realize he's signed up to do far more than he'd ever imagined. Jon's commitment hurtles him and Lobo, the hyper-intelligent assault vehicle who is his only real friend, into confrontations with the horrors the children have experienced and with a dark chapter from his past.

Jon and Lobo are back--and everything is about to change.

If they both survive.

Haunted by memories of children he could not save, Jon Moore is so increasingly self-destructive that even his best friend, the hyper-intelligent Predator-Class Assault Vehicle, Lobo, is worried. When Jon risks meeting a woman from his distant past and undertakes a high-stakes mission, Lobo fears this will be their last.

The job is illegal.

They have to take on one of the oldest, most powerful men alive.

Two different security forces are tracking them.

And Jon is falling in love.

Desperate and out of options on a world so inhospitable that its statues and monuments outnumber its living inhabitants, Jon and Lobo encounter their deadliest challenges yet. They must make decisions from which there truly is No Going Back.