Black Tide Rising - eARC (36 page)

About the Authors

John Ringo brings fighting to life. He is the creator of the Posleen Wars series, which has become a
New York Times 
best-selling series with over one million copies in print. The series contains
A Hymn Before Battle,
Gust Front
,
When the Devil Dances
,
Hell’s Faire,
and
Eye of the Storm
. In addition, Ringo has penned the Council War series. Adding another dimension to his skills, Ringo created nationally best-selling techno-thriller novels about Mike Harmon (
Ghost
,
Kildar
,
Choosers of the Slain
,
Unto the Breach
,
A Deeper Blue,
and, with Ryan Sear,
Tiger by the Tail
).

His techno-thriller
The Last Centurion
was also a national bestseller. A more playful twist on the future is found in novels of the Looking-Glass series:
Into the Looking Glass
,
Vorpal Blade
,
Manxome Foe,
and
Claws That Catch
, the last three in collaboration with Travis S. Taylor. His audience was further enhanced with four collaborations with fellow
New York Times
best-selling author David Weber:
March Upcountry
,
March to the Sea
,
March to the Stars
and
We Few
.

There are an additional seven collaborations from the Posleen series:
The Hero
, written with Michael Z. Williamson,
Watch on the Rhine
,
Yellow Eyes
and
The Tuloriad
, all written with Tom Kratman, and the
New York Times
best seller
Cally’s War
and its sequels
Sister Time
and
Honor of the Clan
, all with Julie Cochrane. His science-based zombie apocalypse Black Tide Rising series includes
Under a Graveyard Sky, To Sail a Darkling Sea, Islands of Rage and Hope
and
Strands of Sorrow.
A veteran of the 82nd Airborne, Ringo brings first-hand knowledge of military operations to his fiction.

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Eric Flint’s writing career began with the science fiction novel
Mother of Demons
. With David Drake, he has collaborated on the six-volume
Belisarius
series, as well as a novel entitled
The Tyrant
. His alternate history novel
1632
was published in 2000, and has led to a long-running series with many novels and anthologies in print. In addition, he’s written a number of science fiction and fantasy novels. He now has fifty novels in print as well as many pieces of short fiction and dozens of anthologies which he’s edited. He currently resides in northwest Indiana with his wife Lucille.

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Jody Lynn Nye is a writer of fantasy and science fiction books and short stories. Since 1987 she has published over 45 books and more than 140 short stories, including epic fantasies, contemporary humorous fantasy, humorous military science fiction, and edited three anthologies. She collaborated with Anne McCaffrey on a number of books, including the
New York Times
bestseller,
Crisis on Doona
. She also wrote eight books with Robert Asprin, and continues both of Asprin’s Myth-Adventures series and Dragons series. Her newest books are the third Lord Thomas Kinago adventure,
Rhythm of the Imperium
(Baen Books), a humorous military SF novel, and
Wishing on a Star
(Arc Manor Press), a contemporary fantasy. Jody runs the two-day intensive writers’ workshop at DragonCon. She and her husband are the book reviewers for
Galaxy’s Edge Magazine
.

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John Scalzi is the author of
Old Man’s War
and other novels.

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Dave Klecha has been making up stories since he can remember, and once he learned to make them up about fictional people instead of what happened to the cookie jar, things really took off. His fiction, unrelated to cookies, has appeared in
Subterranean Magazine
,
Clarkesworld
, and the Baen anthologies
Armored
and
Operation Arcana
. Dave is a veteran of Iraq and father of three children, living with PTSD from one or both of those experiences. He resides in the Detroit area with his lovely wife and three adorable but dastardly adversaries.

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Sarah A. Hoyt writes everything except men’s adventure and children’s books. Her short stories have been published in
Analog
,
Asimov
,
Weird Tales
, numerous DAW anthologies and even more respectable venues such as this one. Her novel,
Darkship Thieves
, won the Prometheus award in 2011. She was born in Portugal and lives in Colorado with her husband, two sons and an ever-increasing number of cats. Everything else about her is unimportant.

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Kacey Ezell is an active duty USAF helicopter pilot. When not beating the air into submission, she writes military SF, SF, fantasy, and horror fiction. She lives with her husband, two daughters, and an ever growing number of cats.

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Michael Z. Williamson is a bestselling and award winning SF and fantasy author, best known for the Freehold universe. He has consulted on disaster preparedness for various theatrical productions, private clients and the DoD. The latter are woefully unaware of the impending zombie threat. A veteran of the US Army and USAF, his hobbies include fine Scotch, antique swords and firearms. Having successfully outgunned the nations of Iceland and Barbados, he is currently in an arms race with Bermuda. He lives in central Indiana, where the post-glacial terrain offers a good, clear field of fire. He can be found online at MichaelZWilliamson.com

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Mike Massa has lived a diverse and adventurous life, including stints as Navy SEAL officer, an international investment banker and an Internet technologist. His greatest adventures, though, have been in marriage and parenthood. Mike is a university cyber security researcher, consulted by governments, Fortune 500 companies and high net worth families on issues of privacy, resilience and disaster recovery. He lived outside the US for several years (plus military deployments!) and has traveled to over eighty countries. Mike is pleased to call Virginia home, where he passionately follows the ongoing commercial space race, looks forward to family holidays and enjoys reading the latest new books by his favorite SF&F authors.

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Tedd Roberts is a research scientist who writes both science fact and science fiction. His research as a neuroscientist is on the cutting edge of human memory, prosthetics and brain-to-computer interfaces. Tedd also advises SF writers, game developers and TV/movie writers on incorporating accurate science in Science Fiction. His Hugo-award-nominated nonfiction appears multiple times per year on the Baen Books website, and has been archived in the Baen Free Library nonfiction collections since 2012. His short fiction often incorporates near-future themes from medical research or from his background as an Eagle Scout, Boy Scout Leader, teacher, professor and musician.

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A native Texan by birth (if not geography), Christopher L. Smith moved home as soon as he could. Attending Texas A&M for two of the four years he lived in College Station, he learned quickly that there was more to college than drinking beer and going to football games. Deciding that a change of venue may be more beneficial, he moved to San Antonio, attending SAC and UTSA, graduating in late 2000 with a BA in Lit. While there, he also met a wonderful lady that somehow found him to be funny, charming, and worth marrying. (She has since changed her mind on the funny and charming, but figures he’s still a keeper.) After the birth of his first child, and while waiting on the second, Chris decided that he should start his own business, and has been running it since 2001. In a fit of creative inspiration, Chris began writing flash fiction in 2012, and has moved on to short stories. His first, “Bad Blood and Old Silver,” appears in the
Luna’s Children: Stranger Worlds
anthology, from Dark Oak Press. His two cats allow him, his wife, their three kids, and two dogs to reside outside of San Antonio.

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A 2015 John W. Campbell Award finalist for Best New Author, Jason Cordova was born in California and promptly moved out as soon as he legally could. He has sold fiction in horror, fantasy, steampunk, and science fiction. A former teacher and military veteran, he has circled the globe at least once (and never got arrested or hospitalized, something of a record for him). He currently resides in Virginia and is the “International Ambassador of the Kaiju Awareness Foundation.”

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Eric S Brown is the author of numerous series including the
Bigfoot War
series, the
Crypto-Squad
series (with Jason Brannon), and the
Megalodon
series to name only a few. His short fiction has been published hundreds of times in markets like the
Onward Drake
anthology from Baen Books and the
Grantville Gazette
. He also done the novelization of movies like
Boggy Creek: The Legend is True
and
The Bloody Rage of Bigfoot
. The first book of his
Bigfoot War
series was adapted into a feature film in 2014 and his book
The Witch of Devil’s Woods
was adapted into a feature film in 2015.

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Gary Poole has worked in the entertainment and publishing industry for his entire adult life. He’s worked directly with John Ringo on over a dozen novels, and has adapted several of them into screenplays (all of which remain in development). When not working with Ringo, he is the managing editor of a successful alternative newsweekly in Tennessee and spent years on the radio as a talk show host and award-winning broadcast journalist.