Story of the Month Club brings together a magical collection of tales for its 2015 anthology. Take a journey to the vacation destinations of tomorrow. Experience miracles and magic, the dirty side of science and the noble side of bandits. Discover what one man can accomplish with dedication and perseverance. Believe in the power of holiday legends and a woman's faith. A Baker's Dozen of Magic collects stories from thirteen authors, transporting you into worlds of adventure populated by mad scientists and magicians from across the globe.

A Baker's Dozen of Magic: Story of the Month Club 2015 Anthology (Story of the Month Club - Anthology)

Literature & Fiction

MARTIN, Frank

Brawner, Jessica

Ikenberry, Kevin

Vogt, Josh

Moore, Fiona

Johnson, Anne E.

Fowler, Thomas A

Forrest, J.L.

Sheridan Rose, Rie

Rozas III, Ramon

Short Stories & Anthologies

Story of the Month Club

Story of the Month Club brings together its final collection of tales in its 2016 anthology. Woe and Wonder offers a collection of tales from North American authors in a variety of themes and tones. This year's submissions came from across the country and across the spectrum of fiction genres. These tales will thrill readers who long for twists and surprises at every turn. Travel through time, meet a superhero with questionable judgement, and experience the human race's enslavement. Psychics, zombies, and mermaids await. Dive in and enjoy.

Woe and Wonder: 2016 Story of the Month Club Anthology

Knight, Sam

Wacks, Peter J.

Muk, Derek

Hogan, Andrew J.

Sears, Steven L.

Paradigm, S.R.

Taken from their planet and their century,they are?the Lost Soldiers.The hijacked Twentieth Century troops known as Murphy's Lawless have made planetfall on the planet R'Bak and accomplished their first main objective. Led by Lieutenant Harold Tapper and some of the Lost Soldiers, a clan of proudly independent nomads successfully attacked a unit of the J'Stull Satrapy and made off with a number of much-needed combat vehicles. But the J'Stull won't-can't-let that defeat go unanswered. They are the servitors of the overlords of Kulsis: outsystem autocrats whose forces shall soon return to take whatever resources-and vengeance-they wish. And the J'Stull can't afford to be the objects of their wrath. Captain Bo Moorfield-a dishonored US mechanized cavalry officer before waking up in this strange future-now has to shepherd the convoy of armored cars, APCs, and other all-terrain vehicles-back to the Lost Soldier's base high in the forbidding desert terrain. Unfortunately, the stolen vehicles aren't at the peak of performance, and Lieutenant Tapper is barely able to keep ahead of the J'Stull force racing after him.But Moorfield has two things the J'Stull don't: training as a professional cavalry officer and a force of half-trained troopers mounted on whinnies. If he's able to get his own forces into the right position, maybe-just maybe-he will be able to snatch victory from the jaws of almost-certain defeat. If not, the J'Stull will roll up Moorefield's small unit and push straight on through to the Lost Soldiers' makeshift base, killing them all.And if that happens, the future for the rest of Murphy's Lawless isn't merely bleak: it's nonexistent.

Obligations (Murphy's Lawless)

Literary

Beyond Terra Press

The Gates of Hell: More Tales from the Lyon's Den (Four Horsemen Sagas)

Ezell, Kacey

Mixon, Terry

Steverson, Kevin

Kennedy, Chris

Osborne, Jon R.

Wandrey, Mark

Bridgwater, Dan

Voss, Zane

Chandler, Richard Alan

Seventh Seal Press

Peacemakers. The Galactic Union’s most capable enforcers and resolute negotiators, their name alone elicits fear and awe among the Union’s citizenry. 
After the vicious attacks on Victoria Bravo, Commander Tara Mason and the newly formed Force 25 have no time to refit and reconstitute their depleted forces. Deputized by the Peacemaker Guild and charged with a time-sensitive mission—finding James “Snowman” Francis—Tara and her mercenaries deploy to the wintry world of Snowmass to follow a fifty-year-old lead on Snowman’s disappearance. 
Snowmass, though, is far from peaceful. A project of the controversial Dream World Consortium, the planetary government’s promises of pleasant weather and long growing seasons have fallen far short of expectations. Tempers are rising, and unknown attackers are damaging the Dream World Consortium’s equipment and drawing the ire of Mayor Citsym and the Trenta Knights—Zuul mercenaries with more than forty years of less-than-stellar experience providing the planet’s security. 
Force 25 arrives on the planet and clandestinely deploys their attached Peacemakers, Vannix and Jackson Rains, but their hopes for a peaceful investigation of Snowman’s past are doomed from the start. Not only do they run into an assassination staged by the rogue Enforcer Kr’et’Socae and his minions, but the Trenta Knights also believe the newly-arrived mercenaries to be a threat and stage an attack to drive them from the planet. But neither Kr’et’Socae, the local government, nor the Trenta Knights have ever seen anything like Force 25, and when the battle is joined, all of them—including Force 25—will be forever changed.

Fields of Fire (Rise of the Peacemakers)

Peacemakers. The Galactic Union's most capable enforcers and resolute negotiators, their name alone elicits fear and awe among the Union's citizenry.Being a Peacemaker isn't easy. They're charged with setting the terms and doing anything which needs to be done-even if it personally costs them everything. They must learn to honor the threat to all life, and, in the end, they must stand or fall, based on their own convictions. Welcome back to the Four Horsemen universe, where only a willingness to fight and die for money separates Humans from the majority of the other races. Edited by Mia R. Kleve and bestselling author Kevin Ikenberry, "Set the Terms" includes fourteen all-new Peacemaker-themed stories in the Four Horsemen universe by a variety of bestselling authors-and some you may not have heard of?yet. From pigs flying to cats landing on their feet, "Set the Terms" shows Peacemakers at work from the origin of the guild to present day. Journey with a Lumar Peacemaker as he tries to complete his first mission and watch as a Phidae Peacemaker tries to complete his final one. They will have to use their wits as well as their weapons if they hope to remain standing at the end of the day.Are you ready to set the terms? If so, then step inside!With stories by:Mark WandreyChris KennedyWilliam Alan WebbQuincy J. AllenKevin SteversonMarisa WolfJon R. OsborneTerry Mixon	Casey MooresJamie IbsonKevin Ikenberry & Peter J. Aldin Matt NovotnyMarie WhittakerMark Stallings

Set the Terms (Rise of the Peacemakers)

Webb, William Alan

Wolf, Marisa

Kleve, Mia R.

Allen, Qunicy J.

We Dare: Semper Paratus: An Anthology of the Apocalypse

Woods, Christopher

Howell, Rob

Cordova, Jason

Ibson, Jamie

Hampson, Robert E.

Theogony Books

Major Rodger Y. Murphy should have died when his helicopter crashed off the coast of Mogadishu in November, 1993. Instead, he woke up in August, 2125, in a binary star system 152 light years from home. Without any memory of the otherworldly abductors who spirited them away in cold sleep, Murphy and 100 other “Lost Soldiers” have been retrieved and awakened by officers of the Consolidated Terran Republic. Promising to return to the 55 Tauri B system after completing a distant mission, they leave the twentieth century castaways with a daunting objective: establish a base of operations on the main world, using local allies they have yet to recruit and enemy equipment they have yet to seize. If that weren’t hard enough, 55 Tauri A, the system’s primary star, is rapidly approaching, and the technologically superior powers from that neighboring system always visit during the close approach . . . to raid, pillage, and cull the locals. Worse, the Lost Soldiers left behind with Murphy were the losers and ne’er-do-wells deemed “sub-optimal” for inclusion on the rescue mission. Defiant and determined to live down that judgment, they have given themselves a different, more suitable label: Murphy’s LawlessNote: this book incorporates six previous novellas and adds 40k of new worldbuilding from Charles E. Gannon that Caine Universe readers won't want to miss!

Murphy's Lawless: A Terran Republic Novel

Massa, Mike

Gannon, Charles E.

Barber, Griffin

Peacemakers. The Galactic Union’s most capable enforcers and resolute negotiators, their name alone elicits fear and awe among the Union’s citizenry.Following their successful mission on Parmick, young Peacemakers Jyrall and Larth remain teamed up with the newly formed Blue Ridge Kin and its unique cast of characters. As the events of the Guild Wars spiral out of control, the Peacemakers prepare for a mission they believe will provide early intelligence to Guild Master Rsach, only to be called off their mission and sent on one with a much high priority.Separated from the Peacemakers, Cora McCoy and the Blue Ridge Kin report to the jungle planet Weqq to defend against an attack the Peacemaker Guild has determined will come. They arrive and are immediately met by the Crusaders—mostly Human units formed under the auspices of the Peacemaker Guild—who flaunt the laws of the Galactic Union ruthlessly. All is not well within the Peacemakers.Meanwhile, Jyrall and Larth find themselves drawn into a much larger mission at the request of Jessica Francis, Earth’s first Peacemaker. All they have to do is steal a stargate—a hyperspace-capable portal—from a group of mercenaries that vastly outnumbers them. Will they be able to recruit the assistance they need, or will they be the latest casualties of the Guild Wars?

Redacted Vice (Rise of the Peacemakers)

Taken from their planet and their century, they are…the Lost Soldiers. 
The Sear, a time of intense radiation and heat, is coming to R’Bak. Among local tribes and townspeople alike, the rush is on to secure the provisions necessary to endure the seven years when the binary suns of the 55 Tauri system make their closest approach. In the midst of this uncertainty, Colonel Murphy has decided the time has come to secure the information, weapons, and human capital necessary for his upcoming orbital operations, and he once again has to send the Lawless into harm’s way. 
For Major Bo Moorefield, his part of the campaign is simple: lead a cavalry unit of varied armored vehicles and half-trained indigenous forces to capture Imsurmik, a fortified town of almost twenty thousand. Within its ten-meter-high walls, Murphy believes there are a number high value targets—citizens with knowledge of the soon-to-arrive Harvesters—who can help the Lawless prepare to give the out-system oppressors a reception they will never forget. And maybe, never recover from. 
In deep cover inside Imsurmik’s walls, newly promoted Lieutenant Aliza Turan is embedded with a group of locals to gather the intelligence Bo desperately needs to seize the town. But trouble lurks around every corner, and uncovering the information she needs means risking attracting the attention—and ire—of a fearsome warlord who’ll do anything to keep the Lost Soldiers from getting the intel they need. 
Can the Bo and the Lawless take the town, grab the high value targets, and rescue Aliza before it’s too late? They’d better, for failure will mean the deaths of Aliza and, eventually, all the other time-stranded refugees known as Murphy’s Lawless.

Desperado (Murphy's Lawless: Watch the Skies)

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