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Breach the Hull (A Defending the Future Anthology) Paperback – June 26, 2009
HARDCORE NEGOTIATIONS HAVE BEGUNS Get Ready for plenty of action-packed military science fiction as the dogs-of-war are let loose on an unsuspecting universe in sixteen hard-hitting stories by: Jack McDevitt, John C. Wright, Mike McPhail, James Daniel Ross, Danielle Ackley-McPhail, James Chambers, Jeffrey Lyman, John G. Hemry (Jack Campbell), Bud Sparhawk, Lawrence M. Schoen, Patrick Thomas, Tony Ruggiero, and C.J. Henderson.
Winner of the Dream Awards for Best Anthology.
- Print length222 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherDark Quest, LLC
- Publication dateJune 26, 2009
- Dimensions5.98 x 0.51 x 9.02 inches
- ISBN-100979690196
- ISBN-13978-0979690198
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"Pick up Breach the Hull. You're sure to find stories that you like." -David Sherman, author of the DemonTech series and co-author of the Starfist series
"[Breach the Hull] kicks down the doors in a way that allows anyone access to the genre[ . . . ]it read like a bunch of soldiers sitting around swapping stories of the wars. Fun, fast-paced, and packed with action. I give it a thumbs up." -Jonathan Maberry, Bram Stoker Award-winning author
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- Publisher : Dark Quest, LLC (June 26, 2009)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 222 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0979690196
- ISBN-13 : 978-0979690198
- Item Weight : 12.2 ounces
- Dimensions : 5.98 x 0.51 x 9.02 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #6,151,482 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #51,061 in Short Stories Anthologies
- #230,393 in Science Fiction (Books)
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About the authors
"Jack Campbell" is the pseudonym for John G. Hemry, a retired Naval officer (and graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis). As Jack Campbell, he writes The Lost Fleet series of military science fiction novels, as well as the Beyond the Frontier continuation of The Lost Fleet, and The Lost Stars series (a spin-off of The Lost Fleet). He has also written the Stark's War series and the Sinclair/"JAG in space" series, and has written many shorter stories featuring space opera, fantasy, time travel, and alternate history. Many of these stories can be found in the three Jack Campbell ebook anthologies. He lives with his wife (the Indomitable S) and three children (two of whom are autistic) in Maryland.
John C. Wright is a retired attorney, newspaperman and newspaper editor, who was only once on the lam and forced to hide from the police who did not admire his newspaper.
In 1984, Graduated from St. John's College in Annapolis, home of the "Great Books" program. In 1987, he graduated from the College and William and Mary's Law School (going from the third oldest to the second oldest school in continuous use in the United States), and was admitted to the practice of law in three jurisdictions (New York, May 1989; Maryland December 1990; DC January 1994). His law practice was unsuccessful enough to drive him into bankruptcy soon thereafter. His stint as a newspaperman for the St. Mary's Today was more rewarding spiritually, but, alas, also a failure financially. He presently works (successfully) as a writer in Virginia, where he lives in fairy-tale-like happiness with his wife, the authoress L. Jagi Lamplighter, and their four children: Pingping, Orville, Wilbur, and Just Wright.
Patrick Thomas writes the beloved fantasy humor series Murphy’s Lore, which includes Tales From Bulfinche’s Pub, Fools’ Day, Through The Drinking Glass, Shadow Of The Wolf, Redemption Road, Bartender Of The Gods, Nightcaps and Empty Graves — as well as the After Hours spin offs Startenders, Fairy With A Gun, Fairy Rides The Lightning, Dead To Rites, Rites of Passage, and Lore & Dysorder and two more - Statenders and Constellation Prize - in the Startenders series.
His Mystic Investigators paranormal mystery series includes Bullets & Brimstone, From The Shadows (both with John French), and Once More Upon A Time (with Diane Raetz). Assassin's Ball is his first mystery, co-written with John French. He co-edited New Blood and Hear Them Roar and was an editor for the magazines Fantastic Stories of the Imagination and Pirate Writings.
Patrick’s humorous advice column Dear Cthulhu includes the collections Have A Dark Day, Good Advice For Bad People, Cthulhu Knows Best and What Would Cthulhu Do? He wrote the graphic novel Case of the Moon Maniac as well as the steampunk themed As The Gears Turn. His short stories have been featured in over fifty anthologies and more than three dozen print magazines.
A number of his books were part of the props department of the CSI television show and one was even thrown at a suspect. Fairy With A Gun was optioned by Laurence Fishburne’s Cinema Gypsy Productions. Act of Contrition, a story featuring his Soul For Hire hitman is in development for a short film by Top Men Productions. Drop by www.patthomas.net to learn more.
Award-winning author and editor Danielle Ackley-McPhail has worked both sides of the publishing industry for longer than she cares to admit. In 2014 she joined forces with Mike McPhail and Greg Schauer to form eSpec Books (www.especbooks.com).
Her published works include six novels, Yesterday's Dreams, Tomorrow's Memories, Today’s Promise, The Halfling’s Court, The Redcaps’ Queen, Daire's Devils, and Baba Ali and the Clockwork Djinn, written with Day Al-Mohamed. She is also the author of the solo collections Eternal Wanderings, A Legacy of Stars, Consigned to the Sea, Flash in the Can, Transcendence, Between Darkness and Light, The Fox's Fire, The Kindly One, Dawns a New Day, and the non-fiction writers’ guides, The Literary Handyman, Build-a-Book Workshop, and More Tips from the Handyman. She is the senior editor of the Bad-Ass Faeries anthology series, Gaslight & Grimm, Side of Good/Side of Evil, After Punk, Footprints in the Stars, and Devilish & Divine. Her short stories are included in numerous other anthologies and collections.
In addition to her literary acclaim, she crafts and sells original costume horns under the moniker The Hornie Lady, and homemade flavor-infused candied ginger under the brand of Ginger KICK! at literary conventions, on commission, and wholesale.
Danielle lives in New Jersey with husband and fellow writer, Mike McPhail, and four extremely spoiled cats.
To learn more about her work, visit www.sidhenadaire.com or www.especbooks.com.
James Chambers is a Bram Stoker Award® and Scribe Award-winning author and a four-time Bram Stoker Award nominee. He is the author of the short story collections A Bright and Beautiful Eternal World, described as “stellar” by Publisher’s Weekly, On the Night Border and On the Hierophant Road, which received a starred review from Booklist, which called it “…satisfyingly unsettling”; the novella collection, The Engines of Sacrifice, and the novellas, The Devil in the Green, Kolchak and the Night Stalkers: The Faceless God, Three Chords of Chaos, and many others, as well as the original graphic novel, Kolchak the Night Stalker: The Forgotten Lore of Edgar Allan Poe. His short stories have appeared in anthologies and publications in multiple genres, including crime, fantasy, horror, pulp, science fiction, steampunk, and more. He edited the Bram Stoker Award-nominated anthologies, Under Twin Suns: Alternate Histories of the Yellow Sign and A New York State of Fright as well as Even in the Grave, an anthology of ghost stories. He has also written the comic books Leonard Nimoy's Primortals, "The Revenant" in Shadow House, and The Midnight Hour.
Story-engineer and trench-author Mike McPhail is best known as the editor of the award-winning Defending The Future (DTF) series of military science fiction anthologies.
He is also the owner and chief artist of McP Digital Graphics, a web-based company specializing in cover art and layout, interior illustrations, and technical consulting. Their primary customers are small- and medium-press publishers, and individuals just starting out. In 2014, he cofounded eSpec Books with wife Danielle Ackley-McPhail and friend Greg Schauer.
Last, but most importantly, as a member of the Military Writers Society of America, he is dedicated to helping his fellow service members (and deserving civilians) in their efforts to become authors, as well as supporting related organizations in their efforts to help those "who have given their all for us."
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Lawrence M. Schoen holds a Ph.D. in cognitive psychology, is a past Astounding, Hugo, and Nebula, nominee, twice won the Cóyotl award for best novel, founded the Klingon Language Institute, occasionally does work as a hypnotherapist specializing in authors’ issues, and is a. cancer survivor.
His science fiction includes many light and humorous adventures of a space-faring stage hypnotist and his alien animal companion. Other works take a very different tone, exploring aspects of determinism and free will, generally redefining the continua between life and death. Sometimes he blurs the funny and the serious. Lawrence lives near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania with his wife and their dog.
A native of Cincinnati, Ohio, James has been an actor, computer tech support operator, historic infotainment tour guide, armed self defense retailer, automotive petrol attendant, youth entertainment stock replacement specialist, mass market Italian chef, low priority courier, monthly printed media retailer, automotive industry miscellaneous task facilitator, and ditch digger.
The Radiation Angels: The Chimerium Gambit is his first novel and is followed by The Radiation Angels: The Key to Damocles, The Legacy of Fox Crow:I Know Not, The Last Dragoon, and The Whispering of Dragons.
James Daniel Ross shares a Dream Realm Award with the other others in Breach the Hull, and an EPPIE award with the others appearing in Bad Ass Faeries 2.
Most people are begging him to go back to ditch digging.
Bud Sparhawk was born in Baltimore, Maryland and now resides in Midlothian Virginia. He has a BS degree in Mathematics from the University of Maryland and an MBA in Finance from Oklahoma City University. After fifteen years in the Air Force Bud worked for a variety of private companies before retiring from the role of Vice President at Macfadden, a Federal Government contractor. Bud is a member of SIGMA, a think tank of speculative writers that advises the government on issues of national interest. For the past ten years since his retirement he was Board member and Chief Financial Officer for SFWA.
Bud started writing seriously in 1974 and made his first sale to Analog, followed quickly by another, just when he entered his second year of graduate school, and before taking a thirteen-year hiatus from writing SF.
His work is most associated with his short fiction in Analog but has been published elsewhere in various magazines and anthologies. He was a three-time finalist for the Nebula Award for Best Novella in 1997, 2002, and 2005. His work has appeared in several Year’s Best SF anthologies. His first professionally published novel, titled Vixen, was released in 2008 from Cosmos Books. Since then he has professionally published two collections, and five novels, the most recent of which, SCATTERED DREAMS will appear in early 2019.
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So, a little light reading on the Kindle to fill in brief moments of boredom, but for the most part unremarkable.
I deleted this before I even finished reading it.
Was that bad.
I kept hoping there was a jem buried in there somewhere but if there was I never found it.
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The tales set in units such as platoons, ships or squads do not work very well. It seems to me, in general, that the authors wrote the characters as speaking to each other in staccato orders and being martinets all the time. With only a couple of exceptions, they have taken the concept of military discipline and inappropriately applied it through ignorance. Anyone who has ever worked in those circumstances, or even watched a decent documentary will know that just does not happen. It is the opposite. Conversation and behaviour relaxes, rank drops in importance and the jobs get done. Any staff who behaved as the characters in the stories do would be moved out.