From the war-town battlefield of France to the far-flung stories in the Dominion of Man, these 15 stories are from the assorted works of bestselling author Jason Cordova.The stories are the 142The Finder’s KeeperA Chosen Moment BeforeNightwalkerThe Tree of Death and LifeThe Fallow Fields Part One & TwoThe ColdWakeProvidence’s PlayerA Most Dangerous GamePaint the SkyKeep the Home Fires BurningImperfect MindMaelstrom RisingI, BehemothIncluded within are also notes by the author before each story, talking about how and why the story came into being.
Bestselling author Jason Cordova is both a John W. Campbell Award and Dragon Award finalist (though not in the same year). He is the author of Mountain of Fire and Monster Hunter Memoirs: Fever (w/ Larry Correia), and editor of Chicks in Tank Tops and Dancing with Destruction.
Along the way, he has had novels published in multiple languages around the world, been featured in over 40 anthologies, and has penned over two dozen novels across many genres, including YA, horror, science fiction, and urban fantasy.
A history nerd, he is a Navy veteran, former teacher, and is currently an Associate Editor at Baen Books.
I always enjoy a collection of an author's own works, so they can provide context and timeline to the stories, and as a reader I can watch the work mature and grow. Cordova's first collection is a great sample of this, and I'm diving into Vol 2 next!