First entry in a new series with three big <i>all new </i>novellas from <i>three </i>multiple <i>New York Times</i> best-sellers S.M. Stirling, John Ringo & Jody Lynn Nye, and Harry Turtledove! The cat-like Mrem, our heroes, battle the deep reptilian intelligence of humanoid dinosaurs in a bronze-age world. <br><br>First entry in a new series with three big all new <i>linked</i> novellas from multiple best-sellers Harry Turtledove, John Ringo & Jody Lynn Nye, S.M. Stirling, and Michael Z. Williamson! After the extinction asteroid DOESN'T strike Earth, the dinosaurs keep evolving - but so do the mammals. We mammals have achieved human-like shapes, but now it's cold-blooded, magic-using reptiles against the hot-blooded, hot-tempered descendants of cats.<b> <br></b><br>In a heroic, bronze-age world similar to <i>300</i>, the Mrem Clan of the Claw and its sister warbands are expanding their rough-and-tumble territory, but now they face the Lishkash, masters of a cold-blooded empire of slave armies and magic. It's mammalian courage and adaptation against reptile cunning in a clash of steel and will that will determine which line shall inherit the Earth.<br><br><b>About contributor John Ringo: </b><br>"[O]ne of the best ... practitioners. . .of military SF." -<i>Publishers Weekly</i>.<br><br>"[F]ast-paced military SF peopled with three-dimensional characters and spiced with personal drama as well as tactical finesse" - <i>Library Journal</i><br><br>"[Ringo's work] "attains a terrible beauty not unlike that of the Norse Eddas ... " - <i>Publishers Weekly</i> <br><br>"If Tom Clancy were writing SF, it would read much like John Ringo." - <i>The Philadelphia Weekly Press</i> <br><br><b>About contributor Harry Turtledove: </b><br>" ... the master of alternative SF." -<i>Publishers Weekly</i><br><br>"Outstanding enterntainment." <i>-BOOKLIST </i><br><br><b>About contributor S.M. Stirling: </b><br>"Stirling eloquently describes a devastated, mystical world that will appeal to fans of traditional fantasy as well as post-apocalyptic SF." -<i>Publishers Weekly </i>on Stirling's <i>The Scourge of God</i><br><br><b>About contributor Michael Z. Williamson:</b><br>"Williamson's military expertise is impressive." -<i>SFReviews</i><b></b>
