{"id":804,"date":"2016-11-28T06:00:53","date_gmt":"2016-11-28T06:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jameschambersonline.com\/blog\/?p=804"},"modified":"2016-11-29T14:01:29","modified_gmt":"2016-11-29T14:01:29","slug":"mother-of-peace-reprinted-in-the-best-of-defending-the-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.jameschambersonline.com\/blog\/2016\/11\/mother-of-peace-reprinted-in-the-best-of-defending-the-future\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Mother of Peace&#8221; Reprinted in The Best of Defending the Future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Defending The Future is a long-running, award-winning series of military\/science fiction,\u00a0comprised of six volumes. I&#8217;ve been fortunate to have contributed stories to all but one volume, with special thanks to series editors Mike McPhail and Danielle Ackley-McPhail whose confidence in me allowed me the opportunity to take a crack at writing this kind of s\/f. It&#8217;s a challenging genre to write, demanding of meticulous research, and I&#8217;ve turned in at least one or two &#8220;weird&#8221; stories along the way when ideas led me to strange places. Mike and Dani accepted them along with the more conventional ones, much to my great excitement. Editors aren&#8217;t always able to allow their writers that kind of freedom. For authors, it&#8217;s invaluable because it opens up opportunities to flex different writing muscles, explore new ideas, and play with genre conventions.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jameschambersonline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/BestOfDTF_raw-e1480219608367.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-806 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jameschambersonline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/BestOfDTF_raw-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"BestOfDTF_raw\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve seen plenty of sci-fi movies that fit into this genre, with <em>Aliens<\/em>, <em>Enemy Mine<\/em>,\u00a0and <em>Starship Troopers<\/em> springing to mind. But my inspiration for writing these stories lay firmly with the works of Joe Haldeman, Robert Heinlein, Larry Niven, Fred Saberhagen, and the other s\/f masters I read growing up, with perhaps a dash of DC Comics&#8217; <em>Weird War Tales<\/em> thrown in (especially for my contribution to <em>Dogs of War<\/em>). So it strikes me as a great honor that my story, &#8220;Mother of Peace,&#8221; originally published in DFT3: By Other Means has been selected for the recently published <em>The Best of Defending the Future<\/em>. The stories, chosen based on reader reaction and requests, individual reviews, and editorial judgement include a\u00a0fantastic cross-section from the series and work by some of the\u00a0best military\/sf writers working today. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.especbooks.com\/Projects\/DTF-TheBestOfDefendingTheFuture.htm\">More information and the full list of table of contents can be found here.<\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1942990383\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=milscom-20&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;creativeASIN=1942990383&amp;linkId=139a9c9a50bb31f39088eb16d630879a\"><em>The Best of Defending the Future<\/em> is also available on Amazon.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Defending The Future is a long-running, award-winning series of military\/science fiction,\u00a0comprised of six volumes. I&#8217;ve been fortunate to have contributed stories to all but one volume, with special thanks to series editors Mike McPhail and Danielle Ackley-McPhail whose confidence in me allowed me the opportunity to take a crack at writing this kind of s\/f. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jameschambersonline.com\/blog\/2016\/11\/mother-of-peace-reprinted-in-the-best-of-defending-the-future\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8220;Mother of Peace&#8221; Reprinted in The Best of Defending the Future&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":810,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[23,61,90,44,63],"class_list":["post-804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-releases","tag-danielle-ackley-mcphail","tag-defending-the-future","tag-espec-books","tag-mike-mcphail","tag-science-fiction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jameschambersonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jameschambersonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jameschambersonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jameschambersonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jameschambersonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=804"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/www.jameschambersonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":818,"href":"http:\/\/www.jameschambersonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804\/revisions\/818"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jameschambersonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jameschambersonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jameschambersonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jameschambersonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}