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The Cannon High Caliber Awards are an annual contest for new writers In it we ask them to submit a novella length story of Science Fiction Military or Fantasy genre to challenge their skills Out of twenty seven entries we picked nine top ones and here they are 1st Kevin Harris Mightier than the Pen A retired soldier turned monk sets out to protect a book of his people s history dogged by barbarians intent on claiming the books magic When it comes down to it though is the pen he had taken up mightier than the sword he had put down 2nd Sam Robb Blue as Sky Black as Sin A young travelling judge on the road with an Imperial Magus struggles to keep his own magical talent hidden while investigating a series of crimes that look to be the work of a powerful necromancer 3rd Brian Gifford Specialist Lieu Saves the World What s an ordinary American grunt in power armor supposed to do when aliens drop into his battlefield and try to take over the Earth Why start laying down fire kicking alien ass and maybe just save the world 4th SC Visel Troll Hunt Cullen was a young man tasked to defend his tribe against the raids of the trolls from across the way Badly wounded in combat with one of the creatures he leaves his village to rescue a friend who had been captured risking his own life in the process. 2024 high caliber awards book list F Holmes is a retired Army Senior Noncomissioned Officer having served for 22 years in both the Regular Army and Army National Guard During that time he served as everything from an artillery section leader to a member of a Division level planning staff with tours in Cuba and Iraq as well as responding to the terrorists attacks in NYC on 9 11 From 2010 to 2014 he wrote the immensely popular military cartoon strip Power Point Ranger poking fun at military life in the tradition of Beetle Bailey and Willy Joe His books range from Military Sci Fi to Space Opera to Detective to Fantasy with a lot in between and in 2017 two are finalists for the prestigious Dragon Awards As of August 2017 Mr Holmes has eighteen books and two J. Epub 2024 high caliber awards 2018 F Holmes is a retired Army Senior Noncomissioned Officer having served for 22 years in both the Regular Army and Army National Guard During that time he served as everything from an artillery section leader to a member of a Division level planning staff with tours in Cuba and Iraq as well as responding to the terrorists attacks in NYC on 9 11 From 2010 to 2014 he wrote the immensely popular military cartoon strip Power Point Ranger poking fun at military life in the tradition of Beetle Bailey and Willy Joe His books range from Military Sci Fi to Space Opera to Detective to Fantasy with a lot in between and in 2017 two are finalists for the prestigious Dragon Awards As of August 2017 Mr Holmes has eighteen books and two novellas published Feel free to join Irregular Scout Team One on Facebook and get a chance to influence the course and plot of his next book site_link site_link This is a collection of the winning entries from a fantasy sci fi military novella contest The quality of writing across the board was great Each story here was either a 3 or 4 star read for me If some of them were turned into longer works I might rate them even higher the shorter form just doesn t always work for me personally and although these meet the word count for novellas they just felt a bit like short stories to me giving readers a snapshot of life in the imagined worlds rather than a complete and fully fleshed out story arc And there s absolutely nothing wrong with that format I just find it s harder to wow me with it There were two entries that I wound up skipping but again it was a personal taste thing not a quality thing One had a very interesting premise but the entire story was the details of a single battle and as a reader and even while watching movies I find nothing boring than that But obviously that s me and if you found yourself picking up this anthology because of the military bit in the description then clearly there is a good chance you will feel differently But overall I really enjoyed these stories of monks trolls alien invasions and dark magic There is a lot of talent on display here and these authors are worth keeping an eye on for sure Bravo everyone BlogBookstagram English English It s such a great bunch of stories So many promising writers are featured here I can not wait to read from them It s really hard to pick out favorites Great variety and wonderful story telling English I read the first novella in this book which has since been signed for a series with a publisher It was great It started out giving me a Pillars of the Earth vibe then turned to a LOTR vibe There is a great plot a likeable main character a character you want to strangle fantastical creatures a mention of what sounds like zombies a battle and then what sounds like he s heading off for a grand adventure This novella hints at a lot of backstory with the main character before he became a Monk so I m intrigued to see how that plays into it Overall this novella was amazing and I m excited to see where the series takes it English I can t get enough of the writing in this collection Sam Robb s Blue as Sky Black as Sin and Brian Gifford s Specialist Lieu Saves the World are two of the best things I ve read this year and there s There s a troll story but I won t tell you about that because I wrote it Buy this book English

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