Introduction / Tony Daniel and Christopher Ruocchio -- Superweapon / David Drake -- A sudden stop / Steve White -- Another solution / Mark L. Van Name -- The magnolia incident / Mike Kupari -- A helping hand / Jody Lynn Nye -- Boomers / J. R. Dunn -- Hate in the darkness / Michael Z. Williamson -- The stars are silent / Gray Rinehart -- Excerpts from tow lives / Sharon Lee & Steve Miller -- Icebreaker / Dave Bara -- Try not to kill us all / Joelle Presby -- Skipjack / Susan R. Matthews -- Homecoming / Robert Buettner -- Not made for us / Christopher Ruoccio -- A tale of the great trek war aboard the starship Persistence / Brendan DuBois.
Summary:
"In space, size matters. Boomers. Ships of the Line. Star Destroyers. The bigger the ship, the better the bang. From the dawn of history onward, commanding the most powerful ship around has been a dream of admirals, sultans, emperors, kings, generalissimos, and sea captains everywhere. For what the intimidation factor alone doesn't achieve, a massive barrage from super-weapons probably will. Thus it was, and ever shall be, even into the distant future. From the oceans of Earth, to beneath the ice of Europa, to the distant reaches of galactic empires, it is the great warships and their crews that sometimes keep civilization safe for the rest of us -- but sometimes become an extinction-level event in and of themselves"--Back cover.
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