First entry in a new series with three big all new linked 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.

In a heroic, bronze-age world similar to 300, 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.

About contributor John Ringo:
“[O]ne of the best…practitioners. . .of military SF.” –Publishers Weekly.

"[F]ast-paced military SF peopled with three-dimensional characters and spiced with personal drama as well as tactical finesse" – Library Journal

“[Ringo’s work] “attains a terrible beauty not unlike that of the Norse Eddas…” – Publishers Weekly

"If Tom Clancy were writing SF, it would read much like John Ringo.” – The Philadelphia Weekly Press

About contributor Harry Turtledove:
“…the master of alternative SF.” –Publishers Weekly

“Outstanding enterntainment.” –Booklist

About contributor S.M. Stirling:
“Stirling eloquently describes a devastated, mystical world that will appeal to fans of traditional fantasy as well as post-apocalyptic SF.” –Publishers Weekly on Stirling’s The Scourge of God

About contributor Michael Z. Williamson:
“Williamson's military expertise is impressive.” –SFReviews