If you’re looking to submit to the Blood, Sweat, and Steel anthology, you have until September 1st to get a military sci-fi story written and in the pile! It’s going to be a fun one, filled with stories about daring deeds and epic mechanized warfare in the far-flung future.
Give us big tanks; give us APCs stuffed full of hard-suited soldiers; hell, give us cavalry if you can make it work! We want to see it all, provided it fits the guidelines below. Check them out to see if they’re up your alley:
Three Ravens Publishing is accepting entries for a military science fiction-themed anthology to be published in 2022. Focus will be stories in the genre that featured future combat centered around mechanized warfare, ie, tanks, APC’s, cavalry, mounted infantry etc.
- Stories can be set in existing author owned universes but must be new material. Author bio and link to existing works will be provided at the end of each story.
- Focus should be on hard military science fiction, with a setting from the near future to thousands of years from now.
- Ground combat in a combined arms atmosphere. In other words, Close Air Support and air to air combat can be part of the story but not the focus. Dropship troopers and airborne insertion are merely a way to get to the fighting.
- Mechas are allowed but it has to be a really good story that focuses more on the meatsickle element than the gee whiz fighting suit.
- Please, no Mary Sue’s.
- Genre: Military Science Fiction
- Word Count: 7,000 – 10,000
- Edited by: J.F. Holmes & William Joseph Roberts
- Opening by: David Drake
- Due Date: Sept 1, 2022
Payment: Stories selected for publication in the upcoming Anthology(ies), will receive a percentage of sales divided equally between the contributing authors.
Email submissions to: threeravenspublishing @ gmail dot com with “Blood, Sweat, and Steel” in the subject line
Please follow the Three Ravens submission guidelines that can be found here
