First entry in a new series with three big all new novellas from three multiple New York Times best-sellers SM Stirling John Ringo & Jody Lynn Nye & Harry Turtledove! The cat-like Mrem our heroes battle the deep reptilian intelligence of humanoid dinosaurs in a bronze-age world First entry in a new series with three big all new linked novellas from multiple best-sellers Harry Turtledove John Ringo & Jody Lynn Nye SM Stirling & 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 & its sister warbands are expanding their rough-&-tumble territory but now they face the Lishkash masters of a cold-blooded empire of slave armies & magic It’s mammalian courage & adaptation against reptile cunning in a clash of steel & will that will determine which line shall inherit the Earth About the Author Multiple New York Times bestseller SM Stirling is a Canadian-American best known for his Draka series of alternate history novels & his Change science fiction saga Stirling lives in New Mexico USA Today & New York Times best-seller John Ringo is the author of the landmark Posleen Wars military science fiction series the Legacy of the Aldenata series & the Ghost military action-adventure novels He also co-authored with David Weber the best-selling Prince Roger science fiction series A veteran of the US Army 82nd Airborne he brings first-hand knowledge of military operations to his fiction Hugo & Nebula award-winner Harry Turtledove is often called the dean of alternate history science fiction with a string of best-sellers including his Guns of the South alternate Civil War saga He lives in California Popular SF thriller master & creator of the Freehold series Michael Z Williamson is the author of numerous novels including Do Unto Others When Diplomacy Fails Rogue & with John Ringo Posleen War series landmark The Hero Bill Fawcett is the creator of the Fleet series of military science fiction novels with David Drake & the editor of over 300 science fiction & adventure collections & anthologies