Part of The Crossing Genres Anthology Collection Eighteen award-winning, veteran, and emerging authors bring you seventeen unique dragon tales that defy tradition. Winged serpents as large as continents, as well as those tiny enough to perch on the fingertip of a young girl. Dragons who inhabit the Wild West, Victorian London, Brooklyn, and a post-apocalyptic Earth. Scaly beasts who fight in the boxing ring, celebrate Christmas, and conquer the vast void of outer space. There are rockstars who meddle with dragon magic, clever and conniving shapeshifters, and powerfully exotic hybrids. Science fiction, urban fantasy, mystery, western, epic fantasy, YA fantasy...no matter the setting or the genre-here be dragons! Join Asimov's Readers Award winner Timons Esaias, science fiction author Heidi Ruby Miller, post-apocalyptic author J. Thorn, along with K. W. Taylor, Sean Gibson and more as they put their personal twist on the usual dragon tale. Also, check out the authors' behind-the-scenes articles for a peek into the creative processes that led to the creation of these "Dragons of a Different Tail". Edited by Marx Pyle, J. C. Mastro, Victoria L. Scott, Anne C. Lynch. "Mastering Aesthetics" by Heidi Ruby Miller"The George" by Timons Esaias"Mouth of the Dragon" by J. Thorn"A Wild Beast of The West" by Marx Pyle & Julie Seaton Pyle"Wei Ling and the Water Dragon" by Jeff Burns"Tiny Hearts" by Sophia DeSensi"The Brooklyn Dragon Racing Club" by Katharine Dow"A Friend Called Home" by Francis Fernandez"Forgiveness" by Colten Fisher"Witherwillow" by Carrie Gessner"Chasing the Dragon" by Sean Gibson"Spirit of the Dragon" by J. C. Mastro"Catalyst" by Kevin Plybon"Poisoned Water" by Sen R. L. Scherb"Big Dreams" by Victoria L. Scott"Resorting to Revenge" by K. W. Taylor"The Last Hour of Night" by G. K. White

Dragons of a Different Tail: 17 Unusual Dragon Tales - The Crossing Genres Anthology Collection, #1

I lost my mom eight years ago in the Secession War between Earth and the colonies. Everyone acts like she's dead, but I know deep down that's not the truth. That's why I'm joining the Earth Alliance Fleet Academy. To become a command officer, reach the stars, and find the answers. It doesn't matter if the mention of her name draws angry glares and unfair treatment from Fleet and Academy leaders. I'm not giving up. My mother is still out there, and I'm going to find her no matter who or what stands in my way. Failure is not an option. **Winner of the Outstanding Creator Award for Best Space Opera and Best Cover Fall 2022** Sixteen-year-old Zach Aurelian has held the same dream since he was eight years old-to attend the Earth System Alliance Fleet Academy and train to become a command officer like his mother, who went missing in the system-wide civil war that fractured the Alliance. He believes in his soul that she's still alive and is determined to reach the stars to find her, no matter the challenge. Zach soon learns that not only will he face down his anxiety disorder and the rigors of the Academy, but the ghosts of his mother's past who would stand in his way. From Outstanding Creator award-winning contributing author and editor of Dragons of a Different Tail: 17 Unusual Dragon Tales comes this exciting debut young adult science fiction novel. A coming of age, space military academy adventure that follows Zach's journey to join the Fleet and find his mother. He'll take on fighter pilot training, navigate friendships and budding romance, and learn what it means to be a true leader and serve in the ESA Fleet. But the spiteful Commandant Trask has made it his mission to see him wash out of the Academy, and tensions of reignited interstellar war are building. Zach's anxiety disorder and body will be pushed to their limits as he musters the courage to fight through whatever Trask and the Academy throw at him, lean on his friends and allies for support, and step up as a Command Cadet when everything he knows and believes changes.

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