Fire for Effect
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| Fire for Effect | |
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| Product information | |
| Type | Anthology |
| Development | Jason Schmetzer (editor) |
| Pages | 299 |
| Cover Artwork | Jonathan González Gómez (art) |
| First Publication | |
| Publisher | Catalyst Game Labs |
| PIC | CAT35803 |
| Published | 23 August 2013 |
| ISBN-10 | 1-936876-78-7 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-936876-78-5 |
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| Content | |
| Era | Various |
| Series | BattleCorps Anthologies |
| Preceded by | Weapons Free |
| Followed by | Counterattack |
Fire for Effect (subtitle: BattleCorps Anthology Volume 4) is a print anthology of sixteen Jihad era short stories previously published online on BattleCorps, most notably including the nine stories of the Case White series, plus one previously unpublished story (A Thing to be Done). As usual, it includes a foreword ("Forward") and an "About the Authors" section.
The anthology was also published in EPUB format on 23 August 2013.
Contents[edit]
- Foreword (by Jason Schmetzer)
- Case White: Alpha (by Phaedra M. Weldon)
- Case White: The Breaking of Chemical Bonds (by Steven Mohan, Jr.)
- Case White: Stars in the Time of Dreaming (by Ilsa J. Bick)
- Case White: Backroads at Night (by Jason M. Hardy)
- Case White: By the Sword (by Jason Schmetzer)
- Case White: To Serve and Protect (by Herbert A. Beas II)
- Case White: The Voice of the Resistance (by Chris Hartford)
- Case White: The Good Fight (by Jason M. Hardy)
- Case White: Omega (by Phaedra M. Weldon)
- The Day After (by Jason Schmetzer)
- A Thing to be Done (by Jason Schmetzer)
- Forgotten Worlds: The Hunt for Jardine (by Herbert A. Beas II)
- Hunter or Hunted (by Randall N. Bills)
- Self Defense (by Jason M. Hardy)
- The Shaded Light (by Jason Schmetzer)
- An Emissary of Heaven (by Steven Mohan, Jr.)
- Rehab (by Louisa M. Swann)
From the Back Cover[edit]
| “ | LOYALTY. VALOR. DESPAIR. JIHAD.
A massive invasion fleet is destroyed almost to a man. Legions of soldiers, confident of victory, are cut down before they even reach the ground. Those that do make landfall are bombarded and shattered and rained with nuclear fire. Elsewhere, veterans long retired from combat are called back to duty by desperate times. Explorers comb unknown worlds for hints to explain deadly evils. Seventeen stories of combat, honor, betrayal and death fill the pages of Fire for Effect: BattleCorps Anthology Volume 4. Savvy readers will recognize now-familiar names in BattleTech lore among the authors: Steven Mohan, Jr., Kevin Killiany, Phaedra Weldon, Jason Schmetzer, Jason Hardy and Herbert Beas. These writers have shaped the direction of the BattleTech universe. In 2007, with these stories, they took the fictional storylines of the BattleTech universe to new and violent heights. Worlds rose and fell, and empires toppled. Armies of BattleMechs and fleets of WarShips fought and perished. And beneath all of it, the spidery tendrils of the Word of Blake sowed mistrust and conflict in every realm. |
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Notes[edit]
- The front cover depicts a scene from the story The Day After: During the chaotic battle following the attack on Wolf's Dragoons on Outreach on 24 December 3067, Colonel Kari Marita, of the turncoat Broadsword Legion, piloting a Thug, steps on the cockpit of Lieutenant Grape's downed Loki, with Stacy Church in her Mad Cat witnessing the betrayal.