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(1976) A relic of short-lived American-Soviet cooperation, the American moon base and Soviet Lunagrad are forced to coexist by their intertwined design. Awkward, given that the latest twist in the Cold War, a race to complete duelling orbital antiballistic missile networks, is supplied and managed from the conjoined moon colonies. Given escalating resource shortages, many expect that whichever power completes their network first will make a bid for planetary domination. Even given functioning ...

Anton Strout, USA Today best-selling author of the Spellmason Chronicles, and host/curator of the Once and Future Podcast has died suddenly at the age of 50. His passing was announced on the Twitter account for the OandF podcast, as well as Facebook posts from family and friends. Strout was born in 1970, grew up Dalton, Massachusetts, and worked at Penguin Random House. His debut novel arrived in 2008 from Ace Books, an urban fantasy novel titled Dead to Me, which went on to spawn three seque...