Michael Z. Williamson

A collection of stories about soldiers and civilians doing their duty, some in a futuristic context, is accompanied by essays proclaiming the author's political and social views.

Then: First Lieutenant Sean Elliott and nine other mixed-service U.S. soldiers on a convoy in Afghanistan suddenly found themselves and their MRAP vehicle thrown back to Earth's Paleolithic Age. And they were not alone. Displaced Romans, Neolithic Europeans, and more showed up as well. Some would be allies. Some became deadly foes. Now: Scientists from an almost unimaginably far future need the survivors' advice and support to reconnoiter and ultimately...

"Kenneth Chinran commanded the elite unit assigned to take out an entire planet in a terrible war. Millions died; billions more perished in the aftermath. One doesn't send a sociopath on such a mission. A sociopath might not stop. Chinran did stop; but in the process nearly lost his sanity and his soul. But one of Chinran's men was a sociopath going in. Now he's a trained sociopath with the knowledge and firepower to take out entire tactical teams,...

Michael Z. Williamson returns with his second collection of short fiction, essays, and provocations. Sure to thrill, entertain, and scandalize. Collected short fiction from multiple bestseller Michael Z. Williamson. After a brutal car crash, a disabled young man beats all odds to pursue his dream of crewing the first starship.

"NO BATTLE PLAN SURVIVES CONTACT WITH THE ENEMY Everyone has a different war. For some in the UN Peacekeeping mission to Grainne, the struggle is just to survive. For others, it's to remain sane, or keep one's friends and comrades physically and mentally intact. When the rules of engagement are in constant flux, and orders are unclear or based on false information, just getting back inside the fence can be an accomplishment. For the rebels of the...

THE EPIC FIGHT FOR INDEPENDENCE ON OUR MOON HAS BEGUN! The Lunar colony is a mining colony with only internal security capabilities. Nobody had even considered that there might soon arise a need to defend the colony from the Earth! But that day has come. Something has been uncovered on the Moon. Something important. Something ... alien. The Lunar colonists perceive this great discovery as their own. Finder’s keepers and possession being nine-tenths...

"Civilization may have crumbled to horror and rabid zombie infection, but the humans who remain will do everything they can to survive -- and fight for the chance to raise a new world from the ashes. Everyone who survived the plague lived through the Fall, that terrible autumn when life as they had known it ended in blood and chaos. There were seven and a half billion stories of pain and suffering, courage, hope and struggle crying out from history....