Violent Blue Yonder

<h4><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)><em>Victory speedy and complete awaits the side that employs air power as it should be employed</em>-Marshal Sir Arthur Harris Bomber Command</strong></h4><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>War in the air like any other domain is subject to the whims of Fate</strong><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>. Throughout history humans have always asked What if? </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Violent Blue Yonder</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> explores what happens when that question gets asked hundreds (or thousands) of feet above sea level.</span></p><p></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Do you like the age of canvas falcons?</strong><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> Come along as Sarah Hoyt the 2018 Dragon Award Winner for Alternate History surmises what could have happened had The Red Baron survived World War I. Or alternatively (pun intended) let Rob Howell (In Dark'ning Storms) and Joelle Presby (Friends In High Places) lay out opposite sides of early American intervention in airpower's first conflict.</span></p><p></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>More a fan of closed canopies and superchargers than flimsy flammable death traps?</strong><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> See how the German </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Luftwaffe</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> gains the upper hand in a Second Battle of Britain in Londonfall. Or see different events in the Pacific as William Alan Webb cuts in with Sword of the Sun a tale set in his </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>A World Afire</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> universe. Finally if worlds afire are your thing we have 2010 Sidewise Award Winner Eric Swedin having the Cold War go brilliantly hot in Foolish Games. Prefer your Cold War to have less thermonuclear annihilation? See what happens when former Flying Tigers and Tuskegee Airmen team up in Justin Watson's Red Tailed Tigers.</span></p><p></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Bottom line: Whether you like your aviation fiction to make kills or make history there's something for you in <em>Violent Blue Yonder</em>. </strong><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>As the first of three </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Arc of Ares</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> anthologies this book sets the alternate history tone in a way that would amuse the Greek war god himself. So grab a helmet and map case as these twelve tales are about to take you on sorties you won't forget!</span></p><p></p><h4><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)><em>Editor's Note: Also includes an excerpt from James Young's Acts of War the first book in the Usurper's War: An Alternate World War II</em>-series.</strong></h4><p></p>