By Tooth and Claw

ORIGINAL TRADE PAPERBACK. New York Times best-selling authors S.M. Stirling, Mercedes Lackey, Eric Flint, and Jody Lynn Nye return with four novellas. The cat-like Mrem, our heroes, battle the deep reptilian intelligence of humanoid dinosaurs in a Bronze Age world.

First entry in a new series with four big all new linked novellas from multiple best-sellers S.M. Stirling, Mercedes Lackey, Eric Flint and Jody Lynn Nye! After the extinction asteroid does not strike Earth, the dinosaurs keep evolving–but so do the mammals. We mammals have achieved humanlike shapes, but now it’s cold-blooded, magic-using reptiles against the hot-blooded, hot-tempered descendants of cats.

In a heroic, Bronze Age world similar to 300, the Mrem Clans expand their rough-and-tumble territory, but now they face the Lishkash, reptilian masters of a cold-blooded empire of slave armies and magic. It’s mammalian courage and adaptation against reptile cunning in a clash of steel and will that determine who shall inherit the Earth.

Multiple New York Times best-selling author S.M. Stirling is a Canadian-American best known for his Draka series of alternate history novels and his Change science fiction saga. Stirling lives in New Mexico.

New York Times best-selling author Eric Flint is the creator of the legendary Ring of Fire alternate history series, and many other science fiction novels.

Mercedes Lackey is the New York Times best-selling author of the Bardic Voices series and the Serrated Edge series (both Baen), the Heralds of Valdemar series, and many more. Among her popular Baen titles are The Fire Rose, The Lark and the Wren, as well as The Shadow of the Lion, and Burdens of the Dead with Eric Flint and Dave Freer. She lives in Oklahoma.

Jody Lynn Nye lives in Illinois with her husband and two cats of superior bearing. Her numerous works of science fiction and fantasy include An Unexpected Apprentice and its sequel, A Forthcoming Wizard, Applied Mythology, Advanced Mythology, and others. She has collaborated with New York Times best-selling author Anne McCaffrey on The Death of Sleep, The Ship Who Won, Doona and other novels, and with another New York Times best-selling author, Robert Asprin, on books in his Myth series, such as the recent Myth-Chief, and the forthcoming new novel in his dragon series, Dragons Deal. Her Imperium Jeeves-like rollicking space opera series includes The View from the Imperium and Fortunes of the Imperium.

Bill Fawcett is the creator of the Fleet series of military science fiction novels with David Drake and the editor of over 300 science fiction and adventure collections and anthologies.