Afsharirad, David
Entry updated 22 September 2025. Tagged: Author, Editor.
(? - ) US short story writer, editor and anthologist whose first genre story was "Model Home" in Space and Time for Summer 2011. From 2015 to 2019 he edited the Year's Best Military SF series beginning with The Year's Best Military SF & Space Opera (anth 2015) [for further titles see Checklist below]. [RR]
David Mostafa Afsharirad
born
works as editor
series
Year's Best Military SF
- The Year's Best Military SF & Space Opera (New York: Baen Books, 2015) [anth: Year's Best Military SF: pb/Sam Kennedy]
- The Year's Best Military & Adventure SF 2015 (New York: Baen Books, 2016) [anth: Year's Best Military SF: pb/Kurt Miller]
- The Year's Best Military & Adventure SF: Volume 3 (New York: Baen Books, 2017) [anth: Year's Best Military SF: pb/Greg Bobrowski]
- The Year's Best Military & Adventure SF: Volume 4 (New York: Baen Books, 2018) [anth: Year's Best Military SF: pb/Melissa Gay]
- The Year's Best Military & Adventure SF: Volume 5 (New York: Baen Books, 2019) [anth: Year's Best Military SF: pb/Marianne Plumridge]
individual titles as editor
- The Chronicles of Davids (New York: Baen Books, 2019) [anth: pb/David Mattingly]
- Tomorrow's Troopers: Men, Machines, and Tomorrow's Battlefields (New York: Baen Books, 2024) with Hank Davis [anth: pb/]
- All Roads Lead to Rome (New York: Baen Books, 2025) with Hank Davis [anth: pb/]
- Swords and Larceny (New York: Baen Books, 2025) with Mark Finn [anth: pb/]
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