Christopher L. Smith

Christopher L. Smith is an author whose fiction centers on military science fiction and fantasy, including the novel Gunpowder & Embers, which pairs post-apocalyptic and military-fantasy elements, and the shorter work Kraken Mare. He has contributed short fiction to several shared-universe military and speculative-fiction anthology series, including Black Tide Rising, a zombie-apocalypse setting created by John Ringo, the Freehold shared universe, and other collaborative military science-fiction lines such as Last Judgement's Fire and The Founder Effect. Smith's work sits within a broader community of collaborative military and apocalyptic science fiction, where multiple authors contribute stories to shared, franchise-style settings rather than working primarily on solo, standalone novels.