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Zibby Readers. Admiral James Stavridis and Elliot Ackerman are co-authors of 2054, a novel.

Elliot Ackerman is the author of the novels Halcyon, red dress in black and white,

Waiting for Eden, and we talked about both of those books on my podcast the last time he was on,

Dark at the Crossing, and Green on Blue, and the memoirs The Fifth Act and Places and Names.

His books have been nominated for numerous awards that include the National Book Award, the Andrew Carnegie Medal and Fiction and the

Dayton Literary Peace Prize. He is a contributing writer at the Atlantic and a Marine

veteran, having served five tours of duty in Iraq and Afghanistan, where he received the

silver star, the bronze star for

valor, and the Purple Heart. I can't believe, next to his Purple Heart mentioned in his bio,

he doesn't also mention that he was a contributor to moms don't have time to a quarantine

anthology, and yet he was. Admiral James Stavridis, USN, retired, spent more than 30 years in the

U.S. Navy, rising to the rank

of four-star admiral. He was Supreme Allied commander at NATO and previously commanded

U.S. Southern Command, overseeing military operations through Latin America. At sea, he commanded

a Navy destroyer, a destroyer squadron, and an aircraft carrier battle group in combat. He holds a PhD from

the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University, where he recently served five years as dean.

He received 50 medals in the course of his military career, including 28 from foreign nations.

He has published 12 other books and his chief international analyst for NBC News and a

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