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In this issue: warriors, heretics, ancient aliens, pump organists, and MESSENGERS to space—plus a David Weber scavenger hunt!
   January 2013
eARCs

The General Saga Stunningly Reborn

Humanity settled the stars, only to fall into catastrophic collapse and a galactic dark age. On one rugged planet, a reanimated Egyptian social structure armed with flintlocks and blunderbusses is held in primitive stasis by a malevolent A.I. But now a brilliant and courageous young commander will dare anything to avenge his mother’s death by disease and bring about change. He is the Heretic.

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The Heretic


Fire with Fire Alien Judgment Day

2105, September: Cryocelled investigative reporter Caine Riordan awakens to a changed world. Humanity has achieved faster-than-light travel and is pioneering nearby star systems. Riordan’s mission: travel to a newly settled world and investigate whether a primitive local species was once sentient—enough so to have built a lost civilization.

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New Fiction and Nonfiction at Baen.com

A New Story of the Liaden Universe®

Godsmere Abbey: once a citadel of hope and learning, now a fallen stronghold reduced to decay and a place of imprisonment for petty criminals on a planet in decline. Friar Julian knows he might at least hear beautiful music once again if the abbey’s organ can be made to sing once more. Enter alleged thief Niku, who claims he can repair the organ—for the price of his freedom. A tale of the Liaden Universe® from Sharon Lee and Steve Miller whose latest entry in the series, Necessity’s Child, debuts in February.

Read “Eleutherios” here

Eleutherios


Family Therapy
A Messenger to Strange Relatives

An up close and personal look at Mercury and Pluto, perhaps our strangest planetary relatives (well, one isn’t really considered a planet-planet anymore), along with details on the two amazing engineering projects known as the MESSENGER and New Horizons probes which are on their way to find out more about those distant bodies. William Ledbetter, administrator of the annual Jim Baen Memorial Writing Contest for Baen Books, takes us on a tour of the science and scientists behind both endeavors at the NASA affiliated Johns Hopkins Research Lab.

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Planet Baen Contest

David Weber War God Scavenger Hunt at Planet Baen

Considering that Planet Baen is already full of references to David Weber’s Honor Harrington series and Honorverse-evoking whacks, gifts, and assets, we thought we’d take a more unusual approach for the January scavenger hunt and use for inspiration David Weber’s excellent War God fantasy series, featuring everyone’s favorite pointy-eared Hradani barbarian, he who is chosen of the war god himself, Bahzell Bahnakson.

The first player to complete the contest will receive a signed hardcover copy of War Maid’s Choice and the latest Honor Harrington series entry Shadow of Freedom. Worth playing for? Absolutely!

Enter Planet Baen David Weber Scavenger Hunt here

Planet Baen
Baen Creator Q&A


How the Ron Miller Classics of Science Fiction Collection Came to Be

Artist, author, and science fiction eminence Ron Miller gives readers the scoop on how he put together his massive and hugely entertaining Ron Miller Classics of Science Fiction ebook series. The first bundle of this collection debuts at Baen Ebooks this month, and titles will be added throughout the year until Ron’s amazing curatorial and artistic effort in complete with well over 100 books.

Read "How the Classics of SF Collection Came to Be" here

April Baen Ebook Releases

The Heretic
David Drake
Tony Daniel - HALF

Humanity settled the stars, only to fall into catastrophic collapse and a galactic dark age. On one rugged planet, a brilliant and courageous young commander will dare anything to avenge his mother’s death by disease and bring about change. A new entry in the General series.




On Basilisk Station (Leatherbound edition)
David Weber

Exiled to Basilisk Station in disgrace by a superior who hates her, young ship commander Honor Harrington must deal with jungle warfare on an aboriginal planet and confront a foray by the enemy of the Manticoran Star Kingdom she serves. It is a gambit that may ignite an interstellar war—with only Honor in the way to stop it. The 20th anniversary edition of the book that introduced the legend.




Fire with Fire
Charles Gannon - HALF

2105: Cryocelled investigative reporter Caine Riordan awakens to a changed world where humanity has achieved faster-than-light travel and is pioneering nearby star systems. Riordan’s mission: travel to a newly settled world and investigate whether a primitive local species was once sentient–enough so to have built a lost civilization.




1636: The Kremlin Games
Eric Flint
Gorg Huff
Paula Goodlett

While out-of-time modern town Grantville has bounced back from temporal dislocation, some of its citizens haven’t coped so well to life in 17th century Europe–people like Bernie Zeppi, courageous in battle, but a bit of a loser in life. Bernie’s fate changes then a Russian emissary hires him to bring the future to a Russia mired in serfdom and on the verge of war.


Dog and Dragon
Dave Freer

A reluctant heroine faces down tyrant wizards while her dragon love fights his way across dimensions to aid her.
Galactic Courier
A. Bertram Chandler

Daring starship captain John Grimes finds his greatest calling as a merchant adventurer and problem solver on the galaxy’s frontier. Book III of the legendary John Grimes Saga.


The Harriers Book Two: Blood and War
created by Gordon R. Dickson - HALF

The human race had settled more than a hundred worlds before it met the Emerging Planets Fairness Court—six alien species who sit in judgment on all galactic newcomers. Humanity must now pass the EPFC test or face dire consequences. Features novellas by David Drake, Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, and Christopher Stasheff.


The Gods of War
by Christopher Stasheff - HALF

There will be war—and humanity, being what it is, will always form graven images to give life to its greatest hopes and fears. And, lo, there was TEK, the latest in a long tradition of militant deities. But before this god can take his rightful place, he has to survive the efforts of jealous older gods to destroy him. Stories by Mike Resnick, Jody Lynn Nye, and other military SF storytellers.

*This Baen Ebooks subscription bundle will dissolve on March 15, 2013. After that date, these books will be available for individual sale only.*

Ron Miller Classics of Science Fiction Bundle

The first bundle of the massive and hugely entertaining Ron Miller Classics of Science Fiction ebook series. These are groundbreaking great books, many never available before, carefully edited, footnoted, and illustrated by science fiction eminence Ron Miller. Read about the collection here.


Get Ron Miller Classics of Science Fiction Bundle 1 now

January Night Shade Bundle

Blind God's Bluff
Richard Lee Byers

Billy Fox, a small-time gambler on a losing streak, has more than enough problems on his hands, owing too much money to some very impatient people. But when he rescues a blinded stranger from a swarm of bloodthirsty fairies, Billy's life gets a lot more complicated. Blind God's Bluff is an outrageously addictive urban fantasy that will keep you flipping pages until the very last hand.


Earth Thirst
Mark Teppo

Humanity–over-breeding, over-consuming–is destroying the very planet we call home. Nothing human can stop the process. But something unhuman might. They are the last guardians of paradise, more than human but less than angels. They call themselves the Arcadians. We know them as vampires.


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Fairwood Press

The Final Trick of Funnyman
Bruce Taylor

Fantasist Bruce Taylor has long been entertaining readers with his masterful blend of surrealism and magic realism. Here are the stories—from the vaguely sinister adventures of Mr. M. to the Bradburyesque boyhood exploits of Edward, Taylor's tales showcase an imagination at once intense and gentle, absurd and cutting.


Rocket Science
Jay Lake

Vernon Dunham’s friend Floyd Bellamy has returned to Augusta, Kansas after serving in World War II, but he hasn’t come back empty-handed: he’s stolen a super-secret aircraft right from under the Germans. Vernon doesn’t think it’s your ordinary run-of-the-mill aircraft. For one thing, it’s been buried under the Arctic ice for hundreds of years. When it actually starts talking to him, he realizes it doesn’t belong in Kansas—or anywhere on Earth.


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Author News

Alternate history master Robert Conroy signs copies of nationally best selling Rising Sun at the Warren Public Library in Warren, Michigan, December 11, 2012.




Don’t forget to check out the Baen new book releases here. Enter the January contest here. And for upcoming appearances by Baen authors and editors, check here.

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