Thirty years ago, the world ended. Giant electrovoric ants and pterodons came through a rift in space-time, millions of humans died, and that was that. Thirty years later, humanity has rebuilt . . . to an extent. Without electricity, human ingenuity has provided some creative solutions, but most folks survive at the subsistence level, farming to keep themselves and their families fed. Into this world come a lifelong cowboy, a mystic warrior monk, a beautiful dragon tamer, a runaway cultist, and a mysterious drunken lecher—all searching for the key to reclaiming humanity’s future and past.

On the way to his betrothal young Lord Penric happens upon a riding accident and stops to help. But the victim is no ordinary woman. She is a Temple divine, servant to the five gods of this world. Her avowed god is The Bastard, "master of all disasters out of season." As she lies dying, she passes her strange powers to Penric . . . and changes the course of his life forever. Follow Penric on his journey from noble young lord to sorcerer and scholar in the Bastard's Order. Contains the novellas Penric’s Demon, Penric and the Shaman, and Penric’s Fox.

About to embark on NASA’s first expedition to the outer planets, the crew of the spacecraft Magellan learns someone else has beaten them by a few decades: a top-secret Soviet project codenamed Arkangel. It was a mission that began before most of them were even born, and the Kremlin believes it drove their most trusted crew mad. During their long race to the Kuiper Belt, astronauts Jack Templeton and Traci Keene unwind a decades-old mystery buried in the pages of a dead cosmonaut’s journal. Challenging their own beliefs about the nature of humanity, they will soon confront the question of existence itself.

We’re ringing in 2020 with a trio of great new books, Gunpowder and Embers, Penric’s Progress, and Frozen Orbit. 2019 is in the books—literally—and we’d like to know what your favorite Baen release was last year. Let us know to be entered into a random drawing to start your new year’s reading off right: with signed copies of all three new January Baen titles!

Last month, we asked you to tell us your favorite moment in the history of the Freehold series. Congrats to Austin Eberle! He wins a copy of the new anthology, Freehold: Resistance, signed by Michael Z. Williamson.

Read the winning entry here.

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