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In this issue: Renaissance gods, Cobra abolitionists, the cold equations of space, and an update on the Alpha Centauri planet!
   March 2013
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Burdens Gods of the Renaissance—You’re Going Down!

In an alternate Renaissance where his works and civilization is at a crossroads, roguish and resourceful captain Benito Valdosta of Italy and allies must deal with gods, goddesses and warfare in order to save his daughter at the siege of Constantinople—and prevent a new dark age. The Sequel to Much Fall of Blood, and the latest entry in the Heirs of Alexandria series.

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Cobras, Unite!

Cobras: technologically enhanced warriors bred to fight an alien menace no ordinary human can withstand. Baen Ebooks will now be available via major publishing distributor Baker and Taylor, which will create many new venues where you can find your favorite Baen authors.

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Cobra Slave
Baen Ebooks Announcement

Baen Ebooks will now be available via major publishing distributor Baker and Taylor, which will create many new venues where you can find your favorite Baen authors.

Details here

New Fiction and Nonfiction at Baen.com

Brainships
Space-based Specs

In the coming century, the tools needed for deep space operations may not always be the ones we’d anticipate. But in that harsh and unforgiving environment, those tools will all have to meet one common requirement: when needed, they must perform "to spec". So must the personnel who wield them—but often in unexpected ways. Charles E. Gannon is the coauthor with Eric Flint of 1635: Papal Stakes and the author of April science fiction novel Fire with Fire.

Read “To Spec” here



Alpha Cantauri or Bust!

Baen author Dr. Les Johnson, coauthor with Travis S. Taylor of Back to the Moon, and coeditor of science and science fiction anthology Going Interstellar, is also Deputy Manager for the Advanced Concepts Office at the NASA George C. Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama. Now Johnson brings us up to speed on the bold new frontier of astronomy: planets circling distant stars. Even better, Johnson discusses the recently identified Alpha Centauri extra-solar planet, and its possibilities for harboring life and being a suitable destination for exploration!

Read “The Alpha Centauri Extra-Solar Planet” now

Alpha Centauri

July Baen Ebook Releases

Burdens of the Dead
Mercedes Lackey
Eric Flint
Dave Freer - HALF

In an alternate Renaissance where his works and civilization is at a crossroads, roguish and resourceful captain Benito Valdosta of Italy and allies must deal with gods, goddesses and warfare in order to save his daughter at the siege of Constantinople. Sequel to Much Fall of Blood.




Eight Million Gods
Wen Spencer - HALF

Reality starts to unravel around novelist Nikki, who lives in Japan, when she’d attacked by creatures out of Japanese myths. Now the bodies are piling up—and Nikki’s novels always end with everyone dead!




Cobra Slave
Timothy Zahn - HALF

Cobras: technologically enhanced warriors bred to fight an alien menace no ordinary human can withstand. Now Cobra Merrick Moreau is on a secret rescue mission to a world of humans enslaved by alien Troft masters.




Man-Kzin Wars 25th Anniversary Eddition
created by Larry Niven - HALF

A special commemorative edition of Book One in this long-running science fiction anthology edited by science fiction legend, Larry Niven—with an all-new introduction by Niven himself and an essay by series cover artist Stephen Hickman.


Elfhome
Wen Spencer

Tinker, once a downtrodden waif from Pittsburgh, but lately a full-blooded elf ruler, must root out and destroy an evil plot that involves the kidnapping and breeding of elf children.
Ride the Star Winds
A. Bertram Chandler

Contains novels The Anarch Lords, The Last Amazon, The Wild Ones, and Catch the Star Winds.

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

A Treasury of Great Stories—Arranged by Theme!

Wonder inducing. Mind blowing. Comprehensive. Simply amazing. This entire collection includes hundreds of popular and award-winning science fiction and fantasy stories collected in thirty-five volumes gathered by the winner of fifteen Hugo awards for editing, the inimitable Gardner Dozois, and award-winning writer and anthologist, Jack Dann.

We are presenting these thirty-five anthologies in six discount bundles. Get them all, and you will own a huge swath of some of the best short science fiction ever written.

These are luminous, superb stories collected around popular science fiction and fantasy themes. They are written by dozens and dozens of amazing authors. Poul Anderson, Charles Sheffield, Gregory Benford, Fritz Leiber, Brian Aldiss, Ursula K. LeGuin, Arthur C. Clarke, Harry Turtledove, Neal Stephenson, Cordwainer Smith, Greg Bear, William Gibson, Gene Wolfe, Nancy Kress, Fred Saberhagen—the distinguished list goes on and on!


Get Dozois/Dann Theme Anthology Discount Bundle here

Ron Miller Science Fiction Classics

Bundle Three 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.


Get Ron Miller Classics of Science Fiction Bundle Three here


Story Contest News

The 2013 Jim Baen Memorial Short Story Contest winners have been announced. Congratulations to all! Details here.





Don’t forget to check out the Baen new book releases here. Enter the March David Weber contest and design Honor Harrington’s next medal here. And for upcoming appearances by Baen authors and editors, check here.

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