Ships are already incoming, ready to salvage, and it becomes a matter of urgency to sort friend from foe.

Luckily, the light keepers have backup.

Indrajit is a poet of a dying race, looking for his successor. Fix is a failed monk, pining for his lost love. They’re swordsmen and thinkers, heroes in their hearts and in their deeds. They also recover stolen documents, unravel financial fraud, escort shipwrecked diplomats, and hunt in the ruins beneath the city for missing academics. Meanwhile, the criminals they investigate, rival jobbers, sorcerers, spies, assassins, and other mysterious parties get more and more reason to want them dead.

Jack Daimon is known as the Outsider. It’s his job to make sure the supernatural world doesn’t encroach on our own, mundane reality. In his role, he has faced down dragons, ogres—and worse. But when he’s called to an old Abbey, he will come face to face with his greatest challenge yet.

Though you might not realize it when you look up at the night sky, most stars are much smaller than our sun and not visible to the naked eye. They are red dwarfs, and not even one can be seen from Earth without the aid of a telescope. In their new collection of fiction and science essay, Les Johnson and Ken Roy explore what it would take to colonize one such red dwarf: Ross 248. In this month’s nonfiction essay, they chronicle the science behind the stories.

Coming soon to the Baen Free Radio Hour:
Patrick Chiles on Escape Orbit, and Tim Akers talks Wraithbound.

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