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In this issue: ghosts of the L.A. freeways, Metahumans stand against darkness, and the many worlds of Eric Flint. All that plus a new short story from Susan R. Matthews.
   May 2018
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book cover A New Fantasy Novel by Tim Powers

Something weird is happening on the Los Angeles freeways—phantom cars materialize, lanes from nowhere appear, and sometimes unmarked off-ramps show up that give glimpses of a desolate desert highway in an unknown world. Ex-Secret Service agent Sebastian Vickery is a driver for a covert supernatural-evasion car service. But a government agency is using the freeway anomalies for disturbing purposes, and its chief is determined to have Vickery killed because of a secret he learned years ago at a halted presidential motorcade.

Get Alternate Routes eARC here.





Metahumans Unite for a Final Stand against Darkness

Ultima Thule has been destroyed—but somehow the Thulians mounted an even bigger force to destroy Metis. The Metisians that escaped the carnage and destruction of their secret city now must somehow find somewhere safe to go—without getting snapped up by various world governments. And now the Thulians have changed their tactics, sending wave after wave of their ships and troops to attack vulnerable targets all over Earth. John Murdock and The Seraphym have become a force of nature, but they can’t be everywhere at once, and if they were regarded with suspicion before, now they are regarded by ECHO’s allies with fear as well. The heroes of ECHO and CCCP have to save the world. But first, they have to save each other. And the avalanche has begun.

Get Avalanche: Book 5 of the Secret World Chronicles eARC here.


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book cover Welcome to the Many Worlds of Eric Flint

A new collection of short fiction from Eric Flint. Includes a huge range of storytelling mastery: short stories and a short novel set in Flint’s celebrated Ring of Fire alternate history series. A commemorative novelette set in Poul Anderson’s Operation Chaos universe. A story with Dave Freer, set in his and Flint’s popular Rats, Bats and Vats series. A group of humorous short stories addressing Biblical literalism. A long novella in a Martian steampunk setting. And another long novella set in David Weber’s best-selling Honor Harrington universe.

Get Worlds 2 eARC here.


New Fiction and Nonfiction at Baen.com

Terror on the High Seas

When Oberleutnant sur See Gunther Hols, First Officer on board the U-818 submarine known as the “Smoking Salmon,” spotted the old-time sailing ship off at a distance, he at first thought it might be a so-called “Q” boat: a decoy set by the British to trick the Germans into giving away their position. But even in the midst of war, torpedoes and bombs are not the things most to be feared on the high seas.

Read “Ghost Flotilla U-boats: Embarkation” by Susan R. Matthews here.


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Powerful Women

From Red Sonja to Ellen Ripley to Black Widow, with many stops in between, the figure of the female warrior in fiction has always had a strong appeal. But strong women who know how to fight aren’t confined to the pages of our favorite novels or the celluloid of our favorite films. In this month’s nonfiction essay science fiction writer and real-life military servicewoman Kacey Ezell sits down with Lieutenant Colonel Jennifer Whetstone, USAF to discuss what it’s like to serve in the military as a woman and to tackle some of the tropes of the female warrior in fiction.

Read “Character of the Female Warrior: An FAQ” here.


Don’t Touch that Dial: It’s the Baen Free Radio Hour

Coming soon to the Baen Free Radio Hour: Kevin J. Anderson and Sarah A. Hoyt on Uncharted, an adventure in arcane America featuring Lewis and Clark in a western U.S. of monsters and magic. Plus Steve White and Charles E. Gannon on new Starfire science fiction series entry, Oblivion.

Listen to the Baen Free Radio Hour now.


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Baen Ebook Releases

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Alternate Routes - HALF
Tim Powers


Something weird is happening on the Los Angeles freeways. A government agency is using the freeway anomalies for disturbing purposes, and its chief is determined to have ex-Secret Service agent Sebastian Vickery killed because of a secret he learned years ago at a halted presidential motorcade.

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Avalanche
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Mercedes Lacky, Cody Martin, Dennis Lee, & Veronica Giguere


Ultima Thule has been destroyed—but somehow the Thulians mounted an even bigger force to destroy Metis. The Metisians that escaped the carnage and destruction of their secret city now must somehow find somewhere safe to go—without getting snapped up by various world governments. It’s up to the heroes of ECHO and CCCP to save the world. The avalanche has begun.
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Worlds 2 - HALF
Eric Flint


A new collection of short fiction from Eric Flint. Includes stories set in the Ring of Fire alternate history series, Poul Anderson’s Operation Chaos universe, a story in the popular Rats, Bats and Vats series, and a long novella set in David Weber’s best-selling Honor Harrington universe. All that plus more, including new story introductions by Flint.
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The Outposter - HALF
Gordon R. Dickson


The Earth is overcrowded. People are shunted off to planetary colonies where they are left to fend for themselves against the alien Meda V'Dans, who routinely attack without provocation. Fortunately, the colonists have the Outposters to protect them. One such Outposter is Mark Ten Roos, a young man with a score to settle and the will to bring a corrupt system to its knees.
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The Gathering Edge
Sharon Lee & Steve Miller

A rip in the fabric of space and time causes a battleship fleeing a long-lost war to materialize in an area known as “safe space.” But with a hostile enemy hot on its tail, safe space won’t be safe for much longer. Theo Waitley must take sides in a war, the consequences of which she can scarcely imagine.
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Red Vengeance
Brendan DuBois

Sixteen-year-old U.S. Army Sergeant Randy Knox must accept that the powers-that-be may not want the war with the alien Creepers to be over. Now, as his hodge-podge military unit makes a desperate stand at a remote outpost, he'll learn just how far he will go to protect those he loves—and what it takes to save humanity from alien domination.

Get the August ebooks bundle here

*This Baen Ebooks subscription bundle will dissolve on August 7, 2018. After that date, these books will be available for individual sale only.*


Ring of Fire Press

The Demons of Paris
Eric Flint, Paula Goodlett, & Gorg Huff

It's January of 1372 and the space-time continuum has been breached. Demons of all kind, evil and benign, spill from the netherworld into the human one. In Paris, a series of grisly murders that couldn't be performed by a human leads the Grand Chatelet to try and raise a demon of his own to combat whatever monster is terrorizing the city.


JABberwocky Literary Agency

The Pillars of Reality series

The Dragons of Dorcastle
Jack Campbell

Dematr is a world ruled by the diametrically opposed Mage and Mechanic Guilds. For centuries, the two Great Guilds have been bitter rivals. But now a Storm approaches, one that could sweep away everything that humans have built. Mari is a brilliant young Mechanic. Alain is the youngest Mage ever to learn how to change the world with the power of his mind. When their caravan is destroyed, they must join forces.

The Hidden Masters of Marandur
Jack Campbell

Someone wants to kill Mari. She has learned that her world of Dematr is headed for a catastrophe that will destroy civilization and that mages really can alter reality for short periods. Someone also wants to kill Alain, a young mage who has learned that mechanics are not frauds. Narrowly escaping death, the mechanic and the mage stay alive thanks to their combined skills, an alliance never before seen.

The Assassins of Altis
Jack Campbell

Trapped within the dead city of Marandur, Master Mechanic Mari and Mage Alain must escape both merciless barbarians and the pitiless Imperial Legion. Beyond those dangers lie the mightiest and most unforgiving powers in the world of Dematr: the Great Guilds that rule the world with iron fists.

The Pirates of Pacta Servanda
Jack Campbell

Master Mechanic Mari and Mage Alain have survived every attempt to stop them, but their enemies are determined to kill Mari, the only one who can save her world from a storm of destruction. As armies begin to gather and cities seethe with tension, Mari, Alain, and their friends must prepare to confront the storm in the place it first appeared: the broken kingdom of Tiae.

The Servants of the Storm
Jack Campbell

A Storm that will wreck a world threatens Dematr. Only Mari, one of the Mechanics who control all technology through their Guild, has a chance to stop it. She and Mage Alain have survived numerous attempts to kill them and have gained many more followers, but the Storm of chaos, born of centuries of enslavement, grows ever closer.

The Wrath of the Great Guilds
Jack Campbell

The Great Guilds have gathered their power and joined it with the relentless legions of the Empire. The full might of that host will fall upon the fortress city of Dorcastle. If Dorcastle falls, the revolt led by Master Mechanic Mari and Mage Alain will fail, and their world will soon descend into chaos. But even if they somehow win in the face of impossible odds, neither one can be certain what sort of world that victory will produce.


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