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In this issue: Dark heroes walk the Mean Streets, a new twist on vampires, and the race for military-grade dragons. Plus, the 2022 Jim Baen Memorial Award Winning story!
June 2022
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book cover NEW STORIES OF SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY WITH A HARDBOILED NOIR TWIST

In a world of criminals, thugs, con artists, cheats, and swindlers, there must be a man to stand against the powers of darkness and corruption. A man not afraid to walk the mean streets—whether they be those of 1930s Los Angeles, an ancient fantasy realm, or some far-flung planet of a future star empire. He is a man who knows that a “good man” is not always a “nice guy.” But when the chips are down, he understands that a hero does the right thing, even if it means losing everything.

Stories by: Laurell K. Hamilton, Larry Correia, Christopher Ruocchio, Michael Haspil, D.J. Butler, Kacey Ezell, Griffin Barber, Robert Buettner, Sharon Shinn, Craig Martelle, Chris Kennedy, S.A. Bailey, G. Scott Huggins, Nicole Givens Kurtz, and Rob Howell.

Get No Game for Knights eARC here.






SINK YOUR TEETH INTO THE NIGHT LIFE

Chaim Caan was just out for a night of fun, but the young woman he encountered that night left him with something to remember her by: she turned Chaim into a vampire. Chaim finds himself thrust into a weird underground world of mysticism and enchantment as he navigates life as the newly undead, trying to reconcile his beliefs as a Jew with the new reality that has been thrust upon him.

Get The Blood Is the Life eARC here.


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book cover A BIOTECH RACE AGAINST TIME TO DEVELOP MILITARY-GRADE DRAGONS

Genetic engineer Noah Parker has at last landed the job he's long coveted: director of dragon design for the Build-A-Dragon Company. With a combination of genetic engineering and a cryptic device known as the Redwood Codex, he and his team can produce living, breathing dragons made-to-order. The next frontier: a contract to develop dragons for the U.S. military. Yet the specs are more challenging than anything Noah has ever designed.

Get Deploying Dragons eARC here.



New Fiction and Nonfiction at Baen.com

story graphic 2022 Jim Baen Memorial Short Story Award Winner

The trip to the Moon was truly once in a lifetime for Sasha Venditti. She’s saved nine years to get there. It was, in her opinion, worth every penny. But she soon finds her vacation cut short when Andrin Lamar, Jr., son of one of her firm’s biggest clients, gets himself into some serious trouble. Sasha thinks she can’t possibly be the one to call. She’s on the Moon, right!? But so, it seems, is Lamar. Now it will take all her wits and wiles to solve what may well be the first murder on the Moon.

Read “Man on the Moon,” by Elaine Midcoh, here.





The Borders of Science Fiction and Reality

Our lives are circumscribed by borders, both manmade and natural—from lines on a map to rivers and mountain ranges. In this month’s free nonfiction article, Jim Beall looks at the concept of borders, beginning with the earliest city-states and continuing into the present and on to the future, as he explores how borders have impacted science fiction literature. The lines have been drawn!

Read “Borders: From the First Sumerians to the Last Starfighter,” by Jim Beall here.


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June Ebook Sale

sale graphic June Techno-thriller Ebook Sale

Michael Z. Williamson’s Target: Terror may clock in at over 700 pages. But we’re sure it will leave you wanting more page-turning techno-thriller action. So we’re offering Ebook discounts on our Techno-thriller backlist titles, including novels by Tom Kratman, John Ringo, Larry Correia, and Mike Kupari.

Find out more here.



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

Coming soon to the Baen Free Radio Hour: The editor and contributors to Robosoldiers: Thank You for Your Servos talk the future of cybernetic warfare; Griffin Barber talks to the Jim Baen Memorial Short Story Award contest winners—and contest runner William Ledbetter; and Timothy Zahn discusses his latest novel The Icarus Plot.

Missed past episodes? No problem. We’ve got every episode archived for your listening pleasure. All previous episodes are also archived at Baen’s YouTube Channel. And check out the new optional video podcast format!

Listen to the Baen Free Radio Hour.


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Baen Books

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No Game for Knights - HALF
Edited by
Larry Correia &
Kacey Ezell


In a world of criminals, thugs, con artists, cheats, and swindlers, there must be a man to stand against the powers of darkness and corruption. A man not afraid to walk the mean streets—whether they be those of 1930s Los Angeles, an ancient fantasy realm, or some far-flung planet of a future star empire. New SF/F stories with a noir-bent.
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The Blood Is the Life - HALF
David Carrico

Chaim Caan was just out for a night of fun, but the young woman he encountered that night left him with something to remember her by: she turned Chaim into a vampire. Chaim must navigate life as the newly undead, trying to reconcile his beliefs as a Jew with the new reality that has been thrust upon him.
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Deploying Dragons - HALF
Dan Koboldt

The ethical future of domesticated dragons hangs in the balance as Genetic engineer Noah Parker and his design team at the Build-A-Dragon Company develop dragons for the U.S. military.
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The Dark Side of the Road - HALF
Simon R. Green

When Ishmael Jones is invited to spend Christmas at his mysterious employer's home, the result is anything but holiday cheer. Jones arrives at the remote Belancourt Manor in the midst of a blizzard only to discover that his host has gone missing. It soon becomes clear that the guests are harboring dark secrets—and that it will be up to Ishmael Jones to stop a savage killer.
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To End in Fire
David Weber
& Eric Flint


The huge, authoritarian Solarian League lies in defeat, crushed by the Grand Alliance of Manticore, Haven, and Grayson. But a threat yet looms. The Mesan Alignment is still insidiously working toward the enslavement of humanity. Now is the time to destroy this ancient evil. Now is the time to fight the final battle and see victory through—once and for all!
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1637: Dr. Gribbleflotz and the Soul of Stoner
Kerryn Offord &
Rick Boatright


Down-time’s greatest alchemist and a flim-flam artist up-timer must put aside their differences and join forces to debunk one of history’s greatest bunko artists, and save the reputation of modern science and medicine from ruin!
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Sword & Planet
Edited by
Christopher Ruocchio


The distant future—like the distant past—is a place of myths, of legends, and of great heroes. Here are stories where magic and science exist together. Knights and starships. Wizards and ray guns. Swords and planets.


Get the September 2022 Ebooks bundle.

*This Baen Ebooks subscription bundle will dissolve on September 6, 2022. After that date, these books will be available for individual sale only.*

Woods Publishing

Onward, Libertycon!
Edited by
Christopher Woods &
T.K.F. Weisskopf


From their very first convention, LibertyCon and the volunteers who run it have been a breed apart. Every year, in Chattanooga, Tennessee, it attracts the best of the best science fiction and fantasy authors, scientists, artists, and fans. Now, celebrate this unique convention with an anthology of all-new fiction by fifteen very talented authors.
Ring of Fire Press

Tracking
David R. Palmer

Candidia Smith-Foster is still as adorable and deadly as she was in Emergence. Now she deals with Neo-Nazis in the post-apocalyptic world she found when she Emerged from the bunker her dad left for her.

Treadwell
Stoney Compton

The Pinkerton investigator August Lepke finds an assignment in Alaska to be more than he expected. A serial killer would have been bad enough. He also has to deal with suffragettes, native policemen, political powerhouses, Austrian noblewomen, English journalists, belligerent immigrant gold miners, saboteurs.

Wordfire Press

Neal Peart:
Cultural Repercussions

Bradley Birzer

A full examination of the words and ideas of Neil Peart, man of letters and drummer extraordinaire of the rock band Rush.

Great-Great-Great-Great-Grandma’s Radish and Other Stories
Tang Tang

Tang Tang weaves traditional Chinese storytelling with Western fantasy elements, using vivid language to craft unique stories of wonder and magic. These beautiful, poignant fairy tales will leave an imprint on your heart with their universal themes of friendship, family, loyalty and loss.


The Days of Future Past series
by John Van Stry

Past Tense


Paul has been having a bad day, perhaps one of the worst days he's ever had. And now into the middle of all this, his instructor just got drafted by some mystical goddess to help save a world. As for Paul? He's now on a one way trip, forced to help a man who despises him while at the mercy of the world's biggest trickster.

Present Tense


Coyote has a new task for Paul, one that involves him traveling north hundreds of miles over the post-apocalyptic landscape of California, the place that Paul once called home. Thankfully, Sarah and Heather have both decided to go with him and between Heather's shooting skills and Sarah's magical ones; Paul thinks he might just live through whatever scheme Coyote has enlisted him in.

Future Tense


Since being brought forward in time to the post apocalyptic wastelands of what was once his home, life has been pretty hard on Paul. Though it has had two good points, namely Sarah and Heather. But now Coyote wants him to take care of the task that he was brought here to deal with in the first place: destroying Aybem.


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