Sergeant Samuel Morgan Campbell had been in plenty of tight spots before, but nothing like this. His ship, the Outward Initiative, has been destroyed. Now, stranded on Lifeboat LS‑88—all systems dead, light‑years from any known colony—he and his crew of half-trained children will have to repair systems with no tools, navigate with no computers, and land a shuttle whose controls were more than half‑destroyed. And if they manage all of that, then the real challenge begins. The only planet in range has secrets that even Sergeant Campbell cannot imagine.

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Europe has spiraled into chaos. A conspiracy years in the making combined with general unrest leads to upheaval and revolution. In the midst of the murderous disorder, mercenary Michael Valentine is in Europe with a small team of his Exodus personnel trying to track down the evil and highly dangerous Katarina Montalban. She has initiated a mysterious plot to do away with those who stand between her and ultimate power. The team is on their own, with few friends, few resources—and racing against the clock.

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The year is 2067. The sea level has risen seven feet, and its rise is accelerating. Catastrophic weather events and the drownings of whole cities are already taking place. Can Anneliese rescue her favorite painting in the Amsterdam Rijksmuseum before the flood arrives? Can Noah Blazo sell his plan to save the world?

Baen Books is proud to present a new epic poem, serialized in ten parts. Written by celebrated poet Frederick Turner, Apocalypse examines the effects of catastrophic climate change—and the men and women who do whatever it takes to save the planet.

Over the next weeks, a new section of this novel-length work will be posted on the Baen Books main web site, and then collected complete as an ebook that will appear when the serialization is done. So watch every Thursday from now until the end of September 2016 for new installments!

Read Apocalypse, Book 1: The Flood here.

When the twentieth century town of Grantville, West Virginia is transported through time and space to seventeenth century Europe, her resident chemists waste no time in concocting all manner of chemicals and solutions necessary to keep life running as usual. But there are only so many of them and their time and resources are limited. While they focus on the big picture, what about the little things that make life worth living? Things like baking powder for making biscuits. Enter the good Doctor Gribbleflotz, a downtime alchemist willing to help the denizens of Grantville turn a bad situation into gold—that is, golden, flaky biscuits! But Herr Doctor Gribbleflotz doesn’t stop there. Over the course of many short stories and in the new book The Chronicles of Dr. Gribbleflotz, he turns his alchemist eye toward myriad problems the uptimers bring him and in the process makes a name for himself. In this month’s nonfiction essay, Rick Boatright examines the real world science behind Gribbleflotz’s exploits.

Read “The Science of Dr. Gribbleflotz” here.

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To coincide with the release of The Year’s Best Military and Adventure SF 2015, Baen Books is pleased to announce the second annual Year’s Best Military and Adventure Science Fiction Readers’ Choice Award. The award honors the best of the best in this grand storytelling tradition, and its winner will receive an inscribed plaque and a $500 prize. And YOU are the judge! Choose your favorite story from the contents of The Year’s Best Military and Adventure SF 2015 and reward its author for excellence. Voting closes August 31, 2016.

Find out more here.

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