Everything is different in New Orleans. The food. The climate. The monsters. But that's just the beginning. The real reason New Orleans is so different is a larval Great Old One growing day by day in power and just about ready to pop. If monster hunter Chad Gardenier can't convince "the powers that be" to get involved not only New Orleans but the entire world is going to fall under the power of the nastiest of nasties. Now on the outs with the U.S. Government and in exile from his usual job of saving the world, Chad must rally the forces of light against the coming darkness.

Collected short fiction from multiple best seller Michael Z. Williamson. Featuring stories set in Williamson's popular Freehold series, John Ringo’s Black Tide Rising series, Williamson’s own Long Time Until Now universe, and more! With cutting satire on classic poetry and modern movies, a no-holds-barred lambast of several beloved firearms and their fan clubs, Williamson concludes with more of his Inappropriate Cocktail recipes, frequently both delicious and outrageously snarky, commemorating celebrities, events and cultural memes.

When in the course of human events, in this case the passage of twelve years, it becomes necessary to change the look and feel of the company website . . . well, we do. We’ve tried to keep things Baenish and familiar to frequent users, and even more intuitive and helpful to new ones.

We’ve combined the ebooks and print books pages, so everyone can find everything they want in one place. (We will still be selling mostly ebooks here, our own Baen Books and those of other distinguished science fiction publishers, but we are also starting to dip our toe into swag merchandising as well! About which more later.) We added several filtering tools to make sorting through and searching for books more slick, and we’ve kept the ever popular “My Books” and “Not My Books” function.

We hope you’ll find the account interface more user friendly, and we’ve added a sidebar to the homepage we also hope you’ll find helpful in accessing the rest of the site.

Of course we’ve kept all the free stuff—the monthly stories and nonfiction, the extensive Teacher’s Guides, and the Baen Free Library. We hope you enjoy it, and we always welcome feedback. Feel free to stop by Toni’s Table at Baen’s Bar or for technical problems Administrivia or simply email us directly at info@baen.com.

And finally, a big shout-out to our Barfly beta testers! Love you guys. . . .

Good reading!

Toni Weisskopf
Publisher, Baen Books

Baen Books is pleased to announce the fourth 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, Volume 4 and reward its author for excellence.

July Fourth is Independence Day here in the U.S. of A. It’s also the day after Larry Correia and John Ringo’s Monster Hunter Memoirs: Saints hits the bookstore shelves. We here at the Baen offices are in the mood to celebrate, and we need your help! Write us a 50-100 word short story that combines monsters and American Independence for a chance to win a signed copy of Monster Hunter Memoirs: Saints.

Congratulations to Gordon Bingham! His name was randomly selected in last month’s contest, which means he wins a copy of Grantville Gazette VIII, signed by editors Eric Flint and Walt Boyes as well as a copy of The Year’s Best Military and Adventure SF, Volume 4, signed by editor David Afsharirad. Enjoy all those short stories, Gordon!

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