Deeply depressed Olivia, whose parents are divorcing, is ripe for manipulation. And swimming star Blake is looking for someone just like her. Although her friend tries to warn her, Olivia falls for his ploys and accepts an invitation to go to the Adirondack resort camp of Lake Endor with him and his family. But all is not as it seems at the hundred year old resort. Not only does Olivia discover that Blake is not the guy she thought he was, there is something sinister afoot at the lake. There is something lying beneath the waters of Lake Endor—something not of this world.

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It turns out that our legends of the Stone Age are even older than we think. It was a time when a world of archetypes and myths was written upon the fabric of humanity itself in the deepest way—a world that has only been preserved in the oldest stories with no way to actually visit it—until now. In a brilliant and dangerous brain hacking experiment, Harv Leonel and Tara Mukherjee are about to discover entire lifetimes of human memory coded in our genes, and reveal ancient legends—from knights and trolls, to flood myths, to the birth of humanity itself—that are very real. And very deadly . . .

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First there was Straight Outta Tombstone. Now we venture to an even wilder frontier town: Deadwood and its creepy environs. And to do so, here’s an all-new posse of top authors to explore it with. Charlaine Harris gives us a glimpse inside her new series as a tormented gunfighter faces a true demon of her past. Mike Resnick reveals what Doc Holliday thought was so funny on his last day. And Shane Hensley cooks up a stew that threatens to send every famous lawman in history to their graves! The west that once was rides again—but this time with the West that could have been chasing after like a spitting hellcat on its tail!

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“Treason Properly” by J.J. Cragun is the grand prize winner of the sixth annual Baen Fantasy Adventure Award. The award recognizes the best original adventure fantasy short story in the style of fantasy greats like Larry Correia, Mercedes Lackey, Elizabeth Moon, Andre Norton, J.R.R. Tolkien, and David Weber.

Read “Treason Properly” here.

Are space megastructures possible? Can humans eventually build them? And are we now detecting the first megastructures built by aliens? In this month’s nonfiction essay, space scientist and solar sail expert Les Johnson contemplates these questions and more—and offers speculation and answers.

Read “As Big as Space Itself: Building Our Own Space Megastructures—and Searching for Them as Galactic Signatures of Alien Civilizations” by Les Johnson here.

John Ringo and Mike Massa talk about River of Night, a new novel in the Black Tide Rising series, and sequel to The Valley of Shadows. A zombie-plagued escape from New York, followed by some very realistic militia fighting created with professional care by Army veteran Ringo and former Navy SEAL Massa!

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