Jon of Dun Add has created a civilization where before there had only been isolated pockets of humanity in a shattered cosmos. Young knight Pal is one of the most respected members of Lord Jon’s Hall of Champions. Pal’s greatest talent lies not on the field of battle, though he’s no slouch there. He is also a Maker, one who can repair the tools the Ancients had left—sometimes. Now, Pal will need all his talent—as a fighter, as a Maker, as a Champion—to deal with the monsters the Waste throws at him, to unify the growing realm, and to rescue a damsel in distress who has been locked in a forcefield for decades. She is also a damsel who most decidedly is of two minds in taking her arranged marriage vows! Pal knows there are those who would destroy Dun Add, and Lord Jon’s vision of a humanity united in peace—but a Champion must follow his instincts no matter what the danger.

When a cosmic disturbance hurls your town from twentieth-century West Virginia back to seventeenth-century Europe—and into the middle of the Thirty Years War—you have to adapt to survive. And the natives of that time period, faced with American technology and politics, need to be equally quick-witted, or at least survival-minded. Here’s a generous helping of stories of Grantville, the American town lost in time, and its impact on the people and societies of a tumultuous age.

Featuring stories by Rick Boatright, Eric Flint, Tim Sayeau, Robert Noxon, Griffin Barber, Robert Waters, Iver P. Cooper, Kerryn Offord, David Carrico, and more!

Decades ago, the Visitors descended on Earth. They claimed to bring peace and prosperity. Their real goal was the total subjugation of humankind. After a devastating war, the Visitors were driven to Mars. Their willing human collaborators were left behind. The task of hunting down these former alien collaborators and bringing them to justice falls to Federal Recovery Agents like Nathan Foster.

Emmogene Anderson was taken to the Visitors as a teenager and was experimented upon by the alien invaders. She carries within her body a semi-functional alien device that allows her to control other people. Until recently, she was serving a prison sentence for aiding and abetting the enemy. That is, until she was broken out by her obsessive ex-lover, Anthony Krieg, a former commando for the Visitors’ forces, physically enhanced but mentally unstable.

Now, Nathan Foster is tasked with bringing the pair to justice. Krieg must be killed, Emmogene captured. An easy enough job—but Emmogene may have been implanted with something else, something much more important to the Visitors, and to the free people of Earth!

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Coming soon to the Baen Free Radio Hour: Eric Flint, Walt Boyes, Joy Ward, Griffin Barber, and Jackie Britton Lopatin on Ring of Fire alternate history anthology Grantville Gazette IX. And Mike Kupari on his SF novel The Family Business.

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