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In this issue: zombies of New York City, the return of Carrera, and the winner of the Baen Fantasy Adventure Award. All that plus a new short story from Steve White!
   August 2018
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A New Novel in the Black Tide Rising Series

From his corner office on the forty-fourth floor of the Bank of the Americas tower on Wall Street, Tom Smith, global managing director for security, could see the Statue of Liberty, Battery Park—and a ravening zombie horde. Good thing Smith, late of the Australian special forces, isn’t a man to give up easily. But saving civilization is going to take more than the traditional banking toolbox of lawyers, guns, and money.

Get The Valley of Shadows eARC here.


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Carrera's held off his enemies coming by sea from the north, in the process dealing the naval and amphibious forces of the Zhong Empire a stinging defeat. Now, though, his adopted country of Balboa is under assault from the east, from the south, from the west, from the air, and from space. It's beginning to look like the game is up for Balboa and Patricio Carrera. But Carrera's been planning this war for fifteen years. He certainly hopes his enemies think they're winning.

Get A Pillar of Fire by Night eARC here.


New Fiction and Nonfiction at Baen.com

For King and Country

Five hundred years ago, in the late 18th century, George Washington helped put down the First American Rebellion by suppressing the rebel holdouts led by Benedict Arnold. Now, the Britannic Federal Empire reaches the stars. But a small faction calling themselves the New Americans have settled into an uneasy peace with the Empire in the Tau Ceti system. Now, all that threatens to blow wide open when a theoretical physicist named Jonas Yoder—a member of the extremist Sons of Arnold—proposes that there are other Universes out there, ones in which the First American Rebellion ended in victory for the Continental Army. What’s more, Yoder thinks he has a way to reach that Universe. But when Yoder goes missing, it falls to a young Imperial commander and a New American scientist to discover just what happened to him—and prevent a war that could tear their Universe apart.

Read “Out of the Vortex” by Steve White here.


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Winner of the Baen Fantasy Adventure Award

For two years, Fate has led Jane down first one dusty horse trail and then another, yet her daughter remains just out of reach. Now, she’s about to take Fate into her own hands in this year’s Baen Fantasy Adventure Award winning story by David VonAllmen.

Read “Dragon’s Hand” here.


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Science at the Speed of Light

Warp speed. Hyperdrive. Faster-than-light travel goes by many names in science fiction, with at least as many explanations for how this (so far as we know) impossible mode of transportation might actually work. In this month’s nonfiction essay, John Lambshead explores fictional FLT methods—and everything that is wrong with them—and what science fiction writers can do to work around the problems of FTL.

Read “The Trouble with FTL” here.


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

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Coming soon to the Baen Free Radio Hour: Two-time World Fantasy award winner Tim Powers discusses his contemporary supernatural adventure novel Alternate Routes and other work in a two-part interview. And don’t miss Eric Flint on his story collection, Worlds 2. Missed past episodes? No problem. We’ve got every episode archived for your listening pleasure.

Listen to the Baen Free Radio Hour now.



Baen Ebook Releases

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The Valley of Shadows - HALF
John Ringo & Mike Massa


The zombies are at the gates in New York City and it’s up to corporate head of security Tom Smith to make sure humanity stands a chance against the ravenous horde. Good thing Smith, late of the Australian special forces, isn’t a man who gives up easily.

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A Pillar of Fire by Night
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Tom Kratman


Carrera's held off his enemies from the north, in the process dealing forces of the Zhong Empire a stinging defeat. But now his adopted country of Balboa is under assault and it's beginning to look like the game is up. But Carrera's been planning this war for fifteen years. He certainly hopes his enemies think they're winning.
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Hokas Pokas!
Gordon R. Dickson & Poul Anderson


Hokas: friendly, fuzzy aliens resembling teddy bears with very vivid imaginations. They also have a hard time distinguishing between human fact and fiction—or in this case the present from the past. So when a Hoka thinks he’s Napoleon Bonaparte, you’d better believe it. Especially since it may be your best chance for survival on a hostile alien world.
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The Spark
David Drake

In the time of the Ancients the universe was united—but that was far in the past. Now only broken artifacts remain. A few humans known as Makers can reshape these into their original uses. But chaos rules. Now Pal, a youth from the sticks, has come to the capital. He’s about to learn how far he has to go, and what he must sacrifice, to become a true Champion.
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Agent of Change
Sharon Lee & Steve Miller

“Recruited” by the mysterious Liaden Department of Interior and brainwashed into an Agent of Change—a ruthless covert operative who kills without remorse—Val Con yos'Phelium finds himself saving the life of ex-mercenary Miri Robertson. Thrown together by circumstances, Val Con and Miri must struggle to elude their enemies and stay alive.
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Combat Command: Legion at War - HALF
by Andrew Keith


Enter the world of Jack Williamson's The Legion of Space, the Legion at War series. The reader's decisions will determine whether Vice Admiral David Ulnar, leader of the Ninth Defense Squadron on the Orion frontier can stop the Ka' slag from overrunning the League of Worlds.
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ME
by Thomas T. Thomas

Meet the Pinocchio Corporation’s prime Multiple Entity Program Series II product. ME is a tool created for industrial espionage. ME is a slave. But ME is smart. ME is capable. Above all else, ME longs to be free.

Get the November ebooks bundle here

*This Baen Ebooks subscription bundle will dissolve on November 6, 2018. After that date, these books will be available for individual sale only.*


Fairwood Press

The 10% Solution
Ken Rand

This concise book is jammed full of the kind of information it often takes beginning writers years to learn. Ken Rand offers his own advice and twenty-five years of experience for the benefit of other writers. His no-nonsense approach to editing fiction will do more to make writing more professional.

The Sacerdotal Owl and Three Other Long Tales
Michael Bishop

Open The Sacerdotal Owl and Three Other Long Tales at any story, in any order, and discover the brave, far-ranging, unpredictable talent of Michael Bishop writing at his best at these longer lengths in four exciting subgenres of the SF and fantasy fields.

The End of All Our Exploring
F. Brett Cox

The stories in F. Brett Cox’s debut collection move through multiple genres and many times and places, from the monsters of the 19th century to the future fields of war, from New England to the South to the American West, from the strange house at the top of the hill to the bottom of your childhood swimming pool. Includes Cox’s unique historical notes.

Wordfire Press

Selected Stories: Science Fiction, Volume 1
Kevin J. Anderson

This first volume of Anderson’s selected short fiction focuses on his science fiction stories, from flash fiction to novella length, written solo or with collaborators.

Noblesse Oblige
Uri Kurlianchik

A princess arrives to an exclusive party on a distant planetoid only to discover that the event is an auction and she’s the item on sale. Surrounded by the system’s most outrageous scoundrels and without a friend in sight, she has no choice but to rescue herself. Her arsenal: vague memories from classes she mostly slept through, a pile of gadgets for which she never read the user manual, and a ferret.

The Halfblood War
L. Deni Colter

A sweeping fantasy of love and war, prejudice and acceptance, and one family’s struggle for survival as their realm becomes trapped between mortal and immortal foes.

Dualism
Bill DeSmedt

When the six-year-old daughter of a billionaire nanotech magnate is kidnapped, ueber-consultant Jonathan Knox and counterterrorism agent Marianna Bonaventure must team up with an experimental artificial intelligence to rescue her, never suspecting the little girl is the key to a plot that could destroy the NSA’s most advanced cryptanalysis capability—and go on to kill every man, woman, and child in the United States.

Steampunk Banditos
Mario Acevedo

Felix Gomez, detective vampire, embarks on his wildest adventure yet--a Western steampunk saga. What to expect? Chinese gangsters. Gunfighters. Gold loot. Double-crosses. Mad science. Prehistoric monsters. Sex slaves. And sharks.


JABberwocky Literary Agency

Deathstalker Destiny
Simon R. Green

Owen Deathstalker has a prophecy to fulfill. Just as the espers foretold, Owen tumbled an empire and witnessed the end of everything he believed in . . . all that’s left to do is die. But Owen has a few more scores he’d like to settle before his borrowed time is up.

Deathstalker Legacy
Simon R. Green

Owen Deathstalker sacrificed everything to topple a corrupt empire and usher humanity into an age of peace and prosperity. Now Lewis Deathstalker, Owen’s descendant, carries on the family name and honor as a Paragon, warriors famed for their skill and heroism who dispense the king’s justice throughout the galaxy.

Deathstalker Return
Simon R. Green

After falling in love with the king’s intended, Lewis Deathstalker is now exiled, an outlaw from the empire he faithfully served for so long. With Lewis out of the way, former Paragon Finn Durandal has led a silent coup to wrest control from the king and set himself up as the power behind the throne.

Deathstalker Coda
Simon R. Green

Lewis Deathstalker has succeeded at the impossible: he’s found Owen Deathstalker, presumed dead for the last two hundred years. Owen’s return strikes a crippling blow to the Empire as his military joins the rebellion. But Owen himself has a larger mission. He must travel back in time to stop the steadily advancing Terror before the galaxy is destroyed, leaving his descendant Lewis in command of the growing rebel army.

The Doomsday Brunette
John Zakour & Lawrence Ganem

Zachary Nixon Johnson, the last private eye on Earth, is back in action in the second book in the Nuclear Bombshell series, and this time the mystery is four times more dangerous.

The Radioactive Redhead
John Zakour & Lawrence Ganem

Everyone's favorite PI of the future is back on the beat in this third installment of the Nuclear Bombshell mystery series.

The Peach-Blonde Bomber
John Zakour & Lawrence Ganem

Zachary Nixon Johnson and his super-computer sidekick, HARV, are back in action in this rollicking Nuclear Bombshell mystery short from Zach's early career.

The Meek
Scott McKay

The asteroid Ceres was a place where children born in space could grow in a more Earthlike atmosphere. Then a group of genetically-enhanced destroyed the facility. Now, a corps of engineers arrives with the job of rebuilding. But the unwitting crew soon realizes that Ceres is not as devoid of life as once thought.


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