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In this issue: the dark side of the city streets, two friends trying to make a go of it, and glimpses of future war. All that, plus a new short story!

October 2‌0‌2‌3

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NEW FANTASY AND SCIENCE FICTION STORIES WITH A HARDBOILED NOIR TWIST—FOCUSING ON THE MEAN STREETS OF THE CITY

Humans have always been fascinated by darkness. Especially the darkness of a city at night, when the black sky is made ever more inky by the pools of illumination dropped under streetlights. Whether the mean streets be in an alternate past charmed with dark magic or the dirty alleyways of futuristic crowded space stations, the city—and its darkened streets—will always fascinate us. Here then, is an anthology of all new stories of science fiction and fantasy with a hardboiled noir twist that acknowledge that the city is a living, breathing entity . . . and it isn’t always on our side.

Get Down These Mean Streets eARC.

SOMETIMES, THE REAL ENEMIES ARE THE FRIENDS WE MAKE ALONG THE WAY.

An encounter with an old friend becomes tragically fatal, and Indrajit and Fix set out on a high-stakes quest across the ancient city of Kish to bring their friend back to life. At each step, the complications and the enemies alike pile up. The mysterious necromancers, the Vin Dalu priests, bind the heroes on an errand that sends them shuttling from one thieves' guild to the next, pitting Indrajit and Fix against the deadly House of Knives and embroiling them in a plot by the giant, wasplike Kattak to take dire revenge on Kish and all its great houses.

Can the heroes save their friend? Can Indrajit and Fix survive? Will Kish itself fall?

Get Among the Gray Lords eARC.

EAGLE VS. DRAGON: WHO WINS?

What if the United States went to war with the People’s Republic of China? How would these rivals fight for supremacy on land, sea, air, and across the stochastic streams of time? What wonder weapons would be unleashed? What horrors would emerge from the irradiated sludge of the South China Sea? What heroes would rise and forever change the course of history? Tread into the deepest and darkest dimensions of the multiverse, gaze through a kaleidoscope of fractured realities, and bear witness to the disturbing visions of World War III from today’s greatest minds in science fiction, fantasy, and horror.

Get Weird World War: China eARC.

New Fiction at Baen‌.‌com

ON THE HUNT

CIDER: The Coalition for Interdimensional Dark Energy Research. A front for the global military alliance attempting to locate, study, and eradicate this wave of invading “other” dimension entities—“spooks”—that seemed to feed off of the worldwide energy infrastructure.

Tsunami Entertainment: a gaming company contracted to program a cutting-edge interface so the grunts could see and track the spooks.

TransDimensional Hunter: the greatest of a new generation of Augmented Reality game—and the only hope for humanity’s survival.

Read “Operation Mall Stroll,” a new TransDimensional Hunter story by Lydia Sherrer.

October Ebook Promotion

OCTOBER ANDRE NORTON EBOOK SALE

Andre Norton has been called the Grand Dame of Science Fiction and Fantasy, and if you’ve read any of her works, it’s easy to see why. This month, we’re celebrating Norton’s legacy by offering ALL of her Baen Books backlist in a special discount bundle. Get the bundle for $20 off list price—or get individual titles at $1 off per book.

Learn more!

Don’t Touch That Dial: Listen to or Watch
the Baen Free Radio Hour

Coming soon to the Baen Free Radio Hour:
Howard Andrew Jones on Chronicles of Hanuvar book two, The City of Marble and Blood, Larry Correia and Jason Cordova discuss Monster Hunter Memoirs: Fever, and Michael Mersault talks The Silent Hand.

Missed past episodes? No problem. We’ve got every episode archived for your listening pleasure. All previous episodes are also archived at Baen’s YouTube and Rumble channels. And check out the new optional video podcast format!

Listen to the Baen Free Radio Hour.

Baen Books

*Down these Mean Streets* HALF Edited by Larry Correia & Kacey Ezell New science fiction and fantasy stories with a hardboiled noir twist—focusing on the mean streets of the city. Stories by Larry Correia, Laurell K. Hamilton, Steve Diamond, Mike Massa, and more.
*Among the Gray Lords* HALF D.J. Butler An encounter with an old friend becomes tragically fatal, and Indrajit and Fix set out on a high-stakes quest across the ancient city of Kish to bring their friend back to life. Can the heroes save their friend? Can Indrajit and Fix survive? Will Kish itself fall?
*Weird World War: China* HALF Edited by Sean Patrick Hazlett Glimpses of the war that might be between two superpowers—with some supernatural twists. Stories by Larry Correia, David Drake, Brian Trent, Martin L. Shoemaker, Kevin Ikenberry, Brad R. Torgersen, T.C. McCarthy, and more.
*Time Trials* M.A. Rothman & D.J. Butler Retired Egyptologist Marty Cohen finds himself and his ragtag team of archaeologists transported back in time to a North Africa dominated by monsters. And behind the war against the monster overlords lies a greater struggle: Marty and his team have been chosen to be champions of all Earth and to run a gauntlet on humanity’s behalf. Failure will mean extinction.
*Poor Man’s Sky* Wil McCarthy When a contestant in the reality show determining who will colonize Mars is found murdered on the Moon, a homicide detective, a Benedictine monk, an asteroid miner, and a hydroponic farmer will find themselves on a collision course with forces far beyond the control of trillionaires or nation states.
*Escape Orbit* Patrick Chiles Five years ago, astronaut Jack Templeton took the spacecraft Magellan to the farthest reaches of our solar system, never to be heard from again. Until now.
*A Matter of Security* HALF Bjorn Hasseler It’s a matter of security. When the Ring of Fire drags Grantville, West Virginia, back to seventeenth-century Germany, down-time veteran Edgar Neustatter finds himself among the survivors of a unit devastated by the up-time Americans and their Swedish allies. Having glimpsed the promise of a republic ruled by its people rather than lords and tyrants, Neustatter leads his men and their families back to Grantville to establish a new agency: Neustatter’s European Security Services.

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