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Monster Hunter Memoirs: Fever

Monster Hunter Memoirs: Fever

Los Angeles: the 1970s: Disco is king and the nightclubs are full of young, beautiful people with Saturday night fever. But below the glitz and glamour, a darkness lurks. Chloe Mendoza, a daughter of a group of demigods who ruled Mesoamerica before the Spanish arrived and member of MHI’s latest team, receives a warning that a Dark Master is building up its power in the region.

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The City of Marble and Blood

The City of Marble and Blood

Hanuvar had pledged to find the remnants of his people, scattered into slavery across the whole of the peninsula. This time he has no army to help him. Arrayed against him are the mighty legions, the sorcerous Revenants, and the wily Metellus of the Praetorian guard, ever alert to seize advantage. Worst of all, a magical attack has left Hanuvar with a lingering curse that might change him forever . . . or lead him to an early grave.

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The Silent Hand

The Silent Hand

The vessel: IMS Hightower. The mission: rescue a trapped legion force from the surface of Delta Three. The crisis: nothing is as it appears.

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The Janus File

The Janus File

An unlikely pair must work together to unravel this mystery, and soon they discover their unique combination of skills might just provide the edge they need. But nothing is ever simple where the Gordian Division is involved. Not even time itself.

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Deathless Gods

Deathless Gods

Jamethiel Knorth, Priest’s Bane and Dream-Weaver, has returned victorious from Tai-tastigon, but trouble dogs the Kencyrath. Now, Jame rides south to Bashti. Her formal errand is to compete in martial games with secret stakes—which she fears are a cloak for a massacre, or worse.

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Trinity's Children

Trinity's Children

Former Rim Confederation spaceship captain Jared Clement is offered the chance of a lifetime: command of humanity’s first truly faster-than-light vessel. The destination: Trinity, a newly discovered star system where strange signs of possible spacefarers may lead to humanity’s first alien encounter. Or to interstellar war.

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Electronic Advance Reader Copies

The Icarus Twin - eARC

The Icarus Twin - eARC

Gregory Roarke and his partner Selene are on the hunt for portals created by a long-vanished alien race—portals that can teleport a person thousands of light-years in the blink of an eye. But the alien Patth are also searching for such portals, and they have resources and ruthlessness far beyond anything Roarke and Selene can match.

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Light of the Veil - eARC

Light of the Veil - eARC

Once a poor dock rat on a backwater planet, Jayce Artan finds himself thrust into an ongoing war between Good and Evil. He must journey into another realm to lay claim to a stone of immense power. Along the way, he himself must take up the mantle of a Paragon. But the forces of darkness are arrayed against him.

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Protected Species - eARC

Protected Species - eARC

Caine Riordan and his self-styled “Crewe” must do more than merely survive on the planet Bactradgaria. The wildly ferocious x’qao pose a threat that must be dealt with. To do that, humans must claw higher up the food chain . . . or else tumble off into extinction.

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Threading the Needle - eARC

Threading the Needle - eARC

Talia Merrit came to Gōruden to leave behind her past. But she soon finds herself thrust into the start of another conflict. With the fate of a planet and her own peace of mind hanging in the balance, Talia must decide whether or not to once again take up the mantle of Death’s Handmaiden.

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Through the Storm - eARC

Through the Storm - eARC

Los Angeles: the “Augmented Reality” game TransDimensional Hunter seems too real for comfort as the world of the game merges with reality. Now, teenage game prodigy Lynn Raven will have to conquer the game or be destroyed by it.

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Dirty Water - eARC

Dirty Water - eARC

When a grandfather and his granddaughters find a portal in the back of a toy store that leads to the past, they’re off to deal with hardened, murderous criminals and with equally murderous aliens.

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The Dyson File - eARC

The Dyson File - eARC

An apparent open-and-shut suicide case turns out to be anything up for Detective Isaac Cho and his partner, Special Agent Susan Cantrell. Soon the duo and their team find themselves unraveling the threads of a conspiracy theory.

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A.A. Nour is a researcher and a writer, and sometimes those two things overlap. She is an Odyssey Writing Workshop grad, and she's passionate about psychology and research rabbit holes. She lives in Chicago with her husband and a plethora of adorable creatures that have made a home in her backyard.

The Hitchhiker on Souls’ Road

A.A. Nour

Of all places, Sam did not expect to wake in the back of a fire-red, flat-bed pickup truck. Especially a moving one. Particularly an unfamiliar, moving one.

Sam shoved her boots against one side to stop from rolling. With a whimper and a healthy dose of adrenaline, she clambered to a crouch, hanging fast to one side. Dust whooshed into her face; she sputtered, falling backwards and rolling anyway. A blank, blue sky stretched above. When she managed to right herself again, she squinted before peering over. Sandy plains spread in all directions, freckled with tumbleweeds. No buildings, no signs, no nothing. Definitely not Boston.

Over the edge, a far fall and quick road blurred below. Surely she’d break her neck if she jumped.

Fighting a swell of panic, Sam wrangled with her bonds only to realize . . . well, she wasn’t tied up. She’d just assumed, being in the truck and all. That was something?

Sam swallowed. It’s fine, it’s fine, she told herself. Maybe she passed out and some Samaritan scooped her up to take her . . . to the middle of the desert.

Maybe she’s dreaming. Yes!

Another tumble drove her shoulder painfully into the front cabin. Oof, dreaming didn’t hurt this much.

Pressed against the cabin, Sam managed to scramble up toward the little slider window thingy. Cupping one hand against the glare, she found:

Some biker dude. Sorta? With long blonde hair, a leather jacket, and wraparound shades, he sure looked the part. But he also appeared very . . . put together? Like he bathed regularly. And shaved. If Disney ever made a movie about a renegade with a heart of gold, they’d cast this guy.

Heart of gold? Sam crushed her forehead against the window. She was in a strange car with a strange dude who could one hundred percent crush her windpipe as easily as he blew his nose. And somehow—by looking at him—she got the vibe he just, didn't want to?

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Jim Beall (BS-Math, MBA, PE) has been a nuclear engineer for over forty years, a war gamer for over fifty, and an avid reader of science fiction for even longer. His experience in nuclear engineering and power systems began as a naval officer. Experience after the USN includes design, construction, inspection, enforcement, and assessment with a nuclear utility, an architect engineering firm, and the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (USNRC).

The term “Artificial Intelligence” (AI) was coined by mathematician and computer scientist John McCarthy at a 1956 Dartmouth conference now deemed to be the birthplace of AI as a field of science, but the idea goes back nearly three millennia!

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Finalists exemplify the best of near-future, forward-thinking science fiction. Annual contest marks 16 years of highlighting bright futures and rising talent.

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Baen Books has signed a contract with author Christopher Ruocchio to publish the final two books in his internationally award-winning Sun Eater series, as well as for a first look deal for Ruocchio’s next series.

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We’re happy to announce an easier way to deliver our Ebooks directly from Baen.com to your favorite Ereader. You can now email EPUB files directly to your device from our site—no download necessary!

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Baen to publish new science fiction novels from authors Monalisa Foster and Marisa Wolf

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Lucille Robbins, Eric Flint’s widow and heir, in conjunction with Baen Books would like to announce the forthcoming titles from Eric Flint.

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Baen to publish sword and sorcery series The Chronicles of Hanuvar, with first book in August 2023

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Baen Books formally announced this year’s finalists for the Baen Fantasy Adventure Award earlier this month.

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It is with a heavy heart that we share the news that Eric Flint has passed away. We were proud to publish Eric’s first novel, Mother of Demons, in 1997, and to continue publishing his many worlds, including the best-selling Ring of Fire series that started with 1632.

There are several of Eric’s works already delivered and on the schedule. Eric was a tireless collaborator, and readers can also expect more of his works to be released with Eric’s designated collaborators in the future.

We will be celebrating Eric and his works on the Baen Free Radio Hour this week and the following week and encourage all to tune in.

—Toni Weisskopf
Publisher, Baen Books

Lakewood, Colorado author Wil McCarthy has been named the winner of the 2022 Prometheus Award for Best Novel, for his novel Rich Man’s Sky.

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To all of those who expressed interest and support for Baen's Bar in recent weeks, we are happy to announce it is back on-line, though with some changes. Baen is handing the Bar over to its users, and will henceforth be run by SFF Forums, LLC, and may be found at https://www.baensbar.net. Returning users will be able to use the Bar as usual, but new members will have to make a purchase at baen.com before they can log in. (Note: New users will not have to buy a book; there is a Bar tipjar option so they may contribute to the maintenance of the forum).

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Innovative Independent Publisher to Bring Author Readings, Q&As, and Convention-Style Programming to Facebook LIVE

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Over 170 titles from Baen Books to be published as audiobooks over the next three years

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