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This is a scrolling content area for announcements about press releases, price changes, etc (Baen will provide and update these announcements)
This is a scrolling content area for announcements about press releases, price changes, etc (Baen will provide and update these announcements)
This is a scrolling content area for announcements about press releases, price changes, etc (Baen will provide and update these announcements)
Announcements
This is a scrolling content area for announcements about press releases, price changes, etc (Baen will provide and update these announcements)
This is a scrolling content area for announcements about press releases, price changes, etc (Baen will provide and update these announcements)
This is a scrolling content area for announcements about press releases, price changes, etc (Baen will provide and update these announcements)
This is a scrolling content area for announcements about press releases, price changes, etc (Baen will provide and update these announcements)
This is a scrolling content area for announcements about press releases, price changes, etc (Baen will provide and update these announcements)


Baen Free Radio Hour
Kevin Ikenberry discusses The Crossing; and Cobra by Timothy Zahn, Part 20
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Study Guides
A new teacher guide is available for 1637: The Peacock Throne

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Discounts on Baen Ebooks with Teacher’s Guides
Did you know that Baen Books offers free teaching guides for many of our books? These guides can be used by teachers, homeschoolers, and more to dive deep into learning with Baen! Kevin Ikenberry’s The Crossing, which comes out this month, will be getting the teaching guide treatment, and to celebrate, we thought we’d offer discounts on all our backlist of novels with teaching guides.
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Eric Flint 1947–2022

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

Press Release
2022 Baen Fantasy Adventure Award Finalists Announced
Baen Books formally announced this year’s finalists for the Baen Fantasy Adventure Award earlier this month.
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Press Release
Author Wil McCarthy wins 2022 Prometheus Award for Rich Man’s Sky
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.
Read MoreMike Kupari is the author of four science fiction novels, from Baen Books, as well as the coauthor, with Larry Correia, of the best-selling Dead Six military adventure series. He grew up in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula and enlisted at the age of seventeen. Kupari has worked as a security contractor with several firms, did a tour in Southwest Asia with a private military company, and is an NRA-certified firearms instructor.
“Trouble Is My Business” is set in the world of his upcoming hardboiled detective science fiction novel, Trouble Walked In, featuring detective Ezekiel “Easy” Novak.

Fiction Short Story
Trouble Is My Business
Delta City is one hell of a town. You ever been there? Let me tell you about it. The Big D is the second-largest city on Nova Columbia and the largest in the planet’s northern hemisphere. Situated in a crater some forty miles across, it’s a sprawling megalopolis of thirty million people that never sleeps. It’s constantly churning, constantly busy, twenty-six hours a day, four hundred and one days per local year. The Chamber of Commerce likes to call it The Economic Engine of the Northern Hemisphere, and that’s probably a fair assessment.
You might be asking yourself why we all live in a handful of huge, densely populated cities when we have a whole planet with only ninety million inhabitants. Believe me, it’s not because we enjoy each other’s company that much. Nova Columbia is the only habitable planet in the 18 Scorpii system, and they say it was a perfect candidate for colonization. It has gravity close enough to Earth’s so as to not make any difference, fifty percent of the surface is covered in oceans, and it has an oxygen-nitrogen atmosphere that you can breathe. The native life is primitive and mostly benign.
But while there’s a lot open land on Nova Columbia, most of it is pretty bleak, even barren. The vast continental interiors are rocky, dry, and volcanically active. In many places you have to drill down eight, ten, even twelve thousand feet to hit the water table. There’s no vegetation and the soil lacks many of the basic nutrients needed for agriculture. Land is cheap; useful land is precious. Every year, the terraformed zones get a little bigger, but the process takes a long time.
Read MoreJim 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).

Borders are all around us, some made by nature, some by man. Below is possibly the most recognizable manmade border of them all, The Great Wall of China.
The Great Wall of China at Jinshanling
Image Credit: Severin.stalder, Wikimedia Commons
But what is a border, when did they begin, and why do we have them?
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Press Release
2022 Jim Baen Memorial Short Story Award Finalists Announced
Elaine Midcoh of Pembroke Pines, Florida, has won the grand prize in the 2022 Jim Baen Memorial Award competition for her short story, “Man on the Moon.”
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To Whom It May Concern:
What is it we do at Baen Books? We publish books at the heart of science fiction and fantasy.
Science fiction has traditionally been a unique kind of intellectual pleasure, a process of glorious intercommunication and inspiration, with ideas flowing from scientist and engineer to writer and artist, to reader and viewer, back and forth, in a delightful mélange of shared thoughts, wild speculation, cautionary tales, reality checks, and the sheer fun of playing with boundaries and ideas. It is not for everyone. But those who enjoy it, take great pleasure in the dialogue.
When the modern form of SF began, with Hugo Gernsback and the other pulp magazines of the early 20th century, the publishers fostered that interaction through letter columns in the magazines and by encouraging science fiction readers to organize in clubs and meet in conventions. Baen Books continued that tradition with Baen’s Bar, a kind of virtual convention and on-line conversation that has been around in some form for over 20 years.
The moderators are volunteers. The readers, editors, and writers post and interact on the Bar at their own desire. Some conversations have been gone over so many times, they’ve been retired as simply too boring to contemplate again. Sometimes the rhetoric can get heated. We do not endorse the publication of unlawful speech. We have received no complaints about the content of the Bar from its users.
That said, it has come to our attention that allegations about the Bar have been made elsewhere. We take these allegations seriously, and consequently have put the Bar on hiatus while we investigate. But we will not commit censorship of lawful speech.
It is not Baen Books’ policy to police the opinions of its readers, its authors, its artists, its editors, or indeed anyone else. This applies to posts at the Bar, or on social media, on their own websites, or indeed anywhere else. On the Bar, the publisher does not select what is allowed to be posted, and does not hijack an individual’s messages for their own purposes. Similarly, the posts do not represent the publisher’s opinion, except in a deep belief that free speech is worthy in and of itself.
Most sincerely,
Toni Weisskopf
Publisher

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).
—Toni Weisskopf for SFF Forums

Press Release
Baen Books Announces Road Show Livestream
Join David Weber, Eric Flint and More in Livestream Showcasing New and Upcoming Books
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Baen Books Announces Author Reading Series on Facebook LIVE
Innovative Independent Publisher to Bring Author Readings, Q&As, and Convention-Style Programming to Facebook LIVE
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Baen Books & RBmedia Announce Audiobook Publishing Partnership
Over 170 titles from Baen Books to be published as audiobooks over the next three years
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