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Endangered Species

Endangered Species

Caine Riordan and twelve of his crew are adrift in uncharted space, so far beyond Earth that the starfield is unrecognizable. Trapped on a derelict alien ship, they have only forty-eight hours before its decaying orbit causes it to burn up in the atmosphere of the strange planet beneath them. Even if they can make it to the surface, they will discover that the dangers they couldn’t see from space are by far the deadliest.

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Lord of a Shattered Land

Lord of a Shattered Land

The Dervan Empire has at last triumphed over Volanus, putting the great city to the torch, its treasures looted, temples defiled, and fields sown with salt. What little remains of Volanus is scattered across the empire, its treasures plundered and its survivors sold into slavery. It is an absolute victory for the Dervans in every way but one: Hanuvar, last and greatest general of Volanus, still lives.

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Very Important Corpses

Very Important Corpses

The twelve most important business people in the world are having their annual meeting. But one by one they’re being murdered. The first agent sent to investigate has also been killed. So now it’s down to Ishmael Jones and his partner in crimes Penny Belcourt to get to the bottom of things. Of course, it doesn’t help that this is all taking place at a hotel near Loch Ness.

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They're Here!

They're Here!

“Where is everybody?” Nobel Prize-winning physicist Enrico Fermi once asked. To sum up the Fermi Paradox, if the billions of stars in our galaxy have planets with intelligent life on them, why hasn’t anyone visited us? But maybe they have, and we just haven’t noticed—and that’s the way they want it . . .

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The Crossing

The Crossing

A squad of modern-day ROTC cadets find themselves transported to December 1776 in the days before the Battle of Trenton. Without ammunition or their own meager supplies, can Cadet Sergeant Jameel Mason and his friends steel General George Washington’s courage and set the infancy of the United States of America back on track?

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Ballistic

Ballistic

A Russian missile site is attacked just north of the Ukraine border—now nuclear warheads are missing! A fire ravages a cosmonaut training facility in which five spacesuits disappear. A cache of detailed schematics of highly complex rocketry systems is discovered. It all points to the unthinkable: someone—someone extremely well-funded—is taking aim at the International Space Station.

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Electronic Advance Reader Copies

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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Monster Hunter Memoirs: Fever - eARC

Monster Hunter Memoirs: Fever - eARC

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 - eARC

The City of Marble and Blood - eARC

Hanuvar had pledged to find the remnants of his people, scattered into slavery across the whole of the peninsula. This time he had 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 - eARC

The Silent Hand - eARC

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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My Brother’s Keeper - eARC

My Brother’s Keeper - eARC

This is a ghost story. It is a story about werewolves, and things that go bump in the night. It is a story of an ill-fated land, the pathless moors of Northern England so well chronicled in Wuthering Heights. And it is the story of a real family whose destiny it is to deal with this darkly glamorous and dangerous world.

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1638: The Sovereign States - eARC

1638: The Sovereign States - eARC

As the situation in an alternate history Russia continues to build to a roiling climax, the United Sovereign States of Russia struggles to transform itself into a constitutional monarchy with freedom and opportunity for all its citizens. But despite best efforts, it will be an uphill battle to keep the wheels of civilization from coming off and dumping Russia back into the Time of Troubles.

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House of Rough Diamonds

House of Rough Diamonds

No one is at all sure what a book wraith might be, but whatever it is definitely has the battered tomes in the Library of the Sapphire Wind very worried indeed. Enemies old and new, both within and without the contested property, will strain the Rough Diamonds’ ingenuity and resources, forcing the small group to recruit new and possibly dangerous allies.

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Riverdale, New York, July 2023—Baen Books is pleased to announce A.A. Nour as the grand prize winner of the 2023 Baen Fantasy Adventure Award. Nour’s story “The Hitchhiker on Souls’ Road” was selected by Baen editorial staff and guest judge Tim Powers, a two-time winner of the World Fantasy Award and critically acclaimed author of nearly three dozen novels. Second place was awarded to Melissa Olthoff for her story “Fall from Grace.” The third place was a tie between C.H. Hung for her story “The Knight, The Witch, and The Farmboy,” and Shami Stovall’s “Once Given a Name.”

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The Dragon Awards are just around the corner and voting is taking place now. Awarded annually at Dragon Con, the awards highlight the best in science fiction and fantasy literature, films, gaming, and more. Baen is thrilled to have several books up for awards this year, and we want to share the excitement. So, until the end of the month, get the Baen Books Dragon Award Finalist Bundle at a discount price!

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The Icarus Plot by Timothy Zahn (Best Science Fiction Novel)

Tower of Silence by Larry Correia (Best Fantasy Novel, Best Illustrative Cover—Kurt Miller)

Into the Vortex by Charles E. Gannon (Best Fantasy Novel)

Wraithbound by Tim Akers (Best Illustrative Cover – Jeff Brown)


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Poul Anderson was the massively popular, award-winning author of many science fiction and fantasy novels, including the Technic Civilization Saga and the Psychotechnic League, ground-breaking “future history” novels that inspired Heinlein to create his own “future history.” This month, we’re honoring Anderson’s legacy by offering ALL of his Baen ebooks in a special discount bundle. Load up your ereader with the complete Anderson Baen Books collection and save $15 off the cover price. Or buy individual titles at $1 off cover price.


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David Carrico is the author of The Blood is the Life, a science fiction vampire story, and 1636: The Flight of the Nightingale. With Eric Flint, he is the coauthor of 1636: The Devil's Opera and The Span of Empire, which was nominated for the 2017 Dragon Award for Best Military SF or Fantasy novel.

Requiem

David Carrico

Grayson

1907 PD

A sense of impending trouble popped into Timothy Hanks' mind when he realized that his little sister wasn't in sight. He quickly disengaged from the conversation he was eavesdropping on and looked around for Elizabeth. From his august age of ten, looking after his just-turned-three-years-old sister was a bit of a pain at any time, but to have to do it tonight was not fair at all, given how many interesting people were in the room. He looked first to his mother, but Rebecca Hanks was in close conversation with Second Elder Jeremiah Sullivan and a couple of other churchmen. No sign of Elizabeth there.

Next, knowing his sister's sweet tooth, Timothy looked toward the buffet table, fully expecting to see her standing on her tip-toes trying to reach a platter. Not there either.

Now Timothy was starting to feel a bit worried, because if Elizabeth wasn't near him, Mama, or the cookies, who knew where she could have gone? He couldn't just call out for her, but if he didn't find her soon, Mama was going to have Words with him when the night was over. Timothy eased away from the groups by the bier and started slipping through the crowd, looking for that little purple dress, listening for the sound of hard-soled little shoes on the chapel's polished stone floor.

A few minutes later, worry was now standing on the threshold of alarm. Where could Elizabeth be? He'd even looked under the tables. Then he looked toward the side door of the chapel, and his heart almost stopped.

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Brad Zeiger is nominally a chemist, an engineer, or a writer, depending on which dubious source you care to reference. He lives in northwestern Oregon, squandering his time in the local semiconductor industry. He has several self-published novels on Amazon, but offers the caveat that they are substantially different in style from this work. "The Insomniac," which won the 2023 Jim Baen Memorial Short Story Award Contest, represents his first professionally-published piece of fiction, and he is deeply grateful to Baen for that opportunity.

The Insomniac

Brad Zeiger

The neat rows of glittering coffins stretched in all three dimensions. Each occupant lay in blissful peace, enshrined in crystal and metal.

All but one.

Darius Bosco glared with bleary eyes at the lid of his pod, fighting a nascent claustrophobia. The computer offered reassuring noises, informing him that life support would have the cabin ready for habitation within an hour.

Bosco loudly informed the computer that life support should have kicked on before the wake-up routine. His only reply was the indifferent thrum of the spaceship.

Hell, but it was tight in that little space. He began to sweat, which didn’t do wonders for the ambiance. He craned his neck and made sense of the readout to the left of his head.

Two years and four months. His next duty cycle wasn’t for another two months. Something must have gone wrong. Terribly wrong, if the ship couldn’t even perform the wake-up routine in the correct sequence.

More sweat. Disaster scenarios ran through his mind. Meltdown. Cladding breach. Irradiation of the passengers. He pounded uselessly on the lid of the coffin. The ship wasn’t patching through any messages from headquarters, which could be good news or bad, depending on the reasoning.

Minimum requirements met at last, the lid slid open with a pneumatic hiss. The frigid air over his sweaty body immediately chilled him. Wreathed in the vapor from his breath, he moved quickly to the reactor control panel and began checking alarm readouts, gauges, and settings. He worked frantically at first, then forced himself to adopt a more methodical approach.

His brow furrowed as he came to the end of his review. One of the heat exchange fins was running a little hot, but only a little. Well within spec. Why was he awake then?

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

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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).

—Toni Weisskopf for SFF Forums

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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