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In this issue: a monster-hunting mother bent on revenge, a young heir to an ancient throne, and the battle for freedom. All that plus a new short story by Robert Buettner!
   May 2019
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book cover One Tough Mother

When the Monster Hunter International crew are called away to mount a month’s-long rescue mission, Julie Shackleford is left behind. Her task: hold down the fort and take care of her new baby son Ray. Julie’s devoted to the little guy, but the slow pace of office work and maternity leave are getting to her. But when a routine field call brings her face-to-face with an unspeakable evil calling itself Brother Death, she’ll get more excitement than she ever hoped for.

Get Monster Hunter Guardian eARC here.




Season of the Witch

An encounter with her father’s goddess has not turned out to be the end for Sarah Elytharias Penn. Now, with the Imperial fist tightened around her city of Cahokia and the beastkind of the Heron King ravaging across the river, she must find a way to access the power of the Serpent Throne itself—a feat, she has learned, that her father never accomplished.

Get Witchy Kingdom eARC here.


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book cover The Bloody Path to Freedom

The colony planet Terra Nova has been used by Old Earth as a dumping ground for dissidents and troublemakers. This would have been fine but for the UN and its corrupt bureaucracy insisting on maintaining control and milking the new world and its settlers, willing and unwilling both, bone dry. Contained herein are tales of the history of Mankind's future first colony, from the first failed attempt at colonization, to the rise in crime, to the rise in terrorism, to its descent into widespread civil war and rebellion . . . and ultimately liberation.

Get Terra Nova: The Wars of Liberation eARC here.


New Fiction and Nonfiction at Baen.com

Last Chance

Aeronautical history expert Cassidy Gooding finds herself on a tiny, all but deserted, rocky island at the easternmost tip of the Grand Caymans, searching for the remains of a mysterious downed aircraft of great historical significance. It's the sort of thing she's used to doing. Unfortunately for her, she's also used to billionaire plunderer Parkman Silver scooping her finds. When Silver shows up in on Last Chance Key with his golden yacht, it will be a race to preserve a historical artifact few know exist!

Read “Voodoo Magic” here.


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story graphic Flights of Fantasy?

Science fiction writers and artists have long imagined futuristic space craft. But real-life craft is limited by technology. In this month's nonfiction essay, Jim Beall predicts, using current tech, what the spacecraft of the near future might look like—and how we can one day get to the spacecraft depicted in SF.

Read “Warships of Sea and Space: Form Follows Function Follows Technology, Part II” by Jim Beall here.


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

Coming soon to the Baen Free Radio Hour: Larry Correia, Laurell K. Hamilton and the editors and authors in a roundtable discussion on new SF and fantasy anthology Noir Fatale. And David Weber and Jacob Holo talk about their time-bending SF novel, The Gordian Protocol. Missed past episodes? No problem. We’ve got every episode archived for your listening pleasure.

Listen to the Baen Free Radio Hour now.


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Baen Ebook Releases

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Monster Hunter Guardian - HALF
Larry Correia & Sarah A. Hoyt


While the Monster Hunter International crew are called away on rescue mission, Julie Shackleford is left behind to hold down the fort and care for her newborn son. Julie’s devoted to the little guy, but the slow pace of maternity leave is getting to her. But when a field call brings her face-to-face with an unspeakable evil, she’ll get more excitement than she ever hoped for.
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Witchy Kingdom - HALF
D.J. Butler


An encounter with her father’s goddess has not turned out to be the end for Sarah Elytharias Penn. Now, with the Imperial fist tightened around her city of Cahokia, she must find a way to access the power of the Serpent Throne itself—a feat that her father never accomplished.
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Terra Nova: The Wars of Liberation - HALF
Edited by Tom Kratman

Contained herein are tales of the history of Mankind's future first colony, from the first failed attempt at colonization, to the rise in crime, to the rise in terrorism, to its descent into widespread civil war and rebellion . . . and ultimately liberation.
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Hour of the Horde - HALF
Gordon R. Dickson

The ravenous aliens known as the Horde make their way across the Universe, leaving death and destruction in their wake. Now, they stand on the edge of the Milky Way. A galaxy-wide defense force has been assembled, with each star system contributing their greatest warrior to the battle. Enter Miles Vander, the best Earth has to offer. Vander may be the key to destroying the Horde. But first he'll have to prove his worthiness to his alien compatriots.
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Uncharted
Kevin J. Anderson & Sarah A. Hoyt

It is 1803—a new 1803. When a lecture by the venerated wizard Benjamin Franklin is disrupted by the attack of a winged fire-breathing beast, Franklin commissions a young Meriwether Lewis and his partner William Clark to investigate a growing evil that lurks in the uncharted Arcane Territories west of the Mississippi.
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Tide of Battle
Michael Z. Williamson

Collected short fiction from multiple bestseller Michael Z. Williamson. With cutting satire on classic poetry and modern movies, a no-holds-barred lambast of several beloved firearms and their fan clubs, Williamson concludes with more of his Inappropriate Cocktail recipes, frequently both delicious and outrageously snarky, commemorating celebrities, events and cultural memes.
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Worlds II
Eric Flint

A new collection of short fiction from Eric Flint. Includes stories set in the Ring of Fire alternate history series, Poul Anderson’s Operation Chaos universe, a story in the popular Rats, Bats and Vats series, and a long novella set in David Weber’s best-selling Honor Harrington universe. All that plus more, including new story introductions by Flint.

Get the August Ebooks bundle here

*This Baen Ebooks subscription bundle will dissolve on August 5, 2019. After that date, these books will be available for individual sale only.*

Wordfire Press

Danielle: Chronicles of a Superheroine, Complete Edition
Ray Kurzweil

Danielle, Chronicles of a Superheroine, tells the story of a precocious young girl who uses her intelligence and accelerating technology to solve humanity's grandest challenges. Written as an alternative history, Danielle’s journey as a driven young girl brings her face to face with many important figures from recent history and our modern world. This story shows all readers a hopeful vision of humanity’s future—and how to achieve it.

Hair Raising
Kevin J. Anderson

The fur really flies when a serial scalper stalks the Unnatural Quarter, targeting werewolves—and what's sadder than a bald lycanthrope? Dan Shamble, zombie P.I., is on the case, trying to stop an all-out gang war between full-time and full-moon werewolves. As he combs through the tangled clues to hunt down the bald facts, things get hairy fast.

The Slab
Jeffrey J. Mariotte

A skull in a fire pit. A man who can’t remember his murders. A woman snatched off the street, then set free only to be hunted down like an animal—until she becomes the hunter. When these threads wind together, the result is unstoppable suspense and unforgettable horror.

Pinbeam Books

Shout of Honor: Adventures in the Liaden Universe® Number 29
Sharon Lee & Steve Miller

Commander Vepal is a Hero. He is also the Yxtrang ambassador to the greater universe. These two facts do not make Vepal's life easy. But they do make it interesting. It was Commander Vepal who discovered the continuing orders from Headquarters, which directed those of the Troop who had survived the collapse of the old universe to locate, in the new universe, the proper authority to which they might offer their allegiance, and their skills.


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