Something weird is happening on the Los Angeles freeways—phantom cars materialize, lanes from nowhere appear, and sometimes unmarked off-ramps show up that give glimpses of a desolate desert highway in an unknown world. Ex-Secret Service agent Sebastian Vickery is thrown into this deadly maelstrom. What he does next will determine the fate of two worlds. The wild ride between life and death has begun! But a government agency is using the freeway anomalies for disturbing purposes, and its chief is determined to have Vickery killed because of a secret he learned years ago at a halted presidential motorcade.

Ultima Thule has been destroyed—but somehow the Thulians mounted an even bigger force to destroy Metis. The Metisians that escaped the carnage and destruction of their secret city now must somehow find somewhere safe to go—without getting snapped up by various world governments. And now the Thulians have changed their tactics, sending wave after wave of their ships and troops to attack vulnerable targets all over Earth. John Murdock and The Seraphym have become a force of nature, but they can’t be everywhere at once, and if they were regarded with suspicion before, now they are regarded by ECHO’s allies with fear as well. The heroes of ECHO and CCCP have to save the world. But first, they have to save each other. And the avalanche has begun.

A new collection of short fiction from Eric Flint. Includes a huge range of storytelling mastery: short stories and a short novel set in Flint’s celebrated Ring of Fire alternate history series. A commemorative novelette set in Poul Anderson’s Operation Chaos universe. A story with Dave Freer, set in his and Flint’s popular Rats, Bats and Vats series. A group of humorous short stories addressing Biblical literalism. A long novella in a Martian steampunk setting. And another long novella set in David Weber’s best-selling Honor Harrington universe.

Baen Books is proud to announce the sale of thirteen new challenge coins, inspired by the commemorative coins members of the armed forces give one another and, with the active participation of the authors, styled after some of our most popular military science fiction series. Additionally, the proceeds from a fourteenth Baen Books coin will go to help two veteran-oriented charities: ReadAssist, which helps make books and other reading materials free and easily accessible to the disabled, including those disabled in combat; and Operation Baen Bulk, whose mission is to provide active duty soldiers with eReaders pre-loaded with dozens of titles.

Baen Books is pleased to announce the fourth annual Year’s Best Military and Adventure Science Fiction Readers’ Choice Award. The award honors the best of the best in this grand storytelling tradition, and its winner will receive an inscribed plaque and a $500 prize. And YOU are the judge! Choose your favorite story from the contents of The Year’s Best Military and Adventure SF, Volume 4 and reward its author for excellence.

In Tim Powers’ newest novel Alternate Routes, ghosts roam the Los Angeles freeways. Now, we’ve been stuck in L.A. traffic ourselves, and let us tell you, it can be a loooong haul, especially if you’re in the car alone. So we were wondering, if you had to spend a couple hours in bumper-to-bumper traffic, whose ghost would you want to pass the time with and why? Let us know in a short (100 words or fewer) paragraph for a chance to win a copy of Alternate Routes signed by Tim Powers.

To celebrate Independence Day here in the United States, we asked you to write us a 50-100 word short story that combines monsters and American Independence. Congrats to K. Webb Williams, who wins a signed copy of Monster Hunter Memoirs: Saints.

Read the winning entry here.

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