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In this issue: a raw recruit is given the chance to become a hero, a young woman tests her mettle, and a bounty hunter must choose sides in a war he didn’t start—but may have to end. Plus, a new story from Travis S. Taylor!
   January 2018
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book cover Honor in a World of Pirates, Politics, and Spies

Roy Olfetrie planned to be an officer in the Republic of Cinnabar Navy, but when his father is unmasked as a white-collar criminal, Roy has to take whatever he can get and take it fast. Which turns out to be an assignment to accompany Captain Daniel Leary and Lady Adele Mundy as they go off to start a war that will put Roy at the sharp end. Olfetrie doesn’t know it yet, but he’s actually been given the chance of a lifetime serving under the best of the best. It’s a chance to prove himself—not for what he has, but for who he is.

The action doesn't slow—nor can Roy. For Captain Leary has given Roy a chance, and Roy is determined to make the most of it—though hell should bar the way!

Get Though Hell Should Bar the Way eARC here.





Season of the Witch

In an alternate America, where magic works, Sarah Calhoun has paid a hard price for her entry onto the stage of the Empire’s politics. But she has survived. Now she rides north into the Ohio and her father’s kingdom, Cahokia. To win the Serpent Throne, she’ll have to defeat seven other candidates, win over the kingdom’s regent, and learn the will of a hidden goddess—all while mastering her people’s inscrutable ways and watching her own back.

Get Witchy Winter eARC here.


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book cover A Bounty of Trouble in Fairhaven

When someone starts killing his fellow bounty hunters in the port of Fairhaven, Drago Appleroot is happy to help his contacts in the City Watch with their investigation—for a reasonable fee, of course. Pitched into a maelstrom of treachery and lethal politics, Drago is forced into a long and dangerous journey to the heart of the Sylvan Marches, where one determined gnome might just decide the destiny of a kingdom.

Get A Fistful of Elven Gold eARC here.



New Fiction and Nonfiction at Baen.com

No Pain, No Gain

The war with the ruthless alien Chiata rages on. Deanna Moore, known by the callsign “Phoenix,” fights for triumph of humanity over the Chiata—but for very personal reasons. She and her mecha-suited team of Marines are bringing the fight to the aliens. Doing so will cause Deanna considerable pain. Good thing for her—and a very bad thing for the Chiata—to Deanna Moore pain is the fuel, in this all-new story by Travis S. Taylor, set in his Tau Ceti Agenda series, with latest entry Bringers of Hell.

Read “Pain is the Fuel” here.



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Big Questions and Big Answers

Science has always tackled the Big Questions, with frustrating, confounding—and immensely satisfying results. So too has science fiction wrested with these same questions. Since the dawn of space travel (and before), we’ve asked ourselves things like: Is it possible to travel to other star systems? Are we alone in the universe? And if we aren’t, where are the aliens? We are closer than ever to discovering the answers to these—and many more—big questions, as space scientist and science fiction novelist Les Johnson reports in this month’s free nonfiction essay. Along the way, Johnson discusses the background to his new novel Mission to Methone.

Read “Catching the Gravitational Lens Express: The Scientific Backstory to Mission to Methone” by Les Johnson here.


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

Coming soon to the Baen Free Radio Hour: Timothy Zahn discusses Cobra Traitor, book three in the Cobra Rebellion series, and editors and authors of The Cackle of Cthulhu, a new humorous Lovecraft-themed anthology, give up the skinny on the Incomprehensibly Evil, Tentacular One. New episode every Friday! 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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Though Hell Should Bar the Way - HALF
David Drake


Roy Olfetrie planned to be an officer in the Republic of Cinnabar Navy, but when his father is unmasked as a white-collar criminal, Roy has to take whatever he can get and take it fast. Under the command of Captain Daniel Leary, Roy will make the most of the opportunity fate has dealt him—though hell should bar the way!

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Witchy Winter
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D.J. Butler


Sarah Calhoun has paid a hard price for her entry onto the stage of the Empire’s politics. But she has survived. Now, to win the Serpent Throne, she’ll have to defeat seven other candidates, win over the kingdom’s regent, and learn the will of a hidden goddess—all while mastering her people’s inscrutable ways and watching her own back.
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A Fistful of Elven Gold - HALF
Alex Stewart


When war erupts, the fate of a kingdom rests in the hands of a bounty hunting gnome. If only he could decide what side to take!
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Sleepwalker’s World - HALF
D.J. Butler


The Sleeper Wakes

The Core Taps may have solved the energy crisis, but when activated they disrupt brain waves, sending everyone nearby into a deep, forced sleep. Rafe Harald is one of the few humans not affected by the Core Taps. He’s looking for a missing colleague. What he finds is a conspiracy so devious in its design, he’ll wish it was a nightmare.
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The Span of Empire
Eric Flint & David Carrico

The Ekhat have been terrorizing the galaxy for eons, and if the Jao are going to have a hope of defeating them, they’re going to need some help.
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Caine’s Mutiny
Charles E. Gannon

Caine Riordan is forced to choose between honoring a promise to friends or following orders—a choice that could ultimately put him in front of a board of inquiry. Or a firing squad.

Get the April ebooks bundle here

*This Baen Ebooks subscription bundle will dissolve on April 2, 2018. After that date, these books will be available for individual sale only.*


Pinbeam Books

Degrees of Separation
Sharon Lee & Steve Miller

We start with two people: a baker, Don Eyr, and Serana, a captain of the Watch. Two people who have not much in common, until Luck brings them together. What, you say? There are no adventures here? Are you certain? For when Luck is involved, adventure is never far behind. A story from the Liaden Universe.®

Wordfire Press

Posing for Picasso
Sam Stone

When Avgustin Juniper is accused of murdering his model, Annabel Linton, it seems that the case is cut and dried. High profile Attorney Cassandra Sharp takes on the case. Soon afterwards more bizarre murders take place. The only link: Avgustin Juniper and his connection to all of the women.


Rise of the Blood
Lucienne Diver

Despite how Tori only invited one of the men in her life to her cousin’s wedding, Apollo is there as well, filming a movie. But what awaits on Mount Parnassus is worse than any personal problem—an oracle, a kidnapping, and a bloodletting that stir up the mother of all trouble. Rhea has awakened and she's not happy with her offspring for losing their powers. The Olympians have fallen. It's time for the Titans to rise again.


The Soul Eater
Mike Resnick

A hunter in the far future becomes obsessed with the deep space creature he has been commissioned to kill, and they slowly, haltingly, gradually form a deep emotional bond with one another.


The Mythology Series: A Four Novel Boxed Set
Jody Lynn Nye

Jody Lynn Nye’s acclaimed Mythology Series packaged together in a four-book box set, together for the first time! Includes Mythology 101, Mythology Abroad, Higher Mythology, and Advanced Mythology.


The Complete Advise and Consent Boxed Set
Allen Drury

This boxed set contains all six best-selling novels in Allen Drury’s Advise and Consent series, a masterwork of politics and human nature. The original novel, Advise and Consent, is one of the high points of 20th Century literature, #1 New York Times bestseller and Pulitzer Prize winner.


Get the January Wordfire Press Bundle here

MVMedia

Son of Mfumu
Milton J. Davis

From the frigid steppes of Mongolia to the illustrious heart of the Songhay Empire, Changa has sailed the high seas and trekked across treacherous landscapes. All along he pursued profit and adventure for the sole purpose of quenching his thirst for vengeance in the blood of the ruthless sorcerer who killed his father. Now, Changa's safari leads him back to his homeland, the place where it all began. And this safari is the most dangerous of all.



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