Homicide detective Raimy Vaught is a losing contestant in the biggest reality show ever: the colonization of Mars. Brother Michael is a Benedictine monk who just wants to help the future happen. Andrei Bykhovski is an asteroid miner desperately escaping indentured servitude. Bridget Tobin is a hydroponic farmer studying the greenhouses of Luna. But when a fellow Mars contestant drops dead at a Lunar monastery, these four souls will find themselves on a collision course with forces far beyond the control of trillionaires or nation states. As labor disputes erupt across cislunar space, the actions of individual people will determine whose future will prevail . . . and whose will perish.

A boy and his dog. A girl and her tank. Tropes have been with us throughout all of history. Any girl would gladly trade in her skimpy armor for a tank. While a little bit of chainmail can take a chick far, heavy armor can take one even farther. Besides, what’s not to love about chicks in tank tops? From pure near-future military science fiction to Pride and Prejudice with zombies, AI tanks, and true love!

Solana Sina is a scarab, salvaging wrecked and abandoned space habitats among the Billion Worlds of the Tenth Millennium. She and an oddball crew—a raven, a cyborg, and a dinosaur—board the derelict colony Safdaghar hoping to score some loot before the colony gets catapulted into the outer reaches of the Solar System. But Solana and the scarabs come face-to-face with a gang of vicious pirates looking for slaves and treasure, and a mysterious stranger intent on preserving an explosive secret. Solana must overcome her own horrifying past to survive and escape before it’s too late. But there’s an even more dangerous threat lurking in the dark passages and ruined buildings of Safdaghar . . .

Major Rodger Y. Murphy should have died when his helicopter crashed off the coast of Mogadishu in 1993. Instead, he woke up in 2125, 152 light-years from home. Murphy and 100 other “Lost Soldiers” have been tasked with a daunting objective: establish a base of operations on the main world of R’Bak using local allies they have yet to recruit and enemy equipment they have yet to seize.

But the company of misfits and ne’er-do-wells who’ve taken the nickname Murphy’s Lawless rise to the challenge!

To celebrate the release of Chicks in Tank Tops (edited by Jason Cordova), we’re offering discounts on the classic anthologies edited by Esther Friesner that started it all! For the month of January, save on the Chicks in Chainmail series. And as a bonus, we’re also discounting the anthologies in Friesner’s Supernatural Suburbia series.

Details here.

It’s 2023 and the Chicks are back in town! With Chicks in Tank Tops, we now explore the military side of the Chicks in Chainmail series. And to celebrate, we’re giving away a copy of Chicks in Tank Tops, signed by editor Jason Cordova. Simply send an email with your name and mailing address to be entered into a random drawing.

Last month, we asked you what ghost of science fiction/fantasy past you would like to have visit you this Christmas season, a la A Christmas Carol. Congrats to Chris Sidor! He wins a signed copy of Haunted by the Past.

Read the winning entry here.

Coming soon to the Baen Free Radio Hour: James L. Cambias on The Scarab Mission, and David Weber talks Honorverse anthology What Price Victory?

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