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In this issue: a town in the grip of a dark power, a cabal of sorcerers who pull the strings, and a new crop of weird stories of the wild, wild west! All that plus a new contest!
   Books on Sale in Bookstores February 2020
Fight for the Soul of Silence

Silence, Maine, was once a town left behind by progress, full of dread and misery because the Blackthorns—the first family of Silence who also happen to be dark elves who fed off the town’s misery—liked it that way. But all that’s changed thanks to teenage Staci and her friends. The Blackthorns have been all but defeated, industry is returning to the town, and Staci's mom, once a hopeless alcoholic, is improving with each passing day.

But evil dies hard. And Staci, now a mage-in-training, senses that the Blackthorns have not yet given up the fight. The soul of Silence is on the line, and it is up to Staci and her friends to push back against the encroaching darkness.

A new entry in the heralded SERRAted Edge series.

Get Breaking Silence here.





A Secret Order of Sorcerers Rules the World—One Man Has Vowed to Destroy Them

If people who can work magic are so powerful, why don't they rule the world? Well, as it happens, they do. One man wants to change that. The Apkallu are masters of magic. They rule the world from the shadows, using mind control and deadly monsters to eliminate any threat to their power. Sam Arquero lost his family to a demon sent by an Apkallu. He knew that nobody would believe the truth, but now an old man offers Sam the chance to find out who is responsible, and bring down the Apkallu forever.

Under a new identity Sam must learn the secrets of magic, infiltrate the Apkallu, and walk a razor's edge of daring as he attempts to destroy the Apkallu leaders, and avoid the supernatural detectives on his trail. But Sam’s greatest challenge perhaps lies within—to avoid becoming like the hated Apkallu himself!

Get The Initiate here.




Ghost Riders in the Sky—and on the Prairies and Plains, too!

It’s the final showdown between heroes and darkness in the Old West. Humans versus monsters. Supernatural beings versus greater evils—with a dinosaur or two thrown in for fun. Come explore the untold myths of the west—but no dying on the trail! A passel of great tales of western weirdness by Joe R. Lansdale, Mercedes Lackey, Jonathan Maberry, James A. Moore, Harry Turtledove, Tex Thompson, and more!

Get Straight Outta Dodge City here.


February Contest

contest
The Weird Wild West Returns!

The Straight Outta…series rides back into town with a new passel of weird west stories in Straight Outta Dodge City. We love our westerns mixed with a bit of the macabre, the fantastic, the science fictional, but we’re also a fan of your more straightforward tales of the wild west—and we’re sure you are, too. So, let us know your favorite Western book, movie, or television show—weird or otherwise—for a chance to be entered into a random drawing to win Straight Outta Dodge City, signed by editor David Boop.

Find out more here.





January Contest Winner

We wanted to get the year started off right, so last month we decided to give away signed copies of all three new January Baen titles—Gunpowder and Embers, Penric’s Progress, and Frozen Orbit. Congrats Kelly Jensen! Enjoy the books. And here’s to 2020! We hope everyone’s year includes lots of great science fiction and fantasy reading!


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

Coming soon to the Baen Free Radio Hour: A fantastic February awaits! Lois McMaster Bujold discusses Penric’s Progress, her high fantasy compilation featuring a quietly heroic young sorcerer and his demon companion. James L. Cambias talks about the magic and mayhem of urban fantasy The Initiate. And Mercedes Lackey and Cody Martin discuss Breaking Silence, a new entry in Lackey’s Serrated Edge contemporary fantasy adventure series. Missed past episodes? No problem. We’ve got every episode archived for your listening pleasure.

Listen to The Baen Free Radio Hour now


February Books

Breaking Silence
Mercedes Lackey & Cody Martin
(hardcover)

The Blackthorns, dark elves who feed off misery, have been all but defeated by teenage Staci and her friends, and the town of Silence is on the upswing. But the Blackthorns have not yet given up the fight. The soul of Silence is on the line, and it is up to Staci and her friends to push back against the encroaching darkness.


The Initiate
James L. Cambias
(hardcover)

If people who can work magic are so powerful, why don't they rule the world? Well, as it happens, they do. One man wants to change that. The Apkallu are masters of magic. They rule the world from the shadows, using mind control and deadly monsters to eliminate any threat to their power. Sam Arquero lost his family to a demon sent by an Apkallu. He knew that nobody would believe the truth, but now an old man offers Sam the chance to find out who is responsible, and bring down the Apkallu forever.


Straight Outta Dodge City
Edited by David Boop
(trade paperback)

It’s the final showdown between heroes and darkness in the Old West. Humans versus monsters. Supernatural beings versus greater evils—with a dinosaur or two thrown in for fun. Come explore the untold myths of the west—but no dying on the trail!


The Legacy of Heorot
Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle & Steven Barnes
(trade paperback)

The two hundred colonists on board the Geographic have spent a century in cold sleep to arrive here: Avalon, a lush, verdant planet lightyears from Earth. They hope to establish a permanent colony, and Avalon seems the perfect place. And so they set about planting and building.

But their very presence has upset the ecology of Avalon. Soon an implacable predator stalks them, picking them off one by one. In order to defeat this alien enemy, they must reevaluate everything they think they know about Avalon, and uncover the planet's dark secrets.


The Storm
David Drake
(mass market paperback)

Guntram, the man who transformed Pal of Beune from an ignorant rube into a bulwark of the Commonwealth, has disappeared. Pal must locate his friend and mentor—and then he must battle an entity which may be at the core of the splintered universe!


Earthquake Weather
Tim Powers
(mass market paperback)

The magical King of the West has been killed in California, and his assassin is one of the multiple personalities in the head of Janis Cordelia Plumtree—but which one?
Baen Appearances
Author Appearance
James L. Cambias

February 6
Book Moon
Easthampton, MA

James L. Cambias

February 8
Annie's Bookstop of Worcester
Worcester, MA

Tony Daniel (Guest of Honor)

February 13-16
LTUE (Life, the Universe & Everything)
Provo, UT
http://ltue.net/

Sharon Lee
Steve Miller

February 14-16
Boskone 57
Boskone, MA
https://www.boskone.org/

James L. Cambias

February 23
Flights of Fantasy
Albany, NY


Don't forget to check out the newest ebook releases here. Plus, read this month's free short story “The Red Sea” by Mercedes Lackey and Cody Martin here.
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