The assassinated Shah Jahan lies entombed beside his beloved wife in the Taj Mahal, while their offspring drag the Mughal Empire into a deadly struggle over the succession to the Peacock Throne. The diplomatic and trade mission from the United States of Europe, made up largely of Americans transplanted in time by the Ring of Fire, sides with Princess Jahanara and her brother Dara Shikoh. As the conflict deepens, junior members of the mission travel east to buy opium needed by the USE’s doctors. The USE came only to trade for goods and medicine, but now they are enmeshed in the great civil war of India’s magnificent past—and the fight for a new, brighter future!

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The UN has invaded the Freehold of Grainne, a bastion of libertarian government in a galaxy of authoritarianism. Grainne must form an organized force from the shattered remnants of their military, and from grimly determined, but underequipped and outnumbered insurgents. Their war is for their very way of life. They'll do everything and anything to stop this invasion, using whatever means are available. They mean to make the enemy suffer. Quod vulnera curare potes. Physical wounds heal. But Defiance? Defiance is to the death—or victory!

With stories by Kevin J. Anderson and Kevin Ikenberry, Michael Z. Williamson and more!

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Daslakh is an AI with a problem. Its favorite human, a young man named Zee, is in love with a woman who never existed. But in the Tenth Millennium a billion worlds circle the Sun, home to a quadrillion beings. Zee is convinced she’s out there somewhere. Then Zee helps Adya—a girl, but definitely not his dream girl—escape a gang of crooks. To get away, the pair must join the hunt for the Godel Trigger, a legendary weapon left over from the ancient war between humans and machines. Now Daslakh must aid in the search, keep Zee's love life on the right track, and make sure that nobody discovers the real secret of the Godel Trigger—for that would spell doom for men, machines, and the Solar System itself!

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For nearly a decade, thousands of original fantasy stories from around the world have been submitted for the Baen Fantasy Adventure Award. Baen Books is pleased to announce the eighth iteration of this annual contest. The award recognizes the best original adventure fantasy short story in the style of such amazing authors as Jim Butcher, Larry Correia, Charlaine Harris, Mercedes Lackey, Elizabeth Moon, Andre Norton, Brandon Sanderson, J.R.R. Tolkien, and David Weber.

The 2021 Baen Fantasy Adventure Award Contest is open for submissions NOW until midnight April 30th, 2021.

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Four creatures straight out of a mythology textbook—a dwarf, a giant, a Patasola, and a merman. They are outcasts from the magical community, making a living selling street drugs and preying on weak and disadvantaged humans. The local Sorcerer of the Arcanum, sworn to protect humanity from the things that go bump in the night, is a washed-up drunk. Or so they believe. But a Sorcerer of the First Rank, even one thought to be a has-been, is no trifling matter.

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Baen’s Weird Western theme ebook anthologies edited by the rootin’, tootin’ David Boop!

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Coming soon to the Baen Free Radio Hour: Larry Correia and John D. Brown on new science fiction adventure Gun Runner. D.J. Butler dustbowl-era fantasy The Jupiter Knife, and T.C. McCarthy talks about science fiction novel Tyger Bright.

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