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In this issue: a new David Weber Honor Harrington blockbuster debut—plus: the March contest and provacative reader responses from the January Best Near Future Bad Guys poll!
   Books on Sale in Bookstores March 2012
Battle Thunder Rolls

After a brutal attack on the Manticoran home system, Honor Harrington and the Star Empire she serves battle back against a new, technologically powerful, utterly nefarious enemy, the Mesan Alignment.

Get A Rising Thunder now


Love Me, Love My Pet

Huge star beast Lummox has been the pet of John Stuart’s family for generations. But after Lummox eats a neighbor’s car, the authorities want him carted away. Young John isn’t about to let anyone deport his friend—even if it takes leaving his old life behind forever.

Get The Star Beast here
March Contest

Stoke Planetary Rebellion and Win a David Weber Signed Edition

With the Solarian League crumbling and the Mesan Alliance attempting to wreak havoc, planetary rebellion never had it so good in the Honor Harrington universe. To mark upcoming Weber blockbuster A Rising Thunder, we’d like to ask you for your ideas on the best way to stoke planetary rebellion.

Winner will receive a hardcover and an advanced reading copy of A Rising Thunder signed by David Weber, plus five free David Weber ebooks.

Planetary Rebellion Contest details here
Contest News

Best Near Future Bad Guys Alternate Suggestions

We got an amazing and gratifying response on our Near Future Bad Guys Poll celebrating the reissue of Robert A. Heinlein’s Sixth Column with a new afterword by Tom Kratman.

We asked for alternate suggestions and, boy, did we get them!

Check the Winner and Reader Response List here
March Books

A Rising Thunder
David Weber

After a brutal attack on the Manticoran home system, Honor Harrington and the Star Empire she serves battle back against a new, technologically powerful, utterly nefarious enemy.
The Star Beast
Robert A. Heinlein

Huge star beast Lummox has been the pet of John Stuart’s family, but now the authorities want him carted away. Young John isn’t about to let anyone deport his friend—even if it takes leaving his old life behind forever.
The Forerunner Factor
Andre Norton

A heroic young woman seeks her origins as she comes of age on worlds touched by an ancient species seeking to claw its way back into existence. Two legendary Forerunner novels, Forerunner and Forerunner: The Second Venture in one volume.
The Amazon Legion
Tom Kratman

When they need everyone to fight, Balboa raises a tough and gritty home-guard of women warriors to repel an invasion by Earth’s totalitarian baddies. A new chapter in the hard-hitting Carrera series.

Overkill
Robert Buettner

When Jazen Parker hires on to a tycoon's safari to bag a deadly trophy, the reluctant mercenary finds himself consigned to an outpost at the end of the universe. Now Jazen must survive an enormous alien beast–and his own violent past come back to haunt him.

Sir Dominic Flandry: The Last Night of Terra
Poul Anderson

In the twilight of the Terran Empire, one secret agent stands ready with the grit and wits to save a corrupt empire. Two novels and four novellas collected for the first time in volume six of SF legend Poul Anderson’s Technic Civilization science fiction epic.
Meet Baen Authors
Author Date
Toni Weisskopf
Michael Z. Williamson
Laura Haywood-Cory
Tony Daniel
Jim Minz
Gray Rinehart

March 2-4
Stellarcon
High Point, NC

Tony Daniel

March 8
Quail Ridge Book Store
Raleigh, NC

John Ringo

March 16-18
LunaCon
Rye Brook, NY

Check here for full Baen author schedule

Shadows of the Future

Baen Books manuscript slush editor extraordinaire Jeff LaSala has completed his long-awaited Foreshadows project, a 19-story anthology of dark science fiction tales paired with a 19-track album of original soundtrack songs and instrumentals.

Check out Foreshadows: The Ghosts of Zero here.

Don't forget to check out the newest Ebook releases, and Baen.com free fiction here and nonfiction here.


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