When zombies overrun the Earth, brave men and women ask themselves: “What do we do now?”  For a group of neighbors in the Chicago suburbs, the answer is “work together or die.” For the Biological Emergency Response Teams in New York City, it is “fight off the infected for as long as we can, before it’s too late.” And for a group of cheerleaders, it is about the end of their world—and about what happens when you get a group of physically fit young women really, really angry. Featuring original stories from the brightest stars in the science fiction universe: John Ringo; Eric Flint; John Scalzi & Dave Klecha; Sarah A. Hoyt; Jody Lynn Nye; Michael Z. Williamson; and more. 

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Edmund is a young man on the run. He’s a rebel, and the red-coated British soldiers of the 5th Dragoon Guards would like nothing better than to hang him, the way they hung his father years earlier. Alone in the woods, with a vital message he must get to Dublin, it looks like all is lost for Edmund. That is until a strange old woman appears. She hands him a jewel unlike any he’s ever seen—and a black hedgehog. Then she vanishes. The jewel is some sort of key—to what, Edmund doesn’t know. And the hedgehog is a phooka, a shapeshifting faerie that may just save his life . . . if it doesn’t drive him crazy first.

Read “Trouble: The Changeling and the Phooka” by Dave Freer here.

For years, altering the genetic code has been a staple of science fiction—and a goal of biomedicine. We’re standing on the cusp of some big discoveries in the field, but the complex mechanics of genetics are difficult for the layperson to understand. Enter Dan Koboldt. He’s a genetics researcher and in this month’s nonfiction essay, he explains the science and shows us “The Near Future of Human Genome Engineering.”

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Dear Baen Readers,

I am writing to let you know that we are reconciling the release dates of ebooks and paper books. From the publication month of April 2016 onward, the release dates will be the same (that is, the ebooks will not be available two weeks earlier than the paper books).

We will not be changing the time the Monthly Bundles are initially offered for sale, we will continue to offer eARCs as usual, and all other policies regarding ebook bundles will remain in place. We will not be making the period you can buy Monthly Bundles shorter, but longer.

The April 2016 bundle contains the ebooks that will be available in print on April 5th. The final versions of these ebooks would have been scheduled to go live as ebooks on all retail venues on March 16, 2016, and will now be available in their entirety April 5, 2016. At that point, the Monthly Bundle will become unavailable for sale.

We will continue to publish two newsletters per month to help you keep track of our offerings, one highlighting the print books which will come out two weeks in advance of the release date, the other highlighting ebook and website offerings on (or very close to) the release date itself.

Please don’t hesitate to contact me with any questions or concerns, and our whole team will be happy to help.

Good reading!

Toni Weisskopf
Publisher, Baen Books

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