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In this issue: a man of noble heart stands up to a genocidal regime, humanity attempts to rebuild in the wake of a global catastrophe, and a search and rescue mission gone wrong. All that, plus a new story in David Weber's Multiverse series by series coauthor Joelle Presby!
   March 2021
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book cover SIX BILLION DEAD. ONE MAN TO STOP THE KILLING.

The Terran Republic. The Terran League. Genocidal enemies. Members of the Five Hundred don't care. They are the social elite of the Heart Worlds, light-years from any threat of attack. Rear Admiral Terrence Murphy is of the Five Hundred. There is no end to how high he can rise in the Republic's power structure. But the powers-that-be have miscalculated. For Terence Murphy is a man of honor. He intends to stop to the killing. Terrence will end fifty-six years of bloodshed and slaughter—and Hell itself rides with him.

A new novel in the world of In Fury Born, one of David Weber's most celebrated novels.

Get Governor eARC here.






LIFE AFTER THE BLACK TIDE APOCALYPSE

The world has been brought to its knees by the zombie virus. Nations have fallen, cities have been overrun by the infected, and the human race has come perilously close to extinction. But with the first winter come and gone, the infected have been reduced to not much more than a background nuisance and survivors around the world are taking stock and vowing to rebuild and rise up stronger, better—and most of all, unafraid and free!

All new stories set in the world of New York Times best-selling author John Ringo’s Black Tide Rising series.

Get We Shall Rise eARC here.


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book cover THE FUTURE BELONGS TO THE STRONG OF HEART

Marshall Hunter only wanted to fly—the faster, the higher, the better. But Space Force has other plans for him: interplanetary search and rescue. Now a billionaire couple goes missing on their way to survey a near-Earth asteroid. The nuclear-powered Borman is dispatched on an audacious, high-speed interplanetary run to find the couple’s wayward spacecraft and bring them home. Yet as they approach the asteroid, the Borman itself becomes hopelessly disabled, while back in near-Earth Orbit, cislunar space falls into chaos as critical satellites fail and valuable lunar mineral shipments disappear in transit. Facing an impossible choice between salvation and sacrifice, Marshall Hunter has to find a way to save both his crewmates and Space Age civilization itself from an insidious foe!

Get Frontier eARC here.



2021 BAEN FANTASY ADVENTURE AWARD CONTEST

Claim Your Place Among the Pantheon of Fantasy Adventure Storytellers!

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.

More details, including how to enter, here.



Jim Baen Memorial Short Story Award 2021 Finalists Selected


The finalists for the 2021 Jim Baen Memorial Award competition have been announced.

More details here.



New Fiction at Baen.com

A New Story in the Mulitverse Series

In the Multiverse, two worlds-spanning human civilizations occupy their own chains of Earths, connected through naturally occurring portals. They have been at war since first contact on Hell’s Gate when a powerful telepath, the daughter of the Sharonan Cetacean Ambassador Shalassar, broadcast the defeat of her Sharonan unit of explorers by an Arcanan military exploration force. The Arcanans have magic; the Sharonans have telepaths and steam power technology. While the Arcanan magic beasts have been an aerial force and a logistical powerhouse, the intelligent whales, dolphins, and orca back on the Sharonan home world have not previously involved themselves in the humans’ conflict . . .

Read “All Orca Go to Heaven,” by Joelle Presby here.


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Tim Powers Modern Fantasy Ebook Sale

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March discounts on ebooks from the strange and wonderful mind of multiple World Fantasy Award winner Tim Powers!

Find out more here.



Don’t Touch That Dial: It’s the Baen Free Radio Hour

Coming soon to the Baen Free Radio Hour: Charles E. Gannon on At the End of the Journey, a novel set in the world of John Ringo's Black Tide Rising series. Plus A.C. Haskins discusses hard-hitting urban fantasy Blood and Whispers.

Missed past episodes? No problem. We’ve got every episode archived for your listening pleasure. All previous episodes are also archived at Baen’s YouTube Channel, here. And check out the new optional video podcast format!

Listen to the Baen Free Radio Hour now.


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Baen Books

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Governor - HALF
David Weber & Richard Fox


There is no end to how high Rear Admiral Terrence Murphy can climb within the ranks of the Five Hundred, the social elite of the Heart Worlds. But Terrence Murphy is a man of honor. He intends to stop the genocide perpetrated by the Five Hundred, no matter the cost. Terrence will end fifty-six years of bloodshed and slaughter—and Hell itself rides with him.
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We Shall Rise - HALF
Edited by John Ringo & Gary Poole


All new stories set in the world of New York Times best-selling author John Ringo’s Black Tide Rising series. Stories by Kevin J. Anderson, Brendon DuBois, Jody Lynn Nye, Michael Z. Williamson, Kacey Ezell, Mike Massa, Christopher L. Smith, Lydia Sherrer, Jason Cordova, Brian Trent, Patrick Vanner, and Jamie Ibson.
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Frontier - HALF
Patrick Chiles

While on a routine search and rescue mission, Marshall Hunter and the crew of the Borman encounter deception and peril. The Borman itself becomes hopelessly disabled, while back in near-Earth Orbit, cislunar space falls into chaos as critical satellites fail and valuable lunar mineral shipments disappear in transit. Facing an impossible choice between salvation and sacrifice, Marshall Hunter has to find a way to save both his crewmates and Space Age civilization itself from an insidious foe!
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1636: The Atlantic Encounter
Eric Flint & Walter H. Hunt

With the colonization of the North American continent came chattel slavery and the extermination of native populations. But now, in a changed 1636, the newly formed United States of Europe have a chance to make right history’s misdeeds. Can a new course can be taken? If anybody can make it so, it will be the can-do folks from Grantville!
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Battle Luna
Travis S. Taylor, Timothy Zahn, Michael Z. Williamson, Kasey Ezell, Josh Hayes

The Lunar colony is a mining colony with only internal security capabilities. But now something has been uncovered on the Moon. Something important. The Lunar colonists perceive this great discovery as their own, but so do the governments of Earth. There is only one solution: Battle Luna!
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The Legacy of Heorot
Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle, Steven Barnes

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.
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Futures Past
Edited by Gardner Dozois & Jack Dann

An outstanding collection of time-traveling alternate history stories from 16 major science fiction writers, both old and new. Every day, a thousand possible futures die unborn around us—corners not turned, paths not taken. But if one could go back into the past and change it, the outcome could be unimaginable.

Get the June 2021 Ebooks bundle here

*This Baen Ebooks subscription bundle will dissolve on June 1, 2021. After that date, these books will be available for individual sale only.*



Wordfire Press

Keeper of the Earth
Jenna Solitaire with Russell Davis

Having found the Board of Fire, Jenna and Simon hurry to decipher the clues that will lead them to the Board of Earth—and mastery over the very land itself. But on their way to locate the tomb of a mythical English hero while fending off shadowy new attackers who want the Boards for themselves, an offer of help comes from a surprising source. Can Jenna and Simon trust this offer—or are they walking straight into a trap set by the one who has coveted the Boards for millennia?

Lava
Kevin O'Donnell, Jr.

McGill Feighan teams up with a sentient alien cactus in his quest to find the Far Being, while also trying to escape repeated assassination attempts from the dread Organization.

War of the Worlds: Global Dispatches
Edited by Kevin J. Anderson

The Martian Invasion! Accounts of the War of the Worlds as told from celebrity eyewitnesses all around the globe! Nineteen gut-wrenching reports from the front lines of the War of the Worlds, as logged by Albert Einstein, Mark Twain, Theodore Roosevelt, Jack London, H.P. Lovecraft, Winston Churchill, Jules Verne, and many of the other most famous writers of the time.


Pinbeam Books

Change State
Sharon Lee & Steve Miller

Includes two stories set in far corners of the Liaden Universe®.

Short story "Command Decision," which first appeared in the anthology Release the Virgins, features Bjarni, a man with a nose for 'shroom, improbably standing at the intersection of change and tradition.

Novella "Dead Men Dream," is original to this chapbook, and harks back to the time of Lee and Miller's novel Trade Secret. What is life after death, after all, if not an adventure?


Don’t forget to check out the Baen new book releases here. Enter the March Contest here. And for upcoming appearances by Baen authors and editors, check here.

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