Jon of Dun Add has created a civilization where before there had only been isolated pockets of humanity in a shattered cosmos. Young knight Pal is one of the most respected members of Lord Jon’s Hall of Champions. Pal’s greatest talent lies not on the field of battle, though he’s no slouch there. He is also a Maker, one who can repair the tools the Ancients had left—sometimes. Now, Pal will need all his talent—as a fighter, as a Maker, as a Champion—to deal with the monsters the Waste throws at him, to unify the growing realm, and to rescue a damsel in distress who has been locked in a forcefield for decades. She is also a damsel who most decidedly is of two minds in taking her arranged marriage vows! Pal knows there are those who would destroy Dun Add, and Lord Jon’s vision of a humanity united in peace—but a Champion must follow his instincts no matter what the danger.

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When a cosmic disturbance hurls your town from twentieth-century West Virginia back to seventeenth-century Europe—and into the middle of the Thirty Years War—you have to adapt to survive. And the natives of that time period, faced with American technology and politics, need to be equally quick-witted, or at least survival-minded. Here’s a generous helping of stories of Grantville, the American town lost in time, and its impact on the people and societies of a tumultuous age.

Featuring stories by Eric Flint, Tim Sayeau, Robert Noxon, Griffin Barber, Robert Waters, Iver P. Cooper, Kerryn Offord, Rick Boatright, David Carrico, and more!

Get Grantville Gazette IX eARC here.

Decades ago, the Visitors descended on Earth. They claimed to bring peace and prosperity. Their real goal was the total subjugation of humankind. After a devastating war, the Visitors were driven to Mars. Their willing human collaborators were left behind. The task of hunting down these former alien collaborators and bringing them to justice falls to Federal Recovery Agents like Nathan Foster.

Emmogene Anderson was taken to the Visitors as a teenager and was experimented upon by the alien invaders. She carries within her body a semi-functional alien device that allows her to control other people. Until recently, she was serving a prison sentence for aiding and abetting the enemy. That is, until she was broken out by her obsessive ex-lover, Anthony Krieg, a former commando for the Visitors’ forces, physically enhanced but mentally unstable.

Now, Nathan Foster is tasked with bringing the pair to justice. Krieg must be killed, Emmogene captured. An easy enough job—but Emmogene may have been implanted with something else, something much more important to the Visitors, and to the free people of Earth!

Get The Family Business eARC here.

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.

When Adya Elso's fabulously rich parents offered her an all-expenses paid trip to anywhere in the billion worlds of the Solar System her heart desired, the last place they expected her to pick was the backwater city Paoshi, which floats in Saturn's atmosphere. But Adya is singularly devoted to getting to the bottom of a scientific research project she's been working on most of her young life—and she just might have a lead. But when she and her mech chaperone Vasi arrive, they find their lead has gone ice cold. What's more, Paoshi may be hiding a dark secret that Adya is uniquely positioned to solve.

Read “The Paoshi Puzzle,” by James L. Cambias here.

To celebrate the new Starborn and Godsons mass market edition, we’re dropping prices on ALL Jerry Pournelle ebooks!

Discounts apply wherever Baen Ebooks are sold! Sale ends April 30.

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Coming soon to the Baen Free Radio Hour: Prolific Baen artists David Mattingly and Daniel Dos Santos on illustrating book covers. Charles E. Gannon and Robert E. Waters discuss 1636: Calabar's War. Michael Z. Williamson and authors in a roundtable on story anthology Freehold: Defiance. And Eric Flint and Griffin Barber talk about Ring of Fire novel 1637: The Peacock Throne.

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