| August Baen Ebook Releases |
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Warbound: Book III of the Grimnoir Chronicles
Larry Correia - HALF
Gritty urban fantasy set in an alternate noir 1930s. Only a handful of people in the world know that mankind’s magic comes from a living creature, and it is a refugee from another universe. Now the Power’s hiding place has been discovered by a predator from a dark universe. Private eye Jake Sullivan must put together a ragtag crew of airship pirates and Grimnoir knights for a suicide mission to stop the predator before it is too late. Series finale.
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Pirates of the Timestream
Steve White - HALF
Special operations officer Jason Thanou of the Temporal Regulatory Authority must once again plunge into Old Earth’s blood-drenched past to combat the Transhumanist underground and Teloi menace. Jason and his companions travel to the seventeenth century where, with Captain Morgan’s help, the Teloi and Transhumanists are about to face one very effective time travel agent and his team. Sequel to Sunset of the Gods.
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Tour of Duty
Michael Z. Williamson - HALF
These are stories of the warriors and civilians who get things done in extreme situations, whether it’s rescue from a ship broken in space and leaking air and radiation or scramble and response by troops in the Sandbox doing what it takes to make it through another scorching, rocket-filled day. A hard-hitting collection of the best fiction and nonfiction of Michael Z. Williamson.
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Fire Season
David Weber
Fire in the forest—and a cry for help from a desperate alien mother. Stephanie Harrington, teenaged Provisional Forest Ranger on the planet Sphinx, feels the peril and is determined to help. It all begins with the friendship of one girl and her treecat. Sequel to A Beautiful Friendship.
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Queen of Wands
John Ringo
Soccer mom and demon fighter Barbara Everette is back in an intricately interwoven monster noir thriller, the sequel to bestselling Princess of Wands.
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Ice and Shadow
Andre Norton
Two bestselling novels of science fiction adventure set in the Forerunner universe from legendary storyteller Andre Norton together for the first time. Ancient alien artifacts bring slavery and freedom in far future worlds of adventure. Contains Ice Crown and Brother to Shadows.
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The Day the Magic Stopped
edited by Christopher Stasheff - HALF
In a world where magic works—and then suddenly stops working, all bets are off. Those who have magically enhanced their attractiveness must now live by their true appearance. Buildings created by sorcery to hover high in the air suddenly collapse. And Wizards must find more physical means of defense. Original stories by S. M. Stirling, Jody Lynn Nye, Morgan Llywelyn, and more.
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*This Baen Ebooks subscription bundle will dissolve on July 15, 2013. After that date, these books will be available for individual sale only.*
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| E-Reads |
The Helliconia Saga
Helliconia: a planet with an extreme orbit around its parent star. For over two thousand years, the planet hibernates through winter, with civilization going dormant, and waiting for spring, when old tech, old politics, and old rivalries reawaken. Here is epic saga on a planetary scale, for it is always Helliconia herself who is the true main character of these novels. Those who seek to understand her may survive. Those who don’t often have a nasty surprise on the way!
Greybeard
A world of aging childless humans copes with the twilight of civilization on Earth.
Earthworks
As Earth recovers from ecological catastrophe, rural kinpins exploit workers, while brave Travellers attempt to subvert an unjust system.
Get the May “Brian Aldiss Masterworks” E-reads Bundle here
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Five by Five
Kevin J. Anderson
It’s a war out there. In these pulse-pounding tales, the best (or worst) soldiers in the galaxy are pitted against powerful aliens on distant battlefields. Never before published stories about monsters, deadly combat tech, treachery, and honor, including a novella by best-selling author Kevin J. Anderson.
Get Five by Five here
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Alternitech
Kevin J. Anderson
A company sends prospectors into alternate but similar timelines, where tiny differences yield significant changes: a world where the Beatles never broke up, or where Lee Harvey Oswald wasn't gunned down after the Kennedy assassination, where an accidental medical breakthrough offers the cure to a certain disease. Alternitech finds those differences—and profits from them.
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Blindfold
Kevin J. Anderson
On telepathic planet Atlas, an innocent man trusts a young Truthsayer to defend him from a murder charge . . . until, impossibly, she convicts him. It seems the famous Truthsayer drug Veritas has been diluted and someone in the colony is selling smuggled telepathy. Justice isn't blind—it's been blinded! And now unless the crime can be solved the old fashioned way, Atlas is doomed.
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Climbing Olympus
Kevin J. Anderson
The Adins: prisoners, exiles, and pawns of a corrupt government. Now surgically transformed to survive on the surface of Mars, they are still pawns, working for human colonists, not themselves. But Adin leader Boris Tiban has a new plan: to save his people and deliver them to freedom.
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Resurrection, Inc.
Kevin J. Anderson
In the future, a microprocessor brain, synthetic heart, artificial blood, and a fresh corpse can return as a Servant for anyone with the price. But now one Servant murdered before his time begins to remember who killed him—and what Resurrection, Inc. has in mind for the human race.
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Get the May Wordfire Kevin J. Anderson Explosion Bundle here
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| Ron Miller Science Fiction Classics |
Bundle Five of the massive and hugely entertaining Ron Miller Classics of Science Fiction ebook series. These are groundbreaking great books, many never available before, carefully edited, footnoted, and illustrated by science fiction eminence Ron Miller.
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Get Ron Miller Classics of Science Fiction Bundle Five here
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| Award News |
And we have a winner for the Mighty, Manly Men of Baen Covers Contest. We also have a poll favorite and it is the thoughtful knife-wielder on the cover of Necessity’s Child, by Sharon Lee and Steve Miller. Kevin Findlay (who chose John Carter of Mars as his archetype for manliness, by the way) will receive a signed hardcover of The Heretic by Tony Daniel and David Drake, featuring intelligent warrior Abel Dashian, a cute barbarian nemesis, a very large musket, and a riding dinosaur on the dust jacket.
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Don’t forget to check out the Baen new book releases here. Enter the May Contest here. And for upcoming appearances by Baen authors and editors, check here.
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