August Baen Ebook Releases |
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Islands of Rage and Hope
John Ringo
With the world consumed by a devastating plague, what was once a band of desperate survivors bobbing on a dark Atlantic ocean has now become Wolf Squadron, humanity's last hope for salvation.
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Trial by Fire
Charles E. Gannon
War has erupted and Earth's fleet has been shattered by an alien sneak attack. The survivors fight for their lives as reluctant interstellar diplomat and intelligence officer Caine Riordan contends with a non-humanoid enemy willing to do anything to prevent war—even if that means exterminating the human race.
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Slow Train to Arcturus
Eric Flint Dave Freer
Ye civilized of Earth: send forth your outcasts, your primitive throwbacks, your religious fundamentalists! Pack them onto a generation ship to intergalactic nowhere! But if you’re an alien explorer stranded on that vessel, your only chance lies in seeking out the true pioneers in a sea of nutcases.
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Throne of Stars
David Weber John Ringo
Stranded on the wild and dangerous planet Marduk, Prince Roger MacClintock must turn from a spoiled brat to a competent and compassionate leader of men. Now, with the forces of an interstellar empire arrayed against him, Roger must fight for the just rule of a thousand stars.
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Treecat Wars
David Weber Jane Lindskold
It’s up to Honor Harrington ancestor Stephanie Harrington to save the treecats of planet Sphinx from ambitious humans bent on their exploitation. Book Three in the Star Kingdom series.
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The Death of Sleep
Ann McCaffrey Jody Lynn Nye
Like every other citizen of the Federation of Sentient Planets, Lunzie Mespil believed that no harm would come to her, but when the planet pirates attack the space liner on which she is a passenger, she might have to suffer more than just inconvenience.
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Eight Million Gods
Wen Spencer
Reality starts to unravel around horror novelist Nikki when she’s attacked by creatures out of Japanese myths. Now reality is mimicking her books and the bodies are piling up—and Nikki’s novels always end with everyone dead!
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Wolf in Shadow
John Lambshead
A young woman finds a haunting and dangerous world of demons and shapeshifters—and a shadowy government organization that fights them—on the streets of modern day London.
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Tales from Gavagan’s Bar
L. Sprague de Camp
The Weirdest Drinking Establishment in the Universe! Here you will meet such not-so-regular customers as: Councilman Maguire, who brought his own leprechaun with him from Ireland. Mrs. Vacarescu and her husband the were-dachshund. And Mr. Murdoch, who borrowed a very small dragon to rid his apartment of mice and lost it.
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The Tritonian Ring
L. Sprague de Camp
The gods of Atlantis are powerful and real. And they’re determined to destroy the kingdom ruled by the father of Prince Vakar, the one man whose mind they cannot read.
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Walter John Williams |
No Spot of Ground
Walter Jon Williams
After years of civil war, the genius of Edgar Allan Poe is nearing the breaking point. Tortured by memories of his dead wife and his dead hopes, Poe finds himself holding a key position against Grant's assault, and must decide whether or not to sacrifice all that he still loves in service to a dying cause.
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The Tang Dynasty Underwater Pyramid
Walter Jon Williams
Nebula Award-winning author Walter Jon Williams serves up a glorious novelette-sized mashup of intrigue, cutting-edge biotech, Aymara Indian spies, ninjas, Andean folk music, and a tetrahedal menace from beneath the sea.
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Electricstory |
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Shiva and Other Stories
Twenty-two tales by a mythologist for the new millennium! Barry N. Malzberg shows that neither super-science nor djinni magic can prevail against human folly. A wry and brilliant collection by one of the greatest social critics in science fiction.
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The Engines of the Night
What are the seminal works of science fiction? Can science fiction kill you? Barry N. Malzberg ponders these and other questions about the genre. His answers are brilliant, unequivocal, and surprising. Updated with a 2001 introduction, this Nebula award-winning collection is an essential and enduring history and critique of a fascinating and problematic genre.
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Infinity Plus |
Hallucinating
Nulight, a notorious underground record company owner, emerges from an obscure Berlin night club realizing that an alien invasion is imminent. Or is he hallucinating? To save humanity, Nulight must decide if the aliens are real or not – and if they are, what to do about them.
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Flowercrash
Zaïdmouth’s five communities are intertwined by artificial flower networks so complex they combine to create the virtual realities through which Zaïdmouth is run. Yet into this vivid world a bad seed is about to be sown.
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Muezzinland
Two sisters on the run, both pursued by their mother, the powerful Empress of Ghana. But no one can predict what might happen should their mother succeed and the family be reunited, least of all if it is inside the mysterious region known as Muezzinland.
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Glass
A plague is spreading through the city of Cray. Cray is dying—of glass. When Subadwan the Archivist is chosen to explore a land she never knew existed, she finds herself at the center of a plot which threatens to shatter the very nature of reality.
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Memory Seed
There is one city left, and soon that will be gone, for Kray is crumbling beneath a wave of exotic and lethal vegetation that threatens to wipe out the last traces of humanity.
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Wordfire Press |
Return to Honor
Doug Beason
The President has been kidnapped by terrorists and is about to be executed, unless the Marine Corps Rapid Deployment Force can use unproven trans-atmospheric technology to launch the most daring rescue ever.
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First Person Peculiar
Mike Resnick
New collection of 23 stories, all told in the first person, by Mike Resnick, science fiction’s leading award-winning author, living or dead.
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Spirit Walker
David Farland
The first volume in the expanded four-volume epic of a prehistoric world recreated on an alien planet from New York Times bestselling author David Farland.
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Serpent Catch
David Farland
Book Two in New York Times bestselling author David Farland’s epic Serpent Catch series. Tull, a reborn Neanderthal, must capture sea serpents to save his people.
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Blade Kin
David Farland
Book 3 of the Serpent Catch series. Slavers capture Tull and his family, and he must face the challenges of the Dark Arena to save them.
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Path of the Crushed Heart
David Farland
The climactic volume of the Serpent Catch series. Tull leads an uprising against the slavers and, even more dangerous, overthrow the evil machine intelligences that created the artificial prehistoric world.
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