When the Monster Hunter International crew are called away to mount a month’s-long rescue mission, Julie Shackleford is left behind. Her task: hold down the fort and take care of her new baby son Ray. Julie’s devoted to the little guy, but the slow pace of office work and maternity leave are getting to her. But when a routine field call brings her face-to-face with an unspeakable evil calling itself Brother Death, she’ll get more excitement than she ever hoped for.

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An encounter with her father’s goddess has not turned out to be the end for Sarah Elytharias Penn. Now, with the Imperial fist tightened around her city of Cahokia and the beastkind of the Heron King ravaging across the river, she must find a way to access the power of the Serpent Throne itself—a feat, she has learned, that her father never accomplished.

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The colony planet Terra Nova has been used by Old Earth as a dumping ground for dissidents and troublemakers. This would have been fine but for the UN and its corrupt bureaucracy insisting on maintaining control and milking the new world and its settlers, willing and unwilling both, bone dry. Contained herein are tales of the history of Mankind's future first colony, from the first failed attempt at colonization, to the rise in crime, to the rise in terrorism, to its descent into widespread civil war and rebellion . . . and ultimately liberation.

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Aeronautical history expert Cassidy Gooding finds herself on a tiny, all but deserted, rocky island at the easternmost tip of the Grand Caymans, searching for the remains of a mysterious downed aircraft of great historical significance. It's the sort of thing she's used to doing. Unfortunately for her, she's also used to billionaire plunderer Parkman Silver scooping her finds. When Silver shows up in on Last Chance Key with his golden yacht, it will be a race to preserve a historical artifact few know exist!

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Science fiction writers and artists have long imagined futuristic space craft. But real-life craft is limited by technology. In this month's nonfiction essay, Jim Beall predicts, using current tech, what the spacecraft of the near future might look like—and how we can one day get to the spacecraft depicted in SF.

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Coming soon to the Baen Free Radio Hour: Larry Correia, Laurell K. Hamilton and the editors and authors in a roundtable discussion on new SF and fantasy anthology Noir Fatale. And David Weber and Jacob Holo talk about their time-bending SF novel, The Gordian Protocol. Missed past episodes? No problem. We’ve got every episode archived for your listening pleasure.

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