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In this issue: a new path to freedom, a chance for renewal, and a (space)ship full of buccaneers. All that plus a new short story by Peter J. Wacks.
   May 2020
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book cover THE FUTURE OF THE NEW WORLD HANGS IN THE BALANCE

The recently created United States of Europe turns its attention to the New World, where the English have ceded their colonial claims to France. The time-displaced Americans know about the path that led to their own United States in North America. Modern democracy was born—but a bitter price was paid with chattel slavery and the near-extermination of the native populations.

Can a new course can be taken? Can the smoldering sins of a future-yet-to-be become the embers that fire a more perfect freedom in the present? If anybody can make it so, it will be the can-do folks from Grantville!

Get 1636: The Atlantic Encounter eARC here.




A NEW CARRERA RISES

When Patricio Carrera’s family was murdered by Salafist terrorists, the assassins probably didn’t expect to create an implacable conqueror who would stop at nothing to wreak his revenge—but that is what they accomplished. Now, after decades of war and preparation for war in Carrera’s adopted homeland of Balboa, the last of the Tauran Union Expeditionary Force collapses. Amidst the chaos of war, a new leader arises. He is Hamilcar, Carrera’s young son. Hamilcar stands poised to obliterate the last enemy base on his planet. Revenge was always going to be his, but now Carrera may finally get what he least expected: renewal!

Get Days of Burning, Days of Wrath eARC here.


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book cover SPACE PIRATES RULE

Rousing adventure, derring-do, brave heroes battling scurvy galactic vermin: a treasure chest of tales of the greatest pirate adventure grounds of all time—the unruly outer reaches of space itself! Do ye long for adventure in the far reaches, matey? Do ye yearn for space and treasure? Well, come aboard! Your crewmates include Robert Silverberg, Elizabeth Bear and Sarah Monette, Larry Niven, Fritz Leiber, Sarah A. Hoyt, James H. Schmitz, and more.

Get Cosmic Corsairs eARC here.



New Fiction at Baen.com

Sorcerer’s Apprentice

Philadelphia, 1758. Benjamin Franklin and his son William are in Europe, leaving Franklin’s wife Deborah and their teenage daughter Sally at home. Sally is a headstrong girl, much more interested in books than what her mother considers practical matters. And it is while looking for reading material in her father’s workroom that Sally makes a most astonishing discovery.

Read “Chasing Your Tail,” by Peter J. Wacks here.


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

Coming soon to the Baen Free Radio Hour: Nancy Kress discusses science fiction novel The Eleventh Gate. Lois McMaster Bujold talks about high fantasy Penric’s Travels. And David Weber and Phillip Pournelle on the late SF legend Jerry Pournelle’s final novel in the Janissaries series, Mamelukes, which Phillip Pournelle and Weber helped to complete. Missed past episodes? No problem. We’ve got every episode archived for your listening pleasure.

Listen to the Baen Free Radio Hour now.


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Facebook LIVE Readings from Your Favorite Baen Authors

Can’t get to the bookstore to see your favorite author? We will bring your favorite author to you! We are proud to announce the beginning of a weekly author reading series to be conducted at 8 PM Eastern Standard Time every Friday, starting April 3rd. The Baen Friday Night Live Reading Series will be hosted by our Junior Editor, Christopher Ruocchio, via Zoom and Facebook LIVE. Our authors will read from new and upcoming releases and take questions from the audience afterwards.

Find out more here.



Baen Ebook Releases

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1636: The Atlantic Encounter - HALF
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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Days of Burning, Days of Wrath - HALF
Tom Kratman


Amidst the chaos of war, a new leader arises. He is Hamilcar, Carrera’s young son. Hamilcar stands poised to obliterate the last enemy base on his planet. Revenge was always going to be his, but now Carrera may finally get what he least expected: renewal!
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The Wellstone - HALF
Wil McCarthy

Humanity has conquered the Solar System and death itself has been vanquished. Wellstone—programmable matter—insures that no one need ever age past adulthood. But for the children of immortal parents, life remains a constant state of arrested development. And a prince shall remain a prince forever, never inheriting the throne. So what is a minor royal to do?
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Cosmic Corsairs - HALF
Edited by Hank Davis & Christopher Ruocchio

Do ye long for adventure in the far reaches, matey? Do ye yearn for space and treasure? Well, come aboard! Your crewmates include Robert Silverberg, Elizabeth Bear and Sarah Monette, Larry Niven, Fritz Leiber, Sarah A. Hoyt, James H. Schmitz, and more.
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River of Night
John Ringo & Mike Massa

On the run from the zombie horde that has destroyed NYC, Tom Smith and his team head for safety in the Cumberland Valley of Tennessee. But even if they make it—by no means a certainty—they'll have to find a way to restart civilization. Even so, Tom Smith has a plan.
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Tyger Burning
T.C. McCarthy

A Burmese "dream warrior" flees to the farthest reaches of the solar system only to find a lost secret weapon system that may help his people redeem themselves—and may just prove the salvation of the human race.
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My Enemy's Enemy
Robert Buettner

The elite terrorist known as the Asp sets his sights on America's heartland. Meanwhile, ambitious aircraft historian Cassandra Gooding and irascible Colorado cowboy Frank Luck unlock an aviation relic's dark secret and discover the terrible truth the Asp may be closing in on—a secret Nazi superweapon thought to be nothing more than myth.

Get the August Ebooks bundle here

*This Baen Ebooks subscription bundle will dissolve on August 4, 2020. After that date, these books will be available for individual sale only.*

Target: Terror Boxed Set

Target: Terror Boxed Set
by Michael Z. Williamson

Army Rangers Kyle Monroe and Wade Curtis are the best at what they do: eliminating their nations' enemies from a distance with one well-placed bullet to the head. Military adventure from Michael Z. Williamson. Includes The Scope of Justice, Targets of Opportunity, and Confirmed Kill.

Ring of Fire Press

The Trouble with Huguenots
Virginia DeMarce

Duke Henir de Rohan knows from up-time history books that he is “scheduled” to die less than two years in the future—and he has pressing problems on his hands. His estranged wife and brother are plotting against him. What’s more, he must find a suitable husband for his daughter. But acceptable Calvinist noblemen—French or foreign—are sparse at the moment. What’s a father to do?

The Vampiress of Londinium
Gorg Huff & Paula Goodlett

Lady Jane Alexander should be a monster with no control at all over its desires—a blood-sucking corpse, animated by pure evil. But The Merge went both ways. Sir William Deforest has the memories of Bill Goldman, a school teacher who played WarSpell with his friends, and those memories tell him that Lady Jane Alexander may still be Lady Jane. Suffering under a terrible curse, but still Lady Jane.

Blood's Call
David Carrico

Duncan corNial, the son of Clan Ailane’s warleader, has been exiled because of the enmity of other clans. Leaving the Highlands, he finds refuge in the nearby city of Nika, where he makes a new life for himself as a swordmaster and bounty hunter. While defending a woman under attack, Duncan is badly wounded—and after help arrives from the Blues, the religious society she belongs to, he will discover that strange things happen around them.


Wordfire Press

Like a New Star
M.B. Wood

The Clan mobilizes and conquers Ohio to get C-17 planes to rescue the Qu’uda survivors on Andros. The Clan flies to the west coast and builds spacecraft using alien fusion drives in submarines. A Hoo-Lii craft emerges from a warp in space-time and is attacked by the Qu’uda. The humans use nuke missiles to overwhelm the Qu’uda ship. The humans send water the Hoo-Lii aliens accept the water and promise to return . . .

Disappeared
Lucienne Diver

Jared and Emily Graham struggle with the story their father tells after their mother’s disappearance, especially against mounting evidence of foul play. Their investigations into what really happened to their mother may have killer consequences for them both, especially if the truth hits close to home.

ECHO One: Tales from the Secret World Chronicles
Mercedes Lackey, Cody Martin, Dennis K. Lee, Veronica Giguere

Something slipped from outer space into the Atlantic Ocean in the late 1930s. The aliens triggered the rise of the metahumans—Allies and Nazis. Then they sat back to watch. Welcome to ECHO, the Extrahuman Coalition for Humanitarian Operations.


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