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In this issue: the USE ventures to the Far East, humanity takes to the stars, and myriad Davids thrill and entertain with science fiction and fantasy short stories. All that plus the winner of the 2019 JBM Award Contest!
   June 2019
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book cover Venture to Save an Empire

The newly formed United States of Europe sends an embassy to the Chinese empire for all important critical resources nobody has ever needed before—at least not before an entire town showed up from 300 years in the future!

But China is famously suspicious of foreigners. Can the up-timers and their friends persuade the mandarins to establish trade and diplomatic relations with the young United States of Europe? Their greatest asset is also their greatest curse: knowledge that China is due for decades of mass suffering and civil war. Changes must come, but changes also bring their own deadly consequences!

Get 1636: The China Venture eARC here.




Becoming the People of the Stars

Fundamental transformation. That is what it may take to reach our final destination. And we may not have a choice as dangers from without and pressure from within human civilization force us to adapt to a new star-traveling heritage. We may find that Homo sapiens is on its way to becoming a new and unique species: Homo stellaris: the People of the Stars.

Original science fiction stories and accessible speculative pieces by top scientists that will take you to that future! Stories from award-winning authors such as Kevin J. Anderson, William Ledbetter, Todd McCaffrey and Sarah A. Hoyt. Plus essays on the science behind the fiction from Sir Martin Rees, Astronomer Royal of the United Kingdom, Mark Shelhamer, Chief Scientist for the NASA’s Human Research Program, and more!

Get Stellaris: People of the Stars eARC here.


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book cover Stories with Maximum Dave!

The history of science fiction and fantasy is filled with stories by what we like to call Davids of Distinction. Now, for the first time, an anthology by people named David, for everyone. Even if your name is anything but David!

Read along as editor David Afsharirad guides you through the strange, wondrous imaginations of the great Davids of the field, past, present, and future. Fifteen tales by David Weber, David Drake, Gregory Benford & David Brin, David B. Coe, D.J. Butler, Avram Davidson, David H. Keller, and many more. Many more Davids, that is.

Get The Chronicles of Davids eARC here.


YEAR'S BEST AWARD

Vote for The Year’s Best Military and Adventure SF Readers’ Choice Award

Baen Books is pleased to announce the fifth annual Year’s Best Military and Adventure Science Fiction Readers’ Choice Award. The award honors the best of the best in this grand storytelling tradition, and its winner will receive an inscribed plaque and a $500 prize. And YOU are the judge! Choose your favorite story from the contents of The Year’s Best Military and Adventure SF, Vol. 5 and reward its author for excellence.

Find out more here


JUDGMENT IN MOSCOW

Judment in Moscow Now Available at Baen Ebooks

Baen Ebooks is proud to announce an agreement to distribute the English translation of Judgment in Moscow by Vladimir Bukovsky on its retail ebook site, as well as offering a selection of other ebooks from Judgment in Moscow publisher, Ninth of November Press. Western publishers for years backed down from publishing an English translation. Finally an English version has been created with Bukovsky’s wholehearted participation.

Get Judgment in Moscow here

New Fiction and Nonfiction at Baen.com

Winner of the Jim Baen Memorial Short Story Award Contest

Runners were designed to push orbiting debris to re-entry over the ocean. After splashdown, crews would collect the space junk and sell it for scrap. But now runner pilots Linda and Maureen have a new assignment. They're being paid by the Chinese government to course correct a very large something in orbit. Easier said than done.

Read “Burners” by Matt McHugh, winner of the 2019 Jim Baen Memorial Short Story Award Contest, here.


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story graphic Wherefore the Singularity?

The Singularity: a future when humans have assisted their own evolution with genetic engineering, cybernetics, and prosthetics such that they are no longer human. It's a concept that has been written about by futurists and science fiction writers alike. But is the singularity merely fiction? Is it going to actually happen? In this month's nonfiction essay, neuroscience researcher Dr. Robert E. Hampson offers his perspective.

Read “Do You Believe in the Singularity” here.


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

Coming soon to the Baen Free Radio Hour: Robert Buettner on his aircraft-tastic historical-novel-technothriller blend, My Enemy’s Enemy. David Afsharirad talks with authors of The Year’s Best Military and Adventure SF, Volume 5. And David Drake discusses new RCN series novel, To Clear Away the Shadows. 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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Baen Ebook Releases

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1636: The China Venture - HALF
Eric Flint & Iver P. Cooper


The newly formed United States of Europe sends an embassy to the Chinese empire for all important critical resources nobody has ever needed before—at least not before an entire town showed up from 300 years in the future! But convincing the mandarins to establish trade with the newly formed USE won't be easy.
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Mission of Honor - Limited Edition
David Weber


The Star Kingdom of Manticore and the Republic of Haven have been enemies for Honor Harrington's entire life, and she has paid a price for the victories she's achieved in that conflict. Now the unstoppable juggernaut of the mighty Solarian League is on a collision course with Manticore. But Manticore's enemies may not have thought of everything after all. Because if everything Honor Harrington loves is going down to destruction, it won't be going alone.
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Stellaris: People of the Stars - HALF
Edited by Les Johnson & Robert E. Hampson

In order to reach the stars, humanity may have to undergo fundamental transformation. We may find that Homo sapiens is on its way to becoming a new and unique species: Homo stellaris: the People of the Stars. Original science fiction stories and accessible speculative pieces by top scientists that will take you to that future!
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The Chronicles of Davids - HALF
Edited by David Afsharirad


The history of science fiction and fantasy is filled with stories by what we like to call Davids of Distinction. Now, for the first time, an anthology by people named David, for everyone. Fifteen tales by David Weber, David Drake, Gregory Benford & David Brin, David B. Coe, D.J. Butler, Avram Davidson, David H. Keller, and many more. Many more Davids, that is.
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Alternate Routes
Tim Powers

Something weird is happening on the Los Angeles freeways. A government agency is using the freeway anomalies for disturbing purposes, and its chief is determined to have ex-Secret Service agent Sebastian Vickery killed because of a secret he learned years ago at a halted presidential motorcade.
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Target Rich Environment, Vol. 1
Larry Correia

Together for the first time, fourteen action-packed tales of demons, monsters, vampires, and cosmic horrors too terrible to name—and the men and women who take them all down. Oh, and toss in an interdimensional insurance salesman for good measure. The first-ever collection of short fiction from New York Times best-selling author Larry Correia.
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Her Majesty's American
Steve White

In an alternate future where the British empire never crumbled, the space ships of Her Majesty’s Navy work to keep the spaceways safe. But there are those among the stars who are not so happy being subjects of the British Empire, and they will do their worst to destroy the hated empire head on. Yet standing against the coming anarchy and tyranny is one intrepid spy prepared to risk all for queen and empire.
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Mother of Demons
Eric Flint

A holy leader, who knows her people are on the verge of great upheaval—and who wants to know more about this new tribe of demons. A battle-mother, possibly the greatest battle-mother who ever lived. A keeper of the secrets of history who would control the tides of fate. They are all revolutionaries, but none of them expected anything like what they're about to experience.

Get the September Ebooks bundle here

*This Baen Ebooks subscription bundle will dissolve on September 3, 2019. After that date, these books will be available for individual sale only.*

Ring of Fire Press

Lost Signals
Edited by Charles E. Gannon

Welcome to the Terran Republic of the Twenty-Second Century. Just as humanity finally reaches out to the stars, it is challenged by several “exosapient” species whose motivations are as unusual as their physical forms. Here are the stories of troubleshooters, commandos, crewmen, and correspondents who must contend with both humans and aliens during the high-stakes exploration, statecraft, and warfare that churn and change our post-contact world. Twenty new tales in the Caine Riordan series, the Nebula- and Dragon-nominated best-selling universe of interstellar action, exploration, and intrigue.

Wordfire Press

Latter-Day Olympians Boxed Set
Lucienne Diver

Tori Karacis never believed tales that her lineage traces back to a drunken liaison between Pan and a gorgon, despite the fact that her glance literally stops men in their tracks. That was before she was pulled into the affairs of the gods and demons of the ancient world. The old gods are returning, and it’s looking dark for any mortals who get in their way. Time for them to look out for Tori.

Slimy Underbelly: The Cases of Dan Shamble, Zombie P.I.
Kevin J. Anderson

There’s something fishy going on in the Unnatural Quarter. Bodies are floating face-down, the plumbing is backing up, and something smells rotten—even to a zombie detective like Dan Shamble. Diving into the slimy underbelly of a diabolical plot, Dan comes face-to-tentacles with an amphibious villain named Ah’Chulhu. With his snap-happy gang of gator-guys, Ah’Chulhu wreaks havoc beneath the streets. While feuding weather wizards kick up storms and a gang of thieving lawn gnomes continues their reign of terror, Dan Shamble is running out of time—before the whole stinking city goes down the drain . . .

Missing White Girl
Jeffrey J. Mariotte

In this gripping supernatural thriller, tendrils of an ancient evil reach right into the torn-from-the-headlines present. On the U.S./Mexico border, supernatural powers using vigilantes, drug dealers, and innocents as pawns clash in a bloody showdown—and not everyone will survive . . .

Shadow Blade
Chris Barili

Ashai Larish is a Denari Lai assassin. Kept loyal through addiction to the magic that makes them unstoppable, the Denari Lai have never failed. That is, until Ashai falls for his target, and finds himself fighting for her life. Meanwhile, a slave's grief sparks a rebellion that threatens to flare into all-out war, while he seeks to avenge his beloved.


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