| October Baen Ebook Releases |
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1635: The Papal Stakes
Eric Flint and Charles Gannon - HALF
It’s springtime in the Eternal City, 1635. Uptimer Frank Stone and his pregnant downtime wife are in the clutches of would-be Pope Cardinal Borgia, with the real Pope—Urban VII—on the run. It’s up to the doughty natives of time-tossed Grantville, West Virginia, to save the pope and continue the fight for freedom in a dark age. |
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Fire Season
David Weber and Jane Lindskold - HALF
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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Night & Demons
David Drake - HALF
Horrific, weird, and fantastic tales by master storyteller David Drake, creator of best-selling RCN and Hammer’s Slammers series. Plus, all-new story introductions from Drake.
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Into the Hinterlands
David Drake and John Lambshead
A young colonial ventures into the intergalactic wilderness to drive off an incursion by corrupt Terrans. A new series begins!
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Wolf Among the Stars
Steve White
The son of heroes of Earth’s rebellion against alien domination must rise to a new challenge and foil a plot to bring the known galaxy under totalitarian alien control. Sequel to Eagle Against the Stars.
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Starman Jones
Robert A. Heinlein
Young starship crewman Max Jones has fought his way to the stars. Now disaster strikes and it's going to take every trick Max learned from his hard-scrabble life to save his ship from doom. With an all-new afterword by Michael Z. Williamson!
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An Honorable Defense
David Drake and Thomas T. Thomas
The Emperor is dead, leaving only a child as successor. Will the leaders of the empire rally behind the heir? If not, interstellar civilization will once again dissolve into civil war and slide into another long night of barbarism. Book 1 of the Crisis of Empire series.
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| July 2012 Night Shade Bundle |
Spin the Sky
Katy Stauber
Fifteen years after winning the Spacer War, Cesar Vaquero has returned to Ithaca, a rugged orbital colony. Vaquero poses as a homeless drifter to his wife, Penelope, and his son, neither of whom recognize him. Penelope has been busy since her husband disappeared, running the ranch, raising her son, and fending off pushy suitors. A rollicking, high-spirited riff on a certain classic odyssey—featuring characters as big as Space Itself.
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Other Worlds Than These
edited by John Joseph Adams
What if you could not only travel to any location in the world, but to any possible world? SF, fantasy, or a weird combination of possibilities? Go and find out! All-time great parallel world stories and portal fantasies collected in a single volume.
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Get the Night Shade Bundle here
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| July 2012 Fairwood Press Bundle |
Permeable Borders
Nina Kiriki Hoffman
Nina Kiriki Hoffman’s stories have gained many honors, including the Writers of the Future award, Locus Award, and the Nebula Award. Here sixteen of her more recent stories are collected, as well as earlier work not previously gathered, and a never-before-seen Hoffman tale.
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The Best of Talebones
edited by Patrick Swenson
Collects 42 of the best and most beloved stories from legendary Talebones magazine. Taken from 39 issues published over 14 years, this anthology includes such writers as Jack Cady, Nina Kiriki Hoffman, Marie Brennan, Barb Hendee, Carrie Vaughn, Kay Kenyon, Ken Scholes, James Van Pelt, James Sallis, Paul Melko, Louise Marley, Mary Robinette Kowal, Anne Harris, James C. Glass, Alan DeNiro, and many more.
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Long Walks, Last Flights and Other Strange Journeys
Ken Scholes
Ken Scholes invites you to his Imagination Forest with seventeen tales of weirdness and wonder. Along the way, keep your eyes open. You’ll meet alien babies, messianic Santas, typing chimps and maybe, if you look carefully, you’ll find some off-brand love and a little bit of hope in Drum Farrelly’s supply room. Buckle up. Hang on. Take a strange and delightful journey in Scholes worlds of otherwhen.
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Diving Mimes, Weeping Czars and Other Unusual Suspects
Ken Scholes
Return to Ken Scholes' Imagination Forest in this second collection of quirky, off-beat stories. Seventeen tales, including two stories set in Scholes’s Psalms of Isaak series. Settle in for the ride and keep your hands inside the vehicle at all times. Here in the Imagination Forest, you never know who — or what — you'll come across”
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A wonderful collection of quirky, cosmic stories and novels now at a discounted bundle price. Get it here
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Don’t forget to check out the Baen new book releases here, and our July Elf Warrior photoshop contest here. Register for on-line internet game Planet Baen here. And for upcoming appearances by Baen authors and editors, check here.
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