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In this issue: an opera of alternate history, an explosion of SF adventure, swords of exodus, a dog's tale, and the joy of fracking.
   July 2013
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book cover Renaissance Intrigue of Operatic Proportions!

1636: the United States of Europe, the new nation formed by an alliance between the Swedish king Gustavus Adolphus and West Virginians hurled back in time by a cosmic accident, is on the verge of civil war. Yes, there’s murder afoot in Magdeburg—and the struggle for freedom won’t be over until the fat lady sings.

Get 1636: The Devil’s Opera eARC now



Once More to the Breach for Carrera

Carrera. Relentless. Pitiless. Also victorious. On the colony planet of Terra Nova, Carrera has been preparing his new country for all-out conflict with Earth’s autocratic Tauran Union for years. Now his own government welches on him. And when the Tauran Union inevitably attacks, Carrera must build an army from scratch once again and defeat a leviathan enemy. Sequel to Amazon Legion.

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book cover Survive the Crossroads, Save a Brother

On the far side of the world, deep in former Soviet Central Asia, lies a stronghold called the Crossroads. It is run with an iron fist by a brutally effective warlord. Enter Lorenzo, thief extraordinaire, and Michael Valentine, implacable mercenary warrior. Their task: team with a shadowy organization of modern day Templars and take down a brutal slave lord. Sequel to military adventure Dead Six.

Get Swords of Exodus eARC now

New Fiction and Nonfiction at Baen.com

Pittsburgh
The Were-Dog Bites Back

An investigator of cryptozoic phenomena must team with the were-creatures of Goldport, Colorado, to bring down a ring of lawless kidnappers and robbers—all of whom may also be dangerous shifters themselves. His ally: a shifter Afghan hound who has been a victim of the same gang herself. Here is a tale set in Sarah A. Hoyt’s Shifter series featuring characters from Hoyt’s latest Shifter novel, Noah’s Boy.

Read “Dog’s Body” by Sarah A. Hoyt here



Fracking Up a New American Century

Military historian and science fiction author J.R. Dunn argues that the practice of hydraulic fracturing to extract oil from shales, known as fracking, may lead to a resurgence from ideological doldrums and geopolitical danger for America and American interests on the world stage—that is, if we only allow democracy to do what it does best: save us from doom despite ourselves.

Read “Fracking and the American Comeback” by J.R. Dunn here

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Skyspark
Maps and More with Baen Cartographer Randy Asplund

Randy Asplund has created many maps for Baen books and series over the years, including star fields for David Weber novels, the Norse mythos for Eric Flint and Dave Freer, and alternate history Venice for the Ring of Fire series. Randy explains what goes into making a reference map for a novel, and how he got his start in the trade.

Read “Baen Cartographer Randy Asplund Interview” here

Baen Free Radio Hour Features Timothy Zahn, Wen Spencer and More

Check out our new weekly podcast with your favorite Baen authors and our continuing (absolutely free) serialization of Honor Harrington series audiobook Shadow of Freedom!

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October Baen Ebook Releases

1636: The Devil's Opera
Eric Flint
David Carrico - HALF

1636: the United States of Europe, the new nation formed by an alliance between the Swedish king Gustavus Adolphus and West Virginians hurled back in time by a cosmic accident, is on the verge of civil war. Yes, there’s murder afoot in Magdeburg—and the struggle for freedom won’t be over until the fat lady sings.




Treecat Wars
David Weber
Jane Lindskold - HALF

On pioneer planet Sphinx, ruined lands and the approach of winter force a landless clan of treecats to seek new territory. It’s up to Honor Harrington ancestor Stephanie Harrington, along with best friends Jessica and Anders, to save the treecats from themselves—and shield them from ambitious humans bent on their exploitation. Book Three in the Star Kingdom series.




Worlds of Edgar Rice Burroughs
Mike Resnick
Robert T. Garcia - HALF

He was the best-selling American writer of the early 20th century. Tarzan, John Carter, Carson of Venus, he created them all. Now top science fiction and fantasy writers follow in Burroughs footsteps. Stories set in Burrough’s worlds by Mercedes Lackey, Sarah Hoyt, Mike Resnick, and many more.




In Space No One Can Hear You Scream
Hank Davis - HALF

Horror lurks in the vacuum between the stars, and we’ve found it! New tales of space-based terror from Sarah A. Hoyt and Tony Daniel, plus classic science fiction from Ray Bradbury, Arthur C. Clarke, Robert Sheckley, Philip K. Dick, James. H. Schmitz, Clark Ashton Smith, Cyril M. Kornbluth, Alastair Reynolds, Neal Asher, and others.




Swords of Exodus
Larry Correia
Mike Kupari - HALF

On the far side of the world, deep in former Soviet Central Asia, lies a stronghold called the Crossroads. Enter Lorenzo, thief extraordinaire, and Michael Valentine, implacable mercenary warrior. Their task: team with a shadowy organization of modern day Templars and take down a brutal slave lord. Sequel to Dead Six.


Phoenix Rising
Ryk Spoor

Kyri is a highborn young woman whose life is shattered by the murder of her kin. Her quest: find a legendary weapon smith, take up the sword and armor of a new order, and bring justice to the evil and corruption that has darkened her native land.

*This Baen Ebooks subscription bundle will dissolve on September 15, 2013. After that date, these books will be available for individual sale only.*

Dozois/Dann Anthologies Bundle

Treasuries of Great Stories—Arranged by Theme!

Wonder inducing. Mind blowing. Comprehensive. Simply amazing. Here are hundreds of popular and award-winning science fiction and fantasy stories collected in thirty-five volumes gathered by the winner of fifteen Hugo awards for editing, the inimitable Gardner Dozois, and award-winning writer and anthologist, Jack Dann.

We are presenting these thirty-five anthologies in six discount bundles. Get them all, and you will own a huge swath of some of the best short science fiction ever written.


Get the Dozois/Dann Stories Bundle Four here

Ron Miller Classics of Science Fiction

This time: Jules Verne and H.G. Wells! Bundle Seven of the massive and hugely entertaining Ron Miller Classics of Science Fiction ebook series. These are groundbreaking great books, many never available before, carefully edited, footnoted, and illustrated by science fiction eminence Ron Miller.


Get Ron Miller Classics of Science Fiction Bundle Seven here

Fairwood Press Bundle

Across the Sky
Mark Rich

Nineteen ventures into the future. Alien contact, life in orbit, humans versus sentient plants—great science fiction tales in a Campbellian mode.


A Cup of Normal
Devon Monk

From dark fairytales to alien skies, Monk’s stories blend haunting yesterdays, forgotten todays and twisted tomorrows. Twenty-six tales from a lyrical voice of urban fantasy and science fiction.


The Queen of Faith
Mark Teppo

These six stories dive deep into childhood fairy tales, swap spit with Lovecraftian monstrosities, rail against the world from atop a burning soapbox, offer a means to influence people and make friends via a plate of cookies, and warn of the danger that lies in inviting dreamers to sit at your table.


Get the July Fairwood Press Bundle here

Walter Jon Williams Bundle

The Crown Jewels
Walter Jon Williams

Peleng is a planet ripe for the plucking, and Drake Maijstral is an Allowed Burglar rated in the Top Ten by the Imperial Sporting Commission. But what should be a simple case of breaking-and-plundering turns into an intergalactic crisis when Maijstral steals something so rare that everyone in the known galaxy wants it.


House of Shards
Walter Jon Williams

Silverside Station is a small asteroid resort catering to the rich, the famous, and the celebrated— but is it big enough for both Drake Maijstral (the devious hero of The Crown Jewels) and Geoff Fu George (rated the galaxy’s top burglar), both of whom have set their sights on the Eltdown Shard, a fabulous jewel that is said to capture the light of a dying sun.


Rock of Ages
Walter Jon Williams

After years of struggle, Drake Maijstral has been rated Number One Burglar by the Imperial Sporting Commission. But now Drake’s valuable items keep disappearing, and it’s clear that Maijstral, the master thief to end all master thieves, is being preyed upon by another expert burglar.


Get the Walter Jon Williams Bundle 2 now

Wordfire Press Bundle

Assemblers of Infinity
Kevin J. Anderson
Doug Beason

Nebula Award Nominee. Something mysterious is building *itself* on the Moon. Something alien. Something dangerous. Earth scrambles to understand, and defend against, an invasion of nanotechnology from light years away.


The Trinity Paradox
Kevin J. Anderson
Doug Beason

An anti-nuke protester is thrown back in time and finds herself at Los Alamos, New Mexico, in the middle of the Manhattan Project…with her chance to change history.


Lifeline
Kevin J. Anderson
Doug Beason

Three large space stations and a moonbase find themselves stranded, without hope of re-supply, after a nuclear war on Earth destroys all launch capability. And their only hope of survival is cooperate.


Ill Wind
Kevin J. Anderson
Doug Beason

After an oil tanker crashes into the Golden Gate Bridge, unleashing a horrific oil spill in San Francisco Bay, the cleanup efforts use an experimental oil-eating bacteria that consumes the crude…and then mutates to devour gasoline and plastic.


Ignition
Kevin J. Anderson
Doug Beason

Terrorists have taken over Launch Control at the Kennedy Space Center, holding a shuttle on the launchpad hostage, and only an astronaut scrubbed from the mission can go behind the lines to stop them.


Magnetic Reflections
Kevin J. Anderson
Doug Beason

The complete short fiction of Nebula nominees Anderson and Beason, includes "Reflections in a Magnetic Mirror," "If I Fell, Would I Fall?" and "Prisons."

Get the July Wordfire Press Bundle here

E-reads Aldiss Time, Space, and the Mind Bundle

Science fiction legend Brian Aldiss delivers mind-bending SF that includes tales of time travel, mind-travel, alien contact, distant futures—plus a nonfiction reflection on the place of science fiction in this reality and beyond.

Get the Brian Aldiss Time, Space, and the Mind Bundle E-reads Bundle here


Don’t forget to check out the Baen new book releases here. Enter the July Exploding Spaceship Contest here. And for upcoming appearances by Baen authors and editors, check here.

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