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In this issue: a cruise back through time, a reality show on the Moon, and all-new stories of the weird wild west. All that, plus a new contest!
   Books on Sale in Bookstores July 2017
Cruise through Time

What was supposed to be a relaxing cruise becomes a nightmare when the modern-day cruise ship the Queen of the Sea is transported through time and space. Now two thousand years in the past and afloat in the middle of the Mediterranean, the passengers and crew of the Queen of the Sea must band together to find a way to survive in a chaotic world—and start to build a brighter future.

Get The Alexander Inheritance here.



Stay Alive on the Far Side of the Moon

What happens when you get the one thing you wanted most in life? Lonely 16-year-old farm girl Barbara Winton has been following one reality show for years. Then in an instant she goes from fangirl to participant when the call comes from Dr. Keegan Bright: She’s been selected out of a horde of applicants to join him on the Moon.

She’ll be one of his Bright Sparks, six students with expertise in STEM and plenty of their own ingenuity chosen to work with Dr. Bright and given big responsibilities to undertake new projects important to the growth of the colony. Her first task? Build a radar telescope using an entire crater on the far side of the Moon.

But Barbara soon learns that life on a burgeoning frontier outpost like the Moon is a far cry from safe, civilized Earth. The loner from farm country must find a way to weld a functional team out of fiercely independent thinkers. Not only are they a bit trickier to work with than farm robots, not only is the working environment incredibly dangerous—she also has to perform this miracle in front of millions of fans. . . .

Get Moon Beam here.



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

contest

Baen Books is pleased to announce the third 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. 3 and reward its author for excellence.

Find out more here.


July Contest

A Three-Hour Tour

In The Alexander Inheritance, the luxury cruise ship Queen of the Sea is transported through time and space to the Mediterranean, in the time just after the death of Alexander the Great. Which got us thinking. If you had a time-traveling cruise ship, where and when would you like to put into port? Assuming you wouldn’t be stuck there, like the unlucky passengers of the Queen of the Sea. Let us know in a short paragraph (100 words or fewer) for a chance to win a copy of The Alexander Inheritance, signed by Eric Flint, Paula Goodlett, and Gorg Huff.

Find out how to enter here.

contest

Contest Winner



June Contest Winner

Last month we asked you which SF/F character you’d hire to investigate a crime and why. Congrats to Cary Ballew-Renfro, who wins a signed copy of Red Vengeance.

Read Cary's winning entry here.


Don't Touch that Dial: It's the Baen Free Radio Hour!

Coming soon to the Baen Free Radio Hour: Editor David Afsharirad leads a roundtable discussion of The Year’s Best Military and Adventure SF, Volume 3 with authors, and Eric Flint discusses new Ring of Fire universe, (but set on a different timeline!) novel, The Alexander Inheritance. Missed past episodes? No problem. We’ve got every episode archived for your listening pleasure.

Listen to The Baen Free Radio Hour now.

July Books

The Alexander Inheritance
Eric Flint & Gorg Huff & Paula Goodlett
(hardcover)


What was supposed to be a relaxing cruise becomes a nightmare when the modern-day cruise ship the Queen of the Sea is transported through time and space. Now two thousand years in the past and afloat in the middle of the Mediterranean, the passengers and crew of the Queen of the Sea must band together to find a way to survive in a chaotic world—and start to build a brighter future.


Moon Beam
Travis S. Taylor & Jody Lynn Nye
(hardcover)


Barbara Winton has been following one reality show for years. Then in an instant she goes from fangirl to participant when the call comes from Dr. Keegan Bright: She’s been selected out of a horde of applicants to join him on the Moon. But Barbara soon learns that life on the Moon is a far cry from safe, civilized Earth.



Straight Outta Tombstone
ed. by David Boop
(trade paperback)


All new stories of the weird, wild west. These tales aren’t the ones your grandpappy spun around a campfire, unless he spoke of soul-sucking ghosts, steam-powered demons and wayward aliens.  Includes stories from Larry Correia, Jim butcher, Kevin J. Anderson, Alan Dean Foster, Sarah A. Hoyt, Jody Lynn Nye, Michael A. Stackpole, and many more.


Wolfling
Gordon R. Dickson
(trade paperback)


When the first expedition from Earth reaches Alpha Centauri III, it makes a startling discovery: all life, including humankind, is governed by the Throne World. Jim Keil was a superman on Earth, but on the Throne World he is nothing more than a “wolfing,” a trained pet whose sole purpose is to entertain the High-Born. But Jim Keil will show the High-Born that the people of Earth aren’t so easily tamed.


Monster Hunter Memoirs: Grunge
Larry Correia & John Ringo
(mass market paperback)


When Marine Private Oliver Chadwick Gardenier is killed in the Marine barrack bombing in Beirut, he’s given a choice: Go to Heaven or return to Earth, where the Boss has a mission for him. He's a Marine: He'll choose the mission.


Galactic Games
ed. by Bryan Thomas Schmidt
(mass market paperback)


From downhill figure skating to horse racing with alien life forms; from baseball played with speedboats to basketball on Mars, Galactic Games shows us what happens when humanity takes sporting events to the stars. Includes stories by George R.R. Martin, Mercedes Lackey, Larry Correia, Robert Silverberg, Randall Garrett, Gene Wolfe, Mike Resnick—and more.
Baen Appearances
Author Appearance
D.J. Butler
Jody Lynn Nye

July 6-9
ConnectiCon
Connecticut Convention Center
Hartford, CT
http://connecticon.org/

D.J. Butler

July 10
Mysterious Galaxy
5943 Balboa Avenue
San Diego, CA

D.J. Butler

July 11
Borderlands Books
866 Valencia St
San Francisco, CA

D.J. Butler

July 12
Book Bin
450 Court St NE
Salem, OR
http://bookbin.com/

D.J. Butler

July 13
Powell's @ Cedar Hills Crossing
3415 SW Cedar Hills Blvd.
Beaverton, OR

Susan R. Matthews

July 13-16
ReaderCon
Quincy Marriott
Quincy, MA
http://www.readercon.org/index.htm

Alan Pollack (Art Guest of Honor)
Gray Rinehart
Toni Weisskopf
Timothy Zahn

July 14-16
ConGregate/DeepSouthCon
Radisson Hotel
High Point, NC
http://www.con-gregate.com/

D.J. Butler

July 14
University Book Store
4326 University AVE NE
Seattle, WA

Jody Lynn Nye

July 15
Uncle Hugo’s Science Fiction Bookstore
2864 Chicago Avenue
Minneapolis, MN

D.J. Butler

July 15
Rediscovered Bookshop
180 N 8th St
Boise, ID

Jody Lynn Nye

July 18
Pelham Public Library, with teen librarian (Skype Visit)
Pelham, AL

Bryan Thomas Schmidt
Dave Seeley (Booth 4600)

July 19-23
San Diego Comic Con
Anaheim Convention Center
Anaheim, CA
https://www.comic-con.org/

Larry Correia

July 27
Books at Park Place
10468 Roosevelt Blvd N
St Petersburg, FL
http://www.stpetebooks.com/

Michael Z. Williamson

July 28-August 13
Pennsic 46
Coopers' Lake Campground
Slippery Rock, PA
http://www.pennsicwar.org/ANNUAL/future.html

Larry Correia
Jody Lynn Nye

July 28-30
Tampa Bay Comic Con
Tampa Bay Convention Center
Tampa, FL
https://tampabaycomiccon.com/

Larry Correia

July 28
Books at Park Place
10468 Roosevelt Blvd.
St. Petersburg, FL
(727) 388-9093

Larry Correia

July 30
Garden District Books
2727 Prytania Street
New Orleans, LA
(504) 895-2266


Don't forget to check out the newest ebook releases here. Plus read Jim Baen Memorial Short Story Award grand prize winner “Feldspar,” by Philip A. Kramer here and first runner-up “Bullet Catch” by Stephen Lawson here. And read this month’s nonfiction essay, “Bug-Eyed Monsters Versus the World Builders” by William Ledbetter here.
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