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In this issue: a young man from the sticks stands up to an iron-fisted ruler, stories from a science fiction master, and the best short fiction from the first decade of the Jim Baen Memorial Award. All that plus a new story by Tony Daniel!
   August 2017
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book cover A Champion Will Rise

In the time of the ancients the universe was united—but that was far in the past. Now only broken artifacts remain. A few humans known as Makers can reshape these into their original uses. But chaos rules. In the gaps between mankind’s settlements are things which are hostile to all life, things which will raven and kill until they are stopped. In these later days, a Leader appears to confront the monsters. He welds the scattered human settlements together. In his capital, Dun Add, the Leader provides law and justice. With an iron fist.

Now Pal, a youth from the sticks, has come to Dun Add to become a Champion. Pal is a Maker, and in his rural home he's been able to think of himself as a warrior because he can wield the weapons of the ancients. He’s about to learn how far he has to go, and what he must sacrifice to become a true Champion.

Get The Spark eARC here.





Thrilling Tales from a Master in Top Form

A complete palette of story-telling colors from Powers, including acclaimed tale “The Bible Repairman,” where a psychic handyman who supernaturally eliminates troublesome passages of the Bible for paying clients. Time travel takes a savage twist in “Salvage and Demolition,” where the chance discovery of a long-lost manuscript throws a down-and-out book collector back in time to 1950s San Francisco. And obsession and vengeance survive on the other side of death in “Down and Out in Purgatory,” where the soul of a man lusting for revenge attempts to eternally eliminate the killer who murdered the love of his life.

Wide-ranging, wonder-inducing, mind-bending—these and other tales make up the complete shorter works of a modern-day master of science fiction and fantasy.

Get Down and Out in Purgatory eARC here.


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


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.


New Fiction and Nonfiction at Baen.com


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Race for Freedom

Together with the Sandhaveners, the Romans have been laying siege to the native cities along the Potomak. With supplies running low, something must be done. Wannas Kittamaquand has won many a footrace in his seventeen years. Now, he and a cohort of young warriors must run the race of a lifetime. The finish line: the Mark of Shennandoah, where Wannas will ask Lord Wulfgang von Dustig for help. But this will be no simple competition. If they lose, it will mean death—or worse—for their people. A new short story set in the Wulf’s Saga series, with new entry The Amber Arrow coming in September.

Read “The Powhatan” by Tony Daniel here.




Wonder Material

Aluminum, plastics, liquid crystals: All materials that once seemed like something out of a science fiction novel . . . now part of our everyday lives. These substances have changed the way we live and work. Now, a new material is poised to change the world yet again. Space scientist Les Johnson and coauthor Joseph Meany talk about graphene and how it will shape the future in this month’s new nonfiction essay.

Read “Graphene—Not Just Another Miracle Material” 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: Steve White discusses Gods of Dawn, the sixth entry in his Temporal Regulatory Authority series, featuring time traveling special forces operator, Jason Thanou.

Listen to the Baen Free Radio Hour now.


Baen Ebook Releases


The Spark - HALF
by David Drake


In the time of the ancients the universe was united—but that was far in the past. Now only broken artifacts remain. A few humans known as Makers can reshape these into their original uses. But chaos rules. Now Pal, a youth from the sticks, has come to become a Champion. In his rural home Pal has been able to think of himself as a warrior because he can wield the weapons of the ancients. He’s about to learn how far he has to go, and what he must sacrifice to become a true Champion.

Down and Out in Purgatory - HALF
Tim Powers


Twenty pulse-pounding, mind-bending tales of science fiction, twisted metaphysics, and supernatural wonder from the two-time World Fantasy and Philip K. Dick Award winning author of The Anubis Gates and On Stranger Tides.



The Jim Baen Memorial Award: The First Decade
- HALF
ed. by William Ledbetter

Here gathered together for the first time are the best of the best of the first decade of the Jim Baen Memorial Award. Winners and runners-up whose stories dared imagine a bright future in which humankind has shaken off the shackles of gravity and moved into that limitless realm known as “outer space.”

None but Man - HALF
Gordon R. Dickson

The long period of civil unrest known as the Frontier Rebellion has come to an end. But for former Rebel highjacker Culihan O’Rourke, peace will not last long. The aliens known as the Moldaugs have returned from their long absence. But Cully O’Rourke has faced down long odds before—and he’s not one to give up his home without a fight.

1636: The Ottoman Onslaught
Eric Flint

The long‑feared attack on Austria by the Ottoman Empire has begun. Armed with new weapons inspired by the time‑displaced Americans of Grantville, the Turks are determined to do what they were unable to do in the universe the Americans came from: capture Vienna.

The Golden Gate
Robert Buettner

When the world’s richest man is the victim of a car bomb, the attack is attributed to terrorists and the world moves on. But some still wonder. Was Manuel Colibri targeted because he was about to make the dream that people alive today can live to be one thousand come true?

Get the November ebooks bundle here

*This Baen Ebooks subscription bundle will dissolve on November 7, 2017. After that date, these books will be available for individual sale only.*


Wordfire Press

Knight of Flame
Scott Eder

Defending humanity against the forces of Shadow, the Knights Elementalis remain vigilant, guarding against the emergence of the last Gray Lord. But the long wait has taken its toll. Tainted by the element he's supposed to control, the Knight of Flame must overcome a centuries-old tragedy to discover the balance to his fire-stoked rage and prevent his Order's ancient enemy from destroying Tampa.


Lunatic City
T. Allen Diaz

Working the police beat on the Moon can be murder. A salty cop with a beat on the streets of a moon colony has a vigilante MO and is suspended and forced to take on a private case while pursuing his partner’s murderer on his own.


Maximum Velocity: The Best of Full-Throttle Space Tales
David Lee Summers

Buckle your seatbelts, because we’re going to accelerate to Maximum Velocity! Action-packed, high-octane, science fiction stories across the full potential of the genre. The original editors of Full Throttle Space Tales have teamed up to pick eighteen of the very best tales, collected here for the first time.


Walking on the Sea of Clouds
Gray Rinehart

A gritty hard SF story of the first settlers on the moon trying to establish a colony, surviving by their own ingenuity with limited resources. Two couples, the first lunar pioneers, are determined to survive and succeed in this near-future technological drama.


Get the August Wordfire Press Bundle here

Pinbeam Books

Due Diligence
Sharon Lee & Steve Miller

Abandoned on a strange port by a scam gone bad, his license to pilot rescinded, and his pockets very much to let, Fer Gun pen'Uldra was teetering between trouble, more trouble, and bad trouble. Cornered in a cheap bar by a too-knowledgeable stranger with an unlikely offer, Fer Gun realized having no money and no license might be the least of his troubles. Clan Korval knew his name and that proposal was hard to refuse. . .



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