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In this issue: a monster-hunting mother bent on revenge, a young heir to an ancient throne, and the battle for freedom. All that plus a new contest!
   Books on Sale in Bookstores August 2019
One Tough Mother

When the Monster Hunter International crew are called away to mount a month’s-long rescue mission, Julie Shackleford is left behind. Her task: hold down the fort and take care of her new baby son Ray. Julie’s devoted to the little guy, but the slow pace of office work and maternity leave are getting to her. But when a routine field call brings her face-to-face with an unspeakable evil calling itself Brother Death, she’ll get more excitement than she ever hoped for.

Get Monster Hunter Guardian here.





Season of the Witch

An encounter with her father’s goddess has not turned out to be the end for Sarah Elytharias Penn. Now, with the Imperial fist tightened around her city of Cahokia and the beastkind of the Heron King ravaging across the river, she must find a way to access the power of the Serpent Throne itself—a feat, she has learned, that her father never accomplished.

Get Witchy Kingdom here.




The Bloody Path to Freedom

The colony planet, Terra Nova has been used by Old Earth as a dumping ground for dissidents and troublemakers. This would have been fine but for the UN and its corrupt bureaucracy insisting on maintaining control and milking the new world and its settlers, willing and unwilling both, bone dry. Contained herein are tales of the history of Mankind's future first colony, from the first failed attempt at colonization, to the rise in crime, to the rise in terrorism, to its descent into widespread civil war and rebellion . . . and ultimately liberation.

Get Terra Nova: The Wars of Liberation 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


August Contest

Mother Knows Best

In Monster Hunter Guardian, Julie Shackleford joins the ranks of mothers you do not want to mess with. Which got us thinking, which mother (or surrogate mother) from science fiction and fantasy literature, movies, or television would you most want to have on your monster hunting team? Tell us in a short paragraph (100 words or fewer) for a chance to win Monster Hunter Guardian, signed by Larry Correia and Sarah A. Hoyt.

Find out more here.

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July Contest Winner

Last month we asked you what career experiences might come in handy in a zombie plague and why? Congrats to Dave Otto. He wins a copy of River of Night, signed by John Ringo and Mike Massa.

Read the winning entry here.


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

Coming soon to the Baen Free Radio Hour: John Ringo and Mike Massa continue their discussion of new Black Tide Rising novel River of Night. And T.C. McCarthy talks about his science fiction adventure novel of alien invasion Tyger Burning.

Listen to The Baen Free Radio Hour now


July Books

Monster Hunter Guardian
Larry Correia & Sarah A. Hoyt
(hardcover)

While the Monster Hunter International crew are called away on rescue mission, Julie Shackleford is left behind to hold down the fort and care for her newborn son. Julie’s devoted to the little guy, but the slow pace of maternity leave is getting to her. But when a field call brings her face-to-face with an unspeakable evil, she’ll get more excitement than she ever hoped for.


Witchy Kingdom
D.J. Butler
(hardcover)

An encounter with her father’s goddess has not turned out to be the end for Sarah Elytharias Penn. Now, with the Imperial fist tightened around her city of Cahokia, she must find a way to access the power of the Serpent Throne itself—a feat that her father never accomplished.


Terra Nova: The Wars of Liberation
Edited by Tom Kratman
(trade paperback)

Contained herein are tales of the history of Mankind's future first colony, from the first failed attempt at colonization, to the rise in crime, to the rise in terrorism, to its descent into widespread civil war and rebellion . . . and ultimately liberation.


Hour of the Horde
Gordon R. Dickson
(trade paperback)

The ravenous aliens known as the Horde make their way across the Universe, leaving death and destruction in their wake. Now, they stand on the edge of the Milky Way. A galaxy-wide defense force has been assembled, with each star system contributing their greatest warrior to the battle. Enter Miles Vander, the best Earth has to offer. Vander may be the key to destroying the Horde. But first he'll have to prove his worthiness to his alien compatriots.


Uncharted
Kevin J. Anderson & Sarah A. Hoyt
(mass market paperback)

It is 1803—a new 1803. When a lecture by the venerated wizard Benjamin Franklin is disrupted by the attack of a winged fire-breathing beast, Franklin commissions a young Meriwether Lewis and his partner William Clark to investigate a growing evil that lurks in the uncharted Arcane Territories west of the Mississippi.


Tide of Battle
Michael Z. Williamson
(mass market paperback)

Collected short fiction from multiple best seller Michael Z. Williamson. With cutting satire on classic poetry and modern movies, a no-holds-barred lambast of several beloved firearms and their fan clubs, Williamson concludes with more of his Inappropriate Cocktail recipes, frequently both delicious and outrageously snarky, commemorating celebrities, events and cultural memes.


Worlds II
Eric Flint
(mass market paperback)

A new collection of short fiction from Eric Flint. Includes stories set in the Ring of Fire alternate history series, Poul Anderson’s Operation Chaos universe, a story in the popular Rats, Bats and Vats series, and a long novella set in David Weber’s best-selling Honor Harrington universe. All that plus more, including new story introductions by Flint.
Baen Appearances
Author Appearance
Larry Dixon
Charles E. Gannon
Mercedes Lackey

August 1 - 4
GenCon
Indianapolis, IN
https://www.gencon.com/

D.J. Butler

August 5
Annie’s Bookstop of Worcester
Worcester, MA
http://anniesbooksworcester.com/

D.J. Butler
Larry Correia
Sarah A. Hoyt

August 7
Book Signing
Thorncreek Shopping Ctr
Thornton, CO

D.J. Butler
Larry Correia
Sarah A. Hoyt

August 8
Citadel-Colorado Springs
Colorado Springs, Colorado

David B. Coe
Jennie Faries
P.C. Hodgell
Mark L. Van Name

August 15 - 19
Worldcon
Dublin, Ireland
https://dublin2019.com/

Michael Z. Williamson

August 23 - 25
Indy 1500 Gun & Knife Show
Indianapolis, IN
http://www.indy1500.com/

David Afsharirad
Quincy J. Allen
Kevin J. Anderson
Griffin Barber
David Boop
Grace Borger
D.J. Butler
Tony Daniel
Larry Dixon
Dan Dos Santos
Larry Elmore
Bill Fawcett
Eric Flint
Esther Friesner
Charles E. Gannon
Robert E. Hampson
Walter H. Hunt
Kevin Ikenberry
Mercedes Lackey
Cody Martin
Mike Massa
Jody Lynn Nye
Tim Powers
Gray Rinehart
John Ringo
Aaron Michael Ritchey
Christopher Ruocchio
Christopher L. Smith
David Weber
Toni Weisskopf
Michael Z. Williamson
Timothy Zahn

August 29 - September 2
Dragon Con
Atlanta, GA
http://www.dragoncon.org/


Don't forget to check out the newest ebook releases here. Plus, read the Baen Fantasy Adventure Award winning short story “Treason Properly” by J.J. Cragun here. And read this month's nonfiction essay "As Big as Space Itself: Building Our Own Space Megastructures—and Searching for Them as Galactic Signatures of Alien Civilizations" by Les Johnson here.
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