It’s 1637 in the Caribbean. Up-timer from 20th century America, Commander Eddie Cantrell and his ally and friend Admiral Martin Tromp start the year with some nasty surprises for Spain, whose centuries-long exploitation and rapine of the New World has run unchecked. But Imperial Spain is determined to possess the new black gold of the Americas—in the form of crude oil pouring out of the Allies’ pumps on Trinidad. Now the battle for the New World has begun, and it is a fight to the finish!

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Sarah Calhoun has taken her father’s throne and ascended into her goddess’s presence in Unfallen Eden as her father never did. But the queen may be dying. Forces are allied against her, from without as well as from within. To survive, Sarah must enact an ancient rite that will propel her beyond mortality, and lend her strength to fight. The Queen may be dying, true. But if she is, she will go down fighting for the only thing that matters.

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Jonathan Bland is a Decider. In the service of the Empire, he has killed more people than anyone in the history of humanity—but to save a hundred times as many. He died centuries ago, and the Imperium reactivates his recorded personality whenever a new threat appears. We follow Bland through places of legendary glory and massive conflict. For him, it is the battle for personal meaning in a life engineered for perpetual war and conflict! An epic novel in the Traveller universe.

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Bethany used to love going to the Renaissance Faire. In fact, that's where Knight Watch—the organization that stands between humanity and the real nasties the rest of the world doesn’t know about—recruited her. But when you've come face-to-face with the real deal, suburban dads play-acting as knights just don't cut the mustard. So she's not too happy that her latest assignment has her surveilling a Ren Faire, in the middle of summer, in the middle of America, in the middle of a soccer field. But a hero goes where a hero is needed. When Bethany joined Knight Watch, she was promised Hero Business—and at one soccer field in the middle of the USA, she's about to find it.

Read "The Hero Business" by Tim Akers here.

Any dragon could dive upon a party of humans, incinerating them in a storm of fire. Such would not earn one a place among the Exalted. But to take on the form of a human, to slay them with their own weapons—that would be a coup that would truly earn one a High Name. So the young dragon thought, until he found himself trapped in the form of a human.

Read "Humanslayer," winner of this year's Baen Fantasy Adventure Award, by G. Scott Huggins here.

In Cosmic Corsairs, edited by Hank Davis and Christopher Ruocchio, Baen Books puts space pirates front and center. But it is far from the first time pirates have played a role in the stories that unfold between the covers of Baen Books. In this month's nonfiction essay, Mark Lardas takes us on a guided history of piracy—in the real world and in the imaginative tales of authors such as David Weber, Lois McMaster Bujold, David Drake, and more!

Read "Space Pirates!" by Mark Lardas here.

Tom Kratman's Patricio Carrera series has cut a swath through the military science fiction genre. In "Notes on the Carreraverse," the first part of a three-part essay, Kratman outlines the history and worldbuilding of his popular creation.

Read "Notes on the Carreraverse: (A Concordance, More or Less)" by Tom Kratman here.

Coming soon to the Baen Free Radio Hour: Tom Kratman discusses military science fiction novel Days of Burning, Days of Wrath. Plus a roundtable of authors on space pirate anthology Cosmic Corsairs, and Larry Correia on his new high fantasy masterpiece. Missed past episodes? No problem. We’ve got every episode archived for your listening pleasure. All previous episodes are also archived at Baen’s YouTube Channel, here. And check out the new optional video podcast format!

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Can’t get to the bookstore to see your favorite author? We will bring your favorite author to you! We are proud to announce a weekly author reading series to be conducted at 8 PM Eastern Standard Time every Wednesday. The Baen Wednesday Night Live Reading Series will be hosted by our Junior Editor, Christopher Ruocchio, via Zoom and Facebook LIVE. Our authors will read from new and upcoming releases and take questions from the audience afterwards.

8/18: T.C. McCarthy: Tyger Burning

8/29: Charles E. Gannon: At the End of the World

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