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In this issue: red planet billions, guns and grit in Sweothi City, invasion U.S.A.—plus an in-depth look at a little known American space tragedy.
   September 2013
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book cover The Quest for Mars

How do you get to the Red Planet? Not by a benighted government program trapped in red tape and bound by budget constrictions, that’s for sure. No, what it will take is a helping of adventure, science, corporate powerplays—and money, money, money! Enter billionaire Art Thrasher. He’s a man with a driving vision. But it’s going to take all the wiles as a captain of industry and master manipulator of business and capital to get a rocket full of scientists, engineers, and adventurers on their way. A fast-paced near-future novel of intrigue, science, and adventure from science fiction legend, Ben Bova.

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The Kaiser is Coming to California

Consider another 1920: in 1914, Imperial Germany crushes the other powers of Europe and wins WW I. Now it’s America’s turn. The U.S. is militarily inept and led by a sick and delusional president on his last legs. When Germany ships a huge army to Mexico, the war for the Western Hemisphere is on—and only the indomitable spirit of freedom can answer the Kaiser’s challenge!

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New Fiction and Nonfiction at Baen.com

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Escape from an African Hellhole

Mercenary-thief Lorenzo is in one tough spot. Betrayed by the client, sacrificed by comrades, abandoned to his fate in an African city swarming with revolutionary soldiers trying to kill him. It will take every bit of grit, weapons knowledge, and cleverness the man known as Lorenzo has to do his job and survive. But Lorenzo has more up his sleeve than your average mercenary, and, in the end, perhaps it is the occupiers of Sweothi City who had better look out for him. A tale set in the world of Larry Correia and Mike Kupari’s upcoming military adventure novel, Swords of Exodus, sequel to Dead Six.

Read “Sweothi City” by Larry Correia here



The Unsung Heroes of a Columbia Launchpad Tragedy

A groundbreaking, carefully reported account by a former mission control specialist of one of the worse accidents in U.S. space history: the deadly aftermath of a failure to adequately vent the interior of the space shuttle Columbia during a test firing. Here is the stunning account of how launchpad technicians and engineers heroically rushed to save lives during the terrible oversight, with some of those rescuers losing their own lives, or becoming permanently disabled, as a result.

Read “Columbia’s First Victim” by Terry Burlison here

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Writers and Books You Love on The Baen Free Radio Hour

Interviews with your favorite Baen writers including Eric Flint, Larry Correia, David Drake, Sharon Lee & Steve Miller, and much more. Plus the complete audiobook serialization of David Weber’s Shadow of Freedom.

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December Baen Ebook Releases

Mars, Inc.
Ben Bova - HALF

How do you get to the Red Planet? With a helping of adventure, science, corporate powerplays—and money, money, money! But it’s going to take all the wiles of a captain of industry and master manipulator of business and capital to get a rocket full of scientists, engineers, and adventurers on their way.




1920: America's Great War
Robert Conroy - HALF

Consider another 1920: in 1914, Imperial Germany crushes the other powers of Europe and wins WW I. When Germany ships a huge army to Mexico, the war for the Western Hemisphere is on—and only the indomitable spirit of freedom can answer the Kaiser’s challenge!




Man-Kzin Wars XIV
Larry Niven - HALF

In war and in uneasy peace, kzin and humans continue their adventures with a masterful addition to the Man-Kzin Wars shared universe created by Larry Niven.




Dragon's Teeth
Mercedes Lackey - HALF

Running the gamut from her beloved Bardic tales, to urban fantasy, to science fiction, horror, and beyond: here are tales filled with the soaring imagination, fast-paced action, and utterly believable characters for which Mercedes Lackey is famous! Brings together Fiddler Fair, Werehunter, and brand new stories in one amazing volume.




Tiger by the Tail
John Ringo
Ryan Sear

When Mike Harmon and his Keldara mercenaries take on pirates in the Singapore Straits, they are thrust into a battle to prevent the overthrow of a nation’s capital by totalitarian tyrants. Latest entry in the Kildar military adventure series.


Night & Demons
David Drake

Horrific, weird, and fantastic tales by master storyteller David Drake, creator of best-selling RCN and Hammer’s Slammers series. Plus, all-new story introductions from Drake.

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

E-reads Bundle

Slant
Greg Bear
Advanced psychotherapy has transformed every aspect of society. Now that balance teeters with the grisly murder of two prostitutes and a series of suicides.

The Evergence Saga
Sean Williams & Shane Dix

Morgan Roche, commander in the intelligence arm of the Commonwealth Empires, has been charged with protecting the AI known as The Box. Now she must battle deadly inmates on a prison planet—her only hope a genetically enhanced warrior who could be the savior of the human race, or its downfall. Ultimately her quest will lead her to the ruins of Sol System. There Morgan Roche will uncover the final truth about the AI called The Box and about a genetically enhanced warrior who could be the savior, or the doom, of the human race. Saga includes The Prodigal Son, The Dying Light, and The Dark Imbalance.


Get the September E-Reads Bundle here

Ron Miller Classics of Science Fiction

Groundbreaking science fiction, amazing classics, prescient tales of wonder—these are great books, many never available before, carefully edited, footnoted, and illustrated by science fiction eminence Ron Miller.


Get Ron Miller Classics of Science Fiction Discount Bundle Nine here

Fairwood Press

Bones of My Father
J.A. Pitts

Welcome to the future, where the bonds of family and the rules of courtship are redefined, survival-style. When O'Malley's cyborg father is killed and dismembered in the wastes, the three-hundred year old virgin sets out to find a missing skull and returns home with more than he ever imagined.


Get the September Fairwood Press ebook here

Wordfire Press Bundle

Lights in the Deep
Brad R. Torgersen

The first short-story collection by hard-SF rising star Brad R. Torgersen, Hugo, Nebula, and Campbell Award nominee and Writers of the Future winner.

The Crown and the Dragon
John D. Payne

The novel of the forthcoming major fantasy film. In a decades-long war, a dragon created as an ultimate weapon becomes uncontrollable and wreaks havoc on both sides. Elenn of Adair has one desperate chance to defeat the monstrous dragon and see the rightful king crowned.


Virtual Destruction
Kevin J. Anderson and Doug Beason

The first high-tech thriller featuring FBI agent Craig Kreident. When a controversial nuclear-weapons scientists is murdered deep within a high-security area at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, the FBI investigates the killing, but the government's own security may put an end to the case.


Fallout
Kevin J. Anderson and Doug Beason

The second high-tech thriller featuring FBI agent Craig Kreident. A radical militia group has infiltrated the Nevada Nuclear Test Site and they have managed to steal the components for a nuclear device. FBI Agent Kreident has to stop them before they can detonate the device in Las Vegas.


Lethal Exposure
Kevin J. Anderson and Doug Beason

The third high-tech thriller featuring FBI agent Craig Kreident. A Nobel Prize candidate is exposed to a lethal exposure of radiation at the gigantic Fermilab accerlator outside Chicago, and he is convinced it's not an accident. As he slowly degenerates toward death, he teams up with FBI Agent Kreident to solve his own murder.


Prisons
Kevin J. Anderson and Doug Beason

In this hard SF novelette, an A.I. warden running a high-security prison on a hellish planet is held captive during an uprising of his own prisoners. To prevent the crisis, an outside commando has to determine how to break IN to one of the most secure prisons in the galaxy.


Get the September Wordfire Press Bundle here


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

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