With flying saucers on the move at the Giant Rock monolith in the Mojave Desert, grayling sightings at a cultist temple in the Hollywood Hills, a monstrous alien apparition in the Los Angeles River, and a harrowing midnight visitation on a boat off Long Beach Harbor—aliens seem to be invading Southern California! But what kind of aliens, and to what purpose? One thing former Secret Service agent Sebastian Vickery knows is that whatever their purpose, it can't be a good one. Now Vickery has learned something about UFOs that he shouldn’t have—and Naval Intelligence, desperate to silence him, orders his old partner, Agent Ingrid Castine, to trap him. But Castine risks her life to warn
Vickery—and now they’re both fugitives, on the run from both the U.S. government and agents of the Russian GRU Directorate, which has its own uses for the UFO intelligence.

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The Galactic Imperium of the Myriad Worlds slumps into centuries of decadent peace enabled by a flood of advanced technology from the mysterious nonhuman “Shapers.” Among the great Families, only the once-mighty clan of Sinclair-Maru remembers the maxims of the warrior Emperor, Yung I, ready to defend the Imperium from any threat. Stubbornly clinging to the Honor Code, Family prodigy Saef Sinclair-Maru finds himself in command of an outmoded, under-equipped frigate of the Imperial Fleet. With spies and assassins on every side, trusting only in his considerable skill and the extreme competence of his companion, Inga, Saef must complete his mission, restore the greatness of his Family, and uncover the chilling plot to extinguish humanity’s light from the galaxy.

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Young Druaden—along with several compatriots, both human and “Rot”—finds himself in the Under of Gur Grehar. Bad enough—but the method for getting out may prove even worse! New fiction set in the world of Gannon’s upcoming epic fantasy This Broken World.

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Coming soon to the Baen Free Radio Hour—three new guest hosts! Griffin Barber discusses The Spacetime War with Les Johnson; D.J. Butler sits down with Dave Bara to talk about his Baen Books debut novel, Trinity; and Josh Hayes interviews the authors of The Romanov Rescue, an all-new alternate history novel from Tom Kratman, Justin Watson, and Kacey Ezell.

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