| January Baen Ebook Releases |
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Necessity's Child
Sharon Lee
Steve Miller - HALF
The kompani: a culture based in dance and dream. Clan Korval: star traders wealthy in enemies, fortunate in friends. Now the lives of three people intersect—Kezzi, apprentice to the kompani's grandmother; Syl Vor, Clan Korval's youngest warrior; and Rys, a man without a world, or a past. The Liaden Universe® saga continues.
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How Dark the World Becomes
Frank Chadwick - HALF
Sasha Naradnyo is a gangster on a planet where humans are most definitely second class citizens. Now Sasha’s simple choice to save alien children has thrust him into the midst of a battle that could remake the galactic balance of power and save humanity from slow death by servitude.
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The Ship Who Searched
Mercedes Lackey
Anne McCaffrey - HALF
Tia Cade has freed herself from her ravaged body to become a Brainship, but now she must discover her Brawn, the human element every Brainship requires to function. 20th Anniversary edition of the classic tale, featuring a new introduction by Mercedes Lackey.
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A Rising Thunder
David Weber
After a brutal attack on the Manticoran home system, Honor Harrington and the Star Kingdom she serves battle back against a new, technologically powerful, and utterly nefarious enemy.
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Man-Kzin Wars XIII
Larry Niven, Jane Lindskold, Alex Hernandez, Charles E. Gannon, Hal Colebatch, and David Bartell
Larry Niven's bestselling Man-Kzin saga rolls on. In war and in uneasy peace, kzin and humans continue sparring for mastery of known space.
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Sixth Column
Robert A. Heinlein
After the U.S. is conquered, an enclave of brilliant misfits leads a rebellion against a totalitarian regime. With an afterword by Carerra series creator, Tom Kratman.
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Keeper of the King
P. N. Elrod
Nigel Bennett - HALF
Arthurian vampires fight modern terrorism: Book One in the Lord Richard Vampire series. To save the woman he loves above all else, a vampire knight quests for the grail...and this time to succeed—or die forever.
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Collected Kessel Bundle |
Witty, sometime slap-your-knee funny, action-filled, moving, evocative, sad, hopeful, and always, always intelligent and thought-provoking: John Kessel’s science fiction stories have won a place as some of the best work in contemporary science fiction.
Two award-winning novels and a huge collection of the short fiction of one of the most original voices in all of science fiction, brought together for the first time in one volume, The Collected Kessel—a Baen Ebooks exclusive!
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Get the Collected Kessel Discount Bundle here
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Awards News |
Going Interstellar Tale Chosen for
Year’s Best Science Fiction
Baen Books is pleased to announce that “Twenty Lights to ‘The Land of Snow,’” Michael Bishop’s short story contribution to innovative science and science fiction collection Going Interstellar, edited by Les Johnson and Jack McDevitt, has been selected for the Gardner Dozois edited 30th Annual Year’s Best Science Fiction, due out next year.
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| Gardner Dozois Bundle |
Science Fiction Hall of Fame Inductee Gardner Dozois is the winner of two Nebula awards for fiction. Dozois was also the long-time editor of Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, a position for which he won fifteen Hugo awards. He remains editor of the annual Year's Best Science Fiction anthologies.
Here is Dozois’s award-winning fiction—nearly all of it—along with a selection of absolutely first-rate Dozois-edited collections together for the first time in a discount bundle. Plus: each book contains all-new cover art by Ron Miller.
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Get the discounted Gardner Dozois Bundle here
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| November Night Shade Bundle |
Rapture
Kameron Hurley
After years in exile, Assassin Nyxnissa so Dasheem is back in action. Now with aliens in the sky and revolution on the ground, Nyx assembles a team of mad magicians, torturers, and mutant shape-shifters for an epic journey across a flesh-eating desert in search of a man who, for once, she's not actually supposed to kill. But can she resist?
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Swords of Waar
Nathan Long
Jane Carver, a hell-raising, redheaded biker chick from Coral Gables, Florida, had found a new life and love on Waar, a savage planet of fearsome creatures and swashbuckling warriors. Until the planet's high priests sent her back to Earth against her will. But nobody keeps Jane from her man, even if he happens to be a purpleskinned alien nobleman.
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Knife-Sworn
Mazarkis Williams
Sarmin, recently crowned emperor, has wed his love Mesema of the horse tribes; the Pattern-Master is dead. Everything should be happy-ever-after. But when those whom Sarmin saved from the Pattern-Master's curse, turn to Mogyrk, the god of their ancient foe, for comfort, the worst damage left by the Pattern-Master is about to take Sarmin unawares.
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Get the November Night Shade Bundle here
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| Fairwood Press Bundle |
Flying in the Heart of the Lafayette Escadrille
James Van Pelt
A carnival of science fiction, fantasy and horror tales. Hang on as you fly a WWI fighter plane hanging in a singles’ bar, ride a dragon from a troubled-man’s past, and run genetically engineered world record marathons. A journey into the very heart of dreams and fears.
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Over the Darkened Landscape
Derryl Murphy
An award-winning mix of fantasy and science fiction. Includes Murphy’s "Magic Canada" stories, tales that take events in Canada’s history and then give them a fantastical spin.
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Get the November Fairwood Press Discount Bundle here
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| Contest News |
We asked our readers who are military veterans where they served. Tally of entries in the Baen Veteran’s Day contest entries by service: Army is in the lead, with 125 entries. Navy is in second place with 75, followed by Air Force with 60, Marines with 36, Coast Guard with nine, Army National Guard has 10, Air National Guard has five.
Of the foreign countries, Canada is in the lead with seven entries, followed by Australia and Sweden tied at five. The U.K. has three, New Zealand has two, and these countries have one each: Italy, Israel, Greece, South Africa, Croatia, (former) East Germany, France, Finland, and Belgium.
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Don’t forget to check out the Baen new book releases here. And for upcoming appearances by Baen authors and editors, check here.
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