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In this issue: Mother Russia falls into the Ring of Fire, we learn the secret to the fate of humanity, and a young soldier wages a war against an alien menace. All that, plus new fiction from Ryk E. Spoor.
   November 2017
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book cover The Fight for Mother Russia

It’s been five years since a cosmic incident known as The Ring of Fire transported the modern day town of Grantville, West Virginia, through time and space to 17th century Europe. The course of world history has been forever altered. And Mother Russia is no exception. Inspired by the American up-timers, Russian serfs are rebelling. Meanwhile, Czar Mikhail has escaped house arrest and is making his way by dirigible to the village of Ufa. There he intends to set up a government-in-exile. It is to Ufa that the serfs are heading, as well. The path is dangerous—for the serfs as well as the czar. But it could be that a new wind of liberty is about to blow three centuries early—and change Mother Russia forever.

Get 1637: The Volga Rules eARC here.





Hell Will Break Loose

Despite unprecedented victories on the part of humanity, the war with the alien Chiata Horde drags on. In fact, intelligence suggests that the Chiata Invasion is at hand, and with numbers sure to overwhelm humankind. But hope has come from an unlikely source: the Thgreet, long-dead inhabitants of a world ground under the heels of the Chiata millennia ago. In the crumbled ruins of their homeworld is a map—and it may lead to victory. Meanwhile, Alexander Moore’s daughter, Deanna Moore, now known by the callsign “Phoenix,” wages a personal war on the Chiata.

Get Bringers of Hell eARC here.


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book cover The Mission to Save Humanity. Or Doom Us Forever

In 2065, space scientist Chris Holt discovers that one of the asteroids he is surveying for mining is actually a derelict spaceship. Meanwhile, across the galaxy a war has been underway between alien civilizations that have very different ideas about what should be done about emerging civilizations like our own. The truth can only be discovered on Methonē, a tiny moon of the planet Saturn. But the nations of Earth in their race to get there may destroy the one chance we have to survive. It’s up to Holt to bring humanity face to face with an intelligence that may give us the key to the universe. Or shut the door to the stars for all time.

Get Mission to Methonē eARC here.



New Fiction and Nonfiction at Baen.com

The Apocalypse has been Postponed

It’s rare that Agent Dana Kisaragi gets a call from Central. It usually means something very bad has happened, and this time is no different. A class seven paranormal manifestation has been sighted. Class seven! But in this case, it’s not the giant rock-worm known as a dhole that has Central’s interest. It’s the teenage girl who’s facing it down. A teenage girl who calls herself Princess Holy Aura.

Read “On-sight for the Apocalypse,” a companion story to Ryk E. Spoor’s Princess Holy Aura here.



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Electrifying!

We take the electric grid for granted these days. Walk into a dark room: flip a switch and the gloom is banished. But just over a hundred years ago, the electric grid was unheard of. And the road to powering America—and the World—has been a circuitous one. Find out more in this month’s nonfiction essay.

Read “Grid Wars: Innovation, Feuds, Rivalry, and Revenge in the Never-ending Battle to Electrify America and the Planet” here.


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

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Coming soon to the Baen Free Radio Hour: Tim Powers talks about art and craft in his collection Down and Out in Purgatory: The Collected Stories of Tim Powers. And Editor William Ledbetter and Jim Baen Memorial Award winners discuss their stories in the new anthology The Jim Baen Memorial Award: The First Decade. New episode every Friday! Missed past episodes? No problem. We’ve got every episode archived for your listening pleasure.

Listen to the Baen Free Radio Hour now.


Baen Ebook Releases

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1637: The Volga Rules - HALF
Eric Flint & Paula Goodlett & Gorg Huff


Inspired by the American up-timers, Russian serfs are rebelling. Meanwhile, Czar Mikhail has escaped house arrest and is making his way by dirigible to the village of Ufa, where he intends to set up a government-in-exile. The path is dangerous—for the serfs as well as the czar. But it could be that a new wind of liberty is about to blow three centuries early—and change Mother Russia forever.
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Bringers of Hell - HALF
Travis S. Taylor


Despite unprecedented victories on the part of humanity, the war with the alien Chiata Horde drags on. Meanwhile, Alexander Moore’s daughter, Deanna Moore, now known by the callsign “Phoenix,” wages a personal war on the alien menace.

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Mission to Methonē
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Les Johnson


Turns out, humanity is far from alone in the galaxy—and our future may depend on one man discovering a strange secret on the tin, egg-shaped moon of Methonē. The only question is, will he get there in time?
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The Complete Psychotechnic League, Volume 2 - HALF
Poul Anderson


Volume two of three collecting the complete Psychotechnic League stories by science fiction legend Poul Anderson. Includes “The Snows of Ganymede,” a full-length novel never before collected in a Psychotechnic League volume.
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Monster Hunter Memoirs: Sinners
Larry Correia & John Ringo

With New Orleans out of control, Chad Oliver Gardenier, one of Monster Hunter International’s premier hunters, has been dispatched from Seattle to reinforce the beleaguered members of MHI’s Hoodoo Squad in their fight against the darkness.
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Project Elfhome
Wen Spencer

Short stories that transport the reader to the fascinating realm known as Elfhome, a world where modern day Pittsburgh and the kingdom of the Elves collide.

Get the February ebooks bundle here

*This Baen Ebooks subscription bundle will dissolve on February 5, 2018. After that date, these books will be available for individual sale only.*

Fairwood Press

Transfigurations
Michael Bishop

On the planet Bosk Veld, a hominoid species of alien known as the Asadi live. Egan Chaney spent years studying the Asadi, believing them to have devolved from a higher race. Now, Chaney is missing. Now, his daughter, Elegy Cather treks into the wilderness of Bosk Veld in search of her father. But what she finds will be far stranger than she could have imagined.


The Experience Arcade and Other Stories
James Van Pelt

This new collection consists of twenty-four of the stories Van Pelt sold from his write-a-story-a-week-for-a-year challenge he started in 2015. Every story has a brief teaser for readers, and every story has a postscript for writers and teachers that talks about the thinking that went into the writing of the stories.


Red Dust and Dancing Horses and Other Stories
Beth Cato

Debut collection from Nebula-nominated author Beth Cato. Here you'll find the souls of horses bonded into war machines of earth and air, toilet gnomes on the rampage, magical pies, a mad scientist mother, a bitter old man who rages against giant extraterrestrial robots, and a sentient house that longs to be a home.

Ring of Fire Press

No Ship for Tranquebar
Kevin H. and Karen C. Evans

Sure. Of course in 1634 you could build a dirigible in Denmark and fly it to India. Why Not? Another story from the New York Times best selling "1632" series.

Wordfire Press

Albatross
R. MacAvoy & Nancy Palmer

Rob MacAulay flies high and lonely in his mind. He is now also running from a government that has gone insane. He was born with one strange gift, and has made many strange friends. It may be that the friends will be more important to him.


Griffin’s Feather
J.T. Evans

Marcus Barber is a two-thousand-year old immortal, a former Roman Centurion working as a bounty hunter for ancient supernatural creatures. When he’s not pounding the pavement as a private investigator for mortal clients, Marcus chases down missing mythological creatures for the Ancients. Marcus searches for a missing Griffin while trying to rescue a melting Ice Pixie from an eccentric collector. By leveraging his stubbornness and his specialized skills, Marcus has to accomplish everything within 24 hours or else the Ancients will have his immortal soul.


Monsterland
Michael Okon

Wyatt Baldwin, a high school student and life-long horror movie buff, is staring bleakly at a future of flipping burgers. Due to a fortuitous circumstance, Wyatt and his friends are invited to the star-studded opening of Monsterland. In a theme park full of real vampires, werewolves and zombies, what could possibly go wrong?


Get the November Wordfire Press Bundle here


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