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.

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.

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.

November 3rd is election season here in the USA. Of course, the USE (that is, the United States of Europe in Eric Flint's Ring of Fire series) already has a capable leader in Michael Stearns. But all this talk of casting ballots got us wondering: Which character from Baen Books would you vote for as President of the United States and why. Let us know in a short paragraph (100 words or fewer) to win a signed copy of the new Ring of Fire novel 1637: No Peace Beyond the Line.

Last month, to celebrate Halloween, we decided to give away two books that take a terrifying look at what might have been, David Weber and Jacob Holo's The Valkyrie Protocol and Weird World War III, edited by Sean Patrick Hazlett. Congrats to Leigh Smith, who wins signed copies of both books!

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