W201507 July 2015 Monthly Baen Bundle

1636: The Cardinal Virtues

by Eric Flint and Walter H. Hunt

Chicks and Balances

by Esther Friesner

Hell's Gate

by David Weber and Linda Evans

Prisoners of Tomorrow

by James P. Hogan

Islands of Rage and Hope

by John Ringo

The Rods and the Axe

by Tom Kratman

Operation Damocles

by Oscar L. Fellows

The Gentle Seduction

by Marc Stiegler

ORIGINAL ANTHOLOGY featuring rollicking, tongue-in-cheek tales of women warrior fighting against the stodgy and in the name of freedom of expression, Chicks in Chainmail style!

Continuing a great tradition, Chicks and Balances is not what you might think (or it is what you think, depending on which way your mind runs). What we have here is a bunch of perfectly healthy women who happen to be of the brass-bra-wearing and chain-link bikinis sort. Each is fighting in her own way for the freedom to express herself--often by thrusting sword through a censor's black heart! Be glad, the chicks in chainmail are back, and they will not be oppressed, repressed, or depressed!

All new adventures of fearless women warriors by Nebula-winning author Harry Turtledove; Jody Lynn Nye, co-author of the national bestseller The Ship Who Won; Campbell Award-winner Wen Spencer, and many more, including the inimitable Esther Friesner herself, as fantasy adventure takes a turn for the lighter side.

Listen to the author discuss the book here on the Baen Free Radio Hour.

W200910 October 2009 Monthly Baen Bundle

The Tuloriad

by John Ringo and Tom Kratman

Dragon's Ring

by Dave Freer

The Complete Hammer's Slammers: Volume 1

by David Drake

Worlds of Weber

by David Weber

Strip Mauled

by Esther Friesner

Between Planets

by Robert A. Heinlein

W201012 December 2010 Monthly Baen Bundle

Back to the Moon

by Travis S. Taylor and Les Johnson

Sir Dominic Flandry: The Last Knight of Terra

by Poul Anderson

Chicks Ahoy

by Esther Friesner

Countdown: The Liberators

by Tom Kratman

Cobra Alliance: Cobra War Book I

by Timothy Zahn

Here they come, and they’re out for blood. For too long, they say, have hot blooded babes in brass bras and chain link bikinis been held up to scorn as the embodiment of male fantasy wish-fulfillment and non-fictionality. You think their swords won’t cut, their clubs won’t crush? You think they look cute?

It’s time to take sword-swinging amazons more seriously. Well, maybe not too seriously. After all, the popular Chicks in Chainmail series wasn’t known for stark drama and solemn think-pieces. In fact, they made a lot of people laugh. And now the first three books in the series are combined in one volume.

· Chicks in Chainmail (The look at the lighter side of amazons that started it all.)

· Did You Say Chicks? (Smile when you say that, you wimpy noncombatant!)

· Chicks ‘n Chained Males (Those men just can’t take care of themselves, so send in the amazons!)

It’s all right to have a laugh or two. The swordswomen like a good laugh as much as the next amazon. Just don’t let them get the idea that you’re laughing at them, instead of with them—if you know what’s good for you . . .

Stories of fierce female fighters by Harry Turtledove, Roger Zelazny, Elizabeth Moon, Jan and S.M. Stirling, K. D. Wentworth, Lawrence Watt-Evans and more—including Esther Friesner herself.

About the Author

Esther Friesner is winner twice over of the coveted Nebula Award (for the Year’s Best short Story, 1995 and 1996) and is the author of over thirty novels, including the USA Today best-seller Warchild, and more than one hundred short stories. For Baen she edited the five popular “Chicks in Chainmail” anthologies. Her works have been published in the UK, Japan, Germany, Russia, France and Italy. She lives in Connecticut with her husband, two children, and two rambunctious cats.

W201010 October 2010 Monthly Baen Bundle

1635: The Eastern Front

by Eric Flint

MYTH-Interpretations: The Worlds of Robert Asprin

by Robert Asprin

The Power of Illusion

by Christopher Anvil
edited by Eric Flint

Monster Hunter Vendetta

by Larry Correia

Fangs for the Mammaries

by Esther Friesner

Of Berserkers, Swords and Vampires

by Fred Saberhagen

Having inflicted the smug homes of suburbia with witches and werewolves. Esther Friesner now unleashes the undead to tap a vein of blood and humor, and drain the suburbs dry of both.

Vampires and the suburbs are a match made in heaven, or maybe Levittown. Remember Dracula? He didn't run into any real problems until he took his act on the road and traveled to the Big City. But in the suburbs, everyone is polite and respectful of their neighbors' right to privacy. And if your neighbors happen to have kids selling gift-wrap, magazine subscriptions, cookies, or other school fundraising ploys, and little Emily or Jason happen to come peddling their wares after sundown . . .  Who says you have to stay in the city if you want good take-out meals delivered right to your door? There's no one quite like a vampire for saying, “All of you kids get off of my lawn!” and putting some teeth  into it.

The stories in these pages—by Sarah A. Hoyt, K.D. Wentworth, Dave Freer and more, including Esther Friesner herself—will convince the reader that vampires and suburbs go together like wine and cheese, gin and tonic, desperation and housewives, marriage and pre-nups. Enter freely and of your own will...

Werewolves and the suburbs are a natural go-together. Okay, so they’re not the Obligatory/Iconic Suburban Golden Retriever or Chocolate Labrador, but they’ve got a much better chance of taking home the Best in Show ribbon than their Undead rivals, the vampires. In some suburban households, if it brings home a trophy, who cares if it also brings home bloody chunks of the neighbors every time the full moon shines? And let’s not forget one more advantage to the suburban werewolf: If his lupine side does something nasty on your lawn, his human side can come by later with the Pooper Scooper. In your face, Dracula!

Therefore, welcome to the fur-sprouting, mall-browsing, moon-howling, latté-sipping world of Strip Mauled. You’ll like what you find.

Sit.   Stay.   Good reader.

Stories of suburban lycanthropy by Sarah A. Hoyt, Dave Freer, K. D. Wentworth, and more—including Esther Friesner herself.

Move over, urban fantasy—here comes suburban fantasy. What self-respecting witch, vampire, or werewolf would be caught dead—or undead—anywhere but the Big City, you may ask Look, let's give the uncanny crew a little credit for intelligence: If they had the smarts to see the advantage in packing up and moving into the cities, why wouldn't they have the smarts to move out of said cities if it looked like they could get a better quality-of-life/death elsewhere (Tough enough going about your otherworldly business and evading the occasional mob wielding halogen torches and designer pitchforks, but have you ever seen city real estate prices )

So let's welcome our first group of supernatural suburbanites, the witches. Their powers are awesome, their methods of coping with the lumps, bumps, and idiosyncrasies of Suburbia are ingenious, and they always bring the loveliest gingerbread to the PTA bake sale. But whatever you do, don't try telling them that life in a non-city setting is bland, banal and boring, or you might get turned into . . . ribbit!  

Stories of suburban sorcery by Harry Turtledove, Sarah A. Hoyt, Jan and S.M. Stirling, K. D. Wentworth, and more—including Esther Friesner herself.

W200204 April 2002 Monthly Baen Bundle

When the Devil Dances

by John Ringo

The Tyrant

by Eric Flint and David Drake

Midnight at the Well of Souls

by Jack L. Chalker

Gust Front

by John Ringo

His Father's Son

by Nigel Bennett and P. N. Elrod

Chicks 'n Chained Males

by Esther Friesner

AMAZONS 'R US

Continuing a great tradition, Chicks 'n Chained Males is not what you think. That place is down the block, on another street, in another city. In fact, if that's what you're looking for one of our Chicks, Helga her name is, will be over shortly to give you a send-off you won't soon forget. (The term Bouncer takes on a whole new meaning....)

All we have here is a bunch of perfectly healthy babes in brass bras and chain-link bikinis, bearing broad swords and filled with good intentions. Never would such as they stoop to the exploitation of those poor chained males who have suddenly found themselves under their protection and succor. Never would they force those poor boys to do anything they did not wish to do; perish that thought on the nearest sharp blade!

No-no—these chicks are here to rescue these victims of male-abuse from any number of Fates Worse Than Death.... Right here. Right now.

Editor's Note: The Editor wishes it known that the title for volume was chosen by the Publisher and not by her. As a card-carrying Thoroughly Modern Liberated Woman, it would simply never occur to her to propose such a title, and she was shocked—shocked—that it did to anyone else, let alone the Publisher, who was formerly known as a sensitive New Age Guy in good standing (subject to change without notice). And besides, if a swordswoman has to chain up a man to keep him in line, she's being lazy and not paying proper attention to obedience training....

W200603 March 2006 Monthly Baen Bundle

Kildar

by John Ringo

Boundary

by Eric Flint and Ryk E. Spoor

Grantville Gazette, Volume II

created by Eric Flint

Cally's War

by John Ringo and Julie Cochrane

Turn the Other Chick

by Esther Friesner

W200411 November 2004 Monthly Baen Bundle

The Shadow of Saganami

by David Weber

There Will be Dragons

by John Ringo

Master of the Cauldron

by David Drake

Turn the Other Chick

by Esther Friesner

Guardians of the Flame: To Home and Ehvenor

by Joel Rosenberg

Grantville Gazette, Volume I

created by Eric Flint

THOSE RAMBUNCTIOUS CHICKS IN CHAINMAIL
ARE BACK—AND BOTH THEIR WIT AND
THEIR SWORDS ARE AS SHARP AS EVER!

One good turn deserves another and those unpredictable amazons are in action again, swords sharpened, chainmail polished, and makeup in place, ready to fight the good fight on the field of battle. And if you think they're just male wish-fulfillment fantasies, you'd better say it under your breath and out of their earshot, because these barbarian babes were born to battle.

All new adventures of fearless women warriors by Eric Flint, author of 1632; Nebula-winning author Harry Turtledove; Jody Lynn Nye, co-author of the national best seller The Ship Who Won; Campbell Award-winner Wen Spencer, and many more, including the inimitable Esther Friesner herself, as fantasy adventure takes a turn for the lighter side.

ABOUT THE EDITOR

Esther Friesner is a winner twice over of the coveted Nebula Award (for the Year's Best Short Story, 1995 and 1996), and is the author of twenty-nine novels (including the USA Today best seller Warchild) and more than one hundred short stories. She has also having edited six anthologies, including the four previous volumes in the very popular Chicks in Chainmail series for Baen: Chicks in Chainmail, Did You Say Chicks! , Chicks 'n Chained Males, and The Chick is in the Mail. Her works have been published in the UK, Japan, Germany, Russia, France, and Italy. She lives in Connecticut with her husband, two children, and two rambunctious cats.

DOW JONES
MEETS DARKEST SORCERY!

E.Godz, Inc.'s stock-in-trade was magic. When Edwina Godz inherited the family corporation, she immediately put to work all the sorcery she knew, taking shamans on board as subsidiaries, and raking in the benefits of the material world, including big profits and a high-selling stock.

Unfortunately, Edwina's two children hated each other's guts, and if she stepped aside and let them take over the company, it was certain to go down the tubes. So she decided to let them fight it out for dominance using all the tricks of both corporate in-fighting and wizardly warfare that she had taught them.

It's no holds (or spells) barred—and may the most evil and ruthless sorcerer win!

ABOUT THE AUTHORS

Robert Asprin was the New York Times bestselling author of the Phule's Company series of space adventures and the nationally bestselling Myth Adventures series of humorous fantasies. He was the creator and editor of the Thieves' World series, the first shared universe series in fantasy and science fiction. Asprin makes his home in New Orleans.

Esther Friesner is a winner twice over of the coveted Nebula Award (for the Year's Best Short Story, 1995 and 1996), and is the author of twenty-nine novels and more than one hundred short stories. She has also edited six anthologies, including the very popular Chicks in Chainmail series for Baen. Her works have been published in the UK, Japan, Germany, Russia, France, and Italy. She lives in Connecticut with her husband, two children, two rambunctious cats, and a fluctuating population of hamsters.