In an alternate 15th century where magic still is part of life, the Holy Roman Empire rules Europe. Constantinople is under siege by the Venetians and their allies.  Hekate, Goddess of Crossroads, presides over the conflict and carnage as alternate visions of civilization collide.  And since Constantinople is the crossroad city of east and west, and it is here that Italian captain Benito Valdosta must deal with the powerful magical manifestation of the Weeping Woman, a disguised Hekate,  in order to save his daughter and to destroy the fleets of the Chernobog assembling in the Black Sea before they can cut into the soft underbelly of Europe.

With land battle, naval action, cunning assassinations, and heartbreak aplenty—not to mention the ongoing conflict between Lord of the Dead Aidonus and Benito for the love of a woman, civilization is at the crossroads and choices must be made that will bring victory and freedom for centuries to come—or a new Dark Age.

A young woman becomes paralyzed and must become a brainship—and find her Brawn, her human soul mate, so that she can discover a cure for her illness.

Tia Cade is a headstrong, smart, and very normal girl until she contracts a terrible illness that leaves her with the bare semblance of life. Tia's only hope: to become the oldest person ever to train to be one of the legendary star travelers, the brainships. But now that Tia is free of her ravaged body, there still remains the task of finding the right partner to be her Brawn, the human element every brainship requires. And when the disease that debilitated Tia threatens thousands more, selecting a Brawn who is her true soul mate may allow Tia to find the origin of the terrible plague—and perhaps even a cure.

Joy to the world . . . or, joy to the worlds! Let heaven and nature—and also the supernatural—sing. A Cosmic Christmas presents twelve stories of Christmas in very unusual circumstances, ranging from vampires to robots, from the hills of Appalachia to a high orbit space station, all celebrating the holiday in their own, off-beat ways.

New York Times best-selling author Larry Correia sends his popular tough guy detective and magicwielder, Jake Sullivan, on a special case at Christmas time, while visions of tommy guns dance in the heads of the thugs he's up against. Mark L. Van Name's Lobo, an A.I. housed in a pocket battle starship, drops his usual cynical pose to help a troubled family at Christmas time. Nebula Award-winner Catherine Asaro tells of a romantic Yuletide weekend that turns into a mystery in a futuristic high-tech house. New York Times best seller Mercedes Lackey offers a Christmas ghost the likes of which Scrooge never encountered. George O. Smith, a star of the Golden Age of science fiction, is on hand with an episode from his classic Venus Equilateral series, in which a Christmas celebration on a gigantic space station is interrupted by the arrival of a ruthless interplanetary criminal, who didn't drop by to hand out presents. And much more, in a holiday package that any fan of science fiction and fantasy would be delighted to find under their tree, on any planet.

Two novels of elvish lore and modern noir.

Beyond World’s End:
Eric Banyon, elvish knight and bard, moves back to the Big Apple to finish his interrupted education at Juilliard School of Music. Soon Eric discovers that unscrupulous researchers have created a drug to unlock magical powers in humans—and something evil from Underhill plans to use those human powers to dominate World Above. But Eric is one bard who is going to let no such thing happen.

Spirits White as Lightning:
Eric Banyon has more to worry about than passing his courses at Juilliard. The evil elf lord Aerune, whose love was killed by mortal men, is determined to destroy the human race. Eric’s only hope of stopping Aerune is to trap him inside a magical maze—but first he must journey to the heart of Aerune’s realm and trick the elf lord into a deadly chase.

W201209 September 2012 Monthly Baen Bundle

Monster Hunter Legion

by Larry Correia

Dragon Ship

by Sharon Lee and Steve Miller

A Host of Furious Fancies

by Mercedes Lackey and Rosemary Edghill

A Beautiful Friendship

by David Weber

Ring of Fire III

by Eric Flint

Undercurrents

by Robert Buettner

When the People Fell

by Cordwainer Smith

Emile and the Dutchman

by Joel Rosenberg

MUSIC HAS CHARMS . . .

Eric Banyon was a talented music whose lady had left him singing the blues and playing his flute in a deserted corner of the Renaissance Faire. He couldn’t have known that the desperate sadness of his music would free Korendil, a young elven noble, from the magical prison he had been languishing in for centuries.

Suddenly, Eric had no time to be in the dumps, as he had to help his new acquaintance fight against the evil elf lord who had first imprisoned Korendil and now seeks to conquer all of California.

And that was only the beginning.

W201203 March 2012 Monthly Baen Bundle

A Rising Thunder

by David Weber

The Star Beast

by Robert A. Heinlein

The Forerunner Factor

by Andre Norton

The Amazon Legion

by Tom Kratman

Overkill

by Robert Buettner

Sir Dominic Flandry: The Last Knight of Terra

by Poul Anderson

Bedlam's Bard

by Mercedes Lackey and Ellen Guon

After an Earth-scarring apocalyptic battle, the meta-humans have turned back a massive invasion of super-science powered Nazi war machines. Now meta-hero organization Echo and sometime Russian ally CCCP must battle back. Task one: to hunt down the secret puppetmasters behind the Nazi robot invasion, the Thule Society. It's "go time" once again for the meta-heroes, including fire-bender John Murdock, hacker-witch Vikki Nagy, healer Belladona Blue, super-quick Mercurye—and most of all for their ghostly ally, Seraphym, the spirit of the world who uses her secret influence to direct the fight against a Thulian-based tyranny of evil and slavery that is fast descending upon the entire universe!

After an Earth-scarring apocalyptic battle, the meta-humans have turned back a massive invasion of super-science powered Nazi war machines. Now meta-hero organization Echo and sometime Russian ally CCCP must battle back. Task one: to hunt down the secret puppetmasters behind the Nazi robot invasion, the Thule Society. It's "go time" once again for the meta-heroes, including fire-bender John Murdock, hacker-witch Vikki Nagy, healer Belladona Blue, super-quick Mercurye—and most of all for their ghostly ally, Seraphym, the spirit of the world who uses her secret influence to direct the fight against a Thulian-based tyranny of evil and slavery that is fast descending upon the entire universe!

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World Divided: Book Two of the Secret World Chronicle

by Mercedes Lackey with Cody Martin, Dennis Lee and Veronica Giguere

Guardian of Night

by Tony Daniel

In Fire Forged: Worlds of Honor V

by David Weber

The Crucible of Empire

by Eric Flint and K. D. Wentworth

Carousel Tides

by Sharon Lee

Earthblood and Other Stories

by Keith Laumer and Rosel George Brown
edited by Eric Flint

The General's President

by John Dalmas

The Orc Wars

by John Dalmas

W201201 January 2012 Monthly Baen Bundle

Grantville Gazette, Volume VI

by Eric Flint

Cobra Gamble: Cobra War Book III

by Timothy Zahn

Sixth Column

by Robert A. Heinlein

Voyage Across the Stars

by David Drake

Invasion: Book One of the Secret World Chronicles

by Mercedes Lackey, Steve Libby, Cody Martin, and Dennis Lee

Back to the Moon

by Travis S. Taylor and Les Johnson

Golden Reflections

by Fred Saberhagen

Beauty Meets Beast in San Francisco

Accepting employment as a governess after hard times hit her family, medieval scholar Rosalind Hawkins is surprised when she learns that her mysterious employer has no children, no wife, and she is not to meet with him face to face. Instead, her duties are to read to him, through a speaking tube, from ancient manuscripts in obscure, nearly-forgotten dialects.

A requirement for the job was skill in translating medieval French, and she now understands the reason for that requirement, and assumes her unseen employer’s interest in the descriptions of medieval spells and sorcery is that of an eccentric antiquary. What she does not realize is that his interest is anything but academic. He has a terrible secret and is desperately searching for something that can reverse the effects of the misfired spell which created his predicament.

W201111 November 2011 Monthly Baen Bundle

Spellbound: Book II of the Grimnoir Chronicles

by Larry Correia

Wolf Among the Stars

by Steve White

Moonsinger's Quest

by Andre Norton

Citadel

by John Ringo

Worlds

by Eric Flint

Mouse and Dragon

by Sharon Lee and Steve Miller

The Power of Illusion

by Christopher Anvil
edited by Eric Flint

The Fire Rose

by Mercedes Lackey

The world had become used to the metahumans-people sometimes perfectly ordinary,but sometimes quite extraordinary in appearance-who mostly worked with their governments as high-powered peace officers, fighting crime, and sometimes fighting rogue metahumans who had become super-criminals. Then that comfortable world ended in just one terrifying day.

Suddenly, all world governments were simultaneously attacked by soldiers in giant mecha robotic suits with the swastika symbol of the Third Reich on their metal arms. If these were Nazis, where had they been hiding since the end of World War II? And where had they gotten armor and weapons far in advance of anything on the planet? Weapons against which even the metahuman heroes seemed to be helpless...

About the Authors

Mercedes Lackey is the New York Times best-selling author of the Bardic Voices series and the SERRAted Edge series (both Baen), the Heralds of Valdemar series (DAW), and many more. She was one of the first writers to have an online newsgroup devoted to her writing. Among her popular Baen titles are The Fire Rose, The Lark and the Wren, and The Shadow of the Lion (with Eric Flint and Dave Freer). She lives in Oklahoma.

Steve Libby was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, a few months before mankind landed on the Moon, and ever since his head has been elsewhere. He has worked as a graphic designer, a teacher of computer graphics, a web designer, and occasionally plays guitar with a seven piece funk band.

Cody Martin is originally from Scottsdale, Arizona, and currently resides in Florida, where he's a self-described anarchist and avid gamer.

Dennis Lee was born in Seoul, Korea and was moved to Canada before the age of two. With a degree from the University of Toronto in pharmacology, he pursues a career in cell biology research when not writing about fantastical people and, of course, making them fight each other.

W201102 February 2011 Monthly Baen Bundle

In Fire Forged: Worlds of Honor V

by David Weber

Golden Reflections

by Fred Saberhagen

Much Fall of Blood

by Mercedes Lackey, Eric Flint and Dave Freer

Countdown: The Liberators

by Tom Kratman

Bound in Blood

by P. C. Hodgell

Moon Flower

by James P. Hogan

W201103 March 2011 Monthly Baen Bundle

Invasion: Book One of the Secret World Chronicles

by Mercedes Lackey, Steve Libby, Cody Martin, and Dennis Lee

Overkill

by Robert Buettner

To the Galactic Rim

by A. Bertram Chandler

Grantville Gazette Volume V

created by Eric Flint

Alaska Republik

by Stoney Compton

Rise of the Terran Empire

by Poul Anderson

The world had become used to the metahumans-people sometimes perfectly ordinary,but sometimes quite extraordinary in appearance-who mostly worked with their governments as high-powered peace officers, fighting crime, and sometimes fighting rogue metahumans who had become super-criminals. Then that comfortable world ended in just one terrifying day.

Suddenly, all world governments were simultaneously attacked by soldiers in giant mecha robotic suits with the swastika symbol of the Third Reich on their metal arms. If these were Nazis, where had they been hiding since the end of World War II? And where had they gotten armor and weapons far in advance of anything on the planet? Weapons against which even the metahuman heroes seemed to be helpless...

About the Authors

Mercedes Lackey is the New York Times best-selling author of the Bardic Voices series and the SERRAted Edge series (both Baen), the Heralds of Valdemar series (DAW), and many more. She was one of the first writers to have an online newsgroup devoted to her writing. Among her popular Baen titles are The Fire Rose, The Lark and the Wren, and The Shadow of the Lion (with Eric Flint and Dave Freer). She lives in Oklahoma.

Steve Libby was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, a few months before mankind landed on the Moon, and ever since his head has been elsewhere. He has worked as a graphic designer, a teacher of computer graphics, a web designer, and occasionally plays guitar with a seven piece funk band.

Cody Martin is originally from Scottsdale, Arizona, and currently resides in Florida, where he's a self-described anarchist and avid gamer.

Dennis Lee was born in Seoul, Korea and was moved to Canada before the age of two. With a degree from the University of Toronto in pharmacology, he pursues a career in cell biology research when not writing about fantastical people and, of course, making them fight each other.

W201007PC July 2010 Monthly Baen Bundle

Mission of Honor

by David Weber

Jump Gate Twist

by Mark L. Van Name

Contact with Chaos

by Michael Z. Williamson

Diamond Star

by Catherine Asaro

Fires of Freedom

by Jerry Pournelle

Knight of Ghosts and Shadows

by Mercedes Lackey and Ellen Guon

Prince Manfred and his mentor and bodyguard, the deadly warrior Erik, survived dangers and enemies both natural and supernatural, and if they thought that their new mission was going to be anything but more of the same, they soon gave up on that hope. Returning from Jerusalem, they and their escort of knights of the Holy Trinity are escorting an envoy of II Khan Mongol to the lands of the Golden Horde-between the Black Sea and the Carpathians, which happen to be eastern bastion against their old enemies, the demon Chernobog and his possessed puppet, the Jangellion.

 Unfortunately, what began as a diplomatic mission leads to Manfred and his knights being caught up in an inter-clan civil war, rescuing a fugitive woman and her injured brother, and becoming involved in the problems of Prince Vlad, Duke of Valahia, who has been held as a hostage by King Emeric of Hungary until freed by Countess Elizabeth Batholdy to use as bait to capture a group of nonhumans. Instead, the wolflike nonhumans, who masquerade as gypsies, free Prince Vlad, and help him to return to his homeland to raise revolt against Hungary and to renew age-old magics.

Manfred and Erik are forced into an alliance of convenience between the Golden Horde and the ancient magical forces of Valahia, as directed by the troubled Vlad. The magic calls for blood and Vlad is deathly afraid of it—and at the same time, is irresistibly drawn toward it . . .

Calling all gods, calling all gods . . .

The creature landed, crashing through the flaming trees. The huge clawed hands, the tentacled mouth, dripping slime, all blindly lashing about searching for the Bard.

Who was sprawled in the smoldering leaves, less than twenty feet away.

Oh God—oh God—it's trashing the Grove, trying to find me. If I run, it'll zero in on me in a few seconds, there isn't anything else I can hide behind. And if I stay here—

Eric brought the flute to his lips, and played for all he was worth.

"Banish Misfortune"—oh, God, please, if there's any resident deity around here, get me out of this!

Eric Banyon, musician, is out playing the blues on his flute one day, but he couldn't have known that the desperate sadness of his music would free a young elven noble from the magical prison he has been languishing in for centuries—nor does he believe it!