Ryk E. Spoor

Ryk E. Spoor, while earning his master's degree in information science at the University of Pittsburgh, became a playtesting consultant and writer for the Wizards of the Coast, then merely a startup, now the leading publisher of role-playing games, Magic: The Gathering®, and related gaming materials. He now lives in East Greenbush, New York, working as Research and Development Coordinator for International Electronic Machines, and spends his non-writer time with his wife Kathleen, two sons, two daughters, a poodle, and a lot of chickens. Ryk is the coauthor with Eric Flint of five books in the Boundary science fiction series including Boundary, Threshold, Portal, Castaway Planet and Castaway Odyssey. His solo novels for Baen include Grand Central Arena, Spheres of Influence, Paradigms Lost, and Challenges of the Deep, as well as epic fantasies Phoenix Rising, Phoenix in Shadow, and Phoenix Ascendant.
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W201310 October 2013 Monthly Baen Bundle (Last date to buy September 15, 2013)
by Eric Flint and David Carrico
by David Weber and Jane Lindskold
Worlds of Edgar Rice Burroughs
by Mike Resnick and Robert T. Garcia
In Space No One Can Hear You Scream
edited by Hank Davis
by Larry Correia and Mike Kupari
by Ryk E. Spoor
Eleutherios
by Sharon Lee and Steve Miller
Seven Miles
by T.C. McCarthy
To Spec
by Charles E. Gannon
Skyspark
by Ryk E. Spoor
The Krumhorn and Misericorde
by Dave Freer
Pittsburgh Backyard and Garden
by Wen Spencer
Haunts of Guilty Minds
by John Lambshead
The Lamplighter Legacy
by Patrick O'Sullivan
Dog's Body
by Sarah A. Hoyt
The Sorcerer of Daigawa
by Jon F. Merz
Sweothi City
by Larry Correia
Out of True
by Sharon Lee and Steve Miller
Mars Farts
by Ben Bova
The Virgin of Hertogenbosch
by David Drake
Murder on the Hochflieger Ost
by Frank Chadwick
Sequel to Threshold, Book Three in the best-selling Boundary series.
An exploratory mission to Mars and beyond begets a rush to gain control of advanced alien technology—even if it leads to an interplanetary war.
Stranded on Europa: Madeline Fathom miraculously crash lands the crippled Nebula Storm on Europa with the surviving crewmembers of an ill-fated EU vessel landing nearby. Help is most definitely not on the way. Escaping a trap of mysterious alien technology—then using it to her advantage—is Madeline's only chance to escape a very frosty demise on a very lonely moon.
Sequel to Threshold, Book Three in the best-selling Boundary series.
An exploratory mission to Mars and beyond begets a rush to gain control of advanced alien technology—even if it leads to an interplanetary war.
Stranded on Europa: Madeline Fathom miraculously crash lands the crippled Nebula Storm on Europa with the surviving crewmembers of an ill-fated EU vessel landing nearby. Help is most definitely not on the way. Escaping a trap of mysterious alien technology—then using it to her advantage—is Madeline's only chance to escape a very frosty demise on a very lonely moon.
Listen to the author discuss the book here on the Baen Free Radio Hour.
SKU: 9781451638967
$6.99
ISBN: 9781451638967
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ISBN: 9781476736426
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A new breakout fantasy epic filled with strong world building, engaging characters, and wondrous adventure.
Kyri: a highborn young woman whose life is shattered by the murder of her kin. But even as Kyri flees her beloved land Evanwyl, she knows that she is her family's only hope for justice, and Evanwyl's only chance to escape a growing shadow of corruption and destruction.
Now Kyri must venture across Zarathan, a world on the brink of a long foretold Chaos War. It is a struggle that may usher in a long age of darkness— that is, if Kyri and her companions do not succeed in holding back the tide of evil that is rising. Those companions include valiant swordsman Tobimar Silverun, Prince of Skysand, exiled on the turn of a card and a prophecy, who is now seeking his people's lost homeland; and Poplock Duckweed, an unlikely hero whose diminutive size is as much a weapon as it is a weakness.
Kyri's quest is as simple as it is profound: find a legendary ancient weaponsmith, take up the sword and armor of a new order of warrior defenders, and bring the power of justice and vengeance to the evil and corruption that has darkened her native land.
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W201211 November 2012 Monthly Baen Bundle
by Lois McMaster Bujold
by Ryk E. Spoor
by Travis S. Taylor and Stephanie Osborn
by Robert Conroy
by Catherine Asaro
by A. Bertram Chandler
edited by Hank Davis
A new breakout fantasy epic filled with strong world building, engaging characters, and wondrous adventure.
Kyri: a highborn young woman whose life is shattered by the murder of her kin. But even as Kyri flees her beloved land Evanwyl, she knows that she is her family's only hope for justice, and Evanwyl's only chance to escape a growing shadow of corruption and destruction.
Now Kyri must venture across Zarathan, a world on the brink of a long foretold Chaos War. It is a struggle that may usher in a long age of darkness— that is, if Kyri and her companions do not succeed in holding back the tide of evil that is rising. Those companions include valiant swordsman Tobimar Silverun, Prince of Skysand, exiled on the turn of a card and a prophecy, who is now seeking his people's lost homeland; and Poplock Duckweed, an unlikely hero whose diminutive size is as much a weapon as it is a weakness.
Kyri's quest is as simple as it is profound: find a legendary ancient weaponsmith, take up the sword and armor of a new order of warrior defenders, and bring the power of justice and vengeance to the evil and corruption that has darkened her native land.
ISBN: 9781451638417
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ISBN: 9781476736136
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W201206 June 2012 Monthly Baen Bundle
by Eric Flint, Gorg Huff, and Paula Goodlett
by Larry Correia
Hank Reinhardt's Book of Knives
by Hank Reinhardt
by Eric Flint and Ryk E. Spoor
by Les Johnson and Jack McDevitt
by Poul Anderson
by Joel Rosenberg
When the strange fossil she'd discovered had ended up giving her a trip to Mars, Helen Sutter thought she'd gone about as far as any paleontologist would ever go in her lifetime. But when you've also married A.J. Baker, overconfident super- sensor expert for the only private agency in space—the Ares Corporation—and your best friend Madeline Fathom Buckley is a former secret agent who's just signed on as the chief of security for the newly created and already embattled Interplanetary Research Institute of the United Nations, there's always somewhere farther to go.
The newest discoveries will take her, A.J., and their friends Jackie, Joe, and Madeline to the mysterious asteroid Ceres—and beyond, in a desperate race to Jupiter's perilous miniature system of radiation- bombarded moons. The next gold rush is on—for alien technology, hidden in lost bases around the system. And there are people willing to do anything to get it—even plan the first interplanetary war, four hundred million miles from home!
It was supposed to be a simple test flight, one that pilot Ariane Austin was on only as a last-ditch backup; intelligent, superhumanly fast automation would handle the test activation and flight of humanity's first faster-than-light vessel. But when the Sandrisson Drive activated, every automated system crashed, the nuclear reactor itself shut down, and only the reflexes and training of a racing pilot saved the test vessel Holy Grail from crashing into the impossible wall that had appeared before them, a wall which is just part of a monstrous enclosure surrounding a space twenty thousand kilometers across. With all artificial intelligences inert and their reactor dead, they had to find some other source of power to reactivate the Sandrisson Drive and—hopefully—take them home.
And that was only the beginning. As Ariane, Dr. Simon Sandrisson, darkly enigmatic power engineer Marc C. DuQuesne, and the rest of the Holy Grail's crew explore the immense artifact, they discover that they are not alone; they have entered a place the alien inhabitants call "The Arena," and there is no way out without joining one of the alien factions . . . or winning recognition as a faction in their own right, playing by the Arena's rules—and by the Arena's rules, one failed challenge could mean death or worse—perhaps for the entire human race. Surrounded by alien factions, each with its own secret plans and motivations, some wielding powers so strange as to be magical, Ariane sets out to beat the Arena at its own game. With DuQuesne's strategies, Sandrisson's genius, and her own unyielding determination, she's going to bring the Holy Grail home—even if she has to beat every faction in the Arena to do it!
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W201006 June 2010 Monthly Baen Bundle
by Eric Flint and Ryk E. Spoor
by Sharon Lee and Steve Miller
by Sharon Lee and Steve Miller
The Military Dimension: Mark II
by David Drake
by John Ringo
by Mark L. Van Name
by Andre Norton
When the strange fossil she'd discovered had ended up giving her a trip to Mars, Helen Sutter thought she'd gone about as far as any paleontologist would ever go in her lifetime. But when you've also married A.J. Baker, overconfident super- sensor expert for the only private agency in space—the Ares Corporation—and your best friend Madeline Fathom Buckley is a former secret agent who's just signed on as the chief of security for the newly created and already embattled Interplanetary Research Institute of the United Nations, there's always somewhere farther to go.
The newest discoveries will take her, A.J., and their friends Jackie, Joe, and Madeline to the mysterious asteroid Ceres—and beyond, in a desperate race to Jupiter's perilous miniature system of radiation- bombarded moons. The next gold rush is on—for alien technology, hidden in lost bases around the system. And there are people willing to do anything to get it—even plan the first interplanetary war, four hundred million miles from home!
SKU: 1439133603
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ISBN: 1439133603
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ISBN: 9781451637779
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W201005 May 2010 Monthly Baen Bundle
by Mercedes Lackey, Eric Flint and Dave Freer
by James P. Hogan
by James G. Anderson and Mark Sebanc
by David Weber
by Robert A. Heinlein
It was supposed to be a simple test flight, one that pilot Ariane Austin was on only as a last-ditch backup; intelligent, superhumanly fast automation would handle the test activation and flight of humanity's first faster-than-light vessel. But when the Sandrisson Drive activated, every automated system crashed, the nuclear reactor itself shut down, and only the reflexes and training of a racing pilot saved the test vessel Holy Grail from crashing into the impossible wall that had appeared before them, a wall which is just part of a monstrous enclosure surrounding a space twenty thousand kilometers across. With all artificial intelligences inert and their reactor dead, they had to find some other source of power to reactivate the Sandrisson Drive and—hopefully—take them home.
And that was only the beginning. As Ariane, Dr. Simon Sandrisson, darkly enigmatic power engineer Marc C. DuQuesne, and the rest of the Holy Grail's crew explore the immense artifact, they discover that they are not alone; they have entered a place the alien inhabitants call "The Arena," and there is no way out without joining one of the alien factions . . . or winning recognition as a faction in their own right, playing by the Arena's rules—and by the Arena's rules, one failed challenge could mean death or worse—perhaps for the entire human race. Surrounded by alien factions, each with its own secret plans and motivations, some wielding powers so strange as to be magical, Ariane sets out to beat the Arena at its own game. With DuQuesne's strategies, Sandrisson's genius, and her own unyielding determination, she's going to bring the Holy Grail home—even if she has to beat every faction in the Arena to do it!
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W200802 February 2008 Monthly Baen Bundle
by John Ringo and Travis S. Taylor
by Lois McMaster Bujold
by Mark L. Van Name and T. K. F. Weisskopf
by David Drake
by Eric Flint and Ryk E. Spoor
by Philip Jose Farmer
by John Dalmas
by John Dalmas
Paradigms Shift, Worlds Collide!
A daring and resourceful paleontologist uncovers something at the infamous K-T boundary marking the end of dinosaurs in the fossil record � something big, dangerous, and absolutely, categorically impossible. It's a find that will catapult her to the Martian moon Phobos, then down to the crater-pocked desert of the Red Planet itself. For this mild-mannered fossil hunter may just have become Earth's first practicing xenobiologist!
A new hard SF thriller from best-selling alternate history master Eric Flint and ace game designer Ryk E. Spoor.
"[Eric Flint is] an SF author of particular note, one who can entertain and edify in equal, and major, measure." —Publishers Weekly
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W200603 March 2006 Monthly Baen Bundle
by John Ringo
by Eric Flint and Ryk E. Spoor
created by Eric Flint
by John Ringo and Julie Cochrane
by Esther Friesner
Paradigms Shift, Worlds Collide!
A daring and resourceful paleontologist uncovers something at the infamous K-T boundary marking the end of dinosaurs in the fossil record � something big, dangerous, and absolutely, categorically impossible. It's a find that will catapult her to the Martian moon Phobos, then down to the crater-pocked desert of the Red Planet itself. For this mild-mannered fossil hunter may just have become Earth's first practicing xenobiologist!
A new hard SF thriller from best-selling alternate history master Eric Flint and ace game designer Ryk E. Spoor.
"[Eric Flint is] an SF author of particular note, one who can entertain and edify in equal, and major, measure." —Publishers Weekly
ISBN: 1416509321
US Price: $26.00
ISBN: 1416555250
US Price: $7.99
THE HILLS ARE ALIVE—WITH MUTANTS AND MAGIC.!
Evil men and evil magic are poised to prey on the people of the hamlets and hollows of Appalachia: witches, demons, and criminals of more than one century. But the mountain folk have defenders, too, as strange and varied as the dangers that threaten them:
David Drake's unforgettable OLD NATHAN the Wizard, a backwoodsman who talks to animals and who'll fight the Devil himself if he must.
Henry Kuttner's grimly hilarious HOGBEN FAMILY, some of whom aren't entirely human—and others who're entirely inhuman.
Eric Flint and Ryk E. Spoor's SLADES, whose uneasy coexistence with underground spirits is about to end in an earthquake that'll wipe humanity off the surface of four states.
Magic, mutants, and mountaineers mixing in adventures that range from eerie to side-splittingly funny:
MOUNTAIN MAGIC
"[David Drake] has developed a following . . . just short of cult proportions." —Rave Reviews
"[Eric Flint is] an SF author of particular note, one who can entertain and edify in equal, and major, measure." —Publishers Weekly
"I consider the work of Henry Kuttner to be the finest science fantasy ever written." —Marion Zimmer Bradley
AN APOLOGY
Unfortunately the Kuttner estate does not allow publication of electronic versions of his works. So we had to remove all of the Kuttner stories from the WebScriptions version. In their place we've added Manly Wade Wellman's John the Balladeer stories. Certainly they fit the books theme of Mountain Magic.
SKU: 0743488563
$6.99
ISBN: 0743488563
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W200410 October 2004 Monthly Baen Bundle
by John Ringo and Julie Cochrane
by Margaret Ball
by Nigel Bennett and P. N. Elrod
by Fred Saberhagen
by Keith Laumer
edited by Eric Flint
by Henry Kuttner, David Drake, Eric Flint, Ryk E. Spoor and Manly Wade Wellman
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