Eleven earthshaking tales of the most fearsome creatures of all time

Eleven tales of primeval fantasy bring readers to the world of dinosaurs with the works of such notable writers as Isaac Asimov, Robert Silverberg, Ursula K. Le Guin, Roger Zelazny, Jane Yolen, Lisa Tuttle, and Michael Bishop.

"The Big Splash" by L. Sprague de Camp
"Just Like Old Times" by Robert Sawyer
"The Virgin and the Dinosaur" by R. Garcia y Robertson
"The Odd Old Bird" by Avram Davidson
"Bernie" by Ian McDowell
"Small Deer" by Clifford D. Simak
"Dinosaur Plies" by R. V. Branham
"Day of the Hunters" by Isaac Asimov
"Herding with the Hadrosaurs" by Michael Bishop
"Ontogeny Recapitulates Phlogeny" by R. Garcia y Robertson
"Trembling Earth" by Allen Steele

Fantastic tales of devilish delights.

A collection of fourteen fantastic and frightening tales from such renowned writers as Stephen King, Harlan Ellison, and Jack Vance, featuring worlds inhabited by darkness, wicked devils, dark tords, playful imps, and shapechangers.

"The Willow Platform" by Joseph Payne Brennan
"The Night of White Bhairab" by Lucius Shepard
"The Mangler" by Stephen King
"The Last Demon" by Isaac Bashevis Singer
"The Golden Rope" by Tanith Lee
"Basileus" by Robert Silverberg
"Twilla" by Tom Reamy
"The Purple Pterodactyls" by L. Sprague de Camp
"Goslin Day" by Avram Davidson
"Nellthu" by Anthony Boucher
"Snulbug" by Anthony Boucher
"One Other" by Manly Wade Wellman
"An Ornament to His Profession" by Charles L. Harness

Consider the possibilities when the mind and body are things of the past.

These cutting-edge techno-tales by Poul Anderson, Greg Egan, Michael Swanwick, and other masters explore the infinite ways that new technology will free humankind from the boundaries of the flesh.

"Call Me Joe" by Poul Anderson
"Learning to Be Me" by Greg Egan
"Pretty Boy Crossover" by Pat Cadigan
"Ancient Engines" by Michael Swanwick
"Winemaster" by Robert Reed
"More Adventures on Other Planets" by Michael Cassutt
"Nevermore" by Ian R. MacLeod
"Approaching Perimelasma" by Geoffrey A. Landis
"The Gravity Mine" by Stephen Baxter
"Reef" by Paul J. McAuley

It's the end of the world—but not as we know it . . .

As the new millennium approaches, speculations about Earth's destruction abound. This collection presents twelve world-ending scenarios that are all too frightening—and all too real.

"Fermi and Frost" by Frederik Pohl
"A Desperate Calculus" by Gregory Benford
"Evolution" by Nancy Kress
"A Message to the King of Brobdingnag" by Richard Cowper
". . . The World, As We Know’t" by Howard Waldrop
"The Peacemaker" by Gardner Dozois
"The Screwfly Solution" by Raccoona Sheldon
"A Pail of Air" by Fritz Leiber
"The Great Nebraska Sea" by Allan Danzig
"Inconstant Moon" by Larry Niven
"The Last Sunset" by Geoffrey A. Landis
"Down in the Dark" by William Barton

Look closely. They’re here.

In this thought-provoking collection of short stories, some of the most ingenious talents in science fiction explore the secret lives of the aliens who walk among us...

"The Other Celia" by Theodore Sturgeon
"Residuals" by Paul J. McAuley & Kim Newman
"Eight O'Clock in the Morning" by Ray Nelson
"Expendable" by Philip K. Dick
"The Reality Trip" by Robert Silverberg
"Decency" by Robert Reed
"The Mindworm" by C. M. Kornbluth
"Popeye and Pops Watch the Evening World Report" by Eliot Fintushel
"The Autopsy" by Michael Shea
"Or All the Seas with Oysters" by Avram Davidson
"Angel" by Pat Cadigan
“Among the Hairy Earthmen" by R. A. Lafferty
"I'm Too Big But I Love To Play" by James Tiptree Jr.
"The Hero as Werwolf" by Gene Wolfe
"Motherhood, Etc." by L. Timmel Duchamp

Features H.G. Wells’ prequel, “The Crystal Egg”Includes a non-fiction essay, “The Things that Live on Mars,” by H.G. WellsContains the original illustrations by Alvim Correa and W.R. LeighNow with an Historical Afterword by Ron Miller
Featured in Ron Miller’s “The Conquest of Space Book Series.”

The first true space travel stories weren't written until after 1610. Before then, no one knew for sure that there even were other worlds than this one. But Galileo's great discoveries changed all that. People began to wonder what these other worlds might be like and authors lost no time in getting their interplanetary stories into print. The earliest authors were at a loss regarding exactly how to get their heroes to the Moon and other worlds and had to resort to magic and other unlikely devices. The invention of the balloon was a godsend. For the first time a man-made device enabled humans to leave the surface of the Earth---and there was a renewed surge of space travel stories. Most of these authors merely used the Moon and planets as a convenient backdrop for social satire, but others took some pains to get the science correct---or at least as correct as knowledge of the time permitted. The books in this series run the gamut from from balloons to antigravity, from what may be the first interplanetary story ever written to the first suggestion ever for a passenger-carrying rocket. 

Many of these books and stories have not been available in any form for decades. They all contain historical essays and other material written specially for this series by Ron Miller.

Across the Zodiac

by Percy Greg
edited by Ron Miller

Doctor Omega

by Arnould Galopin
edited by Ron Miller

Gulliver of Mars

by Edwin L. Arnold
edited by Ron Miller

A Plunge into Space

by Robert Cromieedited by Ron Miller

To Mars via the Moon

by Mark Wicks
edited by Ron Miller

The War of the Worlds

by H.G. Wells
edited by Ron Miller

Now with an Historical Afterword by Ron MillerIncludes the original illustrations
Featured in Ron Miller’s “The Conquest of Space Book Series.” This 1911 novel by Mark Wicks describes a journey to the moon and Mars in the anti-gravity spaceship Areonal. Heavily influenced by the work of Percival Lowell, the book is an accurate mirror of the popular interest in Mars at the time it was written. Contains the original illustrations, many of which were drawn by the author.

Now with an Historical Afterword by Ron Miller
Featured in Ron Miller’s “The Conquest of Space Book Series.” Robert Cromie's 1890 novel contains a detailed description of a spacecraft, a realistic description of the deserts of Mars and some fascinating technological prophecies, such as televised broadcasts of concerts and plays. As most authors of interplanetary stories of his era did, Cromie uses the Martian civilization to comment on his own. Interestingly, the book contains an extremely well-drawn heroine in the form of a Martian girl, Mignonette. Foreword by Jules Verne, frontispiece and map.

Now with an Historical Afterword by Ron Miller
Featured in Ron Miller’s “The Conquest of Space Book Series.” Edwin Arnold’s novel of high adventure on the Red Planet that inspired Edgar Rice Burroughs’ Barsoom series. Originally published in 1905.

Complete, unabridged English translationNow with an Historical Afterword by Ron MillerAccompanied by the original illustrations
Featured in Ron Miller’s “The Conquest of Space Book Series.” Originally published in 1906, Arnould Galopin's novel tells of a flight to Mars by three Frenchman in an antigravity spaceship, the Cosmos.

Now with an Historical Afterword by Ron Miller
Featured in Ron Miller’s “The Conquest of Space Book Series.” The 1880 novel by Percy Greg that introduced the word "astronaut" to the language tells of a voyage by spaceship to Mars and the discovery there of a dysfunctional scientific utopia.

Book One of the Cobra Rebellion Saga, and a new entry in New York Times #1 best seller Timothy Zahn's legendary Cobra series.

Cobras: technologically‑enhanced warriors bred to fight an alien menace no ordinary human can withstand. At the center of action on Cobra world Aventine: the legendary Moreau clan. In times of war, the Cobras are necessary, yet in times of peace they are often reviled by those they have saved. Now the Cobras have resisted a second invasion of the alien Troft forces, and forced the Troft to a stalemate ‑‑ and even converted some thoughtful Troft into uneasy allies against their kin.

Yet all is not well in the human sector of the galaxy. A supposed sister empire, the Dominion of Man, threatens the Cobra worlds with what is, in effect, enslavement, as it moves to consolidate power over all the Cobra worlds. The plan on Aventine: to extort from the Moreau family the location of the home planet of a mysterious human ally that may be more powerful than the Dominion: the Qasaman empire.

Meanwhile, Cobra Merrick Moreau is on a secret mission of his own to a world of humans enslaved by Troft masters. It is a world of barbaric cruelty where human are slave chattel to Troft gamblers. There the Troft force whole villages, even children, into life and death struggles served up for Troft entertainment.

But the totalitarian Dominion of Man and the Troft game‑masters are in for a rude surprise: Cobras are not merely technological marvels. They are far more. For within each Cobra, bred by close family ties and hard testing in battle, there beats the heart of a warrior and the burning conviction that a Cobra will be slave to no one. Rebellion is at hand, and once again, Cobras lead the fight for freedom.

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.

Provocative, informative and insightful essays by editor and writer Eric Flint on ebooks, publishing, storytelling, and the future of fiction. Reflections on the state of the art from a master who has his finger to the wind and his nose to the grindstone.

Eric Flint is best known for his multiple best selling Ring of Fire alternate history series. He also served as editor of the online magazine Jim Baen's Universe, and as curator of the Baen Free Library, a pioneering ebook initiative.

Now with a new Afterword by Eric Flint
The Ultimate Y2K Glitch....

1632 In the year 1632 in northern Germany a reasonable person might conclude that things couldn't get much worse. There was no food. Disease was rampant. For over a decade religious war had ravaged the land and the people. Catholic and Protestant armies marched and countermarched across the northern plains, laying waste the cities and slaughtering everywhere. In many rural areas population plummeted toward zero. Only the aristocrats remained relatively unscathed; for the peasants, death was a mercy.

2000 Things are going OK in Grantville, West Virginia. The mines are working, the buck are plentiful (it's deer season) and everybody attending the wedding of Mike Stearn's sister (including the entire membership of the local chapter of the United Mine Workers of America, which Mike leads) is having a good time.

THEN, EVERYTHING CHANGED....

When the dust settles, Mike leads a small group of armed miners to find out what's going on. Out past the edge of town Grantville's asphalt road is cut, as with a sword. On the other side, a scene out of Hell; a man nailed to a farmhouse door, his wife and daughter Iying screaming in muck at the center of a ring of attentive men in steel vests. Faced with this, Mike and his friends don't have to ask who to shoot.

At that moment Freedom and Justice, American style, are introduced to the middle of The Thirty Years War.

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

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.

An all-new David Weber Honorverse short novel, I Will Build a House of Steel, chronicling the early days of the Manticoran Star Kingdom and the reign of King Roger.

Have you ever finished the latest Honor Harrington novel from David Weber and wished you could linger in Weber’s Honorverse just a bit longer? Now you can with this treasure trove of tech, specs, and insights on David Weber’s mega best-selling Honor Harrington series. Orbital characteristic of key planets, regimental order of the Royal Navy, backstory on the history and drama of the Star Kingdom’s birth and early days—you’ll find it all here, illustrated and thoughtfully arranged by the BuNine Weber research group, and overseen by David Weber himself.

Now with an Historical Afterword by Ron MillerIncludes the original illustrations
Featured in Ron Miller’s “The Conquest of Space Book Series.” Washington Gladden was a noted clergyman, theologian and social reformer whose many books on these subjects were highly respected. It may have come as a surprise to his admirers to find this delightful fantasy, first published in a children's magazine in 1880. And although Gladden was writing with tongue clearly in cheek, he displays a good knowledge of and appreciation for technology, science and astronomy. Indeed, this story contains one of the first mentions of the need of a life support system for lunar explorers.

The first true space travel stories weren't written until after 1610. Before then, no one knew for sure that there even were other worlds than this one. But Galileo's great discoveries changed all that. People began to wonder what these other worlds might be like and authors lost no time in getting their interplanetary stories into print. The earliest authors were at a loss regarding exactly how to get their heroes to the Moon and other worlds and had to resort to magic and other unlikely devices. The invention of the balloon was a godsend. For the first time a man-made device enabled humans to leave the surface of the Earth---and there was a renewed surge of space travel stories. Most of these authors merely used the Moon and planets as a convenient backdrop for social satire, but others took some pains to get the science correct---or at least as correct as knowledge of the time permitted. The books in this series run the gamut from from balloons to antigravity, from what may be the first interplanetary story ever written to the first suggestion ever for a passenger-carrying rocket. 

Many of these books and stories have not been available in any form for decades. They all contain historical essays and other material written specially for this series by Ron Miller.

To the Moon and Back in Ninety Days

edited by Ron Miller

The Conquest of the Moon

edited by Ron Miller

Daybreak

edited by Ron Miller

Drowsy

edited by Ron Miller

The History of a Voyage to the Moon

edited by Ron Miller

The Moon Colony

edited by Ron Miller

The Moon Conquerors

edited by Ron Miller

Pioneers of Space

edited by Ron Miller

A Christmas Dinner with the Man in the Moon

edited by Ron Miller