Welcome To DEVIL'S POINT:
It's Hell on Earth!

The Devil's Point Amusement Park is open for business. Disney World is nothing compared to this place; it's got the Extinct Species Petting Zoo, a waterpark with real mermaids, a live-action role playing park with special effects straight from Hell, the ultimate Mall with every licit and illicit product the mind could imagine. Acres and acres of one-of-a-kind attractions, all at very reasonable rates.

And then there was Desire Point, where the customers could find exactly what they wanted. Of course, there is a special fee to get into this area....

"A hell of a lot of fun."—Locus

The Mirror of the Worlds is the second in the Crown of the Isles trilogy, which will conclude the epic Lord of the Isles series.

The Fortress of Glass began the tale of how the new kingdom of the Isles is finally brought into being by the group of heroes and heroines who have been central to all the books in the series: Prince Garric, heir to the throne of the Isles, his consort Liane, his sister Sharina, her herculean sweetheart Cashel, and his sister Ilna.

The powers of magic in the Isles have flooded to a thousand-year peak, and even local magicians can perform powerful spells normally beyond their control. Fantastic forces from all angles threaten, trying to keep Garric and his companions apart to thwart the reunification of the Isles.

Now the world itself has suffered a magical upheaval. The ocean has receded and the Isles have become the higher ground of a newly formed continent. But the new continent is a patchwork of geography from the past and future, peopled by creatures from all times and places. Garric and his companions must now struggle for the survival of humanity.

Praise for The Lord of the Isles

"One of the finest epic fantasies of the decade." —Piers Anthony

"Unlike most modern fantasy, David Drake's Lord of the Isles is an epic with the texture of the legends of yore, with rousing action and characters to cheer for." —Terry Goodkind

"True brilliance is as rare as a perfect diamond or a supernova. Lord of the Isles is truly brilliant. We are in at the birth of a classic....There is a lot of fantasy out there, but there is only one Lord of the Isles." —Morgan Llywelyn

"David Drake's work here is original, engrossing, and instantly credible. After all the hackneyed, repetitive fantasy I've read recently, Lord of the Isles seems quite wonderful." —Stephen R. Donaldson

Volume 1 in the Widowmaker Trilogy

He was the most feared bounty hunter in the galaxy, the consummate killing machine, a man known only as the Widowmaker. Now, after a century of being cryogenically frozen, Jefferson Nighthawk has a new lease on life—and new enemies who want him dead . . . .

 Jefferson Nighthawk has been awakened from his frozen sleep, his deadly disease cured. But although he still has the experience and instincts of the legendary Widowmaker, Nighthawk is now biologically in his sixties. His reflexes slowed by age, looking only to live out his days in peace, he decides on a quiet retirement on a Frontier world.

Easier said than done. For while Nighthawk lay in cryogenic sleep, his two clones were killing in his name, leaving a trail of vengeful enemies in their wake. Nighthawk has one advantage: no one knows who he is just yet. But once word gets out that he's back, every assassin on the Frontier will be out to make a rep by gunning him down. Suddenly the Widowmaker has only two choices: pick up his weapons . . . or face death again—and this time for keeps.

A young girl with an interesting form of precognition is pursued from one planet to another as governments and gangsters try to turn her powers into the ultimate war weapon. This is the first volume of a trilogy. The second volume is "Oracle" and the third "Prophet".

"RESNICK IS THOUGHT-PROVOKING, IMAGINATIVE. . .  AND ABOVE ALL GALACTICALLY GRAND."
—Los Angeles Times

"Among the most highly respected—and controversial—of modern SF stories. Resnick's experiences in Africa form the basis for this epic tale of a leader of the Kikuyu people who leads his followers away from a polluted, overpopulated Kenya to the planet Kirinyaga, which in many ways resembles the Africa of his ancestors. There he attempts to recreate the culture of the past. . . The situation is rich with complications. . . the conflict between the environment and technology in certain situations and the role of religion in human affairs. Parts of the book will make you mad, parts will make you sad, and parts will make you proud, but none of the parts will bore you. If only one Resnick's books will be remembered by history, this will be the one
—Science Fiction Chronicle

Nobody spins a yarn better than Mike Resnick. Best of all, when the story's over, you find that he's left something in your memory for you to draw on again and again: a clearer understanding of how nobility emerges from the struggles of life."
—ORSON SCOTT CARD Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author of Ender's Game

"It's such a very human thing to recreate the 'good old days when life was simple and people behaved piously, when the old ways ruled and the world was a better place. Mike Resnick's Kirinyaga explores some of the problems of such a retreat into an idealized past. The book is subtitled A Fable of Utopia. Now, as we face the turn of the millennium, we need such fables, such simple reminders of what complicated beings we are."
—OCTAV1A E. BUTLER Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author of Kindred

W200806 June 2008 Monthly Baen Bundle

Very Hard Choices

by Spider Robinson

Grantville Gazette, Volume IV

created by Eric Flint

The Spider: City of Doom

by Norvell W. Page

A Deeper Blue

by John Ringo

Grantville Gazette, Volume III

created by Eric Flint

One Jump Ahead

by Mark L. Van Name

The Best of Jim Baen's Universe

edited by Eric Flint

Strange Deliverance

by Mary Brown

Wagers of Sin

by Linda Evans and Robert Asprin

JUST MAKE SURE YOU CAN AFFORD THE (MIS)STAKES....

In the early part of the 21st Century disaster struck—an experiment on an orbiting station went wrong—bad wrong. The Accident almost destroyed the universe, and ripples in time washed over the Earth. Like the plagues of an earlier millennium, Earth was depopulated, and then it rebuilt. And the people of the post-disaster world learned that things were going to be a little different. They'd be able to travel into the past, utilizing remnant time strings. It took brave pioneers to map the time string gates. It turns out that if you aren't extremely careful, you can zap yourself out of existence with a careless jump. So elaborate rules are evolved, and Time Travel stations have become big business.

But wild and wooly pioneers aren't the most likely people to follow rules. And for Skeeter Jackson, one of TT 86's wooliest residents, scamming is a way of life. A man's got to follow his calling—but it just may get him in trouble. And then he'll be raking in the

IN A WORLD GONE WRONG,
PRAY FOR DELIVERANCE

They called the village "Deliverance," for that was what it seemed to be to the group of refugees who stumbled across it. Mysteriously deserted, untouched by war or pestilence, the village seemed to welcome the survivors of the great Collapse. In their desperation no one thought it odd that the village was both empty and picture-perfect. Or that the nearby forest, "The Wilderness," was so strangely impenetrable. And anyway, they figured, if they left the Wilderness strictly alone it would return the favor.

As the village's previous occupants could have told them, they were wrong about that last part . . .

Two complete novels in one volume—
the beginning of the Belisarius saga.

An Oblique Approach: In northern India the Malwa have created an empire of unexampled evil. Guided or possessed by an intelligence from beyond time, with new weapons, old treachery, and an implacable will to power, the Malwa will sweep over the whole Earth. Only three things stand between the Malwa and their plan of eternal domination: the empire of Rome in the East, Byzantium; a crystal with vision; and a man named Belisarius, the greatest commander Earth has ever known.

In the Heart of Darkness: Having conquered sixth century India, the Malwa Empire is forging the subcontinent's vast population into an invincible weapon of tyranny. Belisarius, the finest general of his age, must save the world. Guided by visions from a future that may never be, he and a band of comrades penetrate the Malwa heartland, seeking the core of the enemy's power. And when Belisarius leads the forces of good, only a fool would side with evil.

W200807 July 2008 Monthly Baen Bundle

Slanted Jack

by Mark L. Van Name
(119,600 words)

The Best of Jim Baen's Universe II

edited by Eric Flint and Mike Resnick

Laugh Lines

by Ben Bova

Hell Hath No Fury

by David Weber and Linda Evans

Exodus

by Steve White and
Shirley Meier

Paladins II: Knight Moves

by Joel Rosenberg

Astounding Tales! (Also Amazing and Astonishing!)

Tell the truth:  you flat-out love science fiction and fantasy.  Time travel.  Space opera.  Alternate history.  Doesn't matter. What you love is the story.  The great idea.  The adventure and action.  That good old-fashioned science fiction staple, the Sense of Wonder.  

We know exactly how you feel.  Here's the best of the best: new science fiction tales told by the likes of David Drake, Gregory Benford, Gene Wolfe, Esther Friesner, Mike Resnick, John Barnes, and L. E. Modesitt, Jr.  The list of award-winning story-tellers and brilliant new talent goes on and on.  More important:  here are stories that grip you. Transport you.  Expand your universe.  Make you late for important appointments like bedtime and supper!

Edited by New York Times best-seller and creator of the hugely-popular "Ring of Fire" series, Eric Flint, a master story-teller in his own right, these tales are all taken from the e-pages of Jim Baen's Universe, the new standard in science fiction storytelling created and inspired by publisher and editor Jim Baen, whose nose for a great story made him a science fiction legend!

"[T]he story comes first and foremost."—Eric Flint, Jim Baen's Universe Editor-in-Chief

WELCOME TO DEVIL'S POINT! (It's Hell on Earth!)

In Sympathy for the Devil we saw how Satan's minions made a home for themselves in North Carolina. Now, Dan Cooley, a radio DJ who only wants to make the world a better place, meets Puck, an upwardly mobile devil with goals of his own. They make a little bargain�"Dan and both of his girlfriends will turn Puck into a gentleman and help him fit in on Earth, and in exchange Puck will help Dan reach more people with his radio show. Their deal works well.

Dan is getting great ratings and Puck�" thanks to his urbane new persona�"has earned a promotion from the Big Guy Downstairs, So Puck, in a generous show of gratitude, offers to help idealistic Dan reach even more people.

Of course,there may be a catch . . .

 "A hell of a lot of fun."—Locus

SF Masters at Play Among the Worlds!
Gravity Getting You Down

Old Earth: a cesspool of corruption and stagnation.  In space there’s hope -- but you’d better be tough and true to your purpose, because this high frontier spells death for the stupid and the spineless!   Combines multiple New York Times #1 best-seller Jerry Pournelle’s High Justice and Exiles to Glory in one mega-volume.

“[F]ans of hard SF always revel in [Pournelle’s work].�
—Booklist on Jerry Pournelle.

The Buck Starts Here!

Think there's an unbridgeable gulf between human and alien thought   Not so!  There's a common tongue, all right -- and Nicholas Van Rijn speaks it fluently:  TRADE.  For behind the buffoonish blarney and bawdy bonhomie of the Falstaffian Van Rijn is a man who gets things done.  A born wheeler-dealer who usually leaves both sides better off in the bargain. (While pocketing a hefty cut of the profits himself, of course!)

With The Man Who Counts and a passel of other tales included, this is the first of three volumes set to contain the complete cycle of “Polesotechnic League” books and stories by transcendently-gifted science fiction master (how does seven Hugos and three Nebula Awards strike you ) Poul Anderson – and starring Nicholas Van Rijn, his most famous character of all!

The message had seemed simple, yet it was more complex than Don could have imagined. He was being called from Earth to an alien world for reasons unknown—save only that his life depended on it.

But setting out for Mars and getting there in good shape turned out to be a lot more complicated than Don ever would have guessed possible. It was trouble enough being inexplicably hounded by Earth's secret police.

But when he was hijacked by Venusian rebels, Don suddenly realized that he was trapped in the center of a war between worlds that could change the fate of the Solar System forever!

Centurions were the guardians of Rome. At the height of the Roman Republic there were over five thousand qualified Roman Centurions in the Legions. To be a Centurion required that, in a mostly illiterate society, one be able to read and write clearly, to be able to convey and create orders, to be capable of not only performing every skill of a Roman soldier but teach every skill of a Roman soldier.

Becoming a Centurion required intense physical ability, courage beyond the norm, years of sacrifice and a total devotion to the philosophy which was Rome. When Rome fell to barbarian invaders, there were less than five hundred qualified Centurions. Not because Rome had fewer people but because it had fewer willing to make the sacrifices. And the last Centurions left their shields in the heather and took a barbarian bride . . .

We are . . . The Last Centurions.

And this Rome SHALL NOT FALL!

The Future is Coming, and It’s Going to be Hilarious! First Time in Paperback for This Wildly Comic Look by a Best-Selling and Award-Winning Writer at Several Possible—and Bizarre—Tomorrows, Including Two Complete Novels

Ben Bova, best-selling and award-winning author of the “Grand Tour” and “Asteroid Wars” series, takes a sardonic look at the humorous possibilities of future technology.

The Starcrossed: Bill Oxnard, a young technological genius, had perfected true three-dimensional television, making ordinary TV obsolete. He thought he would be rich and famous—but he hadn’t realized how deranged the executives running the industry were; nor what sort of programs they were planning to broadcast using the new process in the maniacal quest for ratings.

Cyberbooks: Carl Lewis has a dream—to make books accessible and affordable to every person in the country, and thinks his “cyberbook,” about as large and as cheap as a pocket calculator, will make it possible for anyone to download books directly and cheaply. But he has no idea what he’s about to get into, nor does his contact at Bunker Books, lovely but naïve aspiring editor Lori Tashkajian. Will they survive this foray into the cut-throat world of big publishing? And just who is suddenly murdering all those nice elderly people on the streets of New York, anyway?

These two full-length novels of twistedly comic, but very possible futures, plus six shorter but equally witty works, add up to a generous volume of futuristic fun and hilarious high-tech.

Save the Boy—Save the Galaxy!

Pinkelponker.  Funny name.  Dangerous planet.  It's one of the darkest secrets in the human-inhabited space—a planet under a centuries-long quarantine.  A planet of mutant seers and psychics whose very existence threatens the galactic balance of power.   But a young boy with extraordinary precognitive abilities has surfaced, and a cult leader seeking ultimate power wants to possess him, body and soul.  Now the boy's future rests with a treacherous con man and with the one person who can understand the boy's strange destiny.  For it is a destiny that master mercenary Jon Moore shares—since he, too, is a son of Pinkelponker!

Military SF with an adventurous flourish—here is the second entry in Mark Van Name's thoughtful and hard-hitting "Jon and Lobo" saga!

The Spider:  Master of Men!

Before there was Batman, before Peter Parker’s alter ego got the bug to slip on a mask, one Dark Avenger reigned supreme:  the Spider!   With sardonic wit and fanatical drive, the Spider faces down a literally faceless master villain, stops skyscrapers from melting, and corrals a mind-controlling madman. Let the Spider rise again:  a pulp legend forever!

Three no-holds-barred pulp blockbusters by one of the greatest story-spinners of all time, the inimitable Norvell Page.

“I suppose I've read about 40 Spiders, one after another, much the way some pop amphetamines . . . If I was a pulp novel, I'd be entitled Slave of the Spider!�
—Doc Savage author and famed pulp historian, Will Murray.

Target:  Smelly the Telepath!

Smelly.  Hermit by necessity.  The world’s most receptive telepath.   But now sinister forces within the government are after Smelly for their own nefarious purposes, and only empathetic journalist Russel Walker, with the aid a mysterious former spook who may not have Smelly’s best interest at heart, can stop them!

The sequel to the touching and creepy Very Bad Deaths, another spell-binding thriller and tome of wisdom from master storyteller (and Nebula and three-time Hugo-Award-winner), Spider Robinson!

“An inside-out crime tale with a warm and friendly aura…humanistic entertainment.�
— AudioFile on Spider Robinson’s Very Bad Deaths.