The Time Bender

The World Shuffler

The Shape Changer

The Galaxy Is A Bad Neighborhood

The U.S. Space Force was in big trouble. Not from the Russians—we'd whipped them years ago, and not from the Japanese; they had quite wisely decided against mounting a serious military presence in space. Even the Chinese weren't a threat for the near term. No, the threat wasn't external at all. The United States itself was turning inward, forgetful of the heritage that had made it great. Soon the Space Force would be called entirely back to Earth, and there would be nothing American in space save for the comsats that had started it all so long ago.

That's when the aliens arrived. Though themselves entirely human, handsome as gods and pacifist to a fault, they bore bad tidings. Following on behind were creatures of an entirely different nature: warlike, ugly as toads, and with nothing but military conquest on their hive mind. Suddenly the United States Space Force had something even worse to worry about than going out of business . . . .

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!

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!

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.

HOW ABOUT A REMATCH, MONKEY BOYS

It seemed like a good idea at the time.... When the catlike Kzin discovered the human region of the galaxy, they thought it was time to scream and leap again. Bred to be conquering warriors, they thought the salad-munching apes of Earth wouldn't even put up a good fight. Actually, they should have been polite to the monkey boys and girls from planet Earth. Humans had developed a pacifist society because they had been good—too good—at war and knew that there's more than one way to skin a cat—even a Kzin. The Warrior Race has encountered its most formidable opponent—and Larry Niven's Known Space is aflame with war.

"There is no such thing as luck.  There is only adequate or inadequate preparation to cope with a statistical universe." —Robert A. Heinlein, from Time Enough for Love.

Bill Lermer travels with his father, stepmother and stepsister to colonize a Jovian moon in the process of being terraformed.  Out here, self-reliance is the key to survival—and Bill finds that his Boy Scout motto isn't merely a pretty saying.  It's a necessary rule for survival!

This is it:  what we think is the best of the classic Robert Heinlein adventure novels that influenced a generation of engineers and space scientists and still set the heart racing and the mind afire! 

Download the comprehensive Teacher’s Guide here.

There's Something About Cyrene . . .

Two development teams have utterly vanished planet-side.  A third is on the way to set things back on track.  But ruthless mercenary "facilitator" Myles Callen and his crew are in for a surprise—for they about to encounter a  planet as magnificently strange as the vast alien artifacts of Arthur C. Clarke or Stanislaw Lem's sentient oceans.  And behind it all a new physical law so unexpected and fundamental that it may change the universe forever!

New York Times best-seller James P. Hogan delivers another stunningly visionary tale in the grandest tradition of SF!

"Readers who like their science hard will find this one a diamond."
— Publishers Weekly on James P. Hogan's Mission to Minerva.

Theodore Roosevelt: president, naturalist, explorer, author, cowboy, police commissioner, deputy marshal, soldier, taxidermist, ornithologist, and boxer. Everyone knows about that.

But how about vampire hunter

Or African king

Or Jack the Ripper's nemesis

Or World War I doughboy

Mike Resnick (the most-awarded short story writer in science fiction history, according to Locus) has been the biographer of these other Teddy Roosevelts for almost two decades. Here you will find a familiar Roosevelt, but in unfamiliar surroundings—stalking a vampire through the streets of New York, or a crazed killer down the back alleys of Whitechapel, coming face-to-face with the devastation of 20th Century warfare, waging an early battle for women's suffrage, applying all his skills to bring American democracy to the untamed African wilderness, or coming face-to-face with one of H. G. Wells' Martian invaders in the swamps of Cuba.

And, as Winston Churchill said of the Arthurian legends if these stories aren't true, then they should have been.

Enjoy.

Theodore Roosevelt: president, naturalist, explorer, author, cowboy, police commissioner, deputy marshal, soldier, taxidermist, ornithologist, and boxer. Everyone knows about that.

But how about vampire hunter

Or African king

Or Jack the Ripper's nemesis

Or World War I doughboy

Mike Resnick (the most-awarded short story writer in science fiction history, according to Locus) has been the biographer of these other Teddy Roosevelts for almost two decades. Here you will find a familiar Roosevelt, but in unfamiliar surroundings—stalking a vampire through the streets of New York, or a crazed killer down the back alleys of Whitechapel, coming face-to-face with the devastation of 20th Century warfare, waging an early battle for women's suffrage, applying all his skills to bring American democracy to the untamed African wilderness, or coming face-to-face with one of H. G. Wells' Martian invaders in the swamps of Cuba.

And, as Winston Churchill said of the Arthurian legends if these stories aren't true, then they should have been.

Enjoy.

The Dragon Done It MIXING SLEUTHING AND SORCERY CAN BE VERY DANGEROUS. . .

Pity the poor plainclothes cop or private eye who has to solve a case which may involve not only femme fatales (who may not be quite human) but also death by black magic, evidence that may have been altered or planted by an itinerant sorcerer, and supernatural entities ranging from ghosts to vampires to dragons. Even when the detective is a master of sorcery himself, the dragon may have an unbreakable alibi.

Best-selling authors Eric Flint and Mike Resnick present a generous selection of stories from the intersection of mystery and magic by popular writers Neil Gaiman, Gene Wolfe, David Drake, Harry Turtledove, Esther M. Friesner, and more, including brand-new novelettes by Flint and Resnick themselves. The Dragon Done It is an exciting cross-genre volume that both mystery fans and fantasy fans will enjoy.

And so will dragons. . . .

Eric Flint is the New York Times best-selling author of the Ring of Fire alternate history series, which began with the novel 1632. His impressive first novel, Mother of Demons (Baen), was selected by Science Fiction Chronicle as one of the best novels of the year. His collaborative novel with David Weber, Crown of Slaves, was a best of the year pick by Publishers Weekly, which had earlier praised Flint as "an SF author of particular note, one who can entertain and edify in equal, and major, measure." A longtime labor union activist with a Master's Degree in history, he currently resides in northwest Indiana with his wife Lucille.

Mike Resnick has won five Hugo Awards and been nominated for twenty-five more. The author of fifty-one novels and nearly two hundred short stories, he has also edited more than forty anthologies. His fiction ranges from the satirical —for example his Lucifer Jones adventures— to incisive explorations of morality and culture—such as his popular Kirinyaga series. He is, according to Locus, the leading short fiction award winner in the history of the science fiction field. He lives in Cincinnati with his wife Carol.

ERIC FLINT:

"Eric Flint [drops] his readers into another time and place, where cultures collide, the action is hot and heavy, and we get to experience the best of the human spirit."—David Weber

"Eric Flint has a genius for taking his passion for history and turning it into powerful, action-packed stories that instantly grab the readers and plunge them into a time and place that might have been."

—David Drake

". . . battle scenes depicted with power. . . [Flint is] an SF author of particular note, one who can entertain and edify in equal, and major, measure."—Publishers Weekly (Starred Review)

"Flint has thoroughly mastered storytelling, and his characterization is masterly. His characters. . . are plausible for the time and place, and he makes neither an icon nor a demon of anyone. Irresistible. . . ."

—Booklist

MIKE RESNICK:

". . . on par with the best of Lois McMaster Bujold's Miles Vorkosigan series. . . . Resnick is simply a consummate storyteller. . . hits all the right notes."—Orson Scott Card

"One of the most daring and prolific writers in SF. . . and he always delivers."—David Brin

"[F]ew writers have Resnick's gift for pace and momentum . . . his talent for producing a fast, smooth, utterly effortless read."

—Analog

"Resnick is thought-provoking, imaginative . . . and above all galactically grand."—Los Angeles Times

The Next Giant Leap!

Where no man has gone before Hardly. We're all heading there – lock, stock, and genome! Dispatches from the transhuman frontier by an exciting bevy of topnotch SF writers!

"Well-aged white lightning."
—John Ringo on Mark L. Van Name's One Jump Ahead.

"Georgette Heyer has met her match for intrigue and STYLE!"
—Anne McCaffrey

Komarr—Miles Vorkosigan is sent to Komarr, a planet that could be a garden with a thousand more years of terraforming; or an uninhabitable wasteland, if the terraforming project fails. The solar mirror vital to the project has been shattered by a ship hurtling off course, and Miles has been sent to find out if it was an accident, or sabotage. But once there, he uncovers a plot that could exile him from Barrayar forever—and discovers an unexpected ally, one with wounds as deep and honor as beleaguered as his own.

A Civil Campaign—On Komarr, Miles met the beautiful Vor widow Ekaterin Vorsoisson, who has no intention of getting married after the heartbreak and betrayal of her first experience. But Miles has a cunning plan to change her mind. Unfortunately his clone-brother Mark and his cousin Ivan have cunning plans of their own, and the three- way collision of cunning plans threatens to undo Miles's brilliant romantic strategy.

"Winterfair Gifts"—Miles and Ekaterin make elaborate preparations for their wedding. But Miles has an enemy who is plotting to turn the romantic ceremony into a festival of death.

"Bujold continues to prove what marvels genius can create out of basic space operatics."—Booklist

Publisher's Note: Contains two full length novels and a novella, together in one volume for the first time.

CROSSTIME A DESPERATE SEACH ACROSS PARALLEL WORLDS

An orphan, Blake Walker has never really known who he was, and his strange flashes of intuition have always set him apart from those who raised him and everyone else he has known. Acting on one of those flashes, he prevented a murder. But neither the assailant nor his intended victim were from the world Walker had always known—he had stumbled onto the greatest secret of the ages.

Our Earth is only one of an infinite number of Earths, each with a slightly different history from the others, each separated from the others in a crosstime dimension. Walker was drafted into a frantic search for a madman from an advanced Earth who desires to be an absolute ruler of men. The would-be tyrant has chosen our Earth as the place where his reign will begin.

And, if the powerful technology he controls does not give him complete control of the planet, he will not hesitate to destroy it utterly. . . .

Called "one of the most popular authors of our time" by Publishers Weekly, Andre Norton is a legend in science fiction, and was one of our greatest storytellers. She wrote science fiction novels for five decades, beginning with the now-classic novel Star Man's Son in 1952 (part of Baen's volume Darkness and Dawn). Many of today's top writers, including David Weber, Eric Flint, C.J. Cherryh and Joan D. Vinge, have cited her as a primary influence on their own work. She was Guest of Honor at the 1989 World Science Fiction Convention, and has received the Grand Master award from the Science Fiction Writers of America and the Lifetime Achievement Award of the World Fantasy Convention. She was astoundingly prolific, with over thirty books in her celebrated Witch World series alone. She introduced three generations of SF readers to SF and fantasy, both through her critically acclaimed YA novels and her adult works, and remains one of the most popular authors in both fields. She died in 2005.

THE GRANDE DAME OF SCIENCE FICTION"*

"One of the all-time masters."—Peter Straub

"The sky's no limit to Andre Norton's imagination . . . a superb storyteller."—The New York Times

"Andre Norton is a superb storyteller whose skill draws the reader completely into a fantastic other world. . . ."—Chicago Tribune

"One of the most popular authors of our time."—Publishers Weekly

"Extraordinary!"—Washington Post

"Andre Norton creates an air of mystery and suspense which captivates and holds the reader until the final pages."—San Francisco Chronicle

"Gripping adventure that will keep the reader on the edge of his seat until the final page."—Seattle Times

"Andre Norton tells a sheer adventure story as well as anyone going!"—Fantasy & Science Fiction

When The Tide Rises THE TIDE OF WAR IS RISING-AND THE SHARKS ARE CLOSING IN!

When the Republic of Cinnabar doesn't have enough battleships to deal with all the crises in its war with the Alliance, it sends the next best thing: Commander Daniel Leary and his friend, the spy Adele Mundy. This time they're off to help the Bagarian cluster in its rebellion against the Alliance, but they'll quickly find that the worst threats to the rebels are the treacherous politicians leading them.

Leary and Mundy use electronic espionage, sub-machine guns, and shipkilling missiles to outwit political rivals, put down mutiny, and capture an Alliance fortress. When all else fails, they'll strike for the heart of the Alliance—and then throw their tiny corvette into a major fleet action in order to turn the tide.

A cascade of non-stop action as only David Drake can write it!

Vietnam veteran, former lawyer, former bus driver, and now famous author, David Drake tells a military story like no other. His readers recognize that he can take them where no one else can, with gut-wrenching description that puts them face-to-face with the enemy, and in the midst of the action right on the battlefield. He helped create the audience for mercenary military science fiction with his bestselling "Hammer's Slammers" books. Drake graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Iowa, majoring in history (with honors) and Latin. His stint at Duke University Law School was interrupted for two years by the U.S. Army, where he served as an enlisted interrogator with the 11th Armored Cavalry in Vietnam and Cambodia. Drake has a wife, a son, and various pets.

In addition to Drake's celebrated novels of Hammer's Slammers, his works for Baen include the previous five novels in the Lt. Leary series—With the Lightnings, Lt. Leary, Commanding, The Far Side of the Stars, The Way to Glory, and Some Golden Harbor—as well as Starliner, Ranks of Bronze, Redliners, the "General" series (with S.M. Stirling) and the "Belisarius" series (with Eric Flint), and many more.

When the Tide Rises:

"David Drake just keeps getting better. When the Tide Rises is a smart, funny, exciting adventure of Leary and Mundy, a wonderful read. Part of the fun is seeing how Drake manages the history into true story, in this case, of course, Lord Cochrane in Chile. Daniel Leary's hobby of botany allows David Drake to devise strange and lovely creatures, imaginary worlds that seem as real as our own."—Cecilia Holland

Some Golden Harbor:

". . . rousing old-fashioned space opera. . . . Drake . . . creates vivid characters you can care about. Patrick O'Brian and Bernard Cornwell fans as well as military SF readers will be well rewarded."—Publishers Weekly

The Way to Glory:

"The fun is in the telling, and Mr. Drake has a strong voice. I want more!"-Philadelphia Weekly Press

". . . this series is getting better as the author goes along . . . character development combined with first-rate action and memorable world-design."—SFReader.com

The Far Side of the Stars:

"Readers who have been entranced by the previous adventures of Daniel Leary and Adele Mundy will sigh with relief to see them again."—Booklist

". . . the best space opera novels in recent years . . . Leary is a great protagonist . . . the outer space John Wayne."— The Midwest Book Review

Lt. Leary, Commanding:

"Please more Lt. Leary soon!" —Andre Norton

"[Drake] couldn't write a bad action scene at gunpoint, and his sense of humor infuses the characters here with agreeable qualities. . . . Grand fun for lovers of action in high space."-Booklist

With the Lightnings:

"Updating clashing Horatio Hornblower tactics and vintage John Wayne heroics . . . . Drake gives . . . a full measure of appealing derring-do."—Publishers Weekly

"Drake's latest novel once again demonstrates the author's talent for arcane politics and vivid battle scenes . . . a pair of clever and resourceful protagonists . . . action-packed space opera. . . ."— Library Journal

". . . vintage Drake, fast paced, heroic, and ending in a rousing climax. Drake remains one of the best of the military SF writers."— Science Fiction Chronicle

A FEW YEARS AFTER TOMORROW,
ABOVE A RUINED LOS ANGELES

Where crime, violence, pollution and poverty still rule the streets, a Utopia rises. Todos Santos. A thousand-foot-high single-structured city. The perfect blend of technology and humanism, offering its privileged dwellers everything they could want in exchange for their oath of allegiance and their constant surveillance.

But there are those who would see Utopia destroyed. Those who would tear down the hope of tomorrow in violent act after violent act. And they have just entered Todos Santos.

PRAISED BY ROBERT HEINLEIN, FRANK HERBERT, THEODORE STURGEON, AND A LEGION OF READERS ACROSS AMERICA, NOW NIVEN AND POURNELLE GIVE US THEIR MOST POWERFUL NOVEL

"RARE STORYTELLING...DEMANDS TO BE' READ AT ONE SITTING."
—Chicago Sun-Times