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Engineer/Novelist/Journalist/Entrepreneur Wil McCarthy is a former contributing editor for WIRED magazine and science columnist for the SyFy channel (previously SciFi Channel), where his popular "Lab Notes" column ran from 1999 through 2009. A lifetime member of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, he has been nominated for the Nebula, Locus, Seiun, AnLab, Colorado Book, Theodore Sturgeon and Philip K. Dick awards, and contributed to projects that won a Webbie, an Eppie, a Game Developers' Choice Award, and a General Excellence National Magazine Award. In addition, his imaginary world of "P2," from the novel Lost in Transmission, was rated one of the 10 best science fiction planets of all time by Discover magazine. His short fiction has graced the pages of magazines like Analog, Asimov's, WIRED, and SF Age, and his novels include the New York Times Notable Bloom, Amazon.com "Best of Y2K" The Collapsium (a national bestseller), and To Crush the Moon. He has also written for TV, appeared on the History Channel and the Science Channel, and published nonfiction in half a dozen magazines, including WIRED, Discover, GQ, Popular Mechanics, IEEE Spectrum, and the Journal of Applied Polymer Science.

Previously a flight controller for Lockheed Martin Space Launch Systems and later an engineering manager for Omnitech Robotics and founder/president/CTO of RavenBrick LLC, McCarthy now writes patents for a top law firm in Dallas. He holds patents of his own in 7 countries, including 29 issued U.S. patents in the field of nanostructured optical materials.

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Rich Man's Sky

by Wil McCarthy

Poor Man's Sky

by Wil McCarthy

Beggar's Sky

by Wil McCarthy

The Collapsium

by Wil McCarthy

The Wellstone

by Wil McCarthy

To Crush the Moon

by Wil McCarthy

Lost in Transmission

by Wil McCarthy

Antediluvian

by Wil McCarthy

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A wildly original alien contact novel, set against a vivid backdrop of near-Earth corporate intrigue.

Trillionaire Igbal Renz has constructed a starship capable of making the twenty-year journey to Alpha Centauri. So why is he stopping at barely one-tenth that distance, with a cargo of a hundred frozen scientists and diplomats? Rumors abound that Renz Ventures, Inc., has made contact with . . . something. And yet, as deadly stealth ships prowl the space lanes and as the corporate space race threatens to devolve into outright warfare, the Four Horsemen of space industry are discovering firsthand that even in a limitless and lawless frontier, no one can ever be truly self-sufficient.

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Beggar's Sky

by Wil McCarthy

An Angel Called Peterbilt

Eric Flint, Gorg Huff & Paula Goodlett

Beyond Enemies

by Marisa Wolf

Tower of Silence

by Larry Correia

Fire with Fire, Third Edition

by Charles E. Gannon

Chicks in Tank Tops

edited by Jason Cordova

The Scarab Mission

by James L. Cambias

Missions of Security

by Bjorn Hasseler

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Down These Mean Streets

edited by Larry Correia and Kacey Ezell

Among the Gray Lords

by D.J. Butler

Weird World War: China

edited by Sean Patrick Hazlett

Time Trials

by M.A. Rothman and D.J. Butler

Poor Man's Sky

by Wil McCarthy

Escape Orbit

by Patrick Chiles

A Matter of Security

by Bjorn Hasseler

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In January of 2011 we started posting free short stories we thought might be of interest to Baen readers. The first stories were "Space Hero" by Patrick Lundrigan, the winner of the 2010 Jim Baen Memorial Short Story Contest, and "Tanya, Princess of Elves," by Larry Correia, author of Monster Hunter International and set in that universe. As new stories are made available, they will be posted on the main page, then added to this book (to save the Baen Barflies the trouble of doing it themselves). This is our compilation of short stories for 2022.

As is usual with such copyrighted material from Baen, the contents may be copied and shared but NOT sold. All commercial rights are reserved to Baen Books.

Flops by Michael Mersault
The Barcadian Wild by Tim Akers
Monsters in Our Midst by Wen Spencer
Window on Samovar by D.J. Butler
See the Fairville Oddity! by David Afsharirad
Man on the Moon by Elaine Midcoh
Trouble Is My Business by Mike Kupari
Dark Angel by David Carrico
On Cultivating a Chosen One by Christopher Baxter
The Bloody Dentist by Jacob Holo
Fire-breathing Dragon by Dan Koboldt
Xmas at ESL1 by Wil McCarthy

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Poor Man's Sky

by Wil McCarthy

Chicks in Tank Tops

edited by Jason Cordova

The Scarab Mission

by James L. Cambias

Mission Critical

by Charles E. Gannon, Griffin Barber, Chris Kennedy, and Mike Massa

A Call to Insurrection

by David Weber, Timothy Zahn, & Thomas Pope

Grantville Gazette IX

Edited by Eric Flint, Walt Boyes, and Joy Ward

Weird World War IV

edited by Sean Patrick Hazlett

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Poor Man's Sky

by Wil McCarthy

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THE LUNAR MONASTERY TAUGHT PEOPLE HOW TO LIVE IN SPACE . . . AND THEN ONE OF ITS STUDENTS WAS MURDERED

Who owns the future?

Homicide detective Raimy Vaught is a losing contestant on the biggest reality show ever: the colonization of Mars. Brother Michael is a Benedictine monk who just wants to help the future happen. Andrei Bykhovski is an asteroid miner desperately escaping indentured servitude. Bridget Tobin is a hydroponic farmer studying the greenhouses of Luna.

But when a fellow Mars contestant drops dead at a Lunar monastery, these four souls will find themselves on a collision course with forces far beyond the control of trillionaires or nation states. As labor disputes erupt across cislunar space, the actions of individual people will determine whose future will prevail . . . and whose will perish.

THE LUNAR MONASTERY TAUGHT PEOPLE HOW TO LIVE IN SPACE . . . AND THEN ONE OF ITS STUDENTS WAS MURDERED

Who owns the future?

Homicide detective Raimy Vaught is a losing contestant in the biggest reality show ever: the colonization of Mars. Brother Michael is a Benedictine monk who just wants to help the future happen. Andrei Bykhovski is an asteroid miner desperately escaping indentured servitude. Bridget Tobin is a hydroponic farmer studying the greenhouses of Luna.

But when a fellow Mars contestant drops dead at a Lunar monastery, these four souls will find themselves on a collision course with forces far beyond the control of trillionaires or nation states. As labor disputes erupt across cislunar space, the actions of individual people will determine whose future will prevail . . . and whose will perish.

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The Icarus Plot

by Timothy Zahn

The Jigsaw Assassin

by Catherine Asaro

1812: The Rivers of War

by Eric Flint

The Serpent

by David Drake

The Family Business

by Mike Kupari

To Crush the Moon

by Wil McCarthy

Crescendo of Fire

by Marc Stiegler

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Into the Real

by John Ringo & Lydia Sherrer

Harbinger

by Wen Spencer

Aurora Borealis Bridge

by Jane Lindskold

Time Troopers

edited by Hank Davis & Christopher Ruocchio

1636: Calabar's War

by Charles E. Gannon and Robert E. Waters

Rich Man's Sky

by Wil McCarthy

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Stolen Skies

by Tim Powers

The Deep Man

by Michael Mersault

Generation Warriors

by Anne McCaffrey and Elizabeth Moon

The Macedonian Hazard

by Eric Flint, Gorg Huff, and Paula Goodlett

Domesticating Dragons

by Dan Koboldt

The Wellstone

by Wil McCarthy

Timegates

edited by Gardner Dozois and Jack Dann

Aliens Among Us

edited by Gardner Dozois and Jack Dann

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The Serpent

by David Drake

Grantville Gazette IX

Edited by Eric Flint, Walt Boyes, and Joy Ward

The Family Business

by Mike Kupari

Destroyer of Worlds

by Larry Correia

At the End of the World

by Charles E. Gannon

The Collapsium

by Wil McCarthy

Dragons

edited by Gardner Dozois and Jack Dann

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A NEW NOVEL OF REAL SF FROM WIL McCARTHY

Space: a tycoon's playground. From a space station full of women to a monastery on the Moon, from a Martian reality-TV contest to a solar shade large enough to cool the Earth, the dreams of a handful of trillionaires dictate the future of humanity. Outside the reach of Earthly law and with the vast resources of the inner solar system at their disposal, the “Four Horsemen” do exactly as they please.

The governments of Earth are not amused; an international team of elite military women, masquerading as space colonists, are set to infiltrate and neutralize the largest and most dangerous project in human history. But nothing is that simple when rich men control the sky, as everyone involved is about to discover.

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Accepting the Lance

by Sharon Lee and Steve Miller

The Scope of Justice

Target: Terror, Book 1
by Michael Z. Williamson

Serpent Daughter

by D.J. Butler

Antediluvian

by Wil McCarthy

Agent of the Imperium

by Marc Miller

The Best of Jerry Pournelle

by Jerry Pournelle
Edited by John F. Carr

1637: No Peace Beyond the Line

by Eric Flint and Charles E. Gannon

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Beggar's Sky

by Wil McCarthy

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A wildly original alien contact novel, set against a vivid backdrop of near-Earth corporate intrigue.

Trillionaire Igbal Renz has constructed a starship capable of making the twenty-year journey to Alpha Centauri. So why is he stopping at barely one-tenth that distance, with a cargo of a hundred frozen scientists and diplomats? Rumors abound that Renz Ventures, Inc., has made contact with . . . something. And yet, as deadly stealth ships prowl the space lanes and as the corporate space race threatens to devolve into outright warfare, the Four Horsemen of space industry are discovering firsthand that even in a limitless and lawless frontier, no one can ever be truly self-sufficient.

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Rich Man's Sky

by Wil McCarthy

1636: Calabar's War

by Charles E. Gannon and Robert E. Waters

Starborn & Godsons

by Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle, and Steven Barnes

Castaway Resolution

by Eric Flint and Ryk E. Spoor

The Initiate

by James L. Cambias

Armageddons

edited by Gardner Dozois and Jack Dann

Dinosaurs!

edited by Gardner Dozois and Jack Dann

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To Crush the Moon

by Wil McCarthy

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CONCLUSION TO THE GROUNDBREAKING QUEENDOM OF SOL SERIES

Once the Queendom of Sol was a glowing monument to humankind’s loftiest dreams. Ageless and immortal, its citizens lived in peaceful splendor. But as Sol buckled under the swell of an immorbid population, space itself literally ran out. . . .

Conrad Mursk has returned to Sol on the crippled starship Newhope. His crew are the frozen refugees of a failed colony known as Barnard’s Star. A thousand years older, Mursk finds Sol on the brink of rebellion, while a fanatic necro cult is reviving death itself. Now Mursk and his lover, Captain Xiomara “Xmary” Li Weng, are sent on a final, desperate mission by King Bruno de Towaji—one of the greatest terraformers of the ages—to literally crush the moon. If they succeed, they’ll save billions of lost souls. If they fail, they’ll strand humanity between death and something unimaginably worse. . . .

Rich Man's Sky

by Wil McCarthy

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A NEW NOVEL OF REAL SF FROM WIL McCARTHY

Space: a tycoon's playground. From a space station full of women to a monastery on the Moon, from a Martian reality-TV contest to a solar shade large enough to cool the Earth, the dreams of a handful of trillionaires dictate the future of humanity. Outside the reach of Earthly law and with the vast resources of the inner solar system at their disposal, the “Four Horsemen” do exactly as they please.

The governments of Earth are not amused; an international team of elite military women, masquerading as space colonists, are set to infiltrate and neutralize the largest and most dangerous project in human history. But nothing is that simple when rich men control the sky, as everyone involved is about to discover.

EXILED FROM IMMORTALITY! The third entry in McCarthy's groundbreaking, mind-bending Queendom of Sol series back in print.

Brash and idealistic, they were rebels without a cause in a world governed by science, reason . . . and immortality. Banished for their troubles to the starship Newhope, they now face a bold future: to settle the worlds of Barnard’s Star. Now King Bascal Edward de Towaji Lutui, former prince of the Queendom of Sol, together with Captain Xiomara “Xmary” Li Weng and her lover, first mate Conrad Mursk, face a perilous voyage with thousands of their fellow exiles. The journey will last a century, but with Queendom technology it’s no problem to step into a fax machine and “print” a fresh, youthful version of yourself. But what this crew of rebels will find is far from the paradise they seek. Before long, their optimistic young colony has started to show signs of strain. And worst of all, death itself has returned with a vengeance.

Lost in Transmission

by Wil McCarthy

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EXILED FROM IMMORTALITY! The third entry in McCarthy's groundbreaking, mind-bending Queendom of Sol series back in print.

Brash and idealistic, they were rebels without a cause in a world governed by science, reason . . . and immortality. Banished for their troubles to the starship Newhope, they now face a bold future: to settle the worlds of Barnard’s Star. Now King Bascal Edward de Towaji Lutui, former prince of the Queendom of Sol, together with Captain Xiomara “Xmary” Li Weng and her lover, first mate Conrad Mursk, face a perilous voyage with thousands of their fellow exiles. The journey will last a century, but with Queendom technology it’s no problem to step into a fax machine and “print” a fresh, youthful version of yourself. But what this crew of rebels will find is far from the paradise they seek. Before long, their optimistic young colony has started to show signs of strain. And worst of all, death itself has returned with a vengeance.

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