WAR WORLD: TAKEOVER is the second volume in a grand reissue of War World that will present Haven’s history in a chronological fashion for the very first time. Takeover is a trade hardcover volume and includes eight new stories as well as two previously published yarns.

On Earth, overpopulation and rising nationalism require the resettlement of millions of troublesome minorities or the fragile peace between the USSR and the USA will go down in flames. It is up the CoDominium to solve this problem and it just so happens the Bureau of ReLocation has discovered the perfect dumping ground for millions unwanted minorities and religious fanatics while the mining companies exploiting Haven’s considerable resources need a cheap and expendable labor pool. One hand washes the other, thus the CD Bureau of Intelligence gives orders to subvert Harmony rule and turn Haven into a CoDominium Protectorate.

Meanwhile, the inhabitants of Haven are having their own problems due to too many transportees from Earth, too few resources, too few live births and the most inhospitable environment known to sustain lifejust barely. If that’s not enough, now they have to face a hostile takeover by very people they left Earth to escape! For more info, visit our new War World web site at: www.warworldcentral.com

HE IS THE WHITE HOUSE CHIEF OF STAFF

He is a major figure in national and international affairs. He plays high-stakes political power games with the FBI and the CIA. He is responsible for many lives—and many deaths.

The President of the United States trusts his friendship and advice above all others. He is everything to those who surround him—player and pawn, friend and enemy, husband and father.

He’s also an alien being from a far world, from another existence, and he has set his own agenda for the future of OUR world.

He is an alien ... and yet,
he is only too human.

Here is the essential Patricia Anthony. Eating Memories spans a decade of stirring short fiction from the award-winning author of God’s Fires, Brother Termite, and Flanders—a collection that cements Patricia Anthony’s reputation as a writer who takes the term “speculative fiction” to an entirely different level.

Widely acclaimed and wildly intelligent, the fiction of Patricia Anthony has been praised as “highly accomplished” by the New York Times, and “exciting” by the Washington Post. Now Anthony unleashes the most ambitious, most spellbinding novel of her skyrocketing career, exploring the human need for everything “alien” to come from somewhere far away-when the alien thoughts and desires that frighten us most come from deep within. A very powerful, very human novel from an astronomical talent …

Cradle of Splendor

Brazil's first manned space launch goes horribly wrong. The boosters sputter, and fail. The world holds its breath, expecting the rocket to plummet to earth. But it doesn't, It shoots into orbit-with no boosters, seemingly no propulsion at all. Impossible … but the world saw it happen.

Now the world wants to know how it was done

CNN, live

... and at the end there, that is the general who 6 years ago sent tank into the streets of Brasilia to give Anna Maria Bonfin in absolute control of the country. General, ah, Fernando Machado the man on her left, and the boy ... I'm not sure ...

Susan? Should we attach any importance to the general's placement at the end of the row and Director Carvalho at her right hand?

I'm really ... Sorry, Bernie. There's quite a bit of blowing dust. It's windy here, as it usually is in this interior desert state. As you can see, the flags are flapping. Uh, in answer to your question, no, I don't think we can read anything into

... Certainly there's some rivalry between the army and, I guess you could call O.S. a mixture of FBI and CIA-Ah.

And here's the first national anthem.

Short program.

Yes, and right on time.

As usual, President Bonfin cuts right to the chase. We should point out that there is a lot riding on the president's shoulders. But it looks like they couldn't have asked for a better day for a launch. Hardly a cloud in the sky ...

Terrorists are loose on Tennyson

Earth has sent its toughest cop to the planet Tennyson to uncover who is behind the terrorist attacks.

None of the evidence makes sense. Everything points to Tennyson’s government as the prime suspect in the bombings—and Major Dyle Holloway and his team are there at its invitation. Is Minister of Science Vanderslice really there to help, or does he have his own plan to catch the killers?

But Holloway is still carrying a case with him, the brutal murder of his wife—the only case he never solved. If only Dyle hadn’t loved his wife so much. If only he didn’t carry her memory with him. If only he wasn’t steeped in guilt, then perhaps he could focus, could determine who is behind the murders. But the slaughter makes no more sense than the death of his wife, and the clues are equally bizarre, equally impossible to reconcile with reality ...

BLOODSONG! — HEL X 3 (Omnibus Edition)
Warrior Witch of Hel
Death Riders of Hel
Werebeasts of Hel

For the first time, C. Dean Andersson’s three epic fantasy Bloodsong novels are gathered together in a digital omnibus!

RIDE INTO ADVENTURE!

Join in the Bloodsong saga, a grand tale set faithfully in the mystical world of Scandinavian mythology—a world of gods light and dark, of monsters and heroes, of flashing blades and a mortal warrior’s desperate determination set against the uncanny forces wielded by her immortal enemies.

Bloodsong and Freedom!

"Bow not your head!" Odin ordered.

Bloodsong quickly raised her head.

His expression softened. "You are free, Bloodsong, you and all your people, free by your own deeds. I have heard the war cry they scream in their thoughts. ‘Bloodsong and freedom,’ is it not? And so it should be, for if not for your leadership and your rebellion, you would this day still be Hel’s slaves, fighting against me and my allies instead of by my side to break Hel’s power and banish Her beneath the Earth.

"The Orlog of your bloodline will be a hard one, Bloodsong, and often your warrior descendants shall curse my name for the pain and suffering I shall set in their paths. But without battles and challenges, warriors grow soft and weak, and those who follow me must ever be strong, and free, as are you and your people."

Odin raised his spear toward Bloodsong and her assembled army of Corpse Beasts. "Bloodsong and freedom!" Odin shouted in his thoughts.

Bloodsong raised her chin high and held Odin’s gaze. "Odin and Asgard!" she shouted back with her thoughts.

"Odin and Asgard!" thought first one Corpse Beast, and then another, following Bloodsong’s lead, until soon her people were all repeating the battle cry over and over again.

“Freya and Folkvang!” screamed the Valkyries as Freya raised Her spear. Other battle cries arose from within the ranks of Odin’s forces, cries to Thor and Sif, to Frey, to Skadi, to Heimdall, to Frigga, on and on, while from behind Hel’s lines came only the silence of the grave.

And then the battle began.

WAR WORLD: JIHAD! is the latest volume in the grand reissue of War World that will bring Haven’s history to life in chronological fashion. The CoDominium is fraying apart at the seams, and to save itself the CoDominium is exporting Earth’s problems to the outer worlds, including exiling millions of Earth’s militant Muslims on Haven. When Dire Lake dries up, famine and pestilence arrive with a vengeance. The Mahdi believes that this is a sign from Allah and that the time has arrived to overthrow the corrupt CoDominium lackeys and their Company sponsors in the Northern Plains. So the Mahdi declares a Jihad and warfare breaks out with only a thin blue line between the jihadists and what remains of civilization on Haven.

In a last-ditch attempt to save the Haven colony, Admiral Lermontov sends in the 42nd CD Marines. Will the Marines arrive in time? And if they do, can they stop the jihadists and save the overwhelmed CoDominium Marine garrison at Fort Camerone? For more information on War World, visit the War World web site at: www.warworldcentral.com.

In the CoDominium Universe created by Jerry E. Pournelle

Here for the first time Pequod Press presents the first chapter in the full history of man’s first attempts at settling a moon that many call the harshest human environment in the CoDominium. In War World: Discovery we go back to the very beginnings of the War World Saga when the moon of the fourth satellite in the Byers' System was discovered by Jed Byers and the problems that entailed in opening it up to development and colonization. We see the struggles of the Harmonies to retain their world against the masters of the CoDominium who call Haven “End-of-the-Line” and us it a dumping ground for criminals, perverts, murderers, arsonists, garden variety psychopaths, terrorists and just plain political troublemakers they want to exiled from Earth--forever. War World is over a year from Earth across innumerable Alderson tramlines and way stations. A world from which no one without political favor ever returns!

In addition, there are the industrial magnates who see War World as a resource pool for rare minerals and ores with cheap labor provided by the Bureau of Relocation. They pitch their own battles across the boardrooms of Earth, reaching with their tentacles all the way to the trenches of War World itself. It’s there on Haven with its hostile wildlife and large criminal element where the blood is shed.  When things don’t go the Companies’ way, then it’s time to call in the CoDominium Marines.

War World: Discovery is the opening volume in a series that will present War World’s history in a chronological fashion for the very first time. Each book will include both the best of previously published stories as well as many brand new yarns. The next volume, War World: CoDominium Take-Over will open with the takeover of War World by the CoDominium Armed Services and the traitors within Castell City. 

The New Harmonies were original owners and settlers of Haven until the CoDominium decided any place that inhospitable would make an excellent dumping ground for political exiles, troublesome minorities and garden variety criminals. Over a year from Earth, by way of the old Bureau of Relocation deportee ships, Haven was the end of the line of CoDominium occupied space. During the Imperium, Haven was used as a recruiting ground for the Imperial Marines and became one of the first worlds abandoned when the war against the Sauron dominated Coalition of Secession got ugly.

Although humanity has annihilated the Sauron Homeworld, the cost was high: The Empire fell into a Dark Age and the secret of interstellar travel was lost for centuries. When a shipload of Saurons bent on conquest arrives unexpectedly, War World goes from pest-hole to Hellhole.

Haven, born of rebellion and civil war, cut-off from the rest of humanity after the Secession Wars, is bombed back to barbarism by the Sauron battlecruiser, the Fomoria, under the disguise of a pirate ship, the Dol Guldur. The Saurons—in fear of Imperial revenge—have vowed to cut Haven off from the rest of the Empire while they slowly absorb all human norms into their own perverted form. The human norms should have been easy pickings for the superhuman newcomers. However, what the Saurons hadn’t anticipated was that Haven is a world forever at war, each with all—and all against the Saurons.

Buza System is Dyan’s world.

She has been a Crecheling, one of the System’s children, trained in a broad range of skills and knowledge and prepared to take her place as an Urbane, a full-fledged adult member of the desert community with a Calling given her by the System and its Cogitant Council.

Between receiving her Calling and admission into the System, though, stand the Hanging and the Selection. The System has a lesson it wants to teach Dyan about death. Against that brutal experience, and entwined within it, destiny has a different lesson for her, about the family she has never known … and about love.

Crecheling is book one of The Buza System, a dark science fiction tale for young adults and other readers set in the crumbling ruins and blasted deserts of a future in which all people are not created equal and control is exerted by savage rituals of blood.

Read more about D.J. Butler’s books at:
http://davidjohnbutler.com.

Keith Doyle has made it to graduate school! In between classes and hanging out with his magical friends, the Little Folk, he has a new job as a copywriter for PDQ advertising agency, working on a campaign for a revolutionary electronic device. His plans for the party to end all parties on Hollow Tree Farm are coming along nicely. Things are not so rosy for the Little Folk. They’re being haunted not only by malevolent spirits passing through their cellar, but a Big Person who has discovered Keith’s supposedly well-camouflaged invitation to all creatures magical. Keith finds himself in danger trying to keep out of the hands of the industrial spy to protect not only the trade secrets of his client’s firm, but his friends and their home. Can Keith’s ingenuity and his limited magic keep the elves from being revealed to the world? Will the party ever take place? Will Keith ever get his hands on one of those wonderful devices?

The Cadet, Book 1 of the Wild Blue U saga, chronicles the founding years of arduous training of America’s future leaders as they prepare to serve in such places from the jungles of Vietnam to the deserts of the Middle East. The Cadet is an accurate, historical saga of the Academy based on factual events—but populated with empathetic, larger-than-life characters that will appeal to prospective candidates, military members, and the reading public alike.

WF201504 April 2015 Wordfire Press Books

The Cadet

Book 1 of the Wild Blue U saga
by Doug Beason

Advanced Mythology

Book 4 of the Mythology Series
by Jody Lynn Nye

Crecheling

by D.J. Butler

These stories by Marc Stiegler are about hope: hope that technology is not the destroyer of the human race, but will lead to a future we can hardly imagine. The transformation of humanity through nanotechnology has begun, and Marc Stiegler’s tales, most of which appeared in Analog Science Fiction Magazine, take us to a dangerous, wonder-filled future that may await us, ready or not. For Stiegler, technology is the “gentle seducer” that eases us from mere denizens of planet Earth to Masters of the Universe.

BOOK 3 in the multivolume Liaden Universe® short fiction collection. Tales of the Liaden Universe® brought together for the first time. Space opera and romance on a grand scale in a galaxy full of interstellar trading clans. The nationally best-selling Liaden Universe® novels are treasured by space opera aficionados for their wit, world-building, strong characterizations, tender romance, and edge-of-the-chair action. Since 1995, Sharon Lee and Steve Miller also created shorter tales, illuminating additional facets of the Liaden experience. Here is a vast tapestry of tales of the scouts, artists, traders, priestesses, sleight of hand magicians, and pilots who fill the Liaden Universe® with the excitement, action, and romance that readers of the hit series have come to adore. Contains all new entries published after 2011.

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

International best-selling science fiction author, David Drake teams with Jim Kjelgaard, legendary creator of Big Red.
The Return of a Masterpiece of Middle Grade Fiction!

OUTCASTS IN A LAND OF MONSTERS

Meet Hawk, formerly a hunter in a band of prehistoric nomads, now an outcast for breaking tribal law by daring to create a powerful new tool: the bow and arrow. Now the world is changing, the bison are disappearing, and the tribe has fallen into famine. Their only hope? Hawk and his new tools and hunting methods. But the old ways die hard, and Hawk must find a way to survive in a land of prehistoric predatorsfrom dire wolves to beavers the size of bearsif he is to save his tribe, and show humanity the path away from Stone Age stagnation.

Book #5 in Steve White's exciting TRA series. Jason faces down humanity's arch-enemies in an action-packed space adventure.

Special operations officer Jason Thanou of the Temporal Regulatory Authority must once again plunge into Earth’s blood-drenched past to combat the plots of the Transhumanist underground to subvert that past and create a secret history leading up to the fulfillment of their mad dream of transforming humanity into a race of gods and monsters.

#1 in a NEW EPIC FANTASY SERIES by 28-times New York Times and international best seller David Weber, set within his Bahzell Bahnakson/War God universe. A swordsman who has been robbed of his past must confront an evil wizard with a world at stake.

Know thyself. Its always good to know who you are, but sometimes thats a little difficult.

Kenhodan has no last name, because he has no past . . . or not one he remembers, anyway. What he does have are a lot of scars and a lot of skills some exhilarating and some terrifying and a purpose. Now if he only knew where he'd gotten them and what that purpose was . . . .

Wencit of Rūm, the most powerful wizard in the world, knows the answers to Kenhodan's questions, but he can't or won't share them with him. Except to inform him that he's a critical part of Wencit's millennium-long battle to protect Norfressa from conquest by dark sorcery.

Bahzell Bahnakson, champion of Tomank, doesn't know those answers and the War God isn't sharing them with him. Except to inform Bahzell that the final confrontation with the Dark Lords of fallen Kontovar is about to begin, and that somehow Kenhodan is one of the keys to its final outcome.

Wulfra of Torfo doesn't know those answers, either, but she does know Wencit of Rūm is her implacable foe and that somehow Kenhodan is one of the weapons he intends to use against her . . . assuming she can't kill both of them first.

But in the far northern port city of Belhadan, an eleven-year-old girl with a heart of harp music knows the answers to all of Kenhodan's questions. . . and dares not share them with anyone, even the ancient wild wizard who loves her more dearly than life itself.

It's not easy to face the future when you can't even remember your own past, but if saving an entire world from evil sorcerers, demons, devils, and dark gods was easy, anyone could do it.

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

W201508 August 2015 Monthly Baen Bundle

The Sword of the South

by David Weber

Soldiers Out of Time

by Steve White

The Hunter Returns

by David Drake and Jim Kjelgaard

A Liaden Universe^® Constellation, Volume 3

by Sharon Lee and Steve Miller

His Father's Eyes

by David B. Coe

Liberty: 1784

by Robert Conroy

Treasure Planet

by Hal Colebatch and Jessica Q. Fox
created by Larry Niven

After the War of the Gods, the demons were cast out and fell to the world. Mankind was nearly eradicated by the seemingly unstoppable beasts, until the gods sent the great hero, Ramrowan, to save them. He united the tribes, gave them magic, and drove the demons into the sea. Yet as centuries passed, Gods and demons became myth and legend, and the people no longer believed. The Age of Law began.

Ashok Vadal has been chosen by a powerful ancient weapon to be its bearer. He is a Protector, the elite militant order of roving law enforcers. No one is more merciless in rooting out those who secretly practice the old ways. Everything is black or white, good or evil, until he discovers his entire life is a fraud. Ashok isn’t who he thinks he is, and when he finds himself on the wrong side of the law, the consequences lead to rebellion, war—and destruction.