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Eight Million Gods

Eight Million Gods

A contemporary fantasy of mystery and death as American expats battle Japanese gods and monsters to retrieve an ancient artifact that can destroy the world. On Saturday afternoon, Nikki Delany thought, "George Wilson, in the kitchen, with a blender." By dinner, she had killed George and posted his gory murder to her blog. The next day, she put on her mourning clothes and went out to meet her best friend for lunch to discuss finding a replacement for her love interest. Nikki is a horror novelist. Her choice of career is dictated by an Obsessive Compulsive Disorder that forces her to write stories of death and destruction. She can't control it, doesn't understand it, but can use it to make money anywhere in the world. Currently "anywhere" is in Japan, hiding from her mother who sees Nikki's OCD as proof she's mentally unstable. Nikki's fragile peace starts to fall apart when the police arrest her for the murder of an American expatriate. Someone killed him with a blender. Reality starts to unravel around Nikki. She's attacked by a raccoon in a business suit. After a series of blackouts, she’s accompanied by a boy that no one else can see, a boy who claims to be a god. Is she really being pursued by Japanese myths—or is she simply going insane? What Nikki does know for sure is that the bodies are piling up, her mother has arrived in Japan to lock her up for the rest of her life—and her novels always end with everyone dead. Download the comprehensive Teacher’s Guide here. Listen to the author discuss the book here on the Baen Free Radio Hour.

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Elfhome

Elfhome

Pittsburgh, PA has been magically transported to a world of elves and magic in order to stave off a monstrous invasion of Earth. Now Tinker, once a downtrodden waif from that city, but now a full-blooded elf ruler, must root out and destroy an evil plot that involves the kidnapping and breeding of elf children. Tinker uncovers ancient secrets and a web of betrayal as she searches for the lost elflings. Meanwhile, the orc-like oni gangster kidnappers will stop at nothing to win, so neither can she. At five foot nothing, Tinker’s greatest weapon has always been her intelligence. Politics, she discovers, is a battle of wits, and Tinker comes heavily armed.

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Free Short Stories 2012

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Free Short Stories 2012

CHECKSUM Checkmate by Tony Daniel Grayson Navy Letters Home by Joelle Presby Like Ghost Cat and a Dragon's Dog by Dave Freer A Murder of Crows by Alex Hernandez The Age of the Warrior by Hank Reinhardt Taking the High Road by R.P.L. Johnson Conella and the Cyclops Sea Serpent of Doom by John Ringo Landed Alien by Sharon Lee & Steve Miller Kinderspiel by Charles E. Gannon Peace Offering by Wen Spencer Angel in Flight by Sarah A. Hoyt Away in a Manger by Wen Spencer

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Free Short Stories 2013

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Free Short Stories 2013

Eleutherios by Sharon Lee and Steve Miller Seven Miles by T.C. McCarthy To Spec by Charles E. Gannon Skyspark by Ryk E. Spoor The Krumhorn and Misericorde by Dave Freer Pittsburgh Backyard and Garden by Wen Spencer Haunts of Guilty Minds by John Lambshead The Lamplighter Legacy by Patrick O'Sullivan Dog's Body by Sarah A. Hoyt The Sorcerer of Daigawa by Jon F. Merz Sweothi City by Larry Correia Out of True by Sharon Lee and Steve Miller Mars Farts by Ben Bova The Virgin of Hertogenbosch by David Drake Murder on the Hochflieger Ost by Frank Chadwick

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Free Short Stories 2014

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Free Short Stories 2014

The Gift of Music by Sharon Lee The Aristocrat and the Free Man by Robert Conroy Stealing Arturo by William Ledbetter Magic and Other Honest Lies by Robert Buettner Soft Casualty by Michael Z. Williamson Songs of Waste and Wood by P.C. Hodgell The Last Secret of Mary Bowser by Steve White Low Arc by Sean Monaghan Balance by Marina J. Lostetter A Thing of Beauty by Charles E. Gannon An Imperium Pursuitby Jody Lynn Nye Picket Shipby Brad R. Torgersen The Golden Knightby K. D. Julicher Bare Snow Falling on Fairywoodby Wen Spencer Bait and Switchby Ryk E. Spoor The night don't seem so lonelyby Sharon Lee Long Nights Moonby David B. Coe

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Free Stories 2017

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Free Stories 2017

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 2017. 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. Does a Bear Shoot in the Woods?by Wen Spencer Dei Britanniciby D.J. Butler Preparations and Alliancesby Ryk E. Spoor Into Gonebeyondby Susan R. Matthews Cutting Cornersby Sharon Lee and Steve Miller A Fire on the Hillby Brendan DuBois Feldsparby Philip A. Kramer Bullet Catchby Stephen Lawson Force Multipliers Being What They Areby Travis S. Taylor The Powhatanby Tony Daniel What We're Made Ofby Frank Chadwick The Blue Widowby J.P. Sullivan Sufficient Unto the Dayby Tim Powers On-Site for the Apocalypseby Ryk E. Spoor Block Partyby Sharon Lee and Steve Miller

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Free Stories 2022

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Free Stories 2022

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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Harbinger

Harbinger

The Long-Awaited New Entry in Wen Spencer’s Popular Tinker Series The war against the oni heats to a flashpoint even as Tinker learns that the enemy has a dangerous new weapon, the nactka. What’s more, the Stone Clan has sent its most famous warlords, the Harbingers, to take control of the allied war effort. Are these elves friends or foes? Tinker’s newfound baby siblings are up for grabs. The babies, though, are wood sprites and aren’t going to take things lying down. Team Mischief go!

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Project Elfhome

Project Elfhome

Pittsburgh: a sprawling modern Earth city stranded in the heart of a virgin forest on Elfhome. Sixty thousand humans, twenty thousand black-winged tengu, ten thousand elves, an unknown number of invading oni, four unborn siblings of an elf princess, three dragons, and a pair of nine-year olds geniuses. For every story written, there's a thousand others not told. Lives interweave. Fates intersect. People change one another, often without realizing the impact they've made on others. They come together like a mosaic, little pieces creating a greater picture. Project Elfhome tells the stories of those impacted by Tinker and Windwolf as they struggle to make Pittsburgh a safe haven. Some of the characters are familiar: Stormsong, Pony, Blue Sky, and Lain. Others are new to readers. Law forages for wild plants and fish to sell to elf enclaves. A social misfit, she drives a hundred year old Dodge, has a pet porcupine, and saves damsels in distress in her spare time. A mysterious phone call sets her on a collision course with danger as she races to save a young female elf. Jane Kryskill is the producer for the popular TV series Pittsburgh Backyard and Garden. She spends her days keeping her host, Hal Rogers, from getting himself killed as he takes on man eating plants. She's not happy when the network drops famed naturalist Nigel Reid and his cameraman in her lap to film Chased by Monsters. Olivia is sixteen, a runaway wife of a religious cultist, illegal immigrant, and soon to be mother. As Pittsburgh plunges into war, she makes a desperate bargain with the mad elf lord, Forest Moss. As the war between the elves and the oni builds to a head, these three women struggle with their own problems, supported by a circle of unique friends, yet entangled with each other.

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Storm Furies

Storm Furies

THE GODDESS OF WAR RIDES, HERALDED BY STORM FURIES The oni have invaded Pittsburgh on Elfhome. And, so far, it looks like they are winning. All this is according to prophecy. But the prophecy is big on symbols and light on specifics. Tinker and her allies are doing the best they can to defend the city and the civilians caught in the crossfire of a war between elves that’s been brewing for centuries. But the enemy has no hesitation whatsoever in involving innocents. All the pieces in this deadly game are in place—and everyone trusts Tinker will save them. All she needs is a plan. And then the lights go out, and the storm begins to rage. . . .

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The Black Wolves of Boston

The Black Wolves of Boston

From the Romantic Times Sapphire award winning author of the Internationally best‑selling Elfhome series. REBUILD A LIFE, SAVE A CITY Silas Decker had his world destroyed when he was attacked by vampires outside of New Amsterdam. He has rebuilt his life a dozen times in the last three hundred years—each time less and less successfully. Now he lives alone, buried under a hoarding habit, struggling to find some reason to wake up with the setting of the sun. Eloise is a Virtue, pledged to hunting evil. What she doesn’t know is how to live alone in a city full of strangers who know nothing about monsters. Seth is the sixteen‑year old Prince of Boston, ward of the Wolf King. Now he is left in a city that desperately needs his protection with enemies gathering all around. Joshua believes he is a normal, college‑bound high school senior. His life is shattered when he wakes up in a field, covered with blood, and the prom committee scattered in pieces about him like broken dolls. These four must now come together to unravel a plot by Wickers, witches who gain power from human sacrifices and have the power to turn any human into their puppet. Four people who lost everything struggle to save Boston by saving each other.

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Tinker

Tinker

Move Over, Buffy! Tinker Not Only Kicks Supernatural Butt— She's a Techie Genius, Too! Inventor, girl genius Tinker lives in a near-future Pittsburgh which now exists mostly in the land of the elves. She runs her salvage business, pays her taxes, and tries to keep the local ambient level of magic down with gadgets of her own design. When a pack of wargs chase an Elven noble into her scrap yard, life as she knows it takes a serious detour. Tinker finds herself taking on the Elven court, the NSA, the Elven Interdimensional Agency, technology smugglers and a college-minded Xenobiologist as she tries to stay focused on what's really important – her first date. Armed with an intelligence the size of a planet, steel toed boots, and a junk yard dog attitude, Tinker is ready to kick butt to get her first kiss. Wen Spencer "Each and every character is fascinating, extraordinarily well-developed, and gets right under your skin. . . . A terrific, memorable story." —Julie E. Czerneda, author of In the Company of Others "Spencer takes her readers on a fast-paced journey into disbelief. [Her] timing is impeccable and the denouement stunning." —Romantic Times (four-star review) "This novel [Alien Taste] is keeper-shelf material." —BookBrowser "Wonderfully inventive . . . a fun protagonist." —Locus

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Wolf Who Rules

Wolf Who Rules

A New Breed of Adventure! Tinker: just a quick-witted girl from Pittsburgh - who happens to be responsible for depositing high elves and her hometown humans into a melting pot of magic. Now the draconian oni seek to destroy the elves by breeding human git to do their evil bidding. But half-breeds who are half-human may not be the slaves the oni imagined. The revolt is on! Its leader A certain newly-minted elven princess from Pittsburgh, PA, by the name of Tinker. The thrilling sequel to Tinker by Wen Spencer, winner of the 2003 John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer. "Wit and intelligence. Buffy fans should find a lot to like in [Spencer's] resourceful heroine." — Publishers Weekly

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Wood Sprites

Wood Sprites

Book 4 in the Romantic Times Sapphire award winning Elfhome series. Even though they attend a school of gifted students in New York City, child geniuses Louise Mayer and her twin sister Jillian have always felt alone in the world, isolated by their brilliance. Shortly before their ninth birthday, they make an amazing discovery. They’re not alone. Their real mother was astronaut Esme Shenske and their father was the famous inventor, Leonardo Dufae. They have an older sister, Alexander, living on the planet of Elfhome, and four siblings still in cryogenic storage at the fertility center. There’s only one problem: the frozen embryos are scheduled to be destroyed within six months. The race is on to save their baby brother and sisters. As a war breaks out on Elfhome and riots start in New York City, the twins use science and magic to plow over everything standing in their way. But when they come face to face with an ancient evil force, they’re soon in over their heads in danger. Listen to the author discuss the book here on the Baen Free Radio Hour.

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