The assassination of the Chief Judge has pushed the Capitol to the edge. The Great Extermination has spread to all the land. The casteless must be annihilated. Their only hope is the fallen Protector Ashok Vadal. But Vadal is being held prisoner on the island of Fortress. In order to save those who need him most, he must escape and find his way across the demon-infested sea and return to Thera, the prophet of an illegal and forgotten god. Ashok Vadal, Thera, and the Sons of the Black Sword face foes both human and supernatural, Byzantine political intrigue and bloody hand-to-hand combat, and gods and demons alike. But Vadal is a warrior with a warrior’s heart, and woe to those who would stand in his way—man, god, demon, or otherwise!

Five years ago, astronaut Jack Templeton took the spacecraft Magellan to the farthest reaches of our solar system, never to be heard from again. Until now.

When the Magellan suddenly reappears where an undiscovered planet was suspected to be, it poses more questions than answers. In a race against time, Jack’s former crewmate Traci Keene spearheads a desperate effort to outfit a rescue mission. But she has competition. Agencies of both American and foreign governments have their own agendas, and saving rogue astronauts isn’t among them. And at the edge of all that is known, a gateway to the unknown awaits.

Since he was a boy, Rae Kelthannis has dreamed of being a stormbinder like his father, with an air elemental stitched into the fabric of his soul and the winds of heaven at his command. Those dreams died when his father, through no fault of his own, fell into disgrace and was banned by the justicars of the Iron Council. The family fled to the edge of the Ordered World, to live in fear in the shadow of encroaching Chaos.

When Rae defies his father’s orders and attempts to stitch an air elemental to his soul, he instead binds himself to a mysterious wraith. That’s when things get complicated and the world starts to fall apart around him. Literally.

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Mankind eventually hopped its way across the nearby stars to Lalande 21185, only to find a few dead, rocky worlds bathed in radiation and a system-wide debris field that made navigating all but the edges of the system hazardous for large spacecraft. But the debris was more than just stray asteroids and space junk. It was wreckage. A war had occurred in the system. But despite hundreds of scavenger crews searching the system for scrap, no complete ships were ever found—until now.

And if you liked “Black Box” check out more stories of ancient aliens in Worlds Long Lost, edited by Christopher Ruocchio and Sean CW Korsgaard here.

Starting today, January 16th, you can submit your original, unpublished fantasy short story for the Baen Fantasy Adventure Award. Submissions are open until the end of April. Go to https://www.baen.com/contest-faa for details.

To celebrate the release of Chicks in Tank Tops (edited by Jason Cordova), we’re offering discounts on the classic anthologies edited by Esther Friesner that started it all! For the month of January, save on the Chicks in Chainmail series. And as a bonus, we’re also discounting the anthologies in Friesner’s Supernatural Suburbia series.

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Coming soon to the Baen Free Radio Hour: David Weber and contributors talk Worlds of Honor anthology What Price Victory?; Robert E. Hampson discusses his debut Baen novel, The Moon and the Desert; and M.A. Rothman and D.J. Butler on Time Trials.

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