CONSPIRACY THEORY MEETS SUPERHERO REALITY 

Dumped in an alleyway as a baby and raised in one of the most vicious inner cities this country has to offer, Michael Edwards’ life changed forever when he acquired Earth powers and heard the words, “The Storm is Coming.” He trained those powers, forged a team with the other Junior Supers, and took down a vicious criminal. Then, he disappeared to hunt down the remains of that creature’s gang on his own.

Now, he’s back in New York City. Not only is he looking for justice—no, vengeance—for what was done to his mother, but he also seeks the inheritance that’s his due.

Blocking the path to Michael’s inheritance is The Society, a secret organization that runs most of the world and can best be described as pure evil. No teenage boy alive could possibly hope to bring down The Society on his own. Except, perhaps, for one Michael Edwards, aka Stone Tactical, aka Boogie Knight.

The Society is about to get a visit, and they won’t know what hit them.

Get Welcome to the Jungle here.

THE DUST KNIGHTS MUST COMPETE FOR GOLD 

The worlds of three interstellar civilizations vie for honors in the Olympics. The more populous worlds have always dominated the Games. The team from Raylicon, a dying world of scorching temperatures, has never won honors.

But Mason, the coach for the Raylicon track and field team, makes a startling discovery: in the Undercity, a place where crushing poverty exists alongside a culture of dramatic beauty, a group of spectacular runners has existed for millennia.

The Dust Knights are the best of those marvels. With the help of Major Bhajaan, an Undercity native, Mason recruits the Knights. The Undercity faces a civilization they’ve never trusted, one that sees them as barely even human. Now, they must all learn to work together.

The Imperialate of Skolia needs the Undercity to trust them—for hidden within its enigmatic population is one of humanity’s greatest resources. Their population has a uniquely large concentration of Kyle operators. Kyles can do more than run; only they have the neurological makeup needed to utilize a vital technology, one that gives Skolia its sole advantage over their enemies. The army needs the Kyles, but after centuries of being despised and left to die by the rest of humanity, the Undercity wants nothing to do with them.

Until Angel, one of the top runners among the Knights, joins the Kyle Corps—and dives into a world of neurological marvels, including star-spanning networks that access a dimension with dramatically different laws than our space-time universe.

Get Gold Dust here.

THE CUNNING MAN AGAINST THE GHOSTMASTER

Cunning man Hiram Woolley and his son Michael carry an itinerant preacher across the border into Mexico. Hiram is haunted by the specter of a bloody-faced man that stalks him in his dreams, but also by doubts about what lies ahead in the Mormon colonies around Nuevo Casas Grandes—this is the country Hiram’s father fled to when he abandoned young Hiram and his mother.

In the colonies, Hiram and Michael are dragged into investigating an impossible murder. They track the killer across a land haunted by robbers, by its history of oppression and revolution, by ancient conflict and modern racial strife, and by the insanity that flows from loneliness and exile. They battle bandits and also an elusive ghostmaster who blights the land with the spirits of the uneasy dead.

But before the killer can be brought to justice, Hiram will learn that the most haunting thing of all is family.

Get The Familiar Spirit here.

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Saga of the Skolian Empire
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Our congratulations to the winners of last month’s contest: These lucky five have won copies of  A Plague of Magic in ebook: Robin McKean, Stacy Stanley, Jeff Zahen, Jed Wilburn, and Gary Carlson.

Coming soon to the Baen Free Radio Hour: Catherine Asaro is interviewed by HY Gregor about her latest Dust Knight novel, Gold Dust, Jeremy Comeaux interviews D.J. Butler and Aaron Michael Ritchy on their latest Cunning Man novel, The Familiar Spirit, and Sean Hazlett interviews the authors of Challenges, stories from the earliest days of the Star Kingdom of Manticore, David Weber, Thomas Pope, Marisa Wolf, and Jacob Holo.

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