IT’S EARLY DAYS IN THE STAR KINGDOM

In Honor Harrington’s day, the Star Kingdom of Manticore is the wealthiest star nation on a per capita basis in the entire galaxy. But that was not always true. Pioneers, especially interstellar pioneers, must be tough, smart, and self-reliant, and the people who built the Star Kingdom knew that. They prepared carefully for their voyage, incorporated every measure they could think of, and even so, their new worlds did their best to kill them all.

In the process of overcoming these lethal challenges, they became the people who could one day produce Honor Harrington, Elizabeth Winton, and the remarkable people willing to stand in the path of the People’s Republic of Haven’s insatiable advance . . . and then to ally with the Republic when both of them learned who their true enemy was. In many ways, that fortitude was the inevitable result of a star nation that learned early on that what truly matters is the way one faces challenges.

These are the stories of people who learned that lesson, and met—and triumphed—over every challenge of their new homes.

All original stories by: David Weber, Marisa Wolf, Jacob Holo, Dan Butler, Thomas Pope, and Jane Lindskold.

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THE WORLD ENDED, BUT CIVILIZATION STILL STRUGGLES ON 

Before the world fell, Silvio Cipriano was a contract-killer for the Italian Mafia.

When the H7D3 virus came to Italy, Silvio worked to forget his past, to build a different future. Fighting to protect his loved ones from the zombie hordes, he organized the survivors, raised them up from the ashes, and gave them hope.

Now, a new enemy has arisen. Worse than the zombies, and bent on conquering the planet one struggling settlement at a time, they’ve set their sights on Italy and Silvio’s fragile trade road . . .

. . . with no idea what’s awaiting them.

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A NEW SERIES IN THE UNIVERSE OF THE DABARE SNAKE LAUNCHER!

It is a time of humanity’s exuberant expansion throughout the Solar System. We have colonies on the Moon, Mars, as far as Saturn’s rings. And we’re heading out even farther.

But it does mean that we’re stretched thin, and that every person who is part of the great experiment must do their part. To include the least likely scion of a famous explorer family: the Sadous.

The Sadous were in space exploration from the start of the space elevators in Africa, and they remain powerful to this day. But power draws envy, and for 12-year-old Calypso, life ain’t so easy. Especially when her mother, father, and two prodigy brothers—no pressure—head out, leaving her alone on Saturn’s ring station with her grandparents in charge.

She becomes the focus of a lot of strife, political maneuvering, and simple jealousy. As her grandparents are aging, she’s going to have to grow up fast to protect them and her own hopes for a productive future. It’ll take everything she’s got to prove worthy—to her family, to her colony, and most of all, to herself.

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Coming soon to the Baen Free Radio Hour: Toni Weisskopf moderates the second half of our Fall Hard for Science Fiction panel of amazing authors; Brian Trent is interviewed by Griffin Barber on Perdition’s Storm, his first Baen novel and the latest entry in John Ringo’s Black Tide Rising universe; and Joelle Presby is interviewed by Hailey “H.Y.” Gregor about her latest Baen novel, Ringer.

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