Tales from the Earliest Days of 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. It is home to magnificent cities. Its planets’ oceans and seas—and skies—are open to its people, yet they have maintained the beauty and the magnificence of their natural habitats.

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 enormous voyage, incorporated every measure they could think of, and even so, their new worlds did their best to kill them all. They very nearly succeeded, as the Plague Years pushed the human interlopers to the very brink of survival, forcing them to grow and change in ways they never could have anticipated.

In the process, 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 the challenges the universe throws at one.

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 with Thomas Pope, Daniel Allen Butler, and Jane Lindskold.

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Zombies Aren’t the Only Threat to Our Survival in this New Black Tide Rising Universe Novel

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 nation at a time, they’ve set their sights on Italy . . .

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

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Calypso Must Chart Her Own Course!

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 further.

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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Baen Fantasy Adventure Award winner, “Traitor to the Wolfguard’s Creed.”

Read “Traitor to the Wolfguard’s Creed” by Gideon P. Smith, this year’s Baen Fantasy Award winner here!

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Coming soon to the Baen Free Radio Hour: Griffin Barber interviews a crew of podcasters—the guys from Bullshido, Blasters & Blades, and the inestimable Jill Bearup,—about their podcasts, how they came to fandom, and what they’re into. Next up we have H.Y. Gregor interviewing Wen Spencer on her latest Wolves of Boston Novel, Black Tie and Tails; then Griffin Barber interviews Marisa Wolf on her brand new fantasy, A Plague of Magic.

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