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Read More Tweet Press Release Baen Books Signs Christopher Ruocchio for Sun Eater Series Finale Baen Books has signed a contract with author Christopher Ruocchio to publish the final two books in his internationally award-winning Sun Eater series, as well as for a first look deal for Ruocchio’s next series. Read More Tweet Press ReleaseYou can now email EPUB Ebooks to your device directly from Baen.com! We’re happy to announce an easier way to deliver our Ebooks directly from Baen.com to your favorite Ereader. You can now email EPUB files directly to your device from our site—no download necessary! Learn More Tweet Press Release Baen Books Starts 2023 by Signing Two New Authors Baen to publish new science fiction novels from authors Monalisa Foster and Marisa Wolf Read More Tweet Press Release Baen Shares Plans for Future Eric Flint Novels Lucille Robbins, Eric Flint’s widow and heir, in conjunction with Baen Books would like to announce the forthcoming titles from Eric Flint. Read More Tweet Press Release Baen Books Signs Howard Andrew Jones to Five-Book Deal Baen to publish sword and sorcery series The Chronicles of Hanuvar, with first book in August 2023 Read More Tweet Press Release 2022 Baen Fantasy Adventure Award Finalists Announced Baen Books formally announced this year’s finalists for the Baen Fantasy Adventure Award earlier this month. Read More Tweet Press ReleaseEric Flint 1947–2022 It is with a heavy heart that we share the news that Eric Flint has passed away. We were proud to publish Eric’s first novel, Mother of Demons , in 1997, and to continue publishing his many worlds, including the best-selling Ring of Fire series that started with 1632 . There are several of Eric’s works already delivered and on the schedule. Eric was a tireless collaborator, and readers can also expect more of his works to be released with Eric’s designated collaborators in the future. We will be celebrating Eric and his works on the Baen Free Radio Hour this week and the following week and encourage all to tune in. —Toni Weisskopf Publisher, Baen Books TweetPress Release Author Wil McCarthy wins 2022 Prometheus Award for Rich Man’s Sky Lakewood, Colorado author Wil McCarthy has been named the winner of the 2022 Prometheus Award for Best Novel, for his novel Rich Man’s Sky . Read More Tweet Press Release Baen Books Announces the Finalists for the 2020 Baen Fantasy Adventure AwardTo Whom It May Concern: What is it we do at Baen Books? We publish books at the heart of science fiction and fantasy. Science fiction has traditionally been a unique kind of intellectual pleasure, a process of glorious intercommunication and inspiration, with ideas flowing from scientist and engineer to writer and artist, to reader and viewer, back and forth, in a delightful mélange of shared thoughts, wild speculation, cautionary tales, reality checks, and the sheer fun of playing with boundaries and ideas. It is not for everyone. But those who enjoy it, take great pleasure in the dialogue. When the modern form of SF began, with Hugo Gernsback and the other pulp magazines of the early 20th century, the publishers fostered that interaction through letter columns in the magazines and by encouraging science fiction readers to organize in clubs and meet in conventions. Baen Books continued that tradition with Baen’s Bar, a kind of virtual convention and on-line conversation that has been around in some form for over 20 years. The moderators are volunteers. The readers, editors, and writers post and interact on the Bar at their own desire. Some conversations have been gone over so many times, they’ve been retired as simply too boring to contemplate again. Sometimes the rhetoric can get heated. We do not endorse the publication of unlawful speech. We have received no complaints about the content of the Bar from its users. That said, it has come to our attention that allegations about the Bar have been made elsewhere. We take these allegations seriously, and consequently have put the Bar on hiatus while we investigate. But we will not commit censorship of lawful speech. It is not Baen Books’ policy to police the opinions of its readers, its authors, its artists, its editors, or indeed anyone else. This applies to posts at the Bar, or on social media, on their own websites, or indeed anywhere else. On the Bar, the publisher does not select what is allowed to be posted, and does not hijack an individual’s messages for their own purposes. Similarly, the posts do not represent the publisher’s opinion, except in a deep belief that free speech is worthy in and of itself. Most sincerely, Toni Weisskopf Publisher TweetPress Release Baen Books Announces the Finalists for the 2020 Baen Fantasy Adventure AwardTo all of those who expressed interest and support for Baen’s Bar in recent weeks, we are happy to announce it is back on-line, though with some changes. Baen is handing the Bar over to its users, and will henceforth be run by SFF Forums, LLC, and may be found at https://www.baensbar.net . Returning users will be able to use the Bar as usual, but new members will have to make a purchase at baen.com before they can log in. (Note: New users will not have to buy a book; there is a Bar tipjar option so they may contribute to the maintenance of the forum). —Toni Weisskopf for SFF Forums TweetPress Release Baen Books Announces Author Reading Series on Facebook LIVE Innovative Independent Publisher to Bring Author Readings, Q&As, and Convention-Style Programming to Facebook LIVE Read More Tweet Press Release Baen Books & RBmedia Announce Audiobook Publishing Partnership Over 170 titles from Baen Books to be published as audiobooks over the next three years Read More Tweet Featured Content We could feature a quote or other highlighted information here. 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