The Baen Free Radio Hour

Baen Marketing Director Corinda Carfora discusses the inner workings of publication marketing and promotion, and shares her decades-long experience of working at Baen and in the publishing industry; and David Weber's Uncompromising Honor, Part 23.

D.J. Butler discusses In the Palace of Shadow and Joy, a far-far-far future science fiction adventure novel in the spirit of Fritz Leiber's Fafhryd and the Gray Mouser stories and Jack Vance's Dying Earth series. Butler explains why a super-old future Earth might seem like a permanent Mos Eisley cantina; and David Weber's Uncompromising Honor, Part 22.

D.J. Butler discusses In the Palace of Shadow and Joy, a far-far-far future science fiction adventure novel in the spirit of Fritz Leiber's Fafhryd and the Gray Mouser stories and Jack Vance's Dying Earth series. Butler explains why a super-old future Earth might seem like a permanent Mos Eisley cantina; and David Weber's Uncompromising Honor, Part 22.

Catherine Asaro discusses The Vanished Seas, an entry in the Major Bhaajan science fiction mystery series set in the world of Asaro's Skolian Empire. Asaro talks about the characters and the deep history of her setting, the city of Cries on the planet Raylicon—a city stratified by an opulent metropolis on the surface with a hardscrabble underground section below called the Undercity—and the manner...

Charles E. Gannon discusses At the End of the World, a novel set in the world of John Ringo's Black Tide Rising series. In the book, a sailing ship filled with teenagers on a science voyage to the South Seas is caught in the midst of an eat-your-neighbor plague that hits the world and causes the collapse of civilization. There's a whip-smart young narrator from a disadvantaged background, and a cr...

Christopher Woods, Jody Lynn Nye, David B. Coe, and Les Johnson on Give Me Libertycon edited by Christopher Woods and T.K.F. Weisskopf. This is an anthology of science fiction and fantasy featuring stories by David Weber, David Drake, Larry Correia and Timothy Zahn and many more, including editor Christopher Woods, Jody Lynn Nye, David B. Coe, and Les Johnson. Woods, Nye, Coe, and Johnson discuss...

Peter J. Wacks and Eytan Kollin on Caller of Lightning. This is the third entry in the Arcane America series. It's a flintlock fantasy/alternate history featuring Benjamin Franklin in a magically charged America and Europe. In Caller of Lightning, Ben Franklin discovers an inherent magic within himself connected to the key he electrified in his kite experiment. The novel then details Franklin's co...

David Weber and Phillip Pournelle discuss Mamelukes, by Jerry Pournelle. When the late, great Dr. Jerry Pournelle passed away, he left behind the nearly completed manuscript for science fiction novel Mamelukes. Now Pournelle's son, Phillip Pournelle, and Honor Harrington series creator David Weber have completed the book. This is an entry in Jerry Pournelle's legendary Janissaries series; and Davi...

David Weber and Phillip Pournelle discuss Mamelukes, by Jerry Pournelle. When the late, great Dr. Jerry Pournelle passed away, he left behind the nearly completed manuscript for science fiction novel Mamelukes. Now Pournelle's son, Phillip Pournelle, and Honor Harrington series creator David Weber have completed the book. This is an entry in Jerry Pournelle's legendary Janissaries series; and Davi...

David Weber and Phillip Pournelle discuss Mamelukes, by Jerry Pournelle. When the late, great Dr. Jerry Pournelle passed away, he left behind the nearly completed manuscript for science fiction novel Mamelukes. Now Pournelle's son, Phillip Pournelle, and Honor Harrington series creator David Weber have completed the book. This is an entry in Jerry Pournelle's legendary Jannis Janissaries series; a...

Lois McMaster Bujold and Baen Publisher Toni Weisskopf discuss Bujold's book Penric's Travels. This is a fantasy novel featuring deceptively mild-mannered sorcerer Penric set in Bujold's Five Gods fantasy world. This is Part Two of a two-part interview; and David Weber's Uncompromising Honor, Part 14.

Lois McMaster Bujold and Baen Publisher Toni Weisskopf discuss Bujold's book Penric's Travels. This is a fantasy novel featuring deceptively mild-mannered sorcerer Penric set in Bujold's Five Gods fantasy world. This is Part One of a two-part interview; and David Weber's Uncompromising Honor, Part 13.

Nancy Kress discusses The Eleventh Gate, a science fiction novel that combines exciting space opera action and quantum physics speculation into a brew of adventure and cosmic wonder by multiple award winning author Kress; and David Weber's Uncompromising Honor, Part 12.

Eric Flint and Dave Freer discuss The Shaman of Karres, the fourth entry in the Witches of Karres science fiction adventure series. This is a storyline finale novel, with young super-science witch The Lewitt coming of age as she, Paussert and Goth from the previous books fight against a vast interstellar slaving operation; and David Weber's Uncompromising Honor, Part 11.

Dr. Robert E. Furey discusses his Baen.com web site article "The Bridge of Sighs: Are We What Might Have Been?" which asks the question of whether we are living in a simulation created by our descendants. It seemed like a trivial idea to Furey at first, but upon consideration, he became convinced the possibility that we are part of a nested simulation might very well approach 100 percent. Rob Fure...

Baen Publisher Toni Weisskopf on reading and the current Great Hunkering Down happening at the moment. She also discusses Baen Books' response with a new Baen Virtual Roadshow, and other initiatives. Weisskopf also talks about being art director at Baen, and some of the decisions that go into creating the covers. Finally, Weisskopf discusses Give Me Libertycon, a new anthology she has edited with...

Thomas Kidd, Susan R. Matthews, and Christopher Ruocchio discuss Overruled, a science fiction anthology with a law and order theme. It's lawyers in space, as artist and author Tom Kidd talks about his story of a star-traveling artist in the dock for murder represented by an annoying, but humorous, robot barrister, Susan R. Matthews discusses an arbitration proceeding in the far reaches of the Gone...

In these somewhat uncertain days, there's nothing like reading a good book to give you a mental break, lift the spirits, and even inspire you. And if you can't make it to a print bookseller, we've got you covered with these tips for some great science fiction and fantasy ebook reading.

In these somewhat uncertain days, there's nothing like reading a good book to give you a mental break, lift the spirits, and even inspire you. And if you can't make it to a print bookseller, we've got you covered with these tips for some great science fiction and fantasy ebook reading.

In these somewhat uncertain days, there's nothing like reading a good book to give you a mental break, lift the spirits, and even inspire you. And if you can't make it to a print bookseller, we've got you covered with these tips for some great science fiction and fantasy ebook reading.

In these somewhat uncertain days, there's nothing like reading a good book to give you a mental break, lift the spirits, and even inspire you. And if you can't make it to a print bookseller, we've got you covered with these tips for some great science fiction and fantasy ebook reading.

In these somewhat uncertain days, there's nothing like reading a good book to give you a mental break, lift the spirits, and even inspire you. And if you can't make it to a print bookseller, we've got you covered with these tips for some great science fiction and fantasy ebook reading.

Wil McCarthy discusses The Collapsium, a science fiction novel filled with cool, and plausible, extensions of modern physics with wonder-inducing ideas, including materials such as a matrix of stable mini black holes, and programmable matter. It's a novel of manners, and a hard science fiction gem. McCarthy talks about both the ideas in the book, and its rollicking plot; and David Weber's Uncompro...

Larry Niven and Steven Barnes discuss Starborn and Godsons by Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle, and Steven Barnes. This is a new entry in the legendary science fiction Heorot series, with previous entries The Legacy of Heorot and Beowulf's Children. This is the finale to the series. It was nearly complete when Dr. Jerry Pournelle passed away, and Niven and Barnes discuss the close collaboration they c...

Eric Flint and Ryk E. Spoor discuss Castaway Resolution, the finale to their Castaway Planet subseries, and the Boundary hard science fiction series. This is hard science fiction with a sense of wonder and great problem solving by the characters, who are marooned on a hostile, but fascinating, planet. And a great short story replay from the hallowed and haunted halls of the podcast with "Magic and...