War of Honor(Reprint) (A Honor Harrington Novel) by David Weber, JamesBaen Paperback, 976 Pages, Published 2003 by Baen ISBN-13: 978-0-7434-7167-1, ISBN: 0-7434-7167-9
"David Weber's Honor Harrington series continues in this 10th novel, which picks up the action several years after the previous volume, Ashes of Victory. With a ceasefire in place with the Peeps, the new government of the Star Kingdom ignores the wishes of Queen Elizabeth and then threatens the very fabric of the Manticore Alliance against the People's Republic of Haven. We find Honor in the role of a senior political advisor, perf ..."
"Key Selling Points- David Weber is the science fiction phenomenon of the decade. His best-selling Honor Harrington novels top all the charts.- Weber's recent War of Honor was a hardcover general best seller on the New York Times (#8), New York Daily News (#7), Wall Street Journal (#10), Publishers Weekly (#7), and online and chain booksellers' lists. His previous Honor Harrington novel, Ashes of Victory, was also a smash hit national be ..."
"Key Selling Points- David Weber is the brightest star in the new century's science fiction firmament. His best-selling Honor Harrington novels top all the charts and his thousands of readers grab every book with his name on the cover.- Weber's recent War of Honor was a hardcover general best seller on the New York Times (#8), New York Daily News (#7), Wall Street Journal (#10), Publishers Weekly (#7), and online and chain booksellers' l ..."
"A utopian future world in which there is no disease, poverty, war, or ill-timed death is turned upside down when the council that controls the Net quarrels and goes to war, leaving desperate survivors battling across an apocalyptic landscape to seek refuge in such places as Raven's Mill."
"This text offers a mix of wit and wisdom of Robert A. Heinlein on subjects ranging from crime and punishment to nuclearm power, from pragmatics of patriotism to post holocaust America; from the nature of courage to the nature of reality."
"What SAS Captain Trevor Stirling doesn't know may kill him--along with every man, woman, and child alive. His mission: follow a terrorist into the year A.D. 500 to stop a murder. If the fanatic succeeds in killing Artorious, later to be known as King Arthur, the Briton Lord of Battle and the most revered icon of British history, before his greatest military victory, the time-space continuum will fracture and the world will be destroyed. ..."
"Publisher Jim Baen joins two of his top authors to collect the stories which made them SF readers in their youth and fitted them to make major impacts on the SF field today. The quality of the stories in this huge volume compares favorably with that of any collection in the past fifty years--there's been nothing of equal size and quality since Groff Conklin's Omnibus of Science Fiction in 1952. Nevertheless the selection wasn't through ..."
The Amazing Dr. Darwin(1st Edition) The Adventures of Charles Darwin's Grandfather by Charles Sheffield, JamesBaen Paperback, 352 Pages, Published 2003 by Baen ISBN-13: 978-0-7434-3613-7, ISBN: 0-7434-3613-X
"Key Selling Points- Charles Sheffield won the prestigious Nebula and Hugo Awards, and his Baen novel The Mind Pool has an 86% sellthrough.- He was also author of two nonfiction best sellers, Man on Earth and Earthwatch, and writes an online column, "The Borderlands of Science."- A physicist and mathematician, Sheffield published over a hundred technical papers and was Vice President of the Earth Satellite Corporation.- A past president ..."
"The powerful alien armadas that have conquered half the galaxy are suddenly confronted by a dangerous new obstacle to their goal of ultimate power--the tricky human inhabitants of a backwater planet called Earth. Original."
New Destinies III(1st Edition) (New Destinies) by Jim Baen, JamesBaen Paperback, 288 Pages, Published 1988 by Baen Books ISBN-13: 978-0-671-65385-9, ISBN: 0-671-65385-7
"Stories and articles deal with robots, time travel, artificial intelligence, superconductors, space warfare, eugenics, and intelligent dogs"
"Spring 1987, Volume 1. Editor: Jim Baen. An anthology of original stories and articles. FICTION INCLUDES: "Point Man" by Timothy Zahn; Iron (serial, part 2 of 2) [Man-Kzin Wars] by Poul Anderson (first part appeared in "Far Frontiers" Volume VII, Winter 1986); "Not for Country, Not for King" by Joel Rosenberg; "Lifeguard" by Doug Beason; "The Graphic of Dorian Gray" by Fred Saberhagen; "Rank Injustice" [Retief] by Keith Laumer.ARTICLES: ..."
"Another fascinating science fiction book from Poul Anderson.
In the beginning was World War III
Out of the flames there was born a new civilization, a new humanity, dedicated to one world rather than to many nations, to one peace rather than many wars. Never again on Planet Earth would one group of humans "defend" themselves agains t another group equally convinced that all their actions were 'defensive'. Never again on Planet Earth.
..."
"As a new Ice Age imperils the world, a lunatic fringe of the environmental movement has taken control of the U.S. government. Finding themselves abandoned by the new regime, the once-thriving space colonies must now replenish their air from scoopships that illegally dive into the atmosphere. But when Alex and Gordon's ship is hit by a missile, they are sent tumbling to Earth--only to be hunted by authorities with ghastly plans for the t ..."
"In the wake of its long battle against terrorism, the U.S. government refuses to relinquish the extraordinary powers that it has taken on, leaving the country on the verge of civil war, until the female governor of Texas sets out to right ..."
Tinker(1st Edition) by Wen Spencer, JamesBaen Hardcover, 352 Pages, Published 2003 by Baen ISBN-13: 978-0-7434-7165-7, ISBN: 0-7434-7165-2
"DESCRIPTIONInventor, girl genius, Tinker lives in a near-future Pittsburgh which now exists mostly in the land of the elves. She runs her salvage business, pays her taxes, and tries to keep the local ambient level of magic down with gadgets of her own design. When a pack of wargs chase an Elven noble into her scrap yard, life as she knows it takes a serious detour. Tinker finds herself taking on the Elven court, the NSA, the Elven Inter ..."
"The powerful Kzin warriors' plans for galactic domination under feline control are turned upside down by the cunning and pesky humans, but the Kzin have come up with a new scheme to achieve their goals, in a science fiction anthology featuring contributions by Larry Niven, Poul Anderson, Paul Chafe, and Hal Colebatch. Reprint."
"Shackled under the alien tyranny of the Jao, Earth is now threatened by the Ekhat, who are sending a genocidal extermination fleet to the solar system, and the planet's only hope lies in a young Jao prince and a young human woman brought up among the Jao conquerers."
"A wounded prince washed up on a foreign shore becomes the focal point in an epic conflict between the nature-revering Priests of the White Robes and the power-exploiting Black Robes when the full extent of his powers comes to light. Originally in paperback."
"... Paddy Glynn had been earmarked for the Academy before leaving Moleen. All
he'd lacked was a major field mission as a brother. This one had been about as
major as they come. He's now at the ... marine officer barracks at the Sangre de
Cristo HQ. He'll be sent to Dzixoss on the biennial personnel rotation flight.
Meanwhile he spends much of his off-duty time reading Commonwealth history,
and exploring his "subconscious" with an A ..."