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The planet Miran had sent a spaceship to rendezvous with the enormous vessel that was approaching their star system. The vessel’s design was...

War is a serious business—or is it? Christopher Anvil turns his sardonic sense of humor loose on the subject and considers what might happen if: ...

Reviewing The Course of Empire, Publishers Weekly wrote, “Can a proud and warlike people find common cause with their alien conquerors in the face of...

As Captain Pausert had often had occasion to observe, life just wasn’t fair! Hadn’t he (with the help of the notorious witches of Karres,...

Captain Mark Stephens was overseeing the change of shifts at the state of Illinois' maximum-security prison when the world outside was suddenly ripped....

As the slavemasters of Mesa plot against the Star Empire of Manticore and the newly liberated slave planet of Torch, Anton Zilwicki and the notorious...

Tasmarin is a place of dragons, a plane cut off from all other worlds, where dragons can be dragons and humans can be dinner. It’s a place of...

The most popular alternate history series of all continues. When an inexplicable cosmic disturbance hurls your town from twentieth century West...

Concluding the popular Belisarius saga, with two full-length novels in one volume: The Tide of Victory: The creators of the monster called Link once...

When it became certain that Edward VI was dying, the duke of Northumberland, who had been ruling England in his name, made a plan that would let him...

The Thirty Years War continues to ravage 17th century Europe, but a new force is gathering power and influence: the Confederated Principalities of...

Continuing the popular Belisarius saga, with two full-length novels in one volume. Destiny’s Shield: Evil from beyond time: The Malwa Empire...

Welcome to the many worlds of Eric Flint. Known for his New York Times best-selling alternate history novels, Flint is equally a master of shorter...

A mysterious cosmic force—the “Ring of Fire”—has hurled the town of Grantville from 20th century West Virginia back to 17th century Europe, and...

The Thirty Years War continues to ravage 17th century Europe, but a new force is gathering power and influence: the Confederated Principalities of...

The Baltic War which began in the novel 1633 is still raging, and the time-lost Americans of Grantville¿the West Virginia town hurled back into the...

Lafayette O’Leary was barely scraping by as a draftsman until an experiment with self-hypnosis catapulted him into the world of Artesia, an...

The Pyramid is baacckk! Well, actually, it never went away—but it had seemed to be inactive, still sitting in the middle of Chicago but no longer...

<p>Two complete novels in one volume—the beginning of the Belisarius saga. An Oblique Approach: In northern India the Malwa have created...

<p>The online magazine, Jim Baen’s Universe, now in its second successful year, and fans of science fiction and fantasy agree that...

The New York Times Best-Selling Series Continues! Return to Grantville, the American town lost in time, as Heavy Metal Music, Power Mowers, Insider...

Top-selling established writers and brilliant newcomers both appear regularly in the online magazine, Jim Baen's Universe, edited by Eric Flint,...

A mysterious cosmic force -- the "Ring of Fire" -- has hurled the town of Grantville from 20th century West Virginia back to 17th century Europe, and...

Rome, 1635, and Grantville's diplomatic team, headed by Sharon Nichols, are making scant headway now it has become politically inexpedient for Pope...

<p>Pity the poor private eye (or official investigator, for that matter), who has to solve a case which may involve death by black magic,...

<p>Great Harry is dead, and England is ruled by a dour Protector for 10-year-old Edward VI¿-a Protector intent on keeping total control over the...

<p>What is a paleontologist doing on Mars? Pushing her boundaries. . . .Problematica, n: a term used in paleontology to refer to fossils that...

<p>The Thirty Years War continues to ravage 17th century Europe, but a new force is gathering power and influence: the Confederated...

<p>The new United States in central Germany launches a one-plane Doolittle Raid on Paris, France. The target: their arch-enemy, Cardinal...

Eric Banyon, also known as Bedlam's Bard, managed to rescue his young brother Magnus from what seemed to be a killer demon (in Mad Maudlin), but now he...

<P>The Malwa and their evil have been driven back to their Indian heartland, but there they coil to strike again. Ruled by a monster from the...

<p>In an alternate world where magic works, the Holy Roman Empire still rules Europe, the time of the Renaissance has come, with very different...

<p>Mercedes Lackey and Rosemary Edghill are the biggest names in the urban fantasy subgenre-where elves, banshees, trolls, and even stranger...

England in the sixteenth century: a nation at a fatal fork in time, leading to two possible futures forseen by the Sidhe of Elfhame Avalon. Either an...

The intrepid team of mentally uplifted rats and bats, and their vat-born human leader had not only pulled off the only victory the beleagured colony's...

When readers first encounter science fiction, they find adventures on other planets and in future worlds, explorations of future technology and its...

It just wasn't fair! Captain Pausert had defeated not only a villainous space pirate, but had also eliminated the threat that the Worm World had posed...

<p>The Thirty Years War continues to ravage 17th century Europe, but a new force is gathering power and influence: the Confederated...

A complete novel of science fiction adventure and a host of short novels in one large volume. A Plague of Demons: One man found out the secret behind...

Grantville, formerly in West Virginia in the 20th century, now in Germany in the 17th century, is the most unusual town in the world-and probably in...

The forces of evil, both natural and supernatural, are poised to prey on the folk of the hamlets and hollows: witches, demons, and criminals of more...

Lots of Soldiers Work for CiviliansThey don't Like,but these Romans had It Worsethan Most -- Their Commanders wereBlue-Skinned Aliens!The guilds of...

Mighty Greyboar, the world's greatest professional strangler, is dissatisfied with his lot in life. The work is steady and the pay is good, but what,...

This is your soul on drugs...After the events chronicled in Bedlam's Bard, world-saving bard and magician Eric Banyon moves into his new New York...

Chip Connolly was a conscripted grunt in trouble: stuck behind enemy lines with a bunch of cyber-uplifted rats and bats. Rats with human speech, but...

AN EVILThe creators of the monster called Link once were human, but that was distant ages in their past. Now, from the far future, they have sent their...

FREEDOM AND JUSTICE -- AMERICAN STYLE1632 And in northern Germany things couldn't get much worse. Famine. Disease. Religous war laying waste the...

EVIL FROM BEYOND TIME RULES THE GREATEST EMPIRE ON EARTH!Link, the supercomputer from a future that should not exist, has used terror and gunpowder...

Prince Manfred and his mentor and bodyguard, the deadly warrior Erik, survived dangers and enemies both natural and supernmatural, and if they thought...

When the strange fossil she'd discovered had ended up giving her a trip to Mars, Helen Sutter thought she'd gone about as far as any paleontologist...

The Thirty Years War continues to ravage 17th century Europe, but a new force is gathering power and influence: the United States of...