The Baen Free Radio Hour

Eric Flint and Walter H. Hunt discuss 1636: The Atlantic Encounter, a new entry in Flint's Ring of Fire series. After the town of Grantville, West Virginia was thrown back to 17th Century Germany, the up-timers have had to adapt to survive. Now an expedition is sent to the New World of North America, where a combined crew of up-timers, down-timers, and one French spy encounter Puritan New England, Dutch New Amsterdam, and the contentious Englishmen of Jamestown; and David Weber's Uncompromising Honor, Part 24.

Eric Flint and Walter H. Hunt discuss 1636: The Atlantic Encounter, a new entry in Flint's Ring of Fire series. After the town of Grantville, West Virginia was thrown back to 17th Century Germany, the up-timers have had to adapt to survive. Now an expedition is sent to the New World of North America, where a combined crew of up-timers, down-timers, and one French spy encounter Puritan New England, Dutch New Amsterdam, and the contentious Englishmen of Jamestown; and David Weber's Uncompromising Honor, Part 24.

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.

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 in which her private investigator is able to bridge both worlds; and David Weber's Uncompromising Honor, Part 21.

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 crusty, ghoul-faced adult sea captain leading and teaching them who may be more than he at first seems. Chuck Gannon discusses the creation of the book, the characters, and the plot; and David Weber's Uncompromising Honor, Part 20.

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 their stories in the book, the excellence of the small Chattanooga SF convention Libertycon, which is put on in the spirit of the great, convivial cons of old, and the legacy of Libertycon founder, Richard T. Bolgeo, known to all as Uncle Timmy. A portion of the sale of Give Me Libertycon goes to Libertycon's annual charity and to support a young scientist fellowship to attend the Tennessee Valley Interstellar Workshop, founded by NASA scientist Les Johnson; and David Weber's Uncompromising Honor, Part 19.

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 coming into his own as a wizard of power, working for the incipient America coming into being; and David Weber's Uncompromising Honor, Part 18.