The Baen Free Radio Hour

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 David Weber's Uncompromising Honor, Part 17.

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 David Weber's Uncompromising Honor, Part 16.

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; and David Weber's Uncompromising Honor, Part 15.

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 Furey is a biologist specializing in social spiders, and Professor of Integrative Sciences at Harrisburg University, and serves as assistant provost there; and David Weber's Uncompromising Honor, Part 10.

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 Christopher Woods filled with Baen authors contributing stories in honor of fan legend Timothy Bolgeo; and David Weber's Uncompromising Honor, Part 9.

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 Gonebeyond Space of her Under Jurisdiction series that's on the verge of turning a riot, and Christopher Ruocchio, who is coeditor of the volume, talks about a tale set in a far-future Roman-Empire-like setting featuring a witch trial for a cyborg; and David Weber's Uncompromising Honor, Part 8.