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[SirFozzie]

Good news, just got this in an email.. Good to see that they are going to continue as a going concern after Jim Baen's passing..

Baen Books Announces Cornerstone Acquisitions for Coming Year Key Deals Completed with Best-sellers Weber, Ringo, Flint, and Bujold

Baen Books Acting Publisher Toni Weisskopf has reached agreements for major new projects and series continuations with authors David Weber, John Ringo, Eric Flint, and Lois McMaster Bujold, four of Baen’s “brand name” authors and series anchors.

Included is a new Honor Harrington novel by David Weber, whose “Honorverse” books total nearly five million in print and regularly hit the New York Times best-seller list. John Ringo has agreed to write three more “Mike O’Neal” books in his extremely popular New York Times best-selling “Posleen War” series. In addition, alternate history master and New York Times best-seller Eric Flint has signed on for three solo novels in his groundbreaking and highly popular “1632”—another New York Times best-selling series created by Baen Books. Finally, five-time Hugo Award winner Lois McMaster Bujold will deliver a new “Miles Vorkosigan” novel in her mega-hit best-selling science fiction adventure series.

“These are Baen’s ‘tentpole’ writers,” says Weisskopf. “Baen is set to maintain its rock-solid position in the marketplace. Having all of these wonderful writers aboard with new agreements is intensely satisfying and very exciting.”

Founded by Jim Baen in 1983, and known for its story-oriented approach, Baen Books is a dominant presence in the military science fiction and adventure genres, with over fifty million copies in print and over 35 New York Times best-sellers.

[fjvieane]

Good to hear as I really enjoyed the "Honor Harrington" series. I know I missed a book or two as I couldn't find a copy. But a really enjoyable series.

I got an email recently from Baen stating that David Weber would be continuing the series.

[Schmidty]

Originally Posted by SirFozzie

Good news, just got this in an email.. Good to see that they are going to continue as a going concern after Jim Baen's passing..

Baen Books Announces Cornerstone Acquisitions for Coming Year Key Deals Completed with Best-sellers Weber, Ringo, Flint, and Bujold

Baen Books Acting Publisher Toni Weisskopf has reached agreements for major new projects and series continuations with authors David Weber, John Ringo, Eric Flint, and Lois McMaster Bujold, four of Baen’s “brand name” authors and series anchors.

Included is a new Honor Harrington novel by David Weber, whose “Honorverse” books total nearly five million in print and regularly hit the New York Times best-seller list. John Ringo has agreed to write three more “Mike O’Neal” books in his extremely popular New York Times best-selling “Posleen War” series. In addition, alternate history master and New York Times best-seller Eric Flint has signed on for three solo novels in his groundbreaking and highly popular “1632”—another New York Times best-selling series created by Baen Books. Finally, five-time Hugo Award winner Lois McMaster Bujold will deliver a new “Miles Vorkosigan” novel in her mega-hit best-selling science fiction adventure series.

“These are Baen’s ‘tentpole’ writers,” says Weisskopf. “Baen is set to maintain its rock-solid position in the marketplace. Having all of these wonderful writers aboard with new agreements is intensely satisfying and very exciting.”

Founded by Jim Baen in 1983, and known for its story-oriented approach, Baen Books is a dominant presence in the military science fiction and adventure genres, with over fifty million copies in print and over 35 New York Times best-sellers.

HARRY TURTLEDOVE RULEZ ALL!!!!!!!!!!!1!11!!!!!!


(No idea why I felt the compulsion to do that)

[SirFozzie]

Fjvieane: If you're on broadband, check this site out:

http://baencd.thefifthimperium.com/

One of the coolest things Baen Books has done is packaged a CD full of their stuff in some of their new releases, and allowed folks to copy and share those CD's as long as no money is charged for them, and what some folks have done is made mirrors of the CD's (with Baen's ok!) like the site above.

Honor Harrington books are mostly on CD 1 (The Honorverse), but the newer ones are also on CD 6B (Shadow of Sagnami) and 9 (At All Costs)

[SirFozzie]

Originally Posted by Schmidty

HARRY TURTLEDOVE RULEZ ALL!!!!!!!!!!!1!11!!!!!!


(No idea why I felt the compulsion to do that)

*hits you with a six-iron*

(have a pretty good idea why I felt the compulsion to do that )

[saldana]

Originally Posted by Schmidty

HARRY TURTLEDOVE RULEZ ALL!!!!!!!!!!!1!11!!!!!!


(No idea why I felt the compulsion to do that)

wow...couldnt disagree with you more...one of the only authors i have ever returned several books by.

[Schmidty]

Originally Posted by saldana

wow...couldnt disagree with you more...one of the only authors i have ever returned several books by.

I read 3/4 of one Roman Empire book of his in 10th grade. It sucked.

I remember throwing it away, buying "Red Branch" by Morgan Llywelyn, embracing my Irish heratige. The rest is history.

[JonInMiddleGA]

More Ringo books (O'Neill or otherwise) are a very good thing.

Thanks for the heads-up.

[SackAttack]

Harry Turtledove is very hit-or-miss for me. I've absolutely loved some of his stuff, and absolutely hated some of his stuff.

It doesn't help that there's another author in his genre named "Harry Harrison" or "Henry Harrison" or one of the two who is an absolutely atrocious writer, so I'm certain some of the Harrison work I've hated has bled over into Turtledove.

That said, I'm delighted with the news on Ringo, and cautiously optimistic on Weber. I've read a couple of the Honor Harrington books and enjoyed them, but a lot of what I've read from him has overlap; I got the sense from my conversation with his brother that his brother agrees (although he did point out some differences that I'm not so certain are all that different).

We'll see with the Honor series, whether it's retreads or if he has anything new left to contribute.

But I'm definitely down with the continuation of the Legacy of the Aldenata.

[JonInMiddleGA]

I think I probably own more books by Turtledove than by any other author.

That said, some of his series I never got into at all. None of the Byzantine stuff caught me, and apparently I just totally overlooked the Darkness series completely.

But I really enjoyed both Worldwar/Colonization and the Southern Victory sets, as well as the War Between the Provinces trilogy and the two books so far in Pacific War. I've also read roughly 1/4 of his stand alone novels, liked some better than others though. Of those, I highly recommend In the Presence of Mine Enemies.

[SackAttack]

Jon, was "In the Presence of Mine Enemies" the one about Nazi Germany winning WWII? If so, I'd also put that up there among my favorites of his.

I also like his entire alternate history cycle beginning with Guns of the South, although I haven't read the segment that begins with the South kicking off World War II against the North yet.

I haven't read any of his more fantastical works, just the more contemporary alternate history.

[Schmidty]

Originally Posted by SackAttack

Jon, was "In the Presence of Mine Enemies" the one about Nazi Germany winning WWII? If so, I'd also put that up there among my favorites of his.

I also like his entire alternate history cycle beginning with Guns of the South, although I haven't read the segment that begins with the South kicking off World War II against the North yet.

I haven't read any of his more fantastical works, just the more contemporary alternate history.

I remember always wanting to try "Guns of the South". Isn't that the one where the rebels got help from England, and ended up winning?

If it's better than that horrid roman one, I might have to read it.

[SackAttack]

Originally Posted by Schmidty

I remember always wanting to try "Guns of the South". Isn't that the one where the rebels got help from England, and ended up winning?

If it's better than that horrid roman one, I might have to read it.

"Guns of the South" is the one that kicks the whole thing off, yeah. In our history, France and England stayed out of it because they wouldn't have entered on the side of the South unless the South showed they could win the fight, in which case the South wouldn't have needed their help, etc.

In GotS, England imposes a peace on the two sides, and the entire alternate cycle kind of flows from that.

It's not the best series I've ever read (I'd put Ringo's Posleen War above it for sure), but it's entertaining.

[ISiddiqui]

Um... Guns of the South is stand alone novel. It couldn't fit in with the rest, because that is where the South Africans come back through time and give the South machine guns (AK-47s to be exact) because they want another apartheid country with them in the 20th Century.

I think you mean "How Few Remain".

[JonInMiddleGA]

Originally Posted by Schmidty

I remember always wanting to try "Guns of the South". Isn't that the one where the rebels got help from England, and ended up winning?

If it's better than that horrid roman one, I might have to read it.

Actually, Guns of the South is a stand-alone book, with time traveling Afrikaner racists carrying AK-47's and attempting to mold a new Confederacy based on their own goals.

The so-called "Timeline-191" series is almost certainly what you're thinking of. It's currently 9 books deep with two more to go.

[SackAttack]

Huh. Really.

I could've sworn GotS was the one that kicked it off. I'll have to go back and look again I guess.

[SackAttack]

How Few Remain.

Dammit, I always get those two mixed up.

[TroyF]

Originally Posted by SirFozzie

Fjvieane: If you're on broadband, check this site out:

http://baencd.thefifthimperium.com/

One of the coolest things Baen Books has done is packaged a CD full of their stuff in some of their new releases, and allowed folks to copy and share those CD's as long as no money is charged for them, and what some folks have done is made mirrors of the CD's (with Baen's ok!) like the site above.

Honor Harrington books are mostly on CD 1 (The Honorverse), but the newer ones are also on CD 6B (Shadow of Sagnami) and 9 (At All Costs)

Wow, thanks for the heads up. I've read a few Honor Harrington books and had been meaning to look online for a set of them. I didn't want to read many more of the books until I read it from the beginning. This is terrific. Thanks again.

[SirFozzie]

Glad to be of service. Hopefully they continue the service with future books.