After some digging
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james_davis_nicollI am not aware of any big name authors who got their start with a work published by Baen Books after 2006. If there are recent analogs of Bujold or Weber, I do not know of them.
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Huh
Dec. 13th, 2025 09:39 amjames_davis_nicollSo, I asked on Bluesky:
I got three names: Chuck Gannon, Jason Cordova and Mike Kupari. Gannon actually debuted at Baen in 1994 but only two (I think) short pieces, after which there was a long delay until his novels began appearing. I don't know the other two but SF is huge and it's perfectly possible for me to overlook BNAs. Still, granting all three, with LC that makes four... and in 2028, Toni Weisskopf will have been running Baen for as long as Jim Baen did.
This could, of course, be the natural consequence of the Del Monte approach.
[added later]
Aside from Larry Correia, are there any big name Baen authors who debuted at Baen, after Jim Baen's death?
(So, Tim Powers wouldn't count because he debuted not at Baen and also long before JB died)
I got three names: Chuck Gannon, Jason Cordova and Mike Kupari. Gannon actually debuted at Baen in 1994 but only two (I think) short pieces, after which there was a long delay until his novels began appearing. I don't know the other two but SF is huge and it's perfectly possible for me to overlook BNAs. Still, granting all three, with LC that makes four... and in 2028, Toni Weisskopf will have been running Baen for as long as Jim Baen did.
This could, of course, be the natural consequence of the Del Monte approach.
[added later]
Merry Christmas for Poilievre!
Dec. 12th, 2025 01:26 pmjames_davis_nicollI got much better at spelling his name once I realized it contains "lie".
Embattled CPC leader's Christmas card list gets one name shorter.
Embattled CPC leader's Christmas card list gets one name shorter.
Looking Back at the Work of John Varley, 1947-2025
Dec. 12th, 2025 12:12 pmjames_davis_nicoll
Where to start reading — or rereading — Varley's many series and stories.
Looking Back at the Work of John Varley, 1947-2025
The Wayfinder by Adam Johnson
Dec. 12th, 2025 09:03 amjames_davis_nicoll
The visitors might be Bird Island's salvation or simply the next step in its doom.
The Wayfinder by Adam Johnson
Summer of Love (Zhu Wong, volume 1) by Lisa Mason
Dec. 11th, 2025 08:28 amjames_davis_nicoll
A 2567 blueblood travels back to the Summer of Love to save one very special 16-year-old.
Summer of Love (Zhu Wong, volume 1) by Lisa Mason
Bundle of Holding: Magical Kitties
Dec. 10th, 2025 02:13 pmjames_davis_nicoll
Magical Kitties Save the Day, the all-ages introductory storytelling game from Atlas Games.
Bundle of Holding: Magical Kitties
To The Warm Horizon by Choi Jin-Young (Translated by Soje)
Dec. 10th, 2025 08:54 amjames_davis_nicoll
Could safety from the global pandemic be found in desperate flight towards a land of banditry and violence?
To The Warm Horizon by Choi Jin-Young (Translated by Soje)
This week on FilkCast
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filkJoan Gaustad & Roy Torley, Robin Nakkula, Barry And Sally Childs-Helton, Mary Ellen Wessels, Wild Mercy, Awenydd, Karen Linsley & Lloyd Landa, Ernie Clark, The Black Book Band, Suzette Haden Elgin, Steve Brust, The Zen Nine From Outer Space, Eridani, Catie Helm & Heather Jones, Andy Eigel, Michael Longcor & Barry Childs-Helton, Dr Jane Robinson
Available on iTunes, Google Play and most other places you can get podcasts. We can be heard Wednesday at 6am and 9pm Central on scifi.radio.
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Available on iTunes, Google Play and most other places you can get podcasts. We can be heard Wednesday at 6am and 9pm Central on scifi.radio.
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A Witch's Guide to Magical Innkeeping by Sangu Mandanna
Dec. 9th, 2025 06:35 amjames_davis_nicoll
A depowered witch discovers she is just one zany scheme away from regaining her power... provided her estranged mentor does not intervene. Which of course he will.
A Witch's Guide to Magical Innkeeping by Sangu Mandanna
Bundle of Holding: Forged 3
Dec. 8th, 2025 02:53 pmjames_davis_nicoll
The third array of recent standalone tabletop roleplaying games using the Forged in the Dark rules system based on John Harper's Blades in the Dark from One Seven Design Studio.
Bundle of Holding: Forged 3
Five Freshly Reprinted SFF Books and Series
Dec. 8th, 2025 02:08 pmjames_davis_nicoll
Did you miss these books the first time around? Good news!
Five Freshly Reprinted SFF Books and Series
Books Received, November 29 — December 5
Dec. 8th, 2025 10:20 amjames_davis_nicoll
Six works new to me: four fantasy, one horror, and one SF (also ttrpg). Four are arguably series.
Books Received, November 29 — December 5
Poll #33929 Books Received, November 29 — December 5
Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 26
Which of these look interesting?
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New Edge Sword & Sorcery Magazine: Volume I, Number 5 edited by Oliver Brackenbury (December 2025)
3 (11.5%)
New Edge Sword & Sorcery Magazine: Volume I, Number 6 edited by Oliver Brackenbury (December 2025)
3 (11.5%)
New Edge Sword & Sorcery Magazine: Volume I, Number 7 edited by Oliver Brackenbury (December 2025)
2 (7.7%)
Black River Ruby by Jean Cottle (January 2026)
7 (26.9%)
The Flowers of Algorab by Nils Karlén, Kosta Kostulas, and Martin Grip (January 2026)
8 (30.8%)
Headlights by C J Leede (June 2026)
4 (15.4%)
Some other option (see comments)
0 (0.0%)
Cats!
21 (80.8%)
Well, this was weird
Dec. 7th, 2025 10:18 pmjames_davis_nicollAnother unconscious person on public transit. This guy just seemed to be terribly tired, but when he slumped over, he knocked his stuff on the floor. Several times. I kept putting his stuff back, and mentioned him to the drive on my way out.
Sending out a NES OS
Dec. 7th, 2025 04:51 pmbnewman posting in bn_songbookOpinions within the gamer community differ widely regarding the ethics of emulation — copying old games onto modern computers where they can be played by using software tools to mimic the behavior of older console hardware. Most video game publishers are strongly opposed of course, and fans agree that the people who make our games should be able to profit from them. But, because of their dependence on aging hardware, games are one of the least-well-preserved of all media types. Allowing pieces of our culture to vanish forever because their "owners" didn't find it profitable to preserve them, for generation after generation, doesn't "promote the progress of science and the useful arts".
And then of course there's this terrible pun.
lyrics by Benjamin Newman
And then of course there's this terrible pun.
lyrics by Benjamin Newman
ttto: "Message in a Bottle" by The Police
( Read more... )Lion Eyes
Dec. 7th, 2025 04:30 pmbnewman posting in bn_songbookThe Eagles' original has been crying out for this pun for a long time, and I'm certainly not the first to think of it or mention it, but I may be the first to expand it into a complete story-song. This is a shapeshifting huntress's tale in the vein of "Velvet" or "Golden Eyes".
lyrics by Benjamin Newman
lyrics by Benjamin Newman
ttto: "Lyin' Eyes" by Don Henley and Glenn Frey
Let The Spores Rain Down
Dec. 7th, 2025 04:20 pmbnewman posting in bn_songbookThis one began with just the pun(ch) line, but when I realized what piece of media it could be about, it grew (ahem) into something deeper. Miyazaki's Nausicaa, like Frozen's Elsa, is a bold heroine who discovers a dangerous secret, an inner connection to an unstoppable natural force, and her own sense of purpose on the edge of the wilderness.
lyrics by Benjamin Newman
lyrics by Benjamin Newman
ttto: "Let It Go" from Disney's Frozen by Robert Lopez and Kristen Anderson-Lopez