Every month, Baen Books sends us a selection of their newest releases and we share them with you. They’ve been bringing readers science fiction and fantasy for decades. Here are the previews for Baen Books October releases.
Beyond The Rift
Written by: John Ringo & Lydia Sherrer
Cover Artist: Kurt Miller
Format: Hardcover
RELEASES February 3, 2026
Augmented reality becomes world war nightmare
The threat has been identified, the TransDimensional Counterforce assembled. Now the true battle begins.
Lynn Raven thought she was fighting for glory and fortune. Instead, she finds she’s fighting for humanity’s very survival. But how do you defeat something you can’t see or understand?
The world’s best and brightest have come together to give humanity a fighting chance, and now Lynn has to find her place in the war effort. Boldness and competence are no longer a gaming mask to put on for the cameras, but a vital mindset shift she needs to survive. Can Lynn and her online persona, Larry, become one, and if they do, will it be enough?
The world doesn’t know the apocalypse it faces, and there are forces behind the scenes determined to re-shape society into their preferred image.
Lynn and her team will have to face enemies foreign, domestic, and alien, no matter what the cost.
The fight is at your door—what will you do?
The Redline Heist
Written by: Michael Mersault
Cover Artist: Dave Seeley
Format: Hardcover
RELEASES February 3, 2026
Race to the death on the asteroid highway!
A gentleman thief. A supersoldier survivor. An alien mystery.
Sophisticated, megarich thrillseekers drawn to a backwater system of the Confederated Worlds find more than they expected within the catacombs of a mysterious alien base: not only the anachronistic road warrior theme park where 20th Century “Old Earth” motor vehicles are raced for riches and glory, but an alien secret that has hidden within the asteroid for millennia. While the super-rich conduct business both licit and illicit, Warren Springer Stowe, self-professed acquisitions expert, and Cherry Aisha, veteran of the infamous Blue Light Brigade, become motorsport gladiators in a deadly series of high-speed clashes–and discover treasure beyond either’s greatest imaginings.
In Enemy Hands
Written by: David Weber
Cover Artist: David Mattingly
Maps by: Thomas Pope
Format: Paperback
RELEASES February 3, 2026
Honor Harrington’s career has its ups and its downs. She’s survived ship-to-ship battles, assassins, political vendettas, and duels. She’s been shot at, shot down, and just plain shot, had starships blown out from under her, and made personal enemies who will stop at nothing to ruin her, and somehow she’s survived it all.
But this time she’s really in trouble.
The People’s Republic of Haven has finally found an admiral who can win battles, and Honor’s orders take her straight into an ambush. Outnumbered, outgunned, and unable to run, she has just two options: see the people under her command die in a hopeless, futile battle . . . or surrender them-and herself-to the Peeps.
There can be only one choice, and at least the People’s Navy promises to treat their prisoners honorably. But the Navy is overruled by the political authorities, and Honor finds herself bound for a prison planet aptly named “Hell” . . . and her scheduled execution.
Put into solitary confinement, separated from her officers and her treecat Nimitz, and subjected to systematic humiliation by her gaolers, Honor’s future has become both bleak and short. Yet bad as things look, they’re about to get worse . . . for the Peeps.
Monster Hunter: Nemesis
Written by: Larry Correia
Cover Artist: Alan Pollack
Format: Paperback
RELEASES February 3, 2026
Book 5 in the New York Times Best-Selling Monster Hunter International Series by Larry Correia
Agent Franks of the U.S. Monster Control Bureau is a man of many parts—parts from other people, that is. Franks is nearly seven feet tall and all muscle. He’s nearly indestructible. Plus he’s animated by a powerful alchemical substance and inhabited by a super-intelligent spirit more ancient than humanity itself.
Good thing he’s on our side. More or less.
Sworn to serve and protect the United States of America from all monsters by one of the country’s founding fathers, Franks has only one condition to the agreement: no matter what the government learns of him, no matter what is discovered concerning his odd physiology or the alchemy behind the elixir that made him, the government is never, ever allowed to try and make more like him. Such is absolutely forbidden and should the powers-that-be do so, then the agreement is null and void.
Project Nemesis: in a secret location, using sophisticated technology and advanced genetic engineering, the director of the very agency Franks works for is making more like him. And the director is not content with making one. Nope, he’s making thirteen.
Now all bets are off, and Hell hath no fury like a monster betrayed. Particularly if that monster happens to be an undying killing machine capable of taking out vampires and werewolves with one hand tied behind his back.
The Monster Hunter International series:
Monster Hunter International
Monster Hunter Vendetta
Monster Hunter Alpha
Monster Hunter Legion
Monster Hunter Nemesis
Monster Hunter Siege
Monster Hunter Guardian
Monster Hunter Bloodlines
Monster Hunter Files
The Monster Hunter Memoirs series:
Monster Hunter Memoirs: Grunge
Monster Hunter Memoirs: Sinners
Monster Hunter Memoirs: Saints
Monster Hunter Memoirs: Fever
The Monster Hunters
(Omnibus contains Monster Hunter International, Monster Hunter Vendetta, and Monster Hunter Alpha)
Diviner’s Bow
Written by: Sharon Lee & Steve Miller
Cover Artist: David Mattingly
Format: Mass Market Paperback
RELEASES January 27, 2026
NEW ENTRY IN THE BEST-SELLING LIADEN UNIVERSE® SERIES
A world divided cannot stand.
A people divided cannot thrive.
The Oracle has Seen the end of Civilization, and the end of the Haosa, too. Reactions to this are—mixed.
On the one hand, foresight is a notoriously erratic Gift. On the other, can Civilization—or the Haosa—afford to assume that the prophecy is an error?
And if the Oracle has Seen truly—is it possible to alter the future?
While well-meaning people struggle to implement change that might, at least, mitigate a disaster, others are looking toward the profit they can make from the end of the world.
In the meantime, the Tree-and-Dragon Trade Team has concluded its whole port inventory, and is about to propose Colemeno as a trade-hub and anchor to a brand-new route. Padi yos’Galan is preparing to step into new roles, personally, and in trade.
And the lives of two small children may be the thread that binds the future—or unravels it.
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