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Free Stories 2017

Frank Chadwick
(https://www.baen.com/authors/frank-chadwick.html)
Tony Daniel (https://www.baen.com/authors/tony-
daniel.html) Sharon Lee
() (https://www.baen.com/authors/sharon-lee.html) Susan
R. Matthews (https://www.baen.com/authors/susan-r-
matthews.html) Steve Miller
(https://www.baen.com/authors/steve-miller.html) Wen
Spencer (https://www.baen.com/authors/wen-
spencer.html) Ryk E. Spoor
(https://www.baen.com/authors/ryk-e-spoor.html)
Travis S. Taylor
(https://www.baen.com/authors/travis-s-taylor.html) D.J.
Butler (https://www.baen.com/d-j-butler.html)
Brendan DuBois
(https://www.baen.com/authors/brendan-dubois.html)
Tim Powers (https://www.baen.com/authors/tim-
powers.html)
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In January of 2011 we started posting free short stories we thought might be of interest to Baen readers. The first stories were "Space Hero"
by Patrick Lundrigan, the winner of the 2010 Jim Baen Memorial Short Story Contest, and "Tanya, Princess of Elves," by Larry Correia, author of
Monster Hunter International and set in that universe. As new stories are made available, they will be posted on the main page, then added to
this book (to save the Baen Barflies the trouble of doing it themselves). This is our compilation of short stories for 2017.

As is usual with such copyrighted material from Baen, the contents may be copied and shared but NOT sold. All commercial rights are
reserved to Baen Books.
Does a Bear Shoot in the Woods?
by Wen Spencer
Dei Britannici
by D.J. Butler
Preparations and Alliances
by Ryk E. Spoor
Into Gonebeyond
by Susan R. Matthews
Cutting Corners
by Sharon Lee and Steve Miller
A Fire on the Hill
by Brendan DuBois
Feldspar
by Philip A. Kramer
Bullet Catch
by Stephen Lawson
Force Multipliers Being What They Are
by Travis S. Taylor
The Powhatan
by Tony Daniel
What We're Made Of
by Frank Chadwick
The Blue Widow
by J.P. Sullivan
Sufficient Unto the Day
by Tim Powers
On-Site for the Apocalypse
by Ryk E. Spoor
Block Party
by Sharon Lee and Steve Miller

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