Baen Books

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Baen Books is a book publisher in the United States . The publisher mainly produces and sells science fiction and fantasy .

history

The publishing house was founded in 1983 by Jim Baen . After Jim Baen died on June 28, 2006, long-time employee Toni Weisskopf followed him as the head of the company.

Authors and works

The authors include Larry Niven , Jerry Pournelle , Poul Anderson , John Ringo , CJ Cherryh , Spider Robinson , Charles Sheffield , Mercedes Lackey , Harry Turtledove , Lois McMaster Bujold , SM Stirling , Timothy Zahn , Robert Asprin , L. Sprague de Camp and many other.

Under the title Baen Free Library , the publisher offers free downloads of a number of books by its authors as e-books . These include, for example, issues of the Honor Harrington series by David Weber or Eric Flint's "1632 series" .

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