Liaden fans, help me out

[AnemicOak]

Agent of Change is now a part of the Baen Free Library.
http://www.baenebooks.com/p-595-agent-of-change.aspx


It's also free at Amazon...
http://www.amazon.com/Agent-Change-L.../dp/B00BSW2FG6

[CRussel]

Excellent. If it gets more people reading the Liaden books, I'm definitely for it.

[gbm]

A Liaden Universe Constellation: Volume I (Amazon Baen) :

Spoiler:

Thirty‑three shorter tales of the Liaden Universe® brought together for the first time in two mega‑volumes. Seventeen tales to start with in Volume One!

can be ordered as part of the July 2013 Monthly Baen Bundle (Last date to buy June 15 2013). Bundle price is $18.00 and will be released on June 15, as ebooks. The four ebooks that are new--not repeats--are well worth the cost of the bundle.

July 2013 Monthly Baen Bundle

Spoiler:

Beginnings by David Weber

Spoiler:

The hottest military science fiction series of all time continues. The mission: to boldly explore David Weber’s Honorverse; to deliver all the action, courage, derring‑do, and pulse‑pounding excitement of space naval adventure with tales set in a world touched by the greatness of one epic heroine: Honor Harrington. This sixth volume in the popular Worlds of Honor series includes stories by best seller Jane Lindskold, New York Times bestseller and Star Wars phenomenon, Timothy Zahn. It’s rounded out with an all‑new David‑Weber‑authored novella featuring a young Manticoran Royal Navy commander who goes by the name Harrington.

Noah's Boy by Sarah Hoyt

Spoiler:

Sequel to Draw One in the Dark and The Gentleman Takes a Chance—a new entry in Sarah A. Hoyt’s celebrated Shifter contemporary fantasy series!

For years, Rafiel Trall, one of Goldport's finest, has been walking the fine line between enforcing human law and protecting the shifters who come his way. A lion shifter himself, he's found this duty onerous. Lately it's been lightened by his friendship with Tom Ormson, a dragon shifter, and Kyrie Smith, a panther shifter. This should make it easier for him to find a solution for the crimes of a feral shifter—but not when an as yet unnamed entity takes out the Great Sky Dragon, the head of all dragon shifters. With his power devolving on Tom Ormson just as Kyrie finds that a mysterious ailment prevents her from shifting, Rafiel must rely only on himself, a seductive dragon girl and an even more seductive and unreliable old shifter to solve the crimes, maintain shifters hidden and keep his best friend in the world from becoming a dragon of unimaginable mass destruction.

Wolf in Shadow by John Lambshead

Spoiler:

Urban fantasy in one of the world’s greatest cities.

Rhian, a girl from the Welsh valleys on the run from tragedy and herself, finds a new home in the modern East End of London, where the world’s largest financial center spins a web of money and power from glistening towers of chrome and glass. Beneath the digital façade lurks the old East End where the layers of two thousand years of dramatic and violent history slide over one another like glaciers, spilling out in avalanches that warp the real world.

As bodies begin to litter the East End streets, The Commission dispatches its best enforcers to deal with the situation: Karla is not human, and Jameson left his humanity behind in pieces in Northern Ireland and Afghanistan. Rhian makes new friends, dangerous friends; and where Rhian goes, the wolf is always in her shadow, just a heartbeat away.

Among the bankers and traders of the East End walk demons in human form and who is to say which are the monsters? London is a magical bomb waiting to explode and somewhere a fuse is hissing.

A Liaden Universe Constellation by Sharon Lee & Steve Miller
Monster Hunter Legion by Larry Correia

Spoiler:

When hunters from around the world gather in Las Vegas for a conference, a creature left over from a World War Two weapons experiment wakes up and goes on a rampage across the desert. A not-so-friendly wager between the rival companies turns into a race to see who can bag the mysterious creature first.

Only there is far more to this particular case than meets the eye, and as Hunters fall prey to their worst nightmares, Owen Zastava Pitt and the staff of Monster Hunter International have to stop an ancient god from turning Sin City into a literal hell on earth.

When Diplomacy Fails by Michael Z. Williamson

Spoiler:

High tech near-future mercenaries Ripple Creek Security must protect an obnoxious world government minister from the scores of enemies who want her dead—and killed in the worst possible way.

Alex Marlow and Ripple Creek Security's best personal security detail return to action. This time, they really don't like their principal, World Bureau Minister Joy Herman Highland—a highly placed bureaucrat with aspirations to elected office. But Highland's would-be assassins are up against the best security in the business—and Ripple Creek has no qualms about seeing their own explosions on galactic news. In fact, they kind of enjoy it.

bernie

[CRussel]

Unfortunately, the Liaden book is basically a repackaging of the existing Liaden Universe short stories and novellas. I'm not sure how much new there is in it..But the bundle is still a good bargain.

[gbm]

Originally Posted by gbm

A Liaden Universe Constellation: Volume I (Amazon Baen) :

Spoiler:

Thirty‑three shorter tales of the Liaden Universe® brought together for the first time in two mega‑volumes. Seventeen tales to start with in Volume One!

can be ordered as part of the July 2013 Monthly Baen Bundle (Last date to buy June 15 2013). Bundle price is $18.00 and will be released on June 15, as ebooks. The four ebooks that are new--not repeats--are well worth the cost of the bundle.

July 2013 Monthly Baen Bundle

Spoiler:

Beginnings by David Weber

Spoiler:

The hottest military science fiction series of all time continues. The mission: to boldly explore David Weber’s Honorverse; to deliver all the action, courage, derring‑do, and pulse‑pounding excitement of space naval adventure with tales set in a world touched by the greatness of one epic heroine: Honor Harrington. This sixth volume in the popular Worlds of Honor series includes stories by best seller Jane Lindskold, New York Times bestseller and Star Wars phenomenon, Timothy Zahn. It’s rounded out with an all‑new David‑Weber‑authored novella featuring a young Manticoran Royal Navy commander who goes by the name Harrington.

Noah's Boy by Sarah Hoyt

Spoiler:

Sequel to Draw One in the Dark and The Gentleman Takes a Chance—a new entry in Sarah A. Hoyt’s celebrated Shifter contemporary fantasy series!

For years, Rafiel Trall, one of Goldport's finest, has been walking the fine line between enforcing human law and protecting the shifters who come his way. A lion shifter himself, he's found this duty onerous. Lately it's been lightened by his friendship with Tom Ormson, a dragon shifter, and Kyrie Smith, a panther shifter. This should make it easier for him to find a solution for the crimes of a feral shifter—but not when an as yet unnamed entity takes out the Great Sky Dragon, the head of all dragon shifters. With his power devolving on Tom Ormson just as Kyrie finds that a mysterious ailment prevents her from shifting, Rafiel must rely only on himself, a seductive dragon girl and an even more seductive and unreliable old shifter to solve the crimes, maintain shifters hidden and keep his best friend in the world from becoming a dragon of unimaginable mass destruction.

Wolf in Shadow by John Lambshead

Spoiler:

Urban fantasy in one of the world’s greatest cities.

Rhian, a girl from the Welsh valleys on the run from tragedy and herself, finds a new home in the modern East End of London, where the world’s largest financial center spins a web of money and power from glistening towers of chrome and glass. Beneath the digital façade lurks the old East End where the layers of two thousand years of dramatic and violent history slide over one another like glaciers, spilling out in avalanches that warp the real world.

As bodies begin to litter the East End streets, The Commission dispatches its best enforcers to deal with the situation: Karla is not human, and Jameson left his humanity behind in pieces in Northern Ireland and Afghanistan. Rhian makes new friends, dangerous friends; and where Rhian goes, the wolf is always in her shadow, just a heartbeat away.

Among the bankers and traders of the East End walk demons in human form and who is to say which are the monsters? London is a magical bomb waiting to explode and somewhere a fuse is hissing.

A Liaden Universe Constellation by Sharon Lee & Steve Miller
Monster Hunter Legion by Larry Correia

Spoiler:

When hunters from around the world gather in Las Vegas for a conference, a creature left over from a World War Two weapons experiment wakes up and goes on a rampage across the desert. A not-so-friendly wager between the rival companies turns into a race to see who can bag the mysterious creature first.

Only there is far more to this particular case than meets the eye, and as Hunters fall prey to their worst nightmares, Owen Zastava Pitt and the staff of Monster Hunter International have to stop an ancient god from turning Sin City into a literal hell on earth.

When Diplomacy Fails by Michael Z. Williamson

Spoiler:

High tech near-future mercenaries Ripple Creek Security must protect an obnoxious world government minister from the scores of enemies who want her dead—and killed in the worst possible way.

Alex Marlow and Ripple Creek Security's best personal security detail return to action. This time, they really don't like their principal, World Bureau Minister Joy Herman Highland—a highly placed bureaucrat with aspirations to elected office. But Highland's would-be assassins are up against the best security in the business—and Ripple Creek has no qualms about seeing their own explosions on galactic news. In fact, they kind of enjoy it.

bernie

Originally Posted by CRussel

Unfortunately, the Liaden book is basically a repackaging of the existing Liaden Universe short stories and novellas. I'm not sure how much new there is in it..But the bundle is still a good bargain.

I do not have the chap books or the short stories, so for me it is a very good deal.


bernie

[CRussel]

Definitely a good deal, then. I've got them all, but I'll still buy the bundle.

[pdurrant]

Originally Posted by gbm

A Liaden Universe Constellation: Volume I (Amazon Baen)

The question I'd like answered is: How much overlap is there between Constellation I and II and Unibus I and Unibus II.

But since the Unibus only contains about 25 stories between them, and constellation 33, I think there must be more in the Constellation books, all told, than in the Unibus volumes.

[HarryT]

Originally Posted by pdurrant

The question I'd like answered is: How much overlap is there between Constellation I and II and Unibus I and Unibus II.

But since the Unibus only contains about 25 stories between them, and constellation 33, I think there must be more in the Constellation books, all told, than in the Unibus volumes.

A logical conclusion .

[jgaiser]

My understanding is that the Constellation books contain the Unibus I and II plus all the short stories/chapbooks published since those earlier compendiums. I'm sure someone will correct me if I'm wrong.

[Xanthe]

Just posting this up as a reference, because I have the Liaden Universe Companion I & II books and the Unibus volumes and these are the stories that are contained in them:

Liaden Universe Companion I (Sept 2005)
Letters From Home
Pilot of Korval
A Choice of Weapons
To Cut an Edge
A Day At The Races
Certain Symmetry
Breath's Duty
Where the Goddess Sends
A Spell For The Lost
Wine of Memory
Moonphase
Balance of Trade
King of the Cats
Suggested Reading Order
Bibliography
Awards
Partial Liaden Universe Dictionary
Acknowledgements


Liaden Universe Companion II (October 2007)
Sweet Waters
Naratha's Shadow
A Matter of Dreams
Phoenix
Veil of the Dancer
This House
Changeling
Heirloom
Quiet Knives

=================================

The contents of Liaden Unibus I (per the Baen website):

TWO TALES OF KORVAL
To Cut An Edge
A Day at the Races

FELLOW TRAVELERS
About This Book
Where the Goddess Sends
A Spell for the Lost
Moonphase

DUTY BOUND
Pilot of Korval
Breath's Duty

CERTAIN SYMMETRY
The Wine of Memory
Certain Symmetry

TRADING IN FUTURES
Balance Of Trade
A Choice Of Weapons
A Partial Liaden Dictionary

CHANGELING


The contents of Liaden Unibus II (per the Baen website):

LOOSE CANNON
A Matter of Dreams
Phoenix

SHADOWS AND SHADES
Naratha's Shadow
Heirloom
The Updated But Partial Liaden Universe(r) Time Line

QUIET KNIVES
Veil of the Dancer
Quiet Knives

WITH STARS UNDERFOOT
This House
Lord of the Dance

NECESSARY EVILS
Necessary Evils
The Beggar King

ALLIES
Fighting Chance

[gbm]

Fledgling by Sharon Lee and Steve Miller is now in the Baen Free Library. Baen Amazon

Spoiler:

Theo Waitley has lived all her young life on Delgado, a Safe World that is home to one of the galaxy's premier institutions of higher learning. Both Theo's mother, Kamele, and Kamele's onagrata Jen Sar Kiladi, are professors at the university, and they all live comfortably together, just like they have for all of Theo's life, in Jen Sar's house at the outskirts of town.

Suddenly, though, Theo's life changes. Kamele leaves Jen Sar and moves herself and Theo back into faculty housing, which is not what Theo is used to. Once settled back inside the Wall, Kamele becomes embroiled in faculty politics, and is appointed sub-chair of her department. Meanwhile, Theo, who has a notation in her file indicating that she is "physically challenged" has a series of misadventures, including pulling her best friend down on the belt-ride to class, and hurting a team mate during a scavage game.

With notes piling up in her file, Theo only wants to go "home," to the house in the suburbs, and have everything just like it used to be.

Then, Kamele uncovers evidence of possible dishonest scholarship inside of her department. In order to clear the department, she and a team of senior professors must go off-world to perform a forensic document search. Theo hopes this will mean that she'll be left in the care of the man she calls "Father," Professor Kiladi, and is horrified to learn that Kamele means to bring Theo with her!

Fledgling, Second Edition by Sharon Lee and Steve Miller in now available at Baen and Amazon.

Spoiler:

Now with new Content by Sharon Lee and Steve Miller

Theo Waitley has lived all her young life on Delgado, a Safe World that is home to one of the galaxy's premier institutions of higher learning. Both Theo's mother, Kamele, and Kamele's onagrata Jen Sar Kiladi, are professors at the university, and they all live comfortably together, just like they have for all of Theo's life, in Jen Sar's house at the outskirts of town.
Suddenly, though, Theo's life changes. Kamele leaves Jen Sar and moves herself and Theo back into faculty housing, which is not what Theo is used to. Once settled back inside the Wall, Kamele becomes embroiled in faculty politics, and is appointed sub-chair of her department. Meanwhile, Theo, who has a notation in her file indicating that she is "physically challenged" has a series of misadventures, including pulling her best friend down on the belt-ride to class, and hurting a team mate during a scavage game.

With notes piling up in her file, Theo only wants to go "home," to the house in the suburbs, and have everything just like it used to be.

Then, Kamele uncovers evidence of possible dishonest scholarship inside of her department. In order to clear the department, she and a team of senior professors must go off-world to perform a forensic document search. Theo hopes this will mean that she'll be left in the care of the man she calls "Father," Professor Kiladi, and is horrified to learn that Kamele means to bring Theo with her!

The new content seems to be Fledgling Authors' Working Notes.

bernie

[CRussel]

Another good entry point to the Liaden Universe. I'm really glad that Lee and Miller are utilizing the Free Library.

[Xanthe]

I'm for anything that spreads the word about my favorite series!

[CRussel]

Originally Posted by Xanthe

I'm for anything that spreads the word about my favorite series!

I couldn't agree more!

[piperclassique]

Huh
One free book, cost me a fortune buying the others. Grumble whinge entry drug pushers moan whinge not to mention the audiobook versions whinge moan, yeah, weakwilled, complain etc.

Yes, great series. More please!