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Originally Posted by murraypaul
I think it is a fair comment that Baen is mainly focussed on military sci-fi.
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There is that *perception* but it is inaccurate.
The Webscriptions catalog is well vested in fantasy, urban fantasy, hard sf, spoofs and romps, alternate history, mystery, juveniles, and other genre variants. They may be home to some of the more prominent practicioners of military sf, but it hardly consumes them.
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Here, check this list of their more prominent series:
http://www.webscription.net/c-9-series.aspx
76 different series, hardly focused on military sf.
Not with stuff like:
PIGS DON'T FLY
CHICKS IN CHAIN MAIL
FAFHRD AND THE GRAY MOUSER
WITCHES OF KARRES
HALFLIFE CHRONICLES
ETHICAL VAMPIRES
VORKOSIGAN SAGA
BARD'S TALE
GRANTVILE GAZETTE/RING OF FIRE
Or sample their Free Library:
http://www.baen.com/library/
Free books, no strings attached. Except the stories might prove to be starter drugs.
So no, their is a lot more to Webscriptions and Baen than military SF.
Just look at the authors they carry:
John Joseph Adams
Jerry Ahern
Sharon Ahern
Aaron Allston
James G. Anderson
Poul Anderson
Christopher Anvil
Catherine Asaro
Chuck Asay
Neal Asher
Nancy Asire
Robert Asprin
Paolo Bacigalupi
Jim Baen
Kage Baker
Margaret Ball
Laird Barron
Elizabeth Bear
Greg Bear
Clare Bell
Gregory Benford
Nigel Bennett
Ben Bova
Steven R. Boyett
Leigh Brackett
Marion Zimmer Bradley
Jeff Bredenberg
Poppy Z. Brite
Damien Broderick
Mary Brown
M. M. Buckner
Lois McMaster Bujold
Jaqueline Carey
Lillian Stewart Carl
John F. Carr
Jeffrey A. Carver
Paul Chafe
Jack L. Chalker
A. Bertram Chandler
C. J. Cherryh
Julie Cochrane
Hal Colebatch
Stoney Compton
Glen Cook
Rick Cook
Seamus Cooper
Sharon Cooper
Larry Correia
John Dalmas
Ellen Datlow
L. Sprague deCamp
John DeChancie
Virginia DeMarce
Andrew Dennis
Bradley Denton
Gordon R. Dickson
William C. Dietz
Thomas M. Disch
Chris Dolley
James Doohan
L. Warren Douglas
David Drake
Dave Duncan
Doranna Durgin
Rosemary Edghill
George Alec Effinger
Greg Egan
Harlan Ellison
P. N. Elrod
Terry England
Linda Evans
Philip Jose Farmer
Bill Fawcett
Leslie Fish
Eric Flint
Michael Flynn
Judy Forward
Robert L. Forward
Leo Frankowski
Dave Freer
David Friedman
Esther Friesner
Randall Garrett
Roberta Gellis
Mark Geston
Scott Gier
James C. Glass
Tom Godwin
Arlene Golds
Paula Goodlett
Roland Green
Martin Harry Greenberg
Dave Grossman
James E. Gunn
Ellen Guon
Joe Haldeman
Edmond Hamilton
Matthew Harrington
Robert A. Heinlein
John Helfers
John G. Hemry
P. C. Hodgell
James P. Hogan
Cecelia Holland
Sarah Hoyt
Matthew Hughes
Dean Ing
Les Johnson
Graham Joyce
Richard Kadrey
William H. Keith Jr.
Caitlín R. Kiernan
Jeffery D. Kooistra
Marilyn Kosmatka
Paul Kozerski
Tom Kratman
Henry Kuttner
Mercedes Lackey
Jay Lake
John Lambshead
John Langan
Joe R. Lansdale
Keith Laumer
Tim Lebbon
Sharon Lee
Fritz Leiber
Murray Leinster
Edward M. Lerner
Holly Lisle
Brian Lumley
Nathalie Mallet
Barry N. Malzberg
Mark O. Martin
Anne McCaffrey
Robert McCammon
Jack McDevitt
Charles C. McGraw
Shirley Meier
Steve Miller
Elizabeth Moon
Modean Moon
Howard L. Myers
Larry Niven
Ted Nolan
Andre Norton
Jody Lynn Nye
Norvell W. Page
Jerry Pournelle
Cherie Priest
Hank Reinhardt
Mike Resnick
John Ringo
Richard Roach
Spider Robinson
Selina Rosen
Joel Rosenberg
Rudy Rucker
Fred Saberhagen
Pamela Sargent
John Scalzi
Elizabeth Ann Scarborough
James H. Schmitz
Martin Scott
Mark Sebanc
Charles Sheffield
Mark Shepherd
Susan Shwartz
Robert Silverberg
Dan Simmons
William Mark Simmons
Cordwainer Smith
L. Neil Smith
Walter Spence
Wen Spencer
Ryk Spoor
D. W. St. John
Marc Stiegler
S. M. Stirling
Johnathan Strahan
Charles Stross
Tim Sullivan
Michael Swanwick
Howard Tayler
Travis S. Taylor
Mark Teppo
Brian M. Thomsen
Mark Tier
Harry Turtledove
Mark L. Van Name
Patrick A. Vanner
A. E. Van Vogt
Vernor Vinge
Karl Edward Wagner
Lars Walker
David Weber
T. K. F. Weisskopf
K. D. Wentworth
Steve White
Liz Williams
Walter Jon Williams
Michael Z. Williamson
Robert Charles Wilson
Timothy Zahn
Roger Zelazny
Its not quite a who's-who of the genre but it's a darn good start.
And yes, they do carry some of the big names in combat sf, but even those folks tend to "dabble" in fantasy, political intrigue, and plain old adventure sf from time to time.