FREE books where lots of guns are featured

[JackBurtonJr]

Since Mr. Correia brings up his new book forthcoming from Baen Publishers let me take the opportunity to share what Baen does for it's readers.

They understand that few people want to plunk down cold hard cash for an author they may not know much about... so they offer quite a few absolutely free (and complete) books from their top authors available for download. Just go to their website and download what you want.

Many of the free books are the first one or two of a longer series. And since Baen has the absolute best military science fiction authors writing for them, it makes it really easy to grab a number of books that have quite a bit of firearm action.

Here's a few of my favorites...

Anything by Eric Flint... but especially

1632 and 1633

Anything by John Ringo... but especially

A Hymn Before Battle and the followup, Gust Front (this book will have you cheering so loudly the neighbors will call the police)

March Upcountry and the followup, March to the Sea (these two books have more firearms action per page than any other ten books combined)

Anything by David Weber... but especially

Mutineer's Moon
On Basilisk Station and it's followups...
The Apocalypse Troll
And Oath of Swords and it's followup (which is fantasy, but full of great action)

Anything by David Drake... but especially

An Oblique Approach and it's followups (takes a while to get to guns but the series is fantastically good.)
Lt. Leary Commanding and it's followups...
And, of course, The Tank Lords

And I would be remiss if I didn't mention Elizabeth Moon, who doesn't have any of her great military SF in the free library but she does have Sheepfarmers Daughter, which is the first book in one of the best action/fantasy series that exists.

There's a couple of years worth of good reading that Baen is giving away, and I've barely touched the surface of the great books.

As a side note, I have nothing to do with Baen except be an appreciative reader.

 

[Big45]

Would be great if I read anything

 

[nalioth]

+1 on the Baen Free Library

It is an excellent source of SF you can load onto your Palm Pilot / iPhone / etc and carry with you.

 

[erictank]

Another +1 on Baen's Free Library - I carry most of it, plus most of the contents of Baen's promotional CD's (also available online, for free, containing much more than the first one of two books of a series), PLUS books I've purchased from Webscriptions, Baen's ebook sales site, on my Dell Axim x51v (Pocket-PC, running PPC Windows 5). All available in a WIDE variety of electronic formats for use on various devices with various reader programs.

And no, I don't have any association with Baen either, other than as a customer.

Baen's authors, by and large, seem to tend to be firearms-friendly sorts, and I'm a HUGE fan of most of their milscifi stable. Weber's my personal favorite, thanks to the 'Honorverse' and 'Mutineer's Moon' series, followed closely by John Ringo ('Legacy of the Aldenata' and 'Ghost' series, plus the 'Prince Roger' books co-written with Weber) and Eric Flint ('1632'-verse). Drake's 'Belisarius' alternate-history series is very good, also.

 

[jackstinson]

I've been reading off Baen's library for years now. Good stuff. I'm currently reading David Weber's "Empire From The Ashes" trilogy (Mutineers' Moon, The Armageddon Inheritance, Heirs Of Empire) for the third time.

 

[Correia]

I am biased toward Baen, and I do work for them.

How friggin' sweet is that?

As far as gun stuff, Baen tends to have a lot of good firearms stuff.

 

[SoCalShooter]

Thanks for the link, it would be nice if I had time to read anything other than school books.

 

[Surat]

+1 on Jim Baen's company. Been a reader of his authors since Lois McMaster Bujold came out. Ringo is friggin awesome. The "Ghost" series is a guilty pleasure of mine. I also personally have to add Tom Kratman to the list of authors. Michael Z. Williamson is pretty good too. Very Libertarian. Flint is pretty good for an out and out Red.

Blackfive has been doing interviews with the Baen authors. Very interesting. You can find links to them on his web page or at baen.com

Baen is abot the only publishing house doing anything worth while in SF/F let alone military SF.

I'm just a customer. No I don't get paid, lol