Pinbeam Books: 43 books
Degrees of Separation
Adventures in the Liaden Universe®, #27
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2018
Life. Luck. Love. Lowport.
Life, so the wags tell us, is what happens while we're making other plans.
Luck. . .or, as some have it, chance. . .Luck is what makes Life interesting; introducing spicy bits of chaos – good, bad, and neutral. Without Luck, there is no savor – no adventure...
Cultivar
Adventures in the Liaden Universe®, #25
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2017
This chapbook contains two tales from the Liaden Universe®: short story "Out of True," and novelette "The Rifle's First Wife."
"Out of True" is a first contact story that takes place around the time of Balance of Trade and Trade Secrets.
"The Rifle's...
Technical Details
Adventures in the Liaden Universe®, #21
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2016
Two stories about the folks who keep the social and technical machinery running. "Landed Alien" finds Kara ven'Arith on a space station maintenance crew when a series of inexplicable events overtake support functions. In "Eleutherios," the friars at a down-and-out abbey are taken in hand by an unlikely savior. Both stories previously appeared on the Baen Books website.
Quiet Knives
Adventures in the Liaden Universe®, #9
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2016
Included in this volume is "Veil of the Dancer," in which a scholar with three daughters properly marries off the two eldest, while teaching the youngest, Inas, how to read -- and thereby endangering them all.
Also included is "Quiet Knives," which finds Captain Rolanni...
Shadows and Shades
Adventures in the Liaden Universe®, #8
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2016
"Naratha's Shadow" pits a Scout and a priestess against a wandering artifact of the Old War -- a planet eater that hasn't, quite, run out of power.
In "Heirloom," Pat Rin yos'Phelium and his young cousin Nova must unravel the puzzle behind an old rug that has been stored,...
Heirs to Trouble
Adventures in the Liaden Universe®, #26
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2017
Contains two novelettes in the Liaden Universe®: "Roving Gambler," and "Code of Honor," both set in the turbulent time following Clan Korval's relocation to Surebleak.
"Roving Gambler," finds Quin yos'Phelium, Boss Conrad's son, and Pat Rin yos'Phelium's heir...
Sleeping with the Enemy
Adventures in the Liaden Universe®, #22
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2016
Two novelettes set on Surebleak after it has been invaded and conquered by Pat Rin yos'Phelium Clan Korval.
Each story features a young person coming to terms with the new conditions, and navigating treacherous cultural waters.
"Chimera" was first published on Baen.com in May 2015.
"Friend of a Friend" is original to this chapbook.
Due Diligence
Adventures in the Liaden Universe®, #24
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2017
When Clan Korval knows your name. . .
Abandoned on a strange port by a scam gone bad, his license to pilot rescinded, and his pockets very much to let, Fer Gun pen'Uldra was teetering between trouble, more trouble, and bad trouble. Cornered in a cheap bar by a too-knowledgeable stranger with...
Change Management
Adventures in the Liaden Universe®
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2017
Times are perilous, violence rife, and the future uncertain. Success and the survival of all you hold dear may hinge on how you manage change.
Some people advise that we “Embrace Change!” Other people realize that change has edges, and if you embrace it the wrong way, it may feel a lot...
Shout of Honor
Adventures in the Liaden Universe®, #29
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2019
Commander Vepal is a Hero. He is also the Yxtrang ambassador to the greater universe.
These two facts do not make Vepal's life easy. But they do make it interesting.
It was Commander Vepal who discovered the continuing orders from Headquarters, far back in old and moldy archives, which...
by Steve Miller
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2016
Chariot to the Stars features some of Steve Miller's favorite early work from Amazing Science Fiction and elsewhere. as well as a previously unpublished short story.
The stories in Chariot to the Stars ask:
*Who builds a chariot to the stars?
*What if the fate of the world were in the...
Skyblaze
Adventures in the Liaden Universe®, #11
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2016
Vertu dea'San, Delm of Clan Wylan, has her hands full with daughter, son, and taxi business, when she's offered an opportunity to solve several pressing problems in one fell swoop. All she needs to do is ferry a few people to a "picnic ground" to deal with an honorable matter of Balance....
Halfling Moon
Adventures in the Liaden Universe®, #16
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2016
Two Stories of a Tumultuous Time
The Department of the Interior's bloody plot against planet Liad has failed, at least for now, but Clan Korval's firing upon Solcintra, Liad's capital city, to save it from the release of ancient killer machines has resulted in the clan's banishment. Korval...
Allies
Adventures in the Liaden Universe®, #12
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2016
"In the matter of allies only two things are important. First, can he shoot? Second, will he aim at your enemy?"
Allies, Adventures in the Liaden Universe® #12 celebrates Cantra's often repeated quote with two prime examples.
First, Fighting Chance is a short story featuring...