Brand new Liaden Universe® story “A Visit to the Galaxy Ballroom,” by Sharon Lee and Steve Miller is now live on Baen.com (scroll down to the story).

The story is free-to-read, and will be available until roughly mid-December.

Here’s your link.

For those who wish to know, Lee and Miller, Lee, and Miller have published the following original works in 2019.  They are all eligible for Nebula and Best of Year nominations.

SHORT STORIES
A Visit to the Galaxy Ballroom, Sharon Lee and Steve Miller, Baen.com
The Vestals of Midnight, Sharon Lee, Release the Virgins
Command Decision, Steve Miller, Release the Virgins

NOVELETTES
Dark Secrets, Sharon Lee and Steve Miller, Infinite Stars: Dark Frontiers, Titan
Fortune’s Favors, Sharon Lee and Steve Miller, Adventures in the Liaden Universe® Number 28, Pinbeam Books

NOVELLAS
Shout of Honor, Sharon Lee and Steve Miller, Adventures in the Liaden Universe® Number 29, Pinbeam Books

NOVEL
Accepting the Lance, Sharon Lee and Steve Miller, Baen

So, this is a test of Auctorial Acuteness.  Can I can get all the Stuff in one blog post?  Let’s see. . .

1.  You may preorder a signed and/or personalized copy of Accepting the Lance by Sharon Lee and Steve Miller, from Uncle Hugo’s SF Bookstore.  Here’s your link.
2. You may preorder the ebook edition of Accepting the Lance from:  BN and Amazon  (yes, you may also preorder the hardcover edition; don’t let’s make this any more difficult than it already is, ‘K?)
3. Amazon is running a sale on the ebook edition Fortune’s Favors: Adventures in the Liaden Universe® Number 28.  During the month of November the price will be $1.49.
4. Brand-new Liaden story “Dark Secrets” will be published in Infinite Stars: Dark Frontiers on November 5...

Need Liaden Gear? Of course you do! Offworld Designs has a 50% off sale on all Tree-and-Dragon t-shirts, polo shirts, denim (black and blue), AND! the ever-popular Tree-and-Dragon coffee mug:

Here’s your link.

It’s official: Sharon Lee and Steve Miller will be guests of honor at Albacon 2020.
Sept. 11-13, 2020.

Here is your link to the eARC edition of ACCEPTING THE LANCE: https://www.baen.com/accepting-the-lance-earc.html

A SPOILER DISCUSSION PAGE has been opened at for those who have read . . .LANCE and want to talk about it...

The Uncle has spoken, to wit:

People have been asking all year when they will be able to order signed copies of the next Liaden novel by Sharon Lee and Steve Miller, Accepting the Lance ($25.00, expected early December), and you can get your copy personalized if you order by November 10.  We’ve just arranged to also have signed copies of two Liaden novelettes in trade paperback, Adventures in the Liaden Universe #28: Fortune’s Favor ($8.00, expected by mid-September) and Adventures in the Liaden Universe #29: Shout of Honor ($10.00, expected by mid-September).  These will be signed but not personalized.  If you wish to order all 3 Liaden books, we can either send the trade paperbacks right away (with a $6.00 shipping charge) and the hardcover in December (with another $6...

This space is provided as a service to the eARC-reading community.  If you have read the eARC of Accepting the Lance by Sharon Lee and Steve Miller, and you want to Talk About It, please do so here.

FOR THOSE WHO HAVE NOT READ the eARC AND DO NOT WANT THE STORY SPOILED:

STOP HERE!

Back slowly away.  Do NOT read the comments.

Everybody else — go for it.

For those who indulge, the eARC edition of Accepting the Lance, the 22nd Liaden Universe® novel, created and co-written by Sharon Lee and Steve Miller is now available.  eARCs are electronic Advance Reading Copies; they will contain errors of formatting, grammar, and perhaps even spelling.  However!  There will be no major story changes between it and the final book, which will be available in All Its Perfection on December 3.

Here is your link to the eARC edition of Accepting the Lance.