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The Editor's Page

Sun, Mar 16, 2008
Jim Baen’s Universe has come of age.
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Sat, Dec 22, 2007
It was close to seven decades ago that Isaac Asimov looked around at the current state of the art, realized that except for Eando Binder’s crude, pulpish hero Adam Link, almost every robot in science fiction was a malicious monstrosity, applied a little rationality, and came up with the Three Laws of Robotics.
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Mon, Oct 15, 2007
Walk up to any serious science fiction reader and name the last hundred Hugo winners.
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Thu, Sep 6, 2007
Over the past century, the giants of science fiction have occasionally written a line or two that somehow survives them and their work, and is eventually viewed by most members of the field as a Revealed Truth.
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Thu, Jun 14, 2007
Everyone talks about slush, but no one does anything about it. Except read it. Very reluctantly.
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Thu, May 17, 2007
I’ve received some interesting comments over on Escape Pod, an audio site where they read one of my stories every now and then.
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Sun, Mar 4, 2007
Okay, I hear you ask, how the hell can Jim Baen's Universe pay such phenomenal word rates? Are we just a loss leader for Baen Books?
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Fri, Jan 12, 2007
So here I am, the new Executive Editor of Jim Baen's Universe. And here you are, wondering who the hell I am and what I like.
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Tue, Nov 14, 2006
Since our third issue came out a few weeks ago, we've expanded our staff by adding two new people.
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Sat, Sep 16, 2006
Jim Baen, the founder of this magazine, died three months ago. Between that and the fact that we've now had enough initial experience with Universe to have a much better sense of the prospects for the magazine than we did when we launched it at the end of last year, I think it would be appropriate for me to use this issue's Editor's Page to let our readers know what our current plans are.
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Tue, Aug 1, 2006
My original plans for this issue's "The Editor's Page" got swept aside last month by the death of Jim Baen, the man who launched the magazine and whose name is—and will remain—on the masthead.
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Tue, Feb 7, 2006
What is the role of short fiction in F & SF and why does it matter?
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