Jim Baen's Universe

The Ancient Ones, Episode 3 Full Story

by David Brin

Picture a lonely human, sleeping fitfully atop a cold marble slab in an alien cemetery, his dreams threaded by a night-long rhapsody of the undead—a crooning zombie serenade.

Slan Hunter, Part 1 Full Story

by A. E. van Vogt and Kevin J. Anderson

The world was already falling apart when her first contractions hit.

"Perfect timing—" Anthea Stewart clenched her teeth to stop a hiss of pain, holding her rounded abdomen.

Fish Story, Episode 4 Full Story

by Eric Flint, Andrew Dennis, Dave Freer

So back into the churnel we went—which, from this side as well as the one we'd entered in South London, took the form of a broom closet.