• Publication: The Best of Jim Baen's Universe 2006 DiskPublication Record # 866223
• Author: uncredited
• Date: 2007-07-00
• Publisher: Baen
• Pub. Series: Baen CD-ROM Library
• Pub. Series #: 13
• Price:
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• Format:
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• Type: OMNIBUS
• Notes: Data from the ISO disk image file https://baencd.thefifthimperium.com/13-TheBestofJimBaensUniverseCD/Baen13-TheBestofJimBaensUniverseCD(The%20Best%20of%20Jim%20Baen's%20Universe)_iso.zip Date based on the full release date of the "July 2007 Monthly Baen Bundle". This ISO image file was initially made available as a free download from the Baen Webscriptions website when either the "July 2007 Monthly Baen Bundle" or the ebook of "The Best of Jim Baen's Universe" was purchased. (Source: https://baencd.thefifthimperium.com) Contents: • 7 complete publications, each in six file formats (.doc, .htm, .lit, .prc, .rb, and .rtf) • Artitsts' Tribute to Jim Baen slideshow consisting of a short essay and one or more drawings by the following artists: •• Tom Kidd •• Jeff Easley •• David Mattingly •• Pat Turner •• Jael •• Clyde Caldwell •• Veronica Casas •• Richard Martin •• Kurt Miller •• Kevin Wasden • An animated cover titled "Fly Cycle". • An animated cover titled "Cities in Flight". • Screen Saver installers titled "Fly Cycle" for Windows, Mac OS 9, and Mac OS 10 • Screen Saver installers titled "Cities in Flight" for Windows and Mac OS 10 All of the CIP data shown on the copyright page of 1634: The Baltic War is for a different book. The included CIP data is for 1635: Cannon Law by Eric Flint and Andrew Dennis. WARNING: Each number is the beginning of a series or a single book. Do not alter or remove numbering sequence. Placeholder numbers are used extensively to preserve the order of the contents. The following titles are included but not named in the Contents section: Title #4.1 is Jim Baen's Universe, June 2006 (titled in the publication as "Jim Baen's Universe Volume 1 Number 1") which is a magazine and unable to be directly included as a component title. • This title contains 25 works of short fiction (all but one with its own illustration) and eight essays (some with an illustration). • The following component short fiction and essay titles do not show in the Contents List sequence for this magazine title because they are duplicated within this Omnibus title: •• What Would Sam Spade Do? •• Brieanna's Constant •• Bob's Yeti Problem •• Candy-Blossom •• The Darkness •• The Cold Blacksmith •• Poga •• The Opposite of Pomegranates Title #4.2 is Jim Baen's Universe, August 2006 (titled in the publication as "Jim Baen's Universe Volume 1 Number 2") which is a magazine and unable to be directly included as a component title. • This title contains 19 works of short fiction (each with its own illustration) and eight essays (one with an illustration). • The following component short fiction and essay titles do not show in the Contents List sequence for this magazine title because they are duplicated within this Omnibus title: •• Dog Soldier •• As Black As Hell •• Benny Comes Home •• Decaf and Spaceship •• Jim Baen (Obituary) •• A Personal Remembrance of Jim Baen Title #4.3 is Jim Baen's Universe, October 2006 (titled in the publication as "Jim Baen's Universe Volume 1 Number 3") which is a magazine and unable to be directly included as a component title. • This title contains 19 works of short fiction (each with its own illustration) and five essays (one with an illustration). • The following component short fiction and essay titles do not show in the Contents List sequence for this magazine title because they are duplicated within this Omnibus title: •• All the Things You Are •• The Old Woman in the Young Woman •• Every Hole Is Outlined •• A Time to Kill •• Femme Fatale •• Jim Baen (Obituary) Title #4.4 is Jim Baen's Universe, December 2006 (titled in the publication as "Jim Baen's Universe Volume 1 Number 4") which is a magazine and unable to be directly included as a component title. • This title contains 17 works of short fiction (each with its own illustration) and seven essays (two with illustrations). • The following component short fiction and essay titles do not show in the Contents List sequence for this magazine title because they are duplicated within this Omnibus title: •• The Nature of Things •• The Girl with the Killer Eyes •• Fishing •• Jim Baen (Obituary)

Fiction and Essays (view Full Listing)

• 1 • The Best of Jim Baen's Universe • [The Best of Jim Baen's Universe] • anthology by Eric Flint
• Dog Soldier • (2006) • short story by Garth Nix
• The Girl with the Killer Eyes • (2006) • short fiction by B. B. Kristopher
• Bow Shock • (2006) • novelette by Gregory Benford
• Decaf and Spaceship, to Go • (2006) • short story by Katherine Sanger
• All the Things You Are • (2006) • novelette by Mike Resnick
• A Time to Kill • (2006) • short story by S. Andrew Swann
• Local Boy Makes Good • (2006) • short story by Ray Tabler
• The Old Woman in the Young Woman • (2006) • short story by Gene Wolfe
• Candy-Blossom • (2006) • short story by Dave Freer
• What Would Sam Spade Do? • (2006) • short story by Jo Walton
• Giving It Fourteen Percent • (2006) • short story by Ani S. Fox
• Every Hole Is Outlined • (2006) • novelette by John Barnes
• Fishing • (2006) • short story by Thea Hutcheson
• Bob's Yeti Problem • (2006) • short story by Lawrence Person
• Brieanna's Constant • (2006) • short story by Eric M. Witchey [as by Eric Witchey]
• The Darkness • [Hammer's Slammers] • (2006) • novelette by David Drake
• The Cold Blacksmith • (2006) • short story by Elizabeth Bear
• The Nature of Things • (2006) • short story by Maya Kaathryn Bohnhoff
• Sisters of Sarronnyn; Sisters of Westwind • [Recluce Short Stories] • (2007) • short fiction by L. E. Modesitt, Jr. (variant of Sisters of Sarronnyn: Sisters of Westwind 2006)
• The Opposite of Pomegranates • (2006) • short story by Marissa Lingen
• As Black As Hell • [Lucy] • (2006) • novelette by John Lambshead
• Benny Comes Home • (2006) • novelette by Esther M. Friesner [as by Esther Friesner]
• Femme Fatale • (2006) • novelette by Jason D. Wittman [as by Jason Wittman]
• A Hire Power • (2007) • short fiction by J. Simon [as by Jeremy Simon]
• Poga • (2006) • novelette by John Barnes
• The Legacy of Jim Baen • (2007) • essay by Eric Flint
• Why die? • (2007) • essay by Jim Baen
• A Genetic Model for Eternal Life as an Evolutionary Strategy • (2007) • essay by Karl Inne Ugland
• A Personal Remembrance of Jim Baen • (2006) • essay by John Lambshead
• Afterword (The Best of Jim Baen's Universe) • essay by Eric Flint
• 2 • 1634: The Baltic War • [163x • 6] • (2007) • novel by Eric Flint and David Weber
• 3 • The World Turned Upside Down • (2005) • anthology by Jim Baen and David Drake and Eric Flint
• Preface (The World Turned Upside Down) • (2005) • essay by Eric Flint
• Rescue Party • (1946) • novelette by Arthur C. Clarke
• The Menace from Earth • [Future History] • (1974) • novelette by Robert A. Heinlein [as by Robert Heinlein]
• Code Three • [Code Three] • (1963) • novella by Rick Raphael
• Hunting Problem • (1955) • short story by Robert Sheckley
• Black Destroyer • [Space Beagle] • (1939) • novelette by A. E. van Vogt
• A Pail of Air • (1951) • short story by Fritz Leiber
• Thy Rocks and Rills • (1953) • novelette by Robert E. Gilbert [as by Robert Ernest Gilbert]
• A Gun for Dinosaur • [Reginald Rivers] • (1956) • novelette by L. Sprague de Camp
• Goblin Night • [Telzey Amberdon] • (1965) • novelette by James H. Schmitz
• The Only Thing We Learn • (1949) • short story by C. M. Kornbluth
• Trigger Tide • (1950) • short story by Wyman Guin
• The Aliens • (1959) • novelette by Murray Leinster
• All the Way Back • (1952) • short story by Michael Shaara
• The Last Command • [Bolo] • (1967) • short story by Keith Laumer
• Who Goes There? • [Who Goes There?] • (1966) • novella by John W. Campbell, Jr. [as by John W. Campbell]
• Quietus • (1940) • short story by Ross Rocklynne
• Answer • (1954) • short story by Fredric Brown
• The Last Question • [Multivac] • (1956) • short story by Isaac Asimov
• The Cold Equations • [Cold Equations (Godwin)] • (1954) • novelette by Tom Godwin
• Shambleau • [Northwest Smith] • (1933) • novelette by C. L. Moore
• Turning Point • (1963) • short story by Poul Anderson
• Heavy Planet • (1939) • short story by Milton A. Rothman [as by Lee Gregor]
• Omnilingual • [Federation • 1] • (1957) • novelette by H. Beam Piper
• The Gentle Earth • (1957) • novella by Christopher Anvil
• Environment • (1944) • short story by Chester S. Geier
• Liane the Wayfarer • [Dying Earth] • (1950) • short story by Jack Vance
• Spawn • (1939) • novelette by P. Schuyler Miller
• St. Dragon and the George • [The Dragon and the George] • (1957) • novelette by Gordon R. Dickson
• Thunder and Roses • (1947) • novelette by Theodore Sturgeon
• 4.1 • Chilling • [Humanx Commonwealth • 7] • (2006) • novelette by Alan Dean Foster
• Pimpf • [Laundry Files] • (2006) • novelette by Charles Stross [as by Charlie Stross]
• Slanted Jack • [Jon & Lobo] • (2006) • novelette by Mark L. Van Name
• Build-A-Bear • (2006) • short story by Gene Wolfe
• 'Ware the Sleeper • (2006) • novelette by Julie E. Czerneda [as by Julie Czerneda]
• The Thief of Stones • (2006) • novelette by Sarah Zettel
• Light of Other Days • [Slow Glass] • (1966) • short story by Bob Shaw
• The Facts Concerning the Recent Carnival of Crime in Connecticut • (1876) • short story by Mark Twain
• The Ancient Ones, Episode 1 • [The Ancient Ones] • (2006) • short story by David Brin
• Travails with Momma, Part 1 • (2006) • novelette by John Ringo
• Fish Story, Episode 1 • [Fish Story • 1] • (2006) • short story by Andrew Dennis and Eric Flint and Dave Freer
• Introducing New Authors: Fancy Farmer • (2006) • essay by Pamela Uphoff
• The Puzzle of the Peregrinating Coach • (2006) • short story by George Philles
• Astromonkeys! • [Digger • 2] • (2006) • short story by Tony Frazier
• Giving it 14 Percent • (2006) • short story by Ani S. Fox (variant of Giving It Fourteen Percent) [as by A. S. Fox]
• Jim Baen (Obituary) • (2006) • essay by David Drake
• Gods and Monsters in Hollywood • (2006) • essay by Gregory Benford
• Back To the Moon • (2006) • essay by Travis S. Taylor
• Publisher's Podium • (2006) • essay by Jim Baen
• June 2006: The Current State of the Short Fiction Market for Science Fiction and Fantasy • (2006) • essay by Eric Flint
• A Matter of Principle • (2006) • essay by Eric Flint
• Upload Your Life Now • (2006) • essay by Mark L. Van Name
• The History of Power From the Gutenberg Revolution to the Computer Revolution • (2006) • essay by Michael Hart
• 4.2 • Treasure in the Sand • [Dune Sequels] • (2006) • short story by Kevin J. Anderson and Brian Herbert
• When Sysadmins Ruled the Earth • (2006) • novelette by Cory Doctorow
• The Ruby Dice • [Skolian Short Fiction • 11] • (2006) • novella by Catherine Asaro
• Sisters of Sarronnyn: Sisters of Westwind • [Recluce Short Stories] • (2006) • novelette by L. E. Modesitt, Jr.
• For Blue Sky • [Elfhome / Steel City] • (2006) • short story by Wen Spencer (variant of Blue Sky)
• What Sleeps in the Shallows Belongs to the Depths • (2006) • short story by Julie E. Czerneda (variant of What Sleeps in the Shallows Belongs to the Deep 2005) [as by Julie Czerneda]
• Lulu • (1957) • novelette by Clifford D. Simak [as by Clifford Simak]
• Pollock and the Porroh Man • (1895) • short story by H. G. Wells
• The Ancient Ones, Episode 2 • [The Ancient Ones] • (2006) • short story by David Brin
• Travails with Momma, Part 2 • (2006) • novelette by John Ringo
• Fish Story, Episode 2 • [Fish Story • 2] • (2006) • short story by Andrew Dennis and Eric Flint and Dave Freer
• Technical Exchange • (2006) • short story by Kevin N. Haw [as by Kevin Haw]
• Medic! • (2006) • short story by William Ledbetter
• The Best Plaid Lans • (2006) • short story by Loren K. Jones
• Supercargo • (2006) • short story by M. T. Reiten
• Robowar • (2006) • short story by Gregory Benford
• The Editor's Page August 2006 • (2006) • essay by Eric Flint
• Copyright: What Are the Proper Terms for the Debate? • (2006) • essay by Eric Flint
• McCauley on Copyright • (2001) • essay by Eric Flint
• A Speech Delivered in the House of Commons on the 5th of February 1841 • (1841) • essay by Thomas Babington Macaulay
• A Speech Delivered in a Committee of the House of Commons on the 6th of April 1842 • (1842) • essay by Thomas Babington Macaulay
• The Fifth Information Age • (2006) • essay by Michael Hart
• The Man Who Wasn't There • (2005) • short story by Gregory Benford
• Little Sips • (2006) • short story by Barbara J. Ferrenz
• Great Minds • (2006) • short story by Edward M. Lerner
• The Power of Illusion • (2006) • novelette by Christopher Anvil
• Protection Money • (2006) • novelette by Wen Spencer
• Baby Girl • (2006) • novelette by Jon Skovron
• Gnome Improvement • (2006) • short story by Rebecca Lickiss
• A Hire Power • (2006) • short story by J. Simon
• A Matter of Fact • (1892) • short story by Rudyard Kipling
• Travails With Momma, Episode 3 • (2006) • novelette by John Ringo
• Fish Story, Episode 3 • [Fish Story • 3] • (2006) • short story by Andrew Dennis and Eric Flint and Dave Freer
• The Men in the Mirror • (2006) • short story by Steven Ray
• Songbird • (2006) • short story by Jeremiah Sturgill
• Devil May Care • (2006) • short story by Jason Kahn
• Doing a Slow Turn: The Poison of Cynicism • (2006) • essay by David Brin
• Terraforming: A Bumpy Road Ahead • (2006) • essay by B. B. Kristopher
• Copyright: How Long Should It Be? • (2006) • essay by Eric Flint
• The Editor's Page October 2006: The Prospects for Jim Baen's Universe • (2006) • essay by Eric Flint
• 4.4 • Incident on a Small Colony • [Jani Kilian] • (2006) • novella by Kristine Smith
• Tesseract • (2006) • short story by Tom Brennan
• Alone • (2006) • novelette by Melissa Mia Hall and Joe R. Lansdale
• Olaf and the Merchandisers • (2006) • short story by Barry N. Malzberg and Bill Pronzini
• Murphy's Law • (2006) • short story by Douglas Smith
• The Big Ice • (2006) • short story by Jay Lake and Ruth Nestvold
• Singing Them Back • (2006) • short story by Marissa Lingen
• Servants to the Dead • (2006) • short story by Steven Piziks
• Caught Forever Between • (2006) • novelette by Adrian Nikolas Phoenix
• Home Is the Hunter • (1953) • short story by Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore
• The Ancient Ones, Episode 3 • [The Ancient Ones] • (2006) • short story by David Brin
• Slan Hunter (Part 1 of 3) • [Slan • 2] • (2006) • serial by Kevin J. Anderson and A. E. van Vogt
• Fish Story, Episode 4 • [Fish Story • 4] • (2006) • short story by Andrew Dennis and Eric Flint and Dave Freer
• Pastry Run • (2006) • short fiction by Nancy Fulda
• A Pocket History of MacroEngineering: The First Millennium • (2006) • essay by Gregory Benford
• The Essay with No Title (until its end) • (2006) • essay by Stephen Euin Cobb
• Schlock Cover for Dec 2006 • (2006) • essay by Howard Tayler
• What is Fair Use • (2006) • essay by Eric Flint
• The Editor's Page December 2006: New Members of the Magazine's Staff • (2006) • essay by Eric Flint
• The Future and You December 2006 • (2006) • essay by Stephen Euin Cobb