About the Snippets
Snippets are excerpts from books which have not yet been published. I started posting snippets on Baen’s Bar back in 1999 and have maintained the practice ever since. Some years ago, when I first launched this web site, I carried over the snippets and post them here. They’re also still posted on Baen’s Bar, if you prefer that venue. (Go to www,baen.com, select “Baen Community,” and then select “Baen’s Bar” from the drop-down menu.)
All of the snippets are posted in my conference, titled “Mother of Demons.” They can sometimes also be found in other conferences, depending on the title.
The snippets begin with the start of a book and typically go through half the novel before breaking off when the book is published. In addition to posting snippets from my own novels, I also post (with their permission) snippets from books written by many other authors.
We post snippets every Monday, Wednesday and Friday.
Most Recent
The Eleventh Gate – Snippet 04
The Eleventh Gate - Snippet 04 3: DEEP SPACE The Peregoy cruiser approached the uncharted eleventh gate. There -- it showed on the viewscreen, a gorgeous lacy shimmer against the blackness of space, its sensory data creating the same incomprehensible pattern as...
The Shaman of Karres – Snippet 08
The Shaman of Karres - Snippet 08 "We'll try that, then," decided Pausert. So they did, with Vezzarn standing by to fire the laterals and muttering about witchy stuff. It worked. They and the wrecked hulk parted company in a last ghostly puff of departing air. "I'll...
The Shaman of Karres – Snippet 07
The Shaman of Karres - Snippet 07 Goth could have teleported the object out of the body, but short of cutting him open and healing him up after, the Leewit could see no way of getting it out. Cutting was indeed an option, she knew. It was one other healers took, when...
The Eleventh Gate – Snippet 03
The Eleventh Gate - Snippet 03 2: POLYGLOT Near the sparsely-settled northern pole of Polyglot, Philip Anderson walked across the savannah away from the jeebee nest, stripping off his protective gear. He glimpsed Tara Landry coming toward him and immediately...