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
Days of Burning, Days of Wrath – Snippet 16
Days of Burning, Days of Wrath - Snippet 16 And that's why I picked this spot. Marciano held out one hand, palm up. Automatically, an RTO placed a handset in the palm. Just as automatically, the general raised it to his face. He saw the first puff of...
At The End Of The World – Snippet 15
At The End Of The World - Snippet 15 At the end of that very long day, we gathered in the radio house while the furnace in the remains of the primary processing plant got hot enough to cook dinner. But we couldn't wait, because we were starving again. So hard-boiled...
Battle Luna – Snippet 15
Battle Luna - Snippet 15 Morgan had used her monofil to tether the bomb to something in her foxhole. Now, having reached the end of its leash -- and having evaded all Uey attempts to block it -- it was dropping straight down toward the Dunsland. The Ueys instantly...
Days of Burning, Days of Wrath – Snippet 15
Days of Burning, Days of Wrath - Snippet 15 San Juan del Norte, Cordoba When Tsarist-Marxism and the notion of the planned economy had finally gone under, in Volga, and the Cordoban government had lost its deathgrip on the breast and nipple of international socialist...