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
Dark Day, Bright Hour – Snippet 13
Dark Day, Bright Hour - Snippet 13 # We continued walking in awkward silence for a bit, each sunk in our own particular brand of misery. The atmosphere did nothing to lighten our spirits. Ambient red light shrouded Hell in oppressive shadows, and the screams of the...
1636 The Atlantic Encounter – Snippet 02
1636 The Atlantic Encounter - Snippet 02 PART I April 1636 The ever-hooded, tragic-gestured sea Wallace Stevens, "The Idea of Order at Key West" Chapter 1 Hamburg United States of Europe The first look Gordon Chehab ever had of the ship that would take him across the...
Battle Luna – Snippet 05
Battle Luna - Snippet 05 "What, and have them delivered with sabotage and booby traps already in place?" Pappy shook his head. "They're not that stupid." "At least they picked a wheeled rover instead of a tracked one," KC said. "That could have been awkward. But you...
Days of Burning, Days of Wrath – Snippet 05
Days of Burning, Days of Wrath - Snippet 05 But with those two, you never really know. These things could have come from Sumer, or from any of two dozen other places that make Volgan-designed arms. Be funny if they came from the Zhong, though, all things...