Jim Baen's Universe

Our second animated cover Full Story

by David Mattingly

David Mattingly has been a major cover artist at Baen for a long time.

We hope you enjoy our second animated cover, "Cities in Flight."

The Editor's Page August 2006 Full Story

by Eric Flint

My original plans for this issue's "The Editor's Page" got swept aside last month by the death of Jim Baen, the man who launched the magazine and whose name is—and will remain—on the masthead.

Copyright: What Are the Proper Terms for the Debate? Full Story

by Eric Flint

I want to continue my discussion of copyright, which I began in last issue's column, before turning my attention to the issue of so-called "Digital Rights Management" itself.

McCauley on Copyright Full Story

by Eric Flint

These are two speeches given by Thomas Macaulay in Parliament in 1841, when the issue of copyright was being hammered out. They are, no other word for it, brilliant—and cover everything fundamental which is involved in the issue.

The Fifth Information Age Full Story

by Michael Hart

We keep hearing about how we are in "The Information Age," but rarely is any reference made to any of four previously created Information Ages, and technology changes that were as powerful in their day as the Internet is today.