Published from 1983
Baen Books is an American publishing company established in 1983 by long time Science Fiction publisher and editor Jim Baen. It is a science fiction and fantasy publishing house that emphasizes space opera, hard science fiction, military science fiction, and fantasy.
Simon And Schuster? was undergoing massive reorganization and wanted to hire Jim Baen to head up and revitalize their science fiction line in their Pocket Books division. Jim Baen, with financial backing from some friends, counter-offered with a proposal to start up a new company named Baen Books and provide Simon & Schuster with an SF line to distribute instead.
Jim Baen sadly died prematurely on 28 June 2006 and was succeeded as publisher by long-time executive editor Toni Weisskopf.
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