Founded | 1983 |
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Founder | Jim Baen |
Country of origin | United States |
Headquarters location | Wake Forest, North Carolina |
Distribution | Simon & Schuster (US)[1] Diamond Book Distributors (UK)[2] |
Key people | Toni Weisskopf |
Publication types | Books |
Fiction genres | Science fiction, fantasy |
Official website | www |
Baen Books (/ˈbeɪn/) is an American publishing house for science fiction and fantasy. In science fiction, it emphasizes space opera, hard science fiction, and military science fiction. The company was established in 1983 by science fiction publisher and editor Jim Baen. After his death in 2006, he was succeeded as publisher by long-time executive editor Toni Weisskopf.