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From: David Drake
\nTo: DrakeNews@david-drake.com
\nSent: Thursday, June 29, 2006 5:06 AM
\nSubject: [DrakeNews] Jim Baen<\/p>\n

My friend Jim Baen passed away peacefully and with dignity at 5 pm
\nyesterday, June 28, 2006. <\/p>\n

Dave Drake<\/p>\n

Jim<\/p>\n

Jim Baen called me on the afternoon of June 11. He generally phoned on
\nweekends, and we’d usually talk a couple more times in the course of a
\nweek; but this was the last time.<\/p>\n

In the course of the conversation he said, “You’ve got to write my
\nobituary, you know.” I laughed (I’ll get to that) and said, “Sure, if
\nI’m around–but remember, I’m the one who rides the motorcycle.”<\/p>\n

So I’m writing this. Part of it’s adapted from the profile I did in
\n2000 for the program book of the Chicago Worldcon at which Jim was
\nEditor Guest of Honor. They cut my original title, which Jim loved:
\nThe God of Baendom. I guess they thought it was undignified and
\nwhimsical.<\/p>\n

The title was undignified and whimsical. So was Jim.<\/p>\n

James Patrick Baen was born October 22, 1943, on the Pennsylvania-New
\nYork border, a long way by road or in culture from New York City. He
\nwas introduced to SF early through the magazines in a step-uncle’s
\nattic, including the November, 1957, issue of Astounding with The
\nGentle Earth by Christopher Anvil.<\/p>\n

The two books Jim most remembered as formative influences were
\nFire-Hunter by Jim Kjelgaard and Against the Fall of Night by Arthur C
\nClarke. The theme of both short novels is that a youth from a decaying
\nculture escapes the trap of accepted wisdom and saves his people
\ndespite themselves. This is a fair description of Jim’s life in SF: he
\nwas always his own man, always a maverick, and very often brilliantly
\nsuccessful because he didn’t listen to what other people thought.<\/p>\n

For example, the traditional model of electronic publishing required
\nthat the works be encrypted. Jim thought that just made it hard for
\npeople to read books, the worst mistake a publisher could make. His
\ne-texts were clear and in a variety of common formats.<\/p>\n

While e-publishing has been a costly waste of effort for others, Baen
\nBooks quickly began earning more from electronic sales than it did
\nfrom Canada. By the time of Jim’s death, the figure had risen to ten
\ntimes that.<\/p>\n

Jim didn’t forget his friends. In later years he arranged for the
\nexpansion of Fire-Hunter so that he could republish it (as The Hunter
\nReturns, originally the title of the Charles R Knight painting Jim put
\non the cover).<\/p>\n

Though Clarke didn’t need help to keep his books in print the way
\nKjelgaard did, Jim didn’t forget him either. Jim called me for help a
\nweek before his stroke, because Amazon.com had asked him to list the
\nten SF novels that everyone needed to read to understand the field.
\nAgainst the Fall of Night was one of the titles that we settled on.<\/p>\n

Jim’s father died at age fifty; he and his stepfather didn’t warm to
\none another. Jim left home at 17 and lived on the streets for several
\nmonths, losing weight that he couldn’t at the time afford. He enlisted
\nin the army as the only available alternative to starving to death.<\/p>\n

Jim spent his military career in Bavaria where he worked for the Army
\nSecurity Agency as a Morse Code Intercept Operator, monitoring
\ntransmissions from a Soviet callsign that was probably a armored
\ncorps. One night he determined that ‘his’ Soviet formation was moving
\nswiftly toward the border. This turned out to be an unannounced
\ntraining exercise–but if World War III had broken out in 1960, Jim
\nwould’ve been the person who announced it.<\/p>\n

Jim entered CCNY on the GI Bill and became a Hippie. Among other jobs
\nhe managed a Greenwich Village coffee house, sometimes acting as
\nbarker as well: ‘Come in and see tomorrow’s stars today!’ None of the
\nentertainers became tomorrow’s stars, but that experience of unabashed
\nhuckstering is part of the reason that Jim himself did.<\/p>\n

Jim’s first job in publishing was as an assistant in the Complaints
\nDepartment of Ace Books. He was good at it–so good that management
\ntried to promote him to running the department. He turned the offer
\ndown, however, because he really wanted to be an SF editor.<\/p>\n

In 1973 Jim was hired at Galaxy and If magazines when Judy-Lynn
\nBenjamin left. He became assistant to Ejler Jakobson, who with Bernie
\nWilliams taught Jim the elements of slash and burn editing.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, this was a necessary skill for an editor in Jim’s
\nposition. The publisher wasn’t in a hurry to pay authors, so
\nestablished writers who could sell elsewhere preferred to do so.
\nGalaxy and If published a lot of first stories and not a few rejects
\nby major names. Material like that had to be edited for
\nintelligibility and the printer’s deadline, not nuances of prose
\nstyle.<\/p>\n

Apart from basic technique Jim had very little to learn from his
\nsenior, who shortly thereafter left to pursue other opportunities.
\nJim’s first act as editor was to recall stories that his predecessor
\nhad rejected over Jim’s recommendation. When in later years I thanked
\nhim for retrieving the first two Hammer stories, Jim responded, ”Oh,
\nDavid–Jake rejected much better stories than yours!” (Among them was
\nUrsula K LeGuin’s Nebula winner, The Day Before the Revolution.)<\/p>\n

Ace Books, in many ways the standard bearer of SF paperback publishing
\nin the Fifties, had fallen on hard times in the Seventies. Charter
\nCommunications bought the company and installed Tom Doherty as
\npublisher. Tom hired Jim to run the SF line. The first thing the new
\nteam did was to pay Ace’s back (and in some cases, way back)
\nroyalties. By the time the famous SFWA audit of Ace Books was
\ncomplete, the money had already been paid to the authors; a matter of
\nsome embarrassment to the SFWA officers who were aware of the facts.<\/p>\n

Ace regained its position as an SF line where readers could depend on
\ngetting a good story. (To Homer, that was the essence of art; not all
\nwriters and editors of more recent times would have agreed.) As well
\nas pleasing readers, the Ace SF line made money for the company;
\nunfortunately (due to decisions from far above the level of publisher)
\nSF came to be the only part of the company that did make money. Tom
\nleft Ace in 1980, founded Tor Books, and hired Jim to set up the Tor
\nSF line. <\/p>\n

Which Jim did, following the same pattern that had revived Ace: a
\nfocus on story and a mix of established authors with first-timers whom
\nJim thought just might have what it took. It worked again.<\/p>\n

In fact it worked so well that when Simon and Schuster went through a
\nseries of upheavals in its Pocket Books line in 1983, management
\ndecided to hire Jim as their new SF editor. Jim thought about the
\noffer, then made a counter-offer: with the backing of two friends, he
\nwould form a separate company which would provide S&S with an SF line
\nto distribute. S&S agreed and Baen Books was born.<\/p>\n

Jim used the same formulas with his new line as he had at Ace and Tor,
\nand again he succeeded. If that were easy, then past decades wouldn’t
\nbe littered with the detritus of so many other people’s attempts to do
\nthe same thing.<\/p>\n

Even more than had been the case at Ace and Tor, Jim was his own art
\ndirector at Baen Books–and he really directed rather than viewing his
\njob as one of coddling artists. Baen Books gained a distinct look.
\nLike the book contents, the covers weren’t to everyone’s taste–but
\nthey worked.<\/p>\n

Jim had the advantage over some editors in that he knew what a story
\nis. He had the advantage over most editors in being able to spot
\ntalent before somebody else had published it. (Lois Bujold, Eric
\nFlint, John Ringo and Dave Weber were all Baen discoveries whom Jim
\npromoted to stardom.)<\/p>\n

Furthermore, he never stopped developing new writers. The week before
\nhis stroke, Jim bought a first novel from a writer whom Baen Books had
\nbeen grooming through short stories over the past year.<\/p>\n

The most important thing of all which Jim brought to his company was a
\npersonal vision. Baen Books didn’t try to be for everybody, but it was
\nalways true to itself. In that as in so many other ways, the company
\nmirrored Jim himself.<\/p>\n

When Jim called me on June 11, he told me he was dying. I thought he
\nwas simply having a bad interaction among prescription drugs. Though
\nthe stroke that killed him occurred the next day in hospital, Jim was
\nright and I was wrong–again.<\/p>\n

After that opening, Jim said, “I’m just going to say it: we’ve known
\neach other all these years and you seem to like me. Why?”<\/p>\n

That’s a hell of a thing to be hit with out of the blue. Jim had
\nalways known that he was socially awkward and that he not infrequently
\nrubbed people the wrong way, but it wasn’t something we discussed.
\n(And it’s obviously not a subject on which I could be of much help.)<\/p>\n

If I’d been a different person, I’d have started out by listing the
\nthings he did right: for example, that I’d never met a more loving
\nfather than Jim was to his children (Jessica Baen, 29, Jim’s daughter
\nwith Madeline Gleich, and Katherine Baen, 14, Jim’s daughter with Toni
\nWeisskopf). Being me, I instead answered the question a number of us
\nask ourselves: “How can you like like a person who’s behaved the way
\nyou know I have?” I said that his flaws were childish ones, tantrums
\nand sulking; not, never in my experience, studied cruelty. He agreed
\nwith that.<\/p>\n

And then I thought further and said that when I was sure my career was
\ntanking–<\/p>\n

“You thought that? When was that?”<\/p>\n

In the mid ’90s, I explained, when Military SF was going down the
\ntubes with the downsizing of the military. But when I was at my lowest
\npoint, which was very low, I thought, “I can write two books a year.
\nAnd Jim will pay me $20K apiece for them–”<\/p>\n

“I’d have paid a lot more than that!”<\/p>\n

And I explained that this wasn’t about reality: this was me in the
\nirrational depths of real depression. And even when I was most
\ndepressed and most irrational, I knew in my heart that Jim Baen would
\npay me enough to keep me alive, because he was that sort of person.
\nHe’d done that for Keith Laumer whom he disliked, because Laumer had
\nbeen an author Jim looked for when he was starting to read SF.<\/p>\n

I could not get so crazy and depressed that I didn’t trust Jim Baen to
\nstand by me if I needed him. I don’t know a better statement than that
\nto sum up what was important about Jim, as a man and as a friend.<\/p>\n

–Dave Drake<\/p>\n

http:\/\/david-drake.com\/baen.html<\/p>\n

************************
\nNewsletters are archived at http:\/\/david-drake.com\/newsletters.html<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Among his other many accomplishments, Jim Baen is the “Baen” behind the Baen Free Library<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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