Grantville Gazette-Volume IIIIn Virginia DeMarces witty and touching Pastor Kastenmayers Revenge, a Lutheran pastor gets even with the American who eloped with his daughter by scheming to gain new adherents through eight separate arranged marriages between Lutheran down-timers and American up-timers. In other stories: The same teenagers who launched the sewing machine industry in Volume 1 move on to conquer the financial world, in Gorg Huffs Other Peoples Money; Francis Turners Hobsons Choice tells the tale of the personal and theological impact of the Ring of Fire on rambunctious students and barmaids in the university town of Cambridge, England; in Eva Muschs If the Demons Will Sleep, a woman terrorized by the notorious Hungarian countess Bartholdy finds peace and sanctuary in Grantville; in Wood Hughes Hell Fighters, a Benedictine monk confronts an inferno and finds his orders new calling; in David Carricos The Sound of Music and Enrico Toros continuing Euterpe, Grantville becomes a magnet drawing Europes most ambitious young musicians; and Danita Ewing concludes the short novel An Invisible War, which began in Volume 2. The third volume of the Gazette also contain factual articles exploring such topics as the centrality of iron to the industrial revolution, the prospects for the mechanization of agriculture in the 17th century, and the logic behind the adoption of the Struve-Reardon Gun as the basic weapon of the USEs infantry. Volume 3 of the Gazette can be purchased as a single copy for $6. You can also purchase it as part of a $15 three-volume package, which includes volumes 2 and 4. Volume 1 can be purchased separately for $5 in electronic format, and is also now available as a paperback. COVER NOTE: The illustration on the cover is Artemisia Gentileschis Judith Slaying Holofernes (Naples Version), painted circa 1612-1613. Gentileschi was the most prominent female artist of the period, and is referred to in 1634: The Galileo Affair. The Biblical episode involving Judith and her maidservant killing the Assyrian tyrant Holofernes was an immensely popular theme for painters and sculptors of the Renaissance and the early modern era. Different versions were done by Donatello, Tintoretto, Hemessen, Caravaggio, Mantegna and other artists of the time. A famous version was also done in 1901 by Gustav Klimt. |
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DOI: 10.1125/0006Copyright 2004 by Eric Flint All rights reserved, including the right to reproduce this book or portions thereof in any form. A Baen Books Original
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