Grantville Gazette III
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. Cover Art by Tom Kidd |
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First printing, January 2007 Distributed by Simon & Schuster Pages by Joy Freeman (www.pagesbyjoy.com)
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ISBN-13: 978-1-4165-0941-7
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Baen Books by ERIC FLINTRing of Fire series: 1632 by Eric Flint Joe's World series: The Philosophical Strangler With Mercedes Lackey & Dave Freer: The Shadow of the Lion With David Drake: The Tyrant The Belisarius Series with David Drake: An Oblique Approach Edited with David Drake & Jim Baen: The World Turned Upside Down With Ryk E. Spoor: Mountain Magic (with David Drake & Henry Kuttner) |
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In Virginia DeMarce's 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. 