Grantville Gazette 101 begins with "Hidden People," by well-known Czech science fiction authors Jan Kotouč & Lucie Lukačovičová. What will happen when knowledge of one future reaches Iceland?
Bethanne Kim brings us "A Sodden Mess." How does an up-timer deal with the concept of a wet nurse?
In "Boats of Stone," Herb Sakalaucks shows how Denmark's agents seek workers from an unlikely source—Italy.
Marianne has a new assignment. Find out what it is in Mark Roth-Whitworth's "Finding Her Way."
In "Notes from The Buffer Zone," Kristine Kathryn Rusch discusses luck.
We bring you new releases and upcoming books in "Hot Off Ring of Fire Press."
Planetary settlers under attack fall back on "Pride and Peppers" in J. Kenton Pierce's Universe Annex story.
By contrast, the aliens in Michael Tinker Pearce's "Danger" have some real doubts about any conflict with Earth.
Grantville Gazette 102 is all about adaptations. This starts with drying the laundry in Bethanne Kim's "Clotheslined." Next, a perfumer has lost his sense of smell in "A Cloud of Beauty" by Iver P. Cooper.
One of the biggest and most tragic adjustments was for people whose spouses were left up-time. Marc Tyrrell shows how this was resolved in "Schrödinger's Spouse."
Life in Grantville is full of adjustments. Virginia DeMarce portrays how some adapt and some don't, in "Too Many Cooks."
The Venetian Van Castre household faces a number of challenges in Terry Howard's "A Proposal To a Fisherman."
Chuck Gannon and David Carrico conclude their series "Time May Change Me" with Part 4, discussing weapons production.
Even authors have to adjust, as Kris Rusch explains in "Notes from the Buffer Zone: Peering at the Future."
The Universe Annex gets in on the theme with two stories this issue. Ryk E. Spoor begins "Adventurers, Part 1" about an unlikely pair of heroes. J. Kenton Pierce returns to Hesperides Colony in "An Apple for the Legion, Part 1."