Grantville Gazette

The new United States in central Germany launches a one-plane Doolittle Raid on Paris, France. The target: their arch-enemy, Cardinal Richelieu. Meanwhile, an ambassador from the Mughal Empire of northern India is being held captive in Austria by the Habsburg dynasty. Mike Stearns decides to send a mercenary company to rescue him, led by two seventeenth-century mercenary officers: an Englishman and a Irishman, who seem to spend as much time fighting each other as they do the enemy. Mike Spehar's "Collateral Damage" and Chris Weber's "The Company Men" are just two of the stories contained in this second volume of the Grantville Gazette. In other stories: • a prominent Italian musician decides to travel to Grantville to investigate the music of the future; • an American archer and a Finnish cavalryman become friends in the middle of a battlefield; • a Lutheran pastor begins a theological challenge to the establishment based on his interpretation of the Ring of Fire • and American and German detectives become partners to investigate a murder. Contains mature themes.

The new United States in central Germany launches a one-plane Doolittle Raid on Paris, France. The target: their arch-enemy, Cardinal Richelieu. Meanwhile, an ambassador from the Mughal Empire of northern India is being held captive in Austria by the Habsburg dynasty. Mike Stearns decides to send a mercenary company to rescue him, led by two seventeenth-century mercenary officers: an Englishman and a Irishman, who seem to spend as much time fighting each other as they do the enemy. Mike Spehar's 'Collateral Damage' and Chris Weber's 'The Company Men' are just two of the stories contained in this second volume of the Grantville Gazette. In other stories: --- A prominent Italian musician decides to travel to Grantville to investigate the music of the future. --- An American archer and a Finnish cavalryman become friends in the middle of a battlefield. --- A Lutheran pastor begins a theological challenge to the establishment based on his interpretation of the Ring of Fire. --- American and German detectives become partners to investigate a murder. Contains mature themes.

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. 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's '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 Musch's 'If the Demons Will Sleep', a woman terrorized by the notorious Hungarian countess Bartholdy finds peace and sanctuary in Grantville. --- In Wood Hughes's 'Hell Fighters', a Benedictine monk confronts an inferno and finds his orders new calling. Contains mature themes.

In Paula Goodlett and Gorg Huff's 'Poor Little Rich Girls,' we follow the continuing adventures of the teenage tycoons begun by Huff in 'The Sewing Circle' (Gazette #1) and 'Other People's Money' (Gazette #3). The focus in this story, however, is on the younger siblings-the so-called Barbie Consortium-and their down-timer associates and enemies. Jose Clavell's 'Magdeburg Marines' and Ernest Lutz and John Zeek's 'Elizabeth' depict the early days of two military units after the Ring of Fire: a reborn US Marine Corps trying to adapt to new circumstances, and the First Railway Company, formed to provide logistics using a combination of up-time and down-time methods and technology. David Carrico's 'Heavy Metal Music' continues the story of the interaction between up-time and down-time musicians that he began in last issue's 'The Sound of Music.' In other stories: -- A German craftsman blackballed by guild masters gets a new start in Karen Bergstralh's 'One Man's Junk.' -- Grantville has to deal with the tragic accidental deaths of several high school graduates in Kerryn Offord's 'The Class of '34.' Contains mature themes.

When an inexplicable cosmic disturbance hurls your town from twentieth century West Virginia back to seventeenth century Europe-and into the middle of the Thirty Years War-you'd better be adaptable to survive. And the natives of that time period, faced with American technology and politics, need to be equally adaptable. In other stories: --- Cardinal Richelieu, France's insidious master plotter and power behind the throne, learns of his prominent role in Dumas' not-yet-written novel The Three Musketeers (not to mention the several movie versions), and starts a search for the 'real' D'Artagnan. --- Grantville is selling crystal radio sets so that Europeans can tune in to the Voice of America broadcasts, but the technicians from the future are at wit's end, trying to reproduce 'primitive' early twentieth century broadcasting equipment by trial and error-until a trained library researcher shows up in town. --- Wilhelm Krieger, one of Germany's greatest philosophers, comes to Grantville to learn the philosophy of the future-and meets a contrarian cracker-barrel philosopher. Contains mature themes.

The sixth rollicking anthology of tales set in Eric Flint's phenomenal bestselling Ring of Fire universe. A cosmic accident sets the modern West Virginia town of Grantville down in war-torn seventeenth century Europe. It will take all the gumption of the resourceful, freedom-loving up-timers to find a way to flourish in the mad and bloody birth of the Renaissance. Are they up for it? You bet they are. Edited by Eric Flint, and inspired by his now-legendary 1632, this is the fun stuff that fills in the pieces of the Ring of Fire political, social, and cultural puzzle as supporting characters we meet in the novels get their own lives, loves, and life-changing stories. The future and democracy have arrived with a bang. Contains mature themes.

The seventh rollicking anthology of tales set in Eric Flint's phenomenal bestselling Ring of Fire universe. A cosmic accident sets the modern West Virginia town of Grantville down in war-torn seventeenth century Europe. It will take all the gumption of the resourceful, freedom-loving up-timers to find a way to flourish in the mad and bloody birth of the Renaissance. Are they up for it? You bet they are. Edited by Eric Flint, and inspired by his now-legendary 1632, this is the fun stuff that fills in the pieces of the Ring of Fire political, social, and cultural puzzle as supporting characters we meet in the novels get their own lives, loves, and life-changing stories. The future and democracy have arrived with a bang. Contains mature themes.

EXTRA! EXTRA! READ ALL ABOUT THE TOWN THAT TRAVELED THROUGH TIME! The most popular alternate history series of all continues. When a cosmic disturbance hurls your town from twentieth-century West Virginia back to seventeenth-century Europe-and into the middle of the Thirty Years War-you have to adapt to survive. And the natives of that time period, faced with American technology and politics, need to be equally adaptable. Here's a generous helping of more stories of Grantville, the American town lost in time, and its impact on the people and societies of a tumultuous age. With stories by: Eric Flint, Griffin Barber, Robert Waters, Kerryn Offord, Alistair Kimble, and more!