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First Time in Paperback. The New York Times Best-Selling Series Continues. Return to Grantville, the American Town Lost in Time, and the Home Town of the Most Popular Alternate History Series of Them All. The most popular alternate history series of all continues. When an inexplicable cosmic disturbance hurls your town from twentieth century West Virginiaback to seventeenth centuryEurope--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. 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. · 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. · The Dalai Lama of the seventeenth century receives a strange gift: an image of the Buddha which glows by a strange mystical force called "electricity." And much more, including stories by the New York Times best-selling writers Eric Flint and Virginia DeMarce, in the latest installment of this best-selling alternate history series.… (altro)
As a book of several short stories from the 1632 story line, the quality of the stories seem to fall into two categories.
A) Self contained stories that do not assume outside knowledge of outside events or characters -or- B) Stories that treat events or characters outside of the story as common knowledge.
As most people familiar with this series should know by know, the 1632 is, unfortunately, a series of diminished returns. It's too insular to those trying to read stories that have scenes that seem to have little relevance to the plot at hand and as much, leaves it less and less engaging for casual readers of the franchise. Still, the fact that there was so many short stories in the book with a focused plot and characters, made it easier for me to enjoy.
I'm sure you can guess which of the stories I preferred. ( )
A collection of stories set in the world created by Flint (including one by him). Includes a fair number of rabbits pulled out of hats, but a decent amount of character development and exploitation of the context.
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To Paula and Don Goodlett
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The paper editions of Grantville Gazette 1-4 were near-duplicates of the electronic editions, with an additional story by Eric Flint. Starting with Volume 5, the paper edition is a "Best of" from Volumes 5-11.
Paper Contents:
Preface by Eric Flint
Steady Girl by Eric Flint
Schwarza Falls by Douglas W. Jones
Recycling by Philip Schillawski and John Rigby
A Question of Faith by Anette Pedersen
Got My Buck by Barry C. Swift
The Dalai Lama's Electric Buddha by Victor Klimov
Canst Thou Send Lightnings by Rick Boatright
Grantville's Greatest Philosopher? by Terry Howard
The Painter's Gambit by Iver P. Cooper
The Minstrel Boy by John Zeek
A Taste of Home by Chris Racciato
N.C.I.S.: Young Love Lost by Jose J. Clavell
The Prepared Mind by Kim Mackey
Capacity for Harm by Richard Evans
Little Angel by Kerryn Offord
None So Blind by David Carrico
On the Matter of D'Artagnan by Bradley H. Sinor
A Filthy Story by Aamund Breivik
The Treasure Hunters by Karen Bergstrahl
Bathing with Coal by Russ Rittgers
Lessons in Astronomy by Peter Hobson
Wish Book by Gorg Huff and Paula Goodlett
O For A Muse of Fire by Jay Robison
Pilgrimage of Grace by Virginia DeMarce
Twenty-eight Men by Mark Huston
An Afterword on Dr. Johnson by Eric Flint
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First Time in Paperback. The New York Times Best-Selling Series Continues. Return to Grantville, the American Town Lost in Time, and the Home Town of the Most Popular Alternate History Series of Them All. The most popular alternate history series of all continues. When an inexplicable cosmic disturbance hurls your town from twentieth century West Virginiaback to seventeenth centuryEurope--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. 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. · 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. · The Dalai Lama of the seventeenth century receives a strange gift: an image of the Buddha which glows by a strange mystical force called "electricity." And much more, including stories by the New York Times best-selling writers Eric Flint and Virginia DeMarce, in the latest installment of this best-selling alternate history series.
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