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created by Eric Flint
edited by Paula Goodlett
Oh my, oh, my. What's up in the wonderful world of Grantville these days?
Sabotage at the power plant! Noooooo! We need that power plant. Read what happened in Doug Jones' "Power Play." Mail order bride? Yep. We've got those, sort of. Check out Kerryn Offord's "A Job Well Done."
Secret societies? We can do that. Read Kirt Lee's "Venus and Mercury" for a taste. And it's really not a good idea to tick off a librarian type, indeed it isn't. See what happens in Iver P. Cooper's "The Dewey System."
Not every indolent noble is all that happy with being indolent. Or even noble. Check out Jose J. Clavell's "The Duchess is a Leatherneck" for one example.
And the finale of Wood Hughes' serial "Turn Your Radio On, Episode Six" is right here in Grantville Gazette Volume 24. You can't miss it!
Industrial Alchemy? Read what that is. As well as how to find your way in another plane. Iver P. Cooper and Kevin H. Evans provide our nonfiction for this volume.
All here, all now! Grantville Gazette Volume 24.
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 A New Adventure in the Liaden Universe®
and two favorites from the past in one package.
Fledgling-ARC
Theo Waitley has lived all her young life on Delgado, a Safe World that is home to one of the galaxy's premier institutions of higher learning. Both Theo's mother, Kamele, and Kamele's onagrata Jen Sar Kiladi, are professors at the university, and they all live comfortably together, just like they have for all of Theo's life, in Jen Sar's house at the outskirts of town.
Suddenly, though, Theo's life changes. Kamele leaves Jen Sar and moves herself and Theo back into faculty housing, which is not what Theo is used to. Once settled back inside the Wall, Kamele becomes embroiled in faculty politics, and is appointed sub-chair of her department. Meanwhile, Theo, who has a notation in her file indicating that she is "physically challenged" has a series of misadventures, including pulling her best friend down on the belt-ride to class, and hurting a team mate during a scavenge game.
With notes piling up in her file, Theo only wants to go "home," to the house in the suburbs, and have everything just like it used to be.
Then, Kamele uncovers evidence of possible dishonest scholarship inside of her department. In order to clear the department, she and a team of senior professors must go off-world to perform a forensic document search. Theo hopes this will mean that she'll be left in the care of the man she calls "Father," Professor Kiladi, and is horrified to learn that Kamele means to bring Theo with her!
The Tomorrow Log and Dragon Tide
Lucky Thirteen
Every Yuletide since 1995, Sharon and Steve have put together a chapbook of Liaden Universe® stories for their readers, as a thank-you for their patience and support. Dragon Tides: Adventures in the Liaden Universe® Number 13, the 2007 offering, features two stories for dragon lovers
In "Daughter of Dragons," Lady Kareen, Daav yos'Phelium's contentious sibling, must vacate Liad with the rest of Clan Korval under the terms of Plan B. However, Kareen has her own necessities, and insists on performing one last social duty. Who could have known that the annual meeting of the League for the Purity of the Language could harbor such danger, or old friendships such treachery?
The second, title, story, set in the time before the Crystal books, asks the question, Why should a tree regard a dragon, and how should a dragon return that regard?
MEANWHILE . . . on another side of the universe . . .
Meet Gem ser'Edreth, Master Thief. Since the death of his master and surrogate father, Gem has been deliberately solitary. Unencumbered by family or friends, he immerses himself in his profession, rising to a pinnacle of skill so exalted that the planetary crime boss humbles herself to seek him out with a commission to steal.
He refuses, of course.
That's his first mistake.
Next, his past catches up with him in the form of Corbinye Faztherot, Worldwalker for the Generation Ship Gardenspot. Years ago, Gardenspot's captain sold the child of his rival to a Grounder—a fate worse than death to GenShippers. Alas, it turns out that the unwanted child has grown into the very wanted—and much needed—Hero Captain foretold in the Tomorrow Log. Corbinye offers to escort Gem back to his ship so that he can take up his destiny.
He refuses, of course.
That's his second mistake.
All too soon, Gem's hidden past and present notoriety collide, as his plans to leave planet go catastrophically awry. Suddenly embroiled in interplanetary politics, a potential interstellar war, in possession of an unwanted cousin, and an ancient object of power that may or may not be the conduit for a just slightly mad goddess, Gem discovers that the mysterious Witness for the Telios may hold the key to his salvation—or his undoing.
Now the Fledgling advance reader copy is bundled with The Tomorrow Log and Dragon Tide available in the reader-friendly, unencrypted formats Webscriptions is known for. The combined works—a brand new novel with the complete Tomorrow Log novel and Dragon Tide chapbook—will go for $18. No dead tree crumble; no shipping fees.
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The Enemy of My Enemy . . .
Of the once innumerable battle clans of the Posleen only a handful survive. And that on the sufferance of a group of despised Indowy and Himmit. Plucked from the maelstrom on Earth they are cast out into the eternal blackness of the stars with only a slighltly insane Indowy and a computer virus to guide them.
What follows is a trail of tears and remembrance as the Posleen retrace the footsteps of their ancestors in a search for their homeworld. A search to determine if the Posleen posess the one thing no Human would give them credit for: A soul.
Returned to their beginnings, the question remains: Is there a new path for the Tular Posleen?
About the Authors:
John Ringo is author of New York Times best-selling Posleen War series which so far includes A Hymn Before Battle, Gust Front, When the Devil Dances, and Hell's Faire, as well as the connected novels Cally's War, Sister Time and Honor of the Clan (with Julie Cochrane), The Hero (with Michael Z Williamson), and Watch on the Rhine and Yellow Eyes (with Tom Kratman), and is the hottest new science fiction writer since David Weber. A veteran of the 82nd Airborne, Ringo brings first-hand knowledge of military operations to his novels of high-tech future war.
Tom Kratman, in 1974 at age seventeen, became a political refugee and
defector from the PRM (People's Republic of Massachusetts) by virtue of joining
the Regular Army. He stayed a Regular Army infantryman most of his adult life,
returning to Massachusetts as an unofficial dissident while attending Boston
College after his first hitch. Baen published his first novel, A State of Disobedience and his previous collaborations with John Ringo, Watch on the Rhine and Yellow Eyes.
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The sword is the most revered of all of man's weapons. Although the club is older, the knife more universal, and the firearm much more efficient, it is to the sword that most decoration, myth, mysticism and reverence has been given. The katana has been called "The Soul of the Samurai," the Vikings lavished love, care and attached wonderful names to their weapons. The sword has been the symbol of Justice, of Vengeance, and of Mercy. No one artifact has so captured the imagination as has the sword.
As our society has grown more and more advanced, and more reliant on technology, there has been an increased interest in the weapons of the past. The romance of the sword is very much alive—but movies, books and fiction of all types have romanticized the past, and particularly the sword, beyond all recognition of the real thing.
Drawing on information from grave excavations, illustrations of battle scenes, and many classical and medieval literary sources, this book discusses how contemporaries showed swords were used. Building on Oakeshott and other authoritative writers on the subject, this volume, representing ten years of writing and a lifetime of experience, will add to the body of knowledge of the history of swords by illustrating not only the beauty of the form of the sword, but also their beauty of function.
About the Author
Hank Reinhardt was a widely known authority on medieval arms and armor and an icon of Southern science fiction fandom for over fifty years. He had written numerous articles on swords and knives, and was in the process of writing this book on the history and use of the sword at the time of his death in 2007. He produced two videos with Paladin Press on the sword, and was a columnist for Blade magazine on swords in the movies. He was a cofounder of the mail order business Museum Replicas, Ltd. and a consultant to many sword makers. Unlike many experts, Reinhardt insisted on actually making and testing the weapons he wrote about, and through his various activities he has been instrumental in increasing the popularity of arms and armor in mainstream America. He has received numerous awards for his work with bladed weapons, most recently the Industry Achievement Award given at the 2006 Blade Show in Atlanta. Hank will appear in Reclaiming the Blade, a documentary due for release in 2008.
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