This edition of the Grantville Gazette Volume 6 is derived directly from the online edition at http://www.grantvillegazette.com. Stories include: A Taste of Home by Chris Racciato Federico and Ginger by Iver P. Cooper Recycling by Philip Schillawski and John Rigby Old Folks' Music by Gorg Huff and Paula Goodlett Mightier than the Sword by Jay Robison Grantville is Different by Russ Rittgers The Woman Shall Not Wear That by Virginia DeMarce Live Free by Karen Bergstralh The Dalai Lama's Electric Buddha by Victor Klimov The Doctor Gribbleflotz Chronicles, Part 1: Calling Dr. Phil by Kerryn Offord Dr. Phil's Amazing Lightning Crystal by Kerryn Offord Dr. Phil's Aeolian Transformers by Kerryn Offord and Rick Boatright Exegesis and Interpretation of Up-timer Printed Matter by Francis Turner Bouncing Back: Bringing Rubber to Grantville by Iver P. Cooper On the Design, Construction and Maintenance of Wooden Aircraft by Jerry Hollombe The Jews of 1632 by Douglas W. Jones

FREEDOM AND JUSTICE -- AMERICAN STYLE 1632 And in northern Germany things couldn't get much worse. Famine. Disease. Religous war laying waste the cities. Only the aristocrats remained relatively unscathed; for the peasants, death was a mercy. 2000 Things are going OK in Grantville, West Virginia, and everybody attending the wedding of Mike Stearn's sister (including the entire local chapter of the United Mine Workers of America, which Mike leads) is having a good time. THEN, EVERYTHING CHANGED.... When the dust settles, Mike leads a group of armed miners to find out what happened and finds the road into town is cut, as with a sword. On the other side, a scene out of Hell: a man nailed to a farmhouse door, his wife and daughter attacked by men in steel vests. Faced with this, Mike and his friends don't have to ask who to shoot. At that moment Freedom and Justice, American style, are introduced to the middle of the Thirty Years' War.

NEW TIME TRAVEL ALT. HISTORY FROM A MASTER: Flint's Ring of Fire and Boundary series have proved him to be a master of time travel alternate history. Here then, a new tale of persons displaced in time, fighting for their lives. Twice before, mysterious cosmic catastrophes have sent portions of the Earth across space and back in time first, with the Grantville Disaster in West Virginia, and then again with a maximum security prison in southern Illinois. Now, the planet is struck with yet another such cataclysm, whose direct impact falls upon the Queen of the Sea, a cruise ship in the Caribbean. When the convulsions subside, the crew and passengers of the ship discover that they have arrived in a new and frightening world. They are in the Mediterranean now, not the Caribbean. Still worse, they discover that the disaster has sent them more than two thousand years back in time. Following the advice of an historian among the passengers, Marie Easley, they sail to Egypt or, at least, where they hope Egypt will be. Sure enough, Egypt is there ruled over by Ptolemy, the founder of the Ptolemaic dynasty and one of Alexander the Great s chief generals. Alexander the Great, it turns outs, died just two years ago. The western world has just entered what would become known as the Hellenistic Period of history, during which time Greek civilization would spread around the Mediterranean and beyond. But the first fifty years of the Hellenistic Period was the Age of Diadochi the Time of the Successors when Alexander s empire would collapse into chaos. By the time the Successors finished their strife, every single member of Alexander s dynasty would be murdered and only three of the generals who began that civil war would still be alive. That is the new world in which the Queen of the Sea finds itself. Can Marie Easley and Captain Lars Flodden guide the crew and passengers through this cataclysm? Fortunately, they have some help: a young Norwegian ship s officer who forms an attachment to Alexander s widow; a French officer who is a champion pistol marksman; a canny Congressman from Utah and, most of all, many people of the time who are drawn to a vision of the better world of the future. About Eric Flint s Ring of Fire series: This alternate history series is a landmark Booklist [Eric] Flint's1632universe seems to be inspiring a whole new crop of gifted alternate historians. Booklist reads like a technothriller set in the age of the Medicis Publishers Weekly"

This novelette from the anthology “Mountain Magic” features the Slades, whose uneasy coexistence with underground spirits is about to end in an earthquake that'll wipe humanity off the surface of four states.

This edition of the Grantville Gazette Volume 8 is derived directly from the online edition at http://www.grantvillegazette.com. Stories include: The Painter's Gambit by Iver P. Cooper Capacity for Harm by Richard Evans Into the Very Pit of Hell by Douglas W. Jones Not a Princess Bride by Terry Howard Dear Sir by Chris Racciato The Sons of St. John by Jay Robison Prince and Abbot by Virginia DeMarce A Question of Faith by Anette Pedersen Grunwald Flight 19 to Magdeburg by Jose J. Clavell Rolling On by Karen Bergstralh Three Innocuous Words by Russ Rittgers Doctor Phil's Distraction by Kerryn Offord Louis de Geer by Kim Mackey A Russian Noble by Gorg Huff and Paula Goodlett Refrigeration and the 1632 World: Opportunities and Challenges by Mark H. Huston New France in 1634 and the Fate of North America by Michael Varhola Aluminum: Will O' the Wisp?* by Iver P. Cooper

The Sequel to Boundary. Space Adventure by a New York Times Best-Selling Author and a New Star of Science Fiction. When the strange fossil she'd discovered had ended up giving her a trip to Mars, Helen Sutter thought she'd gone about as far as any paleontologist would ever go in her lifetime. But when you've also married A.J. Baker, overconfident super- sensor expert for the only private agency in space – the Ares Corporation -- and your best friend Madeline Fathom Buckley is a former secret agent who's just signed on as the chief of security for the newly created and already embattled Interplanetary Research Institute of the United Nations, there's always somewhere farther to go. The newest discoveries will take her, A.J., and their friends Jackie, Joe, and Madeline to the mysterious asteroid Ceres – and beyond, in a desperate race to Jupiter's perilous miniature system of radiation- bombarded moons. The next gold rush is on – for alien technology, hidden in lost bases around the system. And there are people willing to do anything to get it – even plan the first interplanetary war, four hundred million miles from home!