In this issue of the Grantville Gazette, Kerryn Offord, tells the story of a government investigation in “Your Tax Dollars at Work.”
Mike Watson gives us a western, “Greetings,” while Eric S. Brown and Anna Carpenter have the next installment in the story of LARPers in Grantville with “The Lost Monster.”
This issue's serials feature David Carrico's Johann Bach in “Etude, Part 2” and Nick Lorance's Sergeant Richard Hartmann in “The Long Road Home, Part 1.”
In Nonfiction, Chuck Gannon focuses on pirates in “About the Faces on the Cutting Room Floor” and Szántai Gábor brings forth another installment of his social history, "Hungary and Transylvania, Part 2." And Kristine Kathryn Rusch gives us another “Notes from the Buffer Zone.”
We have both a Time Spike story, Garrett Vance's "First Cavalry of the Cretaceous, Part 3," and a Univers story, Debi Carroll's "Spitting Image."
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An excellent selection of short stories and supporting non-fiction about late 20th century Grantville, WV Americans in 17th century Germany. My favorite fiction selections were Etude Part 2 (Carrico), The Long Road Home (Lorance), and Spitting Image (Carroll, non-ROF). Gabor Szantai's Hungary and Transylvania Part 2 is particularly helpful in understanding the dynamics of central and eastern Europe in the 17th century.
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Not a terrible bookThis is the first of these Gazettes has not deserved a "five star" rating. The stories seemed rushed, like they had to hurry the writing up to make deadline. While they were not exactly bad stories, they didn't live up to the normal high standards set by the first five Gazettes waay back when. If this tread continues (it didn't. see my review of 69) I might give up on these addenda to the main storyline. (Who am I kidding? Hah!)
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Greetings! is very goodGood story about old guys, ends with a joke about frinends and neighors that no one under 40 will be able to figure out.
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