Grantville Gazette X

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country = United States
language = English
series = Ring of Fire series
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genre = Alternate history
publisher = 1632.org using Webscriptions
release_date = e-zine: September 012007
e-book: November 01, 2007
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preceded_by = GG09
followed_by = GG11

:Note: "The main articles covering this large rapidly growing book series and this specific sub-series are kept up to date before publication as new titles are added to this rapidly growing milieu oriented body of works."

The 1632 series in brief

Eric Flint's novel concept was simple—take a small American town typical of his youth limited in population, stockpiled goods, and manufacturing capabilities— swap them across time and space with an equal volume of real estate in emerging Early Modern Europe in a critical formative time (during the religious strife of the Thirty Years' War)— and "extrapolate what a new history might result" as the American ("up-timer") capabilities and ideas of democracy, labor, religion, equality of the sexes, etcetera mix with "down-time" European attitudes dominated by established State churches, religion, authoritarianism, and class structures and a nascent university structure. The Gazettes and much of the main series as it has developed, are the results of the nearly quarter of a million posts to the webboard chat forum 1632 Tech Manual on publisher Baen Books website Baen's Bar "seriously" exploring that premise.

This particular sub-series, the various "Grantville Gazettes" include encyclopedia grade fact articles by members of the 1632 Research Committee which cover the technological issues faced in fitting 21st century knowledge and base technology to the 17th Century setting of the parallel universe milieu. The internet forum Baen's Bar hosts the "1632verse" oriented the sub-forums 1632 Tech and 1632 Slush and both forums figure prominently in the background of these works as is covered in the "The Grantville Gazettes" and 1632 Editorial Board main articles. The series as a whole, and this sub-series in particular are an example of "internet-age" collaborative writing in the literary field.

Consequently, the Gazettes are mixed-works which include many fact articles initially published in online e-zine format, all set in the "'1632verse' parallel universe" created by the departure point established in the February 2000 hardcover novel "1632" by author-historian Eric Flint, who serves as editor of the overall mass of works, or co-author of the series. In one volume at least, 34TRR he managed both roles at once.

About the Gazettes

E-book Table of Contents

Note: In the earliest pf thethree Grantville Gazettes, there were differences between the print published version and the original serialized eMagazine, and then again the intermediate e-book as the 'kinks' were worked out of the experiment. Should additional published works differ, it will be noted in the pertinent article.

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caption: No one is sure exactly how it is that Trophime Bigot found Dr. Phillipe Gribbleflotz, nor how in the world he convinced him to model for " A Doctor Examining Urine", but there you are. We keep telling you, the world is an odd place.

Cover Story

-->32s|**|Assistant Editor's Preface|Paula |Goodlett 32s|**|"On The Matter of D'Artagnan"|Bradley H.|Sinor 32s|**|"A Filthy Story"|Aamund|Breivik 32s|**|"Star Crossed"|Terry|Howard 32s|**|"NCIS: Lies, Truths and Consequences"|Jose J.|Clavell 32s|**|"Twenty-eight Men"|Mark|Huston 32s|**|"The Salon"|s=Gorg Huff and Paula Goodlett 32s|**|"The Launcher"|Richard|Evans 32s|**|"Fiddling Stranger"|Russ|Rittgers 32s|**|"Grand Tour"|Iver P.|Cooper 32s|**|"None So Blind"|David|Carrico 32s|**|"The Prepared Mind"|Kim|Mackey 32s|**|"Little Angel"|Kerryn|Offord 32st|Continuing Serials
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colspan=2|• Full title: "Butterflies in the Kremlin, Part 3: Boris, Natasha... But Where's Bullwinkle", so also listed as: I5Sp5GG10|s="Boris, Natasha... But Where's Bullwinkle?" 32st|Nonfiction 32s|**|"Crude Penicillin: Potential and Limitations"|Kim |Mackey 32s|**|"Herd Immunity"|Vincent W. |Coljee 32s|**|"All Roads Lead...."|Iver P. |Cooper 32s|**|"The Feast"|Anette |Pedersen

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E-book Preface

Assistant Editor's Preface

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"On The Matter of D'Artagnan"

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"A Filthy Story"

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"Star Crossed"

"NCIS: Lies, Truths and Consequences"

A young Marine boot in trouble, an attempted child kidnapping and a potential threat to the USE Naval community. Another romp through Naval Law Enforcement, 17th Century style with characters introduced in "NCIS: Young Love Lost".

"Twenty-eight Men"

"The Salon"

"The Launcher"

"Fiddling Stranger"

"Grand Tour"

"None So Blind"

"The Prepared Mind"

This story is one of a connected sequence of niche "tech boost stories" to the melding of "up-time" and "down-time" capabilities by teacher-writer 16writ|Kim |Mackay. Mackays literary forays are building a tech baseline in applied chemistry and practical chemistry applied to the medical issues involving public health in the series. With the bugaboo looming in the near future as revealed in historical mentions of a serious plague outbreak in 1635 & 1636 the series as a whole has addressed the matter in smidges and mentions. Mackay, is making something of a specialty of it with his stories, for even his "Essen Steel Chronicles" are ultimately aimed at generating stainless steel in three serialized stories — because stainless is so necessary for practical applied chemistry whether it is industrial or pharmacological. This story involves microbiology advances, spurred on by 16inst|Grantville High School's possession of freeze dried lab cultures of certain characteristic micro-organisms— one of which turns out to be quite important—the micro-organism from which penicillin is extracted.

"Little Angel"

Continuing Serials

"Franconia! Part 1"

"The Doctor Phil Chronicles: Doctor Phil's Family"

"Butterflies in the Kremlin, Part 3"

Full title: "Butterflies in the Kremlin, Part 3: Boris, Natasha... But Where's Bullwinkle", so also listed as:

"Boris, Natasha... But Where's Bullwinkle?"

Nonfiction

"Crude Penicillin: Potential and Limitations"

"Herd Immunity"

"All Roads Lead...."

"The Feast"

References and notes

External links

Publishing history

Published in the United States of America
* First electronic printing (E-ARC), September 1st, 2007
* Electronic version by WebWrights, November 1st, 2007, [Cite Sm|plainlinks| [http://www.webscription.net/p-655-grantville-gazette-volume-xiv.aspx Webscriptions SKU: 1011250031] , |q=Published 11/1/2007SKU: 1011250031] Baen DOI (forthcoming)
**http://www.webwrights.com

:Copyright 2007 by Eric Flint and 1632.org, Inc.