by Kristine Kathryn Rusch | Feb 16, 2013 |
I write mysteries under the name Kris Nelscott. I'mcurrently working on the next. These mysteries are set in an alien world, withunfamiliar technology, and inexplicable cultural attitudes. You're thinking, She does that in her Retrieval Artistsf/mystery...
by Iver P. Cooper | Feb 9, 2013 |
In part 1, I provided an overview of how warships were armed in the seventeenth century and later in the old time line, and considered the choices between muzzle and breechloading, and smoothbore and rifling. I also explained how cannon were manufactured. Here, I look...
by Griffin Barber | Feb 9, 2013 |
Patience growing short in the afternoon heat, Dara’s favorite leopard yowled and spat at her handler, ready to hunt.Dara grinned, ready as well, welcoming the prospect of release from the tension being around Aurangzeb always provoked in him. Now, if only they...
by Kerryn Offord | Feb 8, 2013 |
Grantville, Tuesday, June 1635 It had been a hard day at the salt mines. Sebastian Jones trudged the last few feet up the garden path to the front door. He was just about to insert his key when the door was swung open. “Did you have a good day at school?”...
by Rainer Prem | Feb 7, 2013 |
Chapter 9: Too HotJena Lokschuppen, Jena, Saxe-Weimar CountyMay 1633 Nikki Bourne didn't exactly know why she was here. One year ago she had started a chicken farm in Grantville—something she thought she was good at—but then the Croat Raid came, and the...
by Tim Roesch | Feb 7, 2013 |
Bamberg, April 1636 “You look like a bloated corpse,” Logan Sebastian muttered at the bag of hot air floating before her, “but an honest corpse.” Logan stood on the closely-cropped grass of the Bamberg airfield, shouldering an overstuffed...
by Frances Silversmith | Feb 5, 2013 |
With growing horror, Basil watched the tanks roll up to the former UN buffer zone separating the two parts of Nicosia. Enemy troops approached from the Turkish north. Greek ordnance advanced through the southern part of town, which belonged to the Republic of Cyprus....
by Meriah Crawford | Feb 5, 2013 |
Grantville, May 1636Daniel Block stretched his aching back, then tilted his canvas to capture more of the fading light of the evening. The reddish hue changed the colors on his palette, giving Fraulein Barnes’s pale arms and shoulders an orange tint that he...
by Enrico Toro | Feb 3, 2013 |
MagdeburgOctober 1635 Giacomo Carissimi closed the front door behind himself, and began to take his coat off. "Is that you, Jude?" The sound of his wife's voice calling out her nickname for him still stirred a . . . We're very sorry, but this content is only available...
