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This is the fourth Miroslava Holmes book and all the Holmes books have dealt with Russian politics, but this one deals with them even more. Events from 1638: The Sovereign States are included in this novel and from there it continues the story of the main Russian thread of the 1632 Universe.Czar Mikhail Romanov of the United Sovereign States of Russia has problems by the score.The Embassy Bureau is run by an incompetent from an important family, who is possibly a traitor. Sheremetev is gone, only to be replaced by Mikhail's Uncle Ivan, who, if he's as corrupt as Sheremetev was, is a lot more competent. The advances in technology mean that while he can defend himself against Muscovite Russia, he doesn't have the forces to defeat them.So it's looking like a long stalemated war.Russia can't afford a long war. The Sovereign States has no port not blocked by Muscovite Russia and the Swedes. Even if he should defeat Muscovite Russia, the Polish Lithuanian Commonwealth would still be sitting between him and western Europe. His foreign credit is failing and the conflict between the free states and the serf states is getting ready to shatter his new nation before the ink is dry on his new constitution. The Royal chef can't prepare a proper croissant. The Pravdivyye Fakty is printing fantasies and code groups that are telling the Muscovites who his agents are, while the only private detective in Russia is off on the far end of Kazak.Now someone has killed a congressman.What's a czar to do? Mikhail needs another Grantville. Another Ring of Fire to bring innovations to Russia, enough innovations so that the rich and powerful can't steal all the new wealth before it reaches the poor.Mikhail doesn't ask for it but he gets what he needs. Because what he needs is A Diogenes Club for the Czar.

Moving UniversesThis second anthology will concentrate on stories about movement and the development of transport systems. It's not going to be exact.The Monster: Deals with the building of the first passenger plane in the 1632 universeThe Arrow: With the construction of a delta wing aircraftThe Dog and Pony Show: Russia's first airship and the politics surrounding it.Backdoor: Takes us to a hard SiFi space opera universe and potentially important aspects of jump points.High Road to Venice: The Jupiters are no in service and air travel can still be an adventure.A Nerd at Sea: Still in the 1632 universe but now the adventures are on the open sea.Cuba: Still at sea but we've moved universes. Now were in the Demon Rift universe. The king of France want's the new world and it's gold.The Spark of Inspiration: Airplanes need sparkplugs but they need more than that. Nothing that skilled craftsmen can't provide with a bit of help.Doc: There is more than one way of moving. Sometimes it's moving attitudes that counts.Fresno Construction: If you're going to have cars, you need roads. Don't worry, the down-timers are on it.Ball Whats?: Those crazy up-timers want us to make what? A new kind of barring?A Wok on the Wild Side: When a friend needs your help in the WarSpell Multiverse you pack up your Wok and go adventuringJildijard: When a guy and his car appear right in front of your car? Well your parents are never going to believe it wasn't your fault. Jildijard (the car) is the product of alien technology but it's also a person.The Slavery Attractor: This isn't fiction but is a treatise on economics. But I think it matters so I included it.

In this the second novel of the Teasdale stories: Tensy, having adjusted to life in the Kingdom Navy, finds herself dumped out of it. She's not quite on the beach on half pay, but it may prove even worse. For she's released from the Kingdom Navy and placed into the Royal Orclands Navy. The "navy" owned and operated by the Royal Orclands Trading Company, the private company that actually owns the Kingdom's possessions in the Orclands. As a midshipman, Tensy had found her career and her life put in danger by corruption, and now she's going to be working for a company so large as to act like a government. Where, from all reports, corruption is a job requirement.For Peter Banyan it's even worse, because in a way it's his fault. He and the knowledge he brings from his life as Peter Bradley are the reason that they are being sent to the Orclands. The government wants that knowledge safe in the Orclands, far from the agents of Emperor Carlos Napalaltos of Parise.Meanwhile, Tensy and Peter have to deal with a grandmaster wizard and the High Intercessor of the goddess of death. And the goddess of death wants to have a few words with Peter. Finally, with his memories from Peter Bradley, he's not at all sure he's on the right side in the conflict.For the captain and crew of the Lenny, the issues are no more straightforward. They aren't in the Kingdom navy anymore, and they are having to add orcs to the crew, but their ship is a better and more comfortable place to work than it ever has been. Their chance of surviving battle is greater, which they will prove in their first mission after arriving in the Orclands.A WarSpell multiverse series, in a world where war ships are just starting to make the change from ballistae to cannon that use a magically created gunpowder. We have a modern American introducing technology and concepts like freedom and individual rights, and a young lieutenant having to learn to understand those new concepts even as she learns to be the officer she has come to want to be.

Vasilii and Miroslava are back at work again. Czar Mikhail wants a rail line built from Ufa, the capital of his United Sovereign States of Russia, to the capital of the USSR's newest addition, the Khazak Khanate. For that he needs a steam engineer and diplomat-Vasilii's jobs-as well as a top surveyor. Unfortunately, the surveyor is an arrogant snob who gets himself murdered-and now the czar needs a detective as well. Fortunately, Vasilii's paramour Miroslava came with him, so she's there to take on the case. She and Vasilii need to solve the murder quickly without blowing up the still fragile agreement between the USSR and the new State of Kazak. And Miroslava and Vasilii aren't the only ones with troubles. Vasilii's young cousin Alla is hiding out in Moscow and has been since her family was murdered. She's having to learn how the other half lives. It's all going to come together if they can solve the murder without jeopardizing the rights of every citizen in Kazak-newfangled rights which are more fragile than anything else.

Miroslava Holmes, the one and only licensed private detective in the United Sovereign States of Russia, has a new case. She's been called in on a locked room murder-and to make things worse, it's the locked room of an agent of the Embassy Bureau, a 17th century Russian James Bond. This is a political case, and the Embassy Bureau isn't talking to anyone. Solving the case is going to leave Miroslava at the crossroads where law and justice part ways. But not everything is murders and spies. No, sometimes it's the theft of a piece of costume jewelry from a girl at the Happy Bottom Club. And this case leads Miroslava into the bailiwick of another detective. Detective Corporal Viktor Zuykov, who doesn't want her interference. That however, isn't going to stop Miroslava. When money is involved things can get dangerous, and to catch the actual culprit, Miroslava and her faithful friend, Vasilii Lyapunov, must chase him to Kazan.

In the second book of the Game of Freedom series in the WarSpell multiverse we see how the Merge world is responding to the new situation. Vicky Hill gets to meet Vectoria the half-orc intercessor of Twir, who is the other half of Vicky's merge. And an A-Team is sent to Twir's world to help Francisco and Vectoria create a nation of free orcs. Well to make sure that the American Company Buckley Equipment gets access to the Amber and Jet mines in and around Half-Orc bay.Chong May have bitten the dust but the orc gods Kon and Mon are still there and still encouraging their orcs to kill Francisco Vectoria and the gang. And the A-Team-as good as they are-still haven't realized just how rough the orcs and their gods play. Or what they are going to have to put in the pot to have any hope at all, of winning the Game of FreedomAnd all that is before the pantheon of the good gods gets involved.

First an apology, this is a space opera not a romance though there are Romance elements in it. The reason for the cursive script on the cover is that I goofed. But it's a good book either way. Charleen Dreesen is stranded on Casa Verde station without the proper ticket to ship out on an interstellar spaceship. With no berths in the offing, she's looking for any way she can find to make a credit. Then she meets Joey, his sister Darleen, his father Mike and his pet rat Mister Rodent-who are all worse off than she is. Mike's behind in his kickbacks to the local crime boss, and neither he nor the kids have interfaces or much in the way of education. So Charleen's now in bad company as well as stranded and broke. Before you know it, people are trying to kill her. She's left with no choice but to start climbing the ladder of La Causa, the organization that controls crime in the Casa system. And if she's not careful she'll wind up in politics. The Cordoba and Drake Combines are being challenged by the rising Alliance created by Jenny Starchild and the crew of her starship Arachne. Their control over the Pamplona sector is starting to crack and the Casa system is caught in the middle. Charleen may have to raise the bloody flag of revolution...

The impact of the time transposition that brought a twenty-first century cruise ship to the Hellenic world right after the death of Alexander the Great continues to unfold. While President Al Wiley is building a new America in Trinidad and Captain Lars Floden is trying to use the Queen of the Sea to spread enlightenment around the world, Rome is experiencing a wakeup call-and so are its neighbors. If things don't change, the Roman republic is going to become a dictatorship. And if things don't change, the Samnites, Etruscans and other Italian states will become subjects of the Roman Empire. And what's worse, the heirs of Alexander the Great aren't the sort of people who are going to stay within their borders and let the rest of Europe-or Asia, or North Africa-work out their own destinies. It would be bad enough to be subjects of Rome. To be subjects of the Macedonians was something you wouldn't wish on a Gaul. Something must be done. And with the help of the radio teams that give Rome and the other Italian states access to the knowledge from the twenty-first century, something will be.

Not every hero stands at the forefront of battle, chopping up, or gunning down the foe. Johan Kipper, an old and worn mercenary who had done more than his share of chopping up and gunning down, finally found his hero, his liege lord, not in a great captain, but in David Bartley, a fourteen year old boy who was just trying to make sure his family could get by. A lad who was trying to protect his family by making rather than taking, by building rather than destroying. And, more, a lad who didn't need to knock Johan down to feel tall or make Johan afraid to feel brave.Never in his long life of war and hate had Johan met someone courageous enough to be kind.This is the story of Johan Kipper, known across the Germanies as Bartley's Man. How he went from down-and-out mercenary to, well, you know what he became. Everyone knows what he became. Bartley's Man.Bartley's Man Started out as several stories in The Grantville Gazette. We, Paula Goodlett and Gorg Huff, were filling in the gaps just for the fun of it. Later, we were asked to rewrite and add to it so that it could stand alone as a novel. This expanded edition of Bartley's Man is written expressly for Eric Flint's Ring of Fire Press which sadly passed with Eric. But it's still a good read and introduction to Eric's 1632 universe.

Sam Merchantson rode into the Badlands trying to lose a posse. He should have died, but his luck was in, and the sensors were out. Sam lived in a world of cattle-rustling and muzzle-loading pistols.But it hadn't always been that way. Once it had been a colony world, filled with the fruits of advanced technology . . . then the enemy came. They got most of the colonists and almost all the tech.There will be new things coming into the world when Sam returns. He'll bring medicines and machines, history and hope, fear and freedom and-like it or not-he'll be bringing WAR!When he returns From the Badlands. Porky is a riding pig created by genetic engineering.The world is a lost colony where the possession of unlicensed technology is both a crime and a sin.Sam is a cowboy and sometimes outlaw. He was born back east on the coast where he was the child of a household maid and unknown father. He was about the same age as the heir to the "barony" and was made companion to the heir. So Sam is educated by the standards of the time.

Anoria's teacher and adoptive mother Cordelia Cooper wasn't always the powerful and dangerous wizard we met in Anoria. She started out as a poor village girl who didn't understand her gift of magic. She was given to a half trained charlatan of a book wizard. Rojer Cartwright had no intention of teaching Cordelia any more magic than he had to to get her to make and charge magical items for him. Cordelia found herself Rojer's prisoner as they took ship for the Orclands. On the ship she met and befriended the Brooks family. Using a hidden spellbook, Cordelia tried to learn not just magic but how to read. In the Orclands, Rojer drags Cordelia with him into danger and the real possibility of being sacrificed to an Orc god. But with the help of the Brooks, Cordelia gets an opportunity to go to the College of Wizardry at Kronisburg. There will be still more adventures before she can get down to studying Wizardry. That's just the way it is when you're Born in Magic.

A Princess has no choice.She is a commodity an asset of the royal family to be married, at her family's choice, to her family's choice. Princess Angelina the daughter of Prince Philip the Nasine ruler of the Orclands has spent her life being trained in rulership. Not so that she might rule, but in order to prepare her to influence whoever her father married her to.Now the world has changed. The new Count Southland has the memories of another world and that knowledge is rapidly changing the world using a new kind of magic called technique knowledge. That knowledge has let Count Southland change the world and carve a new nation out of the southern Orclands. Count Southland had a choice and made it and the world changed.The world is changing but her father isn't. He still sees Angelina as nothing more than a game piece, without any choice.In this the fourth book of the Game of Freedom series in the WarSpell multiverse, Princess Angelina realizes that no one is going to give her a choice. If the Princes wants a choice, she was going to have to take it.

The Pamplona Sector was in trouble. Two hundred years of consolidation wars left a small cadre of corporate elites running the sector. The Drakes and the Cordobas were only interested in maintaining their power. And the great houses within both camps had their knives out.The Federation didn't start with a shot.It was a man deciding to be decent when his training -even his genetics- insisted that he be a bastard.It was a friendship between people who should have found each other repulsive.It was a young girl asking impertinent questions and insisting that those around her do the right thing.It was concern for the welfare of a damaged suitbot.It was a woman being told that she was not allowed to fight injustice and answering "Yes, I think I will."In the founding of the Federation, it turned out to be all about finding the right crew. New York Times bestselling authors Paula Goodlett and Gorg Huff are happy to bring you a new book in a new series, in a whole new universe. You will be familiar with Gorg and Paula from their books in Eric Flint's 1632 Ring of Fire series, The Kremlin Games, The Viennese Waltz, The Volga Rules and The Alexander Inheritance. And now they welcome you to the StarWings Universe.The Pamplona sector-long cut off from Old Earth by war, politics, and the vagaries of jump-is slowly, too slowly to notice, slipping into a space-going dark age. Technology and science are being suppressed. The powers that be intend to remain in charge and are too busy sticking their knives in each other's backs to notice that the short term advantage of demonizing aliens, artificial brains, and genetic engineering are far outweighed by the long term stagnation their paranoia and propaganda is fostering.The artificial brain ship Pandora, her captain, Danny Gold, Checkgok, a Parthian neuter female, John, Jenny, the professors and the odds and sods they pick up as crew don't know it either. At least not at first. They are just trying to get by. But the evidence mounts, and they are forced to make some hard decisions.