Grantville Gazette II
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| Grantville Gazette II | |
 Grantville Gazette II hardcover cover. The cover art by Thomas Kidd is adapted from Rembrandt's famous Night Watch (1642). |
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| Author | Eric Flint, et al. |
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| Cover artist | Thomas Kidd |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Series | 1632 series |
| Genre(s) | Science fiction |
| Publisher | Baen Books |
| Publication date | March 7, 2006 |
| Media type | E-book & Print (Hardback) |
| Pages | 336 pages |
| ISBN | ISBN 978-1416520511 |
| Preceded by | Grantville Gazette I |
| Followed by | Grantville Gazette III |
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- Note: The two 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.
Grantville Gazette II is the third collaborative anthology published in print set in the' '1632-verse' shared universe in what is best regarded as a canonical sub-series of the popular alternate history that began with the February 2000 publication of the hardcover novel 1632 (novel) by author-historian Eric Flint. Baen Books and Flint decline the distinction, counting this book as the sixth published work. Overall it is also the third anthology in printed publication* in the atypical series which consists of a mish-mash of main novels and anthologies produced under popular demand after publication of the initial novel which was written as a stand-alone work.
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The internet forum Baen's Bar figures large in the history of the series overall where 1632 Tech Manual discussions not only convinced Flint to do a sequel, but helped formulate potential story lines in the period early-2000–mid-2001. In the Eric Flint oriented sub-forums 1632 Tech Manual and both 1632 Slush and 1632 Slush Comments all determine the "acceptable" content of these Gazettes, as is covered in depth the The Grantville Gazettes and 1632 Editorial Board articles. Both the shared universe main series and this sub-series are an example of the internet-age Collaborative writing in the literary field.
* The main article The Grantville Gazettes delineates the series books by order 'first published' whether in print as an eBook, or printed book, and so chronologically fixes overall publication order for the overall series when published in any format. For the sake of clarity, the overall 'released in print format' will be used as publication order in articles, as listed in the 1632 series article, which lists only those works where a printed version has been released. The majority of Gazettes have existence only in digital (e-zine or e-book) format.
[edit] About the Gazettes
The bi-monthly Grantville Gazettes nowadays are published with clockwork regularity; all edited by assistant editor Paula Goodlett and vetted by Eric Flint who maintains editorial control over the canon for the series on the 1632.org website. They began quite differently with Flint as sole Editor, as well as keeper of the canon, and were very much an experiment on several levels explaining somewhat their early irregular appearance, that can best be described as "sporadic and haphazard".
After the initial explosive interest in 1632 Flint's first idea was to open the universe to other experienced writers to ride the wave of popular interest and internet buzz, for he had no plans for a sequel and other projects drawing on his time. That solicitation of stories included an invitation to fans of 1632, and generated far too much good "fan" fiction for a single anthology. In the event, best selling author David Weber was also attracted by the opened universe, and contracted with Flint to co-author five novels in the series. The release of any short fiction was held up by Jim Baen while 1633 was written and rushed into production.
Currently, Mrs. Goodlett, in conjunction with the 1632 Editorial Board, nowadays selects groups of stories from those formally submitted on the web forum 1632 Slush put together each volume with regard to length and diversity and the select the various 1632 Research Committees generated period oriented fact articles and essays which also characterize the gazettes, and distance them from the Ring of Fire anthologies. The e-ARC version of Grantville Gazette I followed the hardcover 1633 sequel and antedated the e-ARC release of Ring of Fire by nine months (February 2003 vs. November, 2003), as did Grantville Gazette II (August 2003). Flint then reviews the assembled collection of stories and alternates, and approves them as canon or not. Those he sets aside sometimes find themselves promoted to a prominent place in the series (see 1634: The Ram Rebellion and Ring of Fire II ), or might just be held for canonically compatible developments to be revealed before they are given publication. Others are simply rejected as non-canonical despite the Editorial Boards selection. The Editorial Board and Research Committee members are all volunteers being regular participants to the Baen's Bar web fora 1632 Tech Manual, 1632 Slush, and 1632 Slush Comments.
The earliest Gazettes are technically rated as fan fiction, which means the authors do not qualify as members in the Science Fiction Writers Association, which requires three stories be published in an accredited publication before a writer is eligible—this changed with Grantville Gazette X when the publication became qualified as a SFWA publication and began paying better than usual pro-rates. The gazettes idea began because there was so much good fan fiction submitted for Ring of Fire , which includes half the stories written by established authors. Flint had in fact, solicited input for ideas from fans before setting out to field research the flagship novel in 1999, so fans were involved in discussing the development of the neohistory from the outset. Subsequently, Flint, an experienced editor, suggested the idea of an online magazine to generate some income flow for the work to publisher Jim Baen using a similar concept to that used for Baen's Webscriptions monthly release. Baen, agreed to the experiment, and the Gazettes began as a serialized e-zine produced only sporadically, the segments of which were collected into an then electronic volume marketed as an e-book.
A subsequent experiment by Baen and Flint was to release the e-book version with an additional story by Flint in print as a mass market paperback. The experiment was successful, and Grantville Gazette II and Grantville Gazette III followed, with Grantville Gazette IV under contract as the last sale from Flint to Jim Baen shortly before his death.
In addition to fiction, the Gazettes include fact articles (based on the work output of the informal group, the 1632 research committee, written by one or more of its members) and stories which are initially vetted through a tough peer review on the Baen's Bar sub-forum 1632 Slush, typically requiring several rewrites then are subsequently nominated by the "EdBoard", whereupon Flint chooses the stories for inclusion in the Canon and for each volume based in part how it leads into or integrates with the ongoing main storyline 'threads' in the various novels.
[edit] Table of Contents
Note: In the earliest two Grantville Gazettes, there were differences between the print published version and the original serialized eMagazine, and then again the intermediate eBook as the 'kinks' were worked out of the experiment. Should additional published works differ, it will be noted in the pertinent article.
- PREFACE by Eric Flint
- FICTION
- "Steps in the Dance", by Eric Flint
- "Collateral Damage", by Mike Spehar
- "Euterpe", Episode 1, by Enrico M. Toro
- "The Company Men", by Christopher James Weber
- "Just One Of Those Days", by Leonard Hollar
- "God's Gifts", by Gorg Huff
- "Bottom-Feeders", by John Zeek
- "An Invisible War", by Danita Ewing
- FACT (Essays from 1632 Research Committee members)
- "A Quick and Dirty Treatise on Historical Fencing" by Enrico M. Toro
- "So You Want To Do Telecommunications In 1633?" by Rick Boatright
- "Mente Et Malleo : Practical Mineralogy And Minerals Exploration In 1632" by Laura Runkle
- "The Secret Book Of Zink" by Andrew Clark
- AFTERWORD
- "GRANTVILLE GAZETTE — How to submit and get published."
[edit] Plot Synopses
[edit] "Steps in the Dance"
by_Eric Flint
[edit] "Collateral Damage"
by_Mike Spehar
[edit] "Euterpe, Episode 1"
[edit] "The Company Men"
[edit] "Just One Of Those Days"
[edit] "God's Gifts"
by_Gorg Huff
[edit] "Bottom-Feeders"
by_John Zeek Bottom Feeders is a police procedural that follows two policemen Jurgen Neaubert and Marvin Tipton through a murder case. Jurgen is a down time farmer turned mercenary soldier turned policeman, and Marvin is a long service cop.
[edit] "An Invisible War"
- Danita Ewing's well plotted story "An Invisible War" is really a short novel and was the first serialized piece of longer fiction that spaned this and the next Gazette in their e-published versions—though the whole (110 pages) was published in the hardcover release of Grantville Gazette II . The tale is very important as canonical background being set mostly in 1633 after Grantville has had time to settle-in a bit and can look beyond immediate survival issues. It deals with public health and integration and dissemination of medical knowledge efforts during the end of the Confederated Principalities of Europe and early United States of Europe (USE) period, for the various Stearns led administration's have been repeatedly reminded by James Nichols and Melissa Mailey how vulnerable populations are and were to diseases in the seventeenth century era—so the up-timers have been both strategically aware and taking steps from the outset within their capabilities and resources to mitigate any preventable health problems beginning in the novel 1632. To add impetus and urgency, as time goes by in the experience of Grantville, some of the historical research conducted in the two libraries reveals that plauge outbreaks occurred locally in OTL in diverse regions during 1632, 1634, and 1635 saw a large epidemic-size outbreak. Worse, the historical record might also indicate other outbreaks, which were poorly documented.
- The story is one of Grantville's medical personnel meeting head-on with down-timer University practices, prejudices and a college curricula based in large part on the Classics and Theological studies. The town establishes the Lahey Clinic hospital near the Grantville High School and establishes a local nurse training program in 1631-1632, and by the summer of 1633 has reached out to the faculty of the University of Jena, but the only spareable medical manpower to head up a college of medicine are... women!
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[edit] Fact Essays
- from 1632 Research Committee members)
[edit] "A Quick and Dirty Treatise on Historical Fencing"
[edit] "So You Want To Do Telecommunications In 1633?"
[edit] "Mente Et Malleo : Practical Mineralogy And Minerals Exploration In 1632"
by_Laura Runkle
[edit] "The Secret Book Of Zink"
by_Andrew Clark
[edit] See also
- The Grantville Gazettes -- This article covers various common matters on the sub-series in depth, in particular the Phase II experiments with an eMagazine and Phase III (on going) maturation of the milieu using collaborative fiction. All the Gazettes are edited by Eric Flint.
- 1632-verse multiverse —1632 universe 'neohistory' after Point of divergence, i.e. key historical events as the works unfold it in the new timeline.
- 1632 universe background history — sub-article expanding on the historic forces loose in Europe before Grantville, WV arrived creating the Point of Departure.
- 1632 characters — Historical and fictional characters
- Development history of the 1632 series
[edit] Publishing History
- Printed in the United States of America
- Anthology, Various authors (October 2003). Grantville Gazette II (e-book), E-book Dist. by WebWrights[1] (in English), Baen Books (Baen Publishing Enterprises, P.O. Box 1403, Riverdale, NY 10471[2]). ISBN 1-4165-2051-1.
- Anthology, Various authors (March 2006). Grantville Gazette II, hardcover, Distributed by Simon & Schuster, 1230 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10020 (in English), Baen Books (Baen Publishing Enterprises, P.O. Box 1403, Riverdale, NY 10471[3]). ISBN ISBN 978-0-4165-2051-1.
- Anthology, Various authors (October 2007). Grantville Gazette II, 1st ed. paperback, mass market (in English), Baen Books (Baen Publishing Enterprises, P.O. Box 1403, Riverdale, NY 10471[4]). ISBN-13 ISBN 978-1-4165-5510-0. Retrieved on 2007-10-14.
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| The official and official researching web sites, by Eric Flint's 1632.org, about 1632 universe run in conjunction with Eric Flint and the 1632 Research Committee, including the book series canonical references available for download and reference by any desiring to participate in the collaborative writing process in the series— to write a contribution to The Grantville Gazettes, these are necessarily must sites. Additional Tech articles are sometimes posted thereon before reaching any gazettes.
The 1632 Series Research Material includes a search engine, maps and so forth which enables checking a reference across all published 1632 works. |
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| Home page of the "continuing adventure that is "The Grantville Gazettes", homepage. "Current issue" is considered an e-ARC version and will be copyrighted as an e-book dated two months after the e-ARC/e-zine volume date on the 1st day of odd numbered months. | ||
| Home page of the publisher of the canonical e-book's in the series, includes the ability to buy any of the fifteen individual Grantville Gazettes, or other seven and ignore the subscriptions at www.grantvillegazettel.com entirely. | ||
| List of Eric Flint Ring of Fire series books published by Baens Books. Click on titles to get sneak peeks. | ||
| List of Eric Flint Books published by Baens Books. Click on titles to get sneak peeks. | ||
| Baen's Bar is an official forum with several sections (sub-forums) dedicated to the 1632 universe: 1632 Tech Manual, and 1632 Slush (Slushpile in publishing: Stack of manuscripts for vetting) and Peer review Comments on the slushpile are posted in 1632 Comments. | ||
| 1632-verse creator, arbitor of canon Eric Flint's website, which has much about his work currently in progress or upcoming (in publication, in planning, under contract, in process) matters in the publication cycle. | ||
| 1632 universe dedicated German Wikiproject organized to cross reference and encyclopediatize matters and characters pertaining to the 1632-verse. Another must browse for would be contributors to The Grantville Gazettes and students of collabortative writing projects. | ||
| on the complicated topic of Money, purchasing power, currency, and exchange rates in the days of 1632 | ||
| 1632verse Commonwealth of Two Nations Resource Page - a webpage about Polish-Lthuanian Commonwealth in the 1632 universe, but especially valuable for 1632 fans for it's many period maps and links to other resources. | ||
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Bibliographic data on all fiction in the overall series as listed by the Internet Speculative Fiction Database. | |
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Bibliographic data on all fiction in the Grantville Gazette sub-series as listed by the Internet Speculative Fiction Database. |
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| Preceded by Grantville Gazette I (within Grantville Gazettes) And also 'Grantville Gazette I ' (in publication order) |
Grantville Gazette II (3rd cononical anthology of 1632 series) |
Succeeded by Grantville Gazette III (within Grantville Gazettes) 1634: The Ram Rebellion (in publication order) |
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