[Grantville Gazette 43] • Grantville Gazette, Volume 43

We're baaaack, to quote the movie. Grantville Gazette, Volume 43, up and ready for your reading pleasure, right now.

Karen Bergstrahl's "Farm Vet," a tragedy in one act, which just goes

to show that bad things really do happen to good people. Sumitra Patel

traveled a long way, only to wind up traveling even farther with the

Ring of Fire. Read about it in Thomas Richardson's "She Came Out (of

India)."

Author David Dingwall is back with his English romance addict, in

"Snared by a Good Book," our first story to cover two time periods, one

in the old time line and one in the new time line caused by the Ring of

Fire. And we all dream of winning the lottery, but there's a fella who

was once in Grantville who knows that winning makes as many problems as

it solves. Read about him in Kerryn Offord's "The Marked Man."

Our country and bluegrass singers are back in "Gloom, Despair and

Agony on You" by Gorg Huff and Paula Goodlett. And they're having a real

good time, mostly. Rainer Prem writes "Ein feste Burg, Episode Four"

for this issue and we guarantee that things are going off in a quite

different direction that you might expect. "Second Chance Bird, Episode

Eleven" by Garrett W. Vance stars one of our favorite characters, Pam

Miller, and continues the saga of the dodos.

Iver P. Cooper is telling us about airship propulsion systems, this

time in "Airship Propulsion, Part Three, Steaming Along." And Ronald D.

Ferguson won the toss for our Universe Annex story for the issue,

"Eavesdropping at the Keyhole to Forever."

And Kristine Kathryn Rusch has words to say about "Heroes Rising," in her Notes From the Buffer Zone column.

It's all good and it's all ready for you.