Grantville Gazette III

Baen Publishing Enterprises

Edited by Eric Flint

Copyright 2007

Grantville Gazette III, a magazine anthology set during the 1632 cross-time alternate universe, edited by Eric Flnt, is the third in the series of the Grantville Gazette magazine anthologies that contains both short fiction and non-fiction articles.

For the fiction in the book, the stories dealing with the ordinary 1632 characters were much more interesting than the stories dealing with the "uptime" characters, mostly because these ordinary characters have to deal with the ramifications of the uptime technology and ideas. The non-fiction articles are very informative as to how to integrate modern industrious technology with the 1632 technology.

Pancho
All people smile in the same language.

Pyramid Power

Baen Publishing Enterprises

Written by Eric Flint & Dave Freer

Copyright 2007

Pyramid Power, the sequel to Pyramid Scheme, has the survivors of the pyramidal device, sent by aliens to take over the Earth, being forced by a Washington bureaucrat to reenter the pyramid's event horizon to search for another bureaucrat that was kidnapped by the pyramid. But instead of landing in the world of Greek Gods as they were previously in - the flexible crew of survivors now land in the world of Norse Gods, and must once again try to find their way back home.

This book is harder to read than the first book, as outside of the gods Odin, Thor, and Loki, there is very little about the rigorous Norse legends that I am familiar with - although the main characters of the book I have now become more familiar with than in the previous book. The political infighting is more interesting this time around as the various Washington groups aggressively fight each other for control of handling the alien pyramid.

Pancho
All people smile in the same language.