Grantville Gazette IV

After the West Virginia town of Grantville was unceremoniously hurled backthrough time to the 1630s, the seventeenth century would never be the same. Teenage capitalist girls have formed an investment group; a linotype operator,whose profession was wiped out by computers, finds a new life in an old century;a narrow gauge railroad, with a sit-down mower doubling as a locomotive,revolutionizes military transportation; the proud tradition of the U.S. Marinesis started ahead of schedule among downtime Europeans; and what will the mastermusicians and composers of the pre-Bach era make of heavy metal sounds? On amore personal level, two young lovers celebrate Christmas in a strange land andtime, a skilled blacksmith clashes with his guild, and a woman loses her husbandin an industrial accident and decides to leave Grantville. Plus factual articleson the problems of beginning an oil industry, building a machine gun, orstarting up the manufacture of textiles centuries ahead of their time. All thisand more in a new and absolutely indispensable volume for the many followers ofthe 1632 series.