Grantville Gazette, Volume 63

In "Ultimate Airport Magdeburg: Blacktop" Kerryn Offord shows us what happens when a couple of cut-ups find themselves in the middle of an emergency. �In "Engines of Change: Digging Deeper" Kevin and Karen Evans continue their stories about steam engines. �"In That Place," by Tim Roesch, is a hard-edged story about what happens when Blaise Pascal�s father has finally had enough of the "Greatest Mathematician in the World" and gives him a dressing-down that he�s deserved ever since the young man arrived in Grantville. �Eric S. Brown and Robert E. Waters show us what happens when LARPers don�t think things through in "The Wampus of Grantville." And don�t worry, the dog doesn�t die. �Tim Sayeau shows his versatility as a writer with two stories this month. In the first, "The Bad Seed," he poignantly shows the dangers of knowing the future as a father and mother come to terms with the fact that in the Original Time Line, their three-year-old daughter became an adulteress and a murderer.�In Sayeau�s second story, "You�ve Got to Be Kidding!" he shows us what really happens backstage when Gustav II Adolf names Thorsten Engler the "Count of Narnia." �We continue mining the humorous vein with Jackie Britton Lopatin�s "The Invisible Dogs of Grantville" which starts out innocently enough as a young man finds a gag stiff leash with collar attached. �Our serial "Ein Feste Burg" continues, as Rainer Prem details what happens when a family squabble leads to attempted murder.�In her essay this month, Kristine Katherine Rusch talks about the effect of� Star Wars� on herself and society. And in an excellent non-fiction piece, Sean Little discusses the effect of a single set of books from the future on the design and construction of warships in the 1632 Universe. �Finally, but certainly not least, we present a look into the process of building a novel as Charles E. Gannon shows us some "Faces from the Cutting Room Floor" that didn�t make it into his collaboration with Eric Flint,� 1635: The Papal Stakes .