What Distant Deeps — Snippet 42
CHAPTER 14: Diamond Cay, Zenobia
“Look at me, snake!” Tovera shouted from midway between the wreck and the base of the crystal tower. “I’m going to steal your eggs and eat them in front of you!”
1635: The Eastern Front — Snippet 34
Jeff never had time to contemplate the strange beauty of armies maneuvering into battle. He was neither a top-hat general who could lounge around on a saddle and let his flunkies handle everything nor an experienced volley gun battery commander who’d been through a big battle before and could afford to let his mind wander.
1635: The Eastern Front — Snippet 33
Chapter 16
The Saxon plain, near Zwenkau
Mike Stearns was stunned, the first time he saw a battlefield. He’d expected to be stunned — horrified, rather — by the carnage of a battle’s aftermath. What he hadn’t expected was the sheer thrill of the spectacle, before the battle had started.
What Distant Deeps — Snippet 41
Half of the surface below glittered in the sunlight — standing water in which reeds grew, not grass on dry land. In the flat angle of the bow camera, Diamond Cay would have looked much more dangerously solid.
What Distant Deeps — Snippet 40
CHAPTER 13: Over the Green Ocean, Zenobia
Daniel leaned out the port side of the open aircar, angling his face slightly backward so that the 200 mph airstream didn’t slap his helmet broadside. It wasn’t a lot more comfortable that way, but it helped a little.
1635: The Eastern Front — Snippet 32
From atop the closest thing his scouts could find to a hill — it was really just a hillock, a slight rise in the landscape — Hans Georg von Arnim studied the surroundings. And, just as Eric Krenz had done, mused on the fact that in another universe the king of Sweden had died in battle not far from this very place.
What Distant Deeps — Snippet 39
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Daniel stared in delight at the image which Adele placed in the lower right corner of his display. He immediately expanded it to full size, save for the left sidebar on which the Sissie’s diagnostics ran. The latter weren’t going to show anything important with the ship on the surface and most of her crew on liberty, but he would have worried if he didn’t have them available.
1635: The Eastern Front — Snippet 31
PART III
August, 1635
These steep and lofty cliffs
Chapter 15
The Saxon plain, between Merseburg and Lutzen
“Lutzen’s back there,” said Eric Krenz. “We’ve bypassed it already.” He turned in his saddle and pointed to the west, almost behind them.
1635: The Eastern Front — Snippet 30
Gyor, Hungary, near the Ottoman border
Janos Drugeth felt an urge to wrap a cloak around himself, even though the temperature atop the bastion was quite warm. As you’d expect on a sunny day in July. He didn’t have a cloak with him anyway.
What Distant Deeps — Snippet 38
CHAPTER 12: Calvary on Zenobia
Adele stepped onto the bridge with Tovera behind her. There was a nearly full house, which was mildly surprising when the Sissie was at rest in a friendly harbor. Well, a reasonably friendly harbor.
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