http://www.ericflint.net News announcements and snippets by Eric Flint Fri, 19 Mar 2010 05:00:59 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Much Fall Of Blood -- Snippet 60 Chapter 32 Across Europe there are places where old stones remain in cleared places. Moss grows on other rocks and even on the trees. Not on these stones. Particularly not on the stones standing in their ancient ranks here. This was not a great or impressive ... http://www.ericflint.net/index.php/2010/03/19/much-fall-of-blood-snippet-60/ Mission Of Honor - Snippet 16 Chapter Four "Have you got a copy of that memo from Admiral Cheng?" Captain Daud ibn Mamoun al-Fanudahi asked, poking his head into Captain Irene Teague's office. "Which memo?" Teague rolled her eyes in an expression she wouldn't have let any other Battle Fleet officer see. In ... http://www.ericflint.net/index.php/2010/03/19/mission-of-honor-snippet-16/ Legions Of Fire - Snippet 22 "Ah, you wanted to know about perfume, your ladyship?" Corylus said. "Of course not, dear," Hedia said with a throaty chuckle. "And I don't want to know about Vergil's poetry either, which I suspect would interest you a great deal more." She turned to look at him. ... http://www.ericflint.net/index.php/2010/03/19/legions-of-fire-snippet-22/ A Mighty Fortress - Snippet 31 Wailahr nodded slowly as he considered Ahbaht's analysis of the other galleon captain's thinking. It made sense, he decided, and after twenty-six years in the Crown's service, he had more than enough experience as an officer himself to appreciate what his flag captain had offered ... http://www.ericflint.net/index.php/2010/03/19/a-mighty-fortress-snippet-31/ Much Fall Of Blood -- Snippet 59 A little later a party of four reappeared, still carrying the truce lance and Erik found himself riding out again. The new party from the Golden Horde was headed by a harder-faced individual, and as was protocol, two knights and two of the Ilkhan ... http://www.ericflint.net/index.php/2010/03/17/much-fall-of-blood-snippet-59/ Mission Of Honor - Snippet 15 Which was precisely what the Silver Cepheids had just finished doing. "Should I assume, Bridget," Carus said, "that you have some pressing reason for wanting to head home at this particular moment?" "Oh, how could you possibly suspect anything of the sort?" Lieutenant Commander John Pershing asked ... http://www.ericflint.net/index.php/2010/03/17/mission-of-honor-snippet-15/ A Mighty Fortress - Snippet 30 VI HMS Destiny, 54 Off Hennet Head, Gulf of Mathyas Someone from the planet humanity had once called Earth might have described it as "Force Six" from the old Beaufort scale. Ensign Hektor Aplyn-Ahrmahk, the Duke of Darcos, had never heard of the Beaufort scale, but he had been ... http://www.ericflint.net/index.php/2010/03/17/a-mighty-fortress-snippet-30/ Legions Of Fire - Snippet 21 "I'll need your help, your ladyship," Anna said. "Not with my end -- I wouldn't ask you for that, of course. But I hope you'll talk to my Pulto. When we were married, like I said, I gave up serious business. He didn't tell me ... http://www.ericflint.net/index.php/2010/03/17/legions-of-fire-snippet-21/ Mission Of Honor - Snippet 14 Matthews closed his mouth and sat back in his chair, and Benjamin chuckled harshly. "Don't think that I wouldn't appreciate the offer, if you'd ever been so lost to all sense of your legal and moral responsibilities as to make it. But even if I were ... http://www.ericflint.net/index.php/2010/03/15/mission-of-honor-snippet-14/ Legions Of Fire - Snippet 20 Hedia laughed. "You haven't, not at all," she said. "And I think you'd best call me Hedia while it's just the three of us. As I said, we're all girls together here. As for witchcraft -- we women can't do things the way men do, ... http://www.ericflint.net/index.php/2010/03/15/legions-of-fire-snippet-20/