by Drak Bibliophile | Oct 30, 2020 | 1632Snippet, Snippets
The Macedonian Hazard – Snippet 04 May 15, 320 BCE Ronald Kemper pulled the sheet up over Donald Carnegie’s head. The allergic reaction to the insulin contributed to a chest infection, which in Donald’s weakened state proved fatal. Other patients...
by Drak Bibliophile | Oct 28, 2020 | 1632Snippet, Snippets
The Macedonian Hazard – Snippet 03 214 12th Street, Fort Plymouth, Trinidad March 12, 320BCE The kiln design was mostly out of Wikipedia, but Donald had helped. It turned out that plumbing helps with preheating air to make the fire hotter. Something called...
by Drak Bibliophile | Oct 28, 2020 | 1632Snippet, Snippets
1637 No Peace Beyond The Line – Snippet 43 “But I do not know these things.” “Perhaps not, but they will listen and obey what you tell them, Lady Anne Cathrine.” He smiled. “You may constantly point out that you are...
by Drak Bibliophile | Oct 26, 2020 | 1632Snippet, Snippets
The Macedonian Hazard – Snippet 02 It was hard work, but it paid fifteen bucks an hour in ship credit and Stella was going to need every dime of that. 214 12th Street, Fort Plymouth, Trinidad December 28, 321BCE Stella climbed the short bamboo ladder to the...
by Drak Bibliophile | Oct 26, 2020 | 1632Snippet, Snippets
1637 No Peace Beyond The Line – Snippet 42 Chapter 22 Oranjestad, St. Eustatia Moments after retrieving the already-anxious Cuthbert Pudsey, a familiar voice with a Dutch accent inquired, “Do you approve of the preparations, Lady Anne Cathrine?” She...
by Drak Bibliophile | Oct 23, 2020 | 1632Snippet, Snippets
The Macedonian Hazard – Snippet 01 The Macedonian Hazard By Eric Flint, Gorg Huff, Paula Goodlett Prologue: Build, Sell, or Die Queen of the Sea, off the coast of Trinidad November 28, 321 BCE Stella Matthews lay on the bed in her cabin on the Queen of the Sea...
by Drak Bibliophile | Oct 23, 2020 | 1632Snippet, Snippets
1637 No Peace Beyond The Line – Snippet 41 “Seems to me we are here to spy on matters that are manifestly none of our business. And how is it that Sophie’s understanding of personal matters might be lacking? She is a widow, she knows –”...
by Drak Bibliophile | Oct 21, 2020 | 1632Snippet, Snippets
1637 No Peace Beyond The Line – Snippet 40 Chapter 21 Oranjestad, St. Eustatia Anne Cathrine, daughter of King Christian IV by morganatic marriage (and so, not a princess) yawned, stretched, fended off the sunlight that eked in through the slight gap in the...
by Drak Bibliophile | Oct 19, 2020 | 1632Snippet, Snippets
1637 No Peace Beyond The Line – Snippet 39 “So our choice was between standing around while the knowledge from Grantville’s library drives a radically new history, or to have a hand in shaping it. And these islands are among the places where those...
by Drak Bibliophile | Oct 16, 2020 | 1632Snippet, Snippets
1637 No Peace Beyond The Line – Snippet 38 Chapter 20 Oranjestad, St. Eustatia Eddie turned, discovered the source of the tongue-in-cheek comments: Joost Banckert. The vice admiral had finally made his way up the dock to them, but the man who’d been...
by Drak Bibliophile | Oct 14, 2020 | 1632Snippet, Snippets
1637 No Peace Beyond The Line – Snippet 37 Eddie almost snapped his fingers: the Secret Service! That’s what O’Rourke’s attentive hover looked like. Eddie paused, reflected. Of course, maybe it looks like that because that’s exactly what...
by Drak Bibliophile | Oct 12, 2020 | 1632Snippet, Snippets
1637 No Peace Beyond The Line – Snippet 36 Chapter 19 Oranjestad, St. Eustatia Cornelis Jol began stumping along rapidly on his peg leg when he caught sight of the three of them in the far shadows of the Fort Oranjestad’s seaward wall. He waved to...
by Drak Bibliophile | Oct 9, 2020 | 1632Snippet, Snippets
1637 No Peace Beyond The Line – Snippet 35 “Ah, Maarten Tromp, you are delighting in his torment of me,” van Walbeeck lamented histrionically. “Soldiers, particularly jongeren like this Cantrell fellow, have little appreciation of the trials...
by Drak Bibliophile | Oct 7, 2020 | 1632Snippet, Snippets
1637 No Peace Beyond The Line – Snippet 34 That still-fresh structure was currently swarmed by those same lighters, but they were now off-loading the last general cargos of the prizes Tromp’s fleet had taken off Dominica. Although still referred to by some...
by Drak Bibliophile | Oct 5, 2020 | 1632Snippet, Snippets
1637 No Peace Beyond The Line – Snippet 33 PART II June-July, 1636 From his saw-pit of mouth, from his charnel of maw Herman Melville, “The Maldive Shark” Chapter 18 Oranjestad, St. Eustatia Eddie Cantrell closed the door softly behind him, padded to...
