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Grantville Gazette
Volume 5
Edited by Eric Flint
This is a work of fiction. All the characters and events portrayed in this book are
fictional, and any resemblance to real people or incidents is purely coincidental.

Copyright ┬й 2005 by Eric Flint

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DOI: 10.1125/0009

First electronic printing, September 2005

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 Editor's Preface


By Eric Flint
WellтАФhallelujahтАФwe managed to get Volume 5 of the Gazette out pretty much on schedule,
about four months after the publication of Volume 4. As I said in my preface to that issue, I'm
hoping to be able to maintain a triannual publication schedule for the magazine. We should be
able to do the same, I think, with Volumes 6 and 7. We've already got all the stories and articles
assembled for Vol. 6, and most of the ones we'll need for Vol. 7.
That said, most of the time involved in producing such a magazine is required by the editing
and copy-editing process, which takes some time. Still, we should be able to get volume 6 out
before the end of the year.
Some remarks on the contents of this volume:
As always, parsing the distinction between "regular stories" and "continuing serials" probably
falls somewhere in the category of secularized medieval scholasticism. Just to name one example,
Karen Bergstralh's "Of Masters and Men" is essentially a sequel to her "One Man's Junk,"
published in the last volume. But since there isтАФyet, anywayтАФno indication that she's going to
be continuing this story, I chose not to put it in the category of continuing sequels.
Yes, you can argue the point. The fact remains that I'm the editor of the magazine and if say
the number of angels who can dance on the head of a pin is 15,468,622, thenтАФhere, at leastтАФ
15,468,622 it is.
Ultimately, this is probably a hopeless battle on my part for Literary Clarity. Hopeless,
because as time goes on, it's becoming clearer and clearer to me that the assessment I made of the
Grantville Gazette in my preface to Volume 4 is indeed correct. The Gazette is, indubitably, that
most lowly and despised of all literary sub-genres.
To wit, a soap opera.
Look, let's face it. In the 1632 novels, you getтАФmore or lessтАФThe Big Picture featuring the