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Grantville Gazette
Volume Six
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 2006 by Eric Flint

All rights reserved, including the right to reproduce this book or portions thereof
in any form.

A Baen Books Original

Baen Publishing Enterprises
P.O. Box 1403
Riverdale, NY 10471
www.baen.com

DOI: 10.1125/0016

First electronic printing, March 2006

Production by WebWrights, Newport, TN
 EDITOR'S PREFACE
Volume 6 of the Gazette is coming out three months later than we'd projected. There are three
reasons for that, which are closely connected. The first reason is that our copy editor fell behind,
for various reasons including some health problems. The second reason is that she's also one of
the copy editors for Baen Books, with many other assignment. And the final reason is that the
launch of the new online magazine, Jim Baen's UNIVERSE, further complicated the situation
because the Gazette's copy editor is now also one of JBU's copy editors.
To put it another way, the Gazette was the runt of the litter.
On the bright side, the long delay due to production problems also means that the editorial
staff of the magazine is way ahead of the game. We've pretty much got the next volume already
put together, and most of the one that comes thereafter. From a purely editorial standpoint,
therefore, we could publish Volume 7 very quickly, and Volume 8 soon thereafter.
However...
We'd likely run into the same bottleneck and logjam with the process of copy-editing and
proof-reading. The tie-up with Volume 6 was not the first time that's happened, and it's very
likely to happen again. Being the runt of the litter is never any fun, and, alas, the runt is what the
magazine shall remain.
Facts are stubborn things, and it's just a fact that while the paper editions of the Gazette
generate a significant income for Baen Books, this electronic magazine does not. Yes, yes,
grantedтАФit's the root source. But publishers are no different from you or me or anyone else,
when they are faced with that nastiest of all nasty eight-letter words:
Cash flow.
Okay, it's two words. But, as everyone knows, they roll right into each other, like a mudslide
approaching a town of people who have their budgets neatly in order. Abstractly.
In a pinchтАФand there's always a pinch in publishingтАФthe work of copy-editing the electronic
edition of the Gazette keeps getting pushed aside in favor of other, more financial pressing
projects. So it has been, and so it will continue to be.
There's only one way to solve this problem, and that is to boldly go where...