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Overview: I like writing because I am one of those people who thinks of the right thing to say hours, weeks or even years, too late. That sucks in day-to-day life, but in writing you can go back and do a rewrite.
Also, because I like creating stuff. A story, a painting, drawing, virtual object in a computer, an invention, a doorway, a doggy door, a cake or loaf of bread. The process takes me out of myself as well as reading or watching the tube does. And when I’m done, I have the knowledge that there is something new in the world. Which is kinda cool. Or I have a cake, which is kinda fattening.
Historically, I have been a student, a paratrooper, a construction worker, a clerk, a cashier and so on. And for varying reasons, not overly good at any of them. What I never really thought I would be is a writer. Wanted to be, yes. Thought it possible, no.
Gorg Huff
Genre: Fiction > Sci-Fi/Fantasy
Bartley’s Man (#1)
Not every hero stands at the forefront of battle, chopping up, or gunning down the foe. Johan Kipper, an old and worn mercenary who had done more than his share of chopping up and gunning down, finally found his hero, his liege lord, not in a great captain, but in David Bartley, a fourteen year old boy who was just trying to make sure his family could get by. A lad who was trying to protect his family by making rather than taking, by building rather than destroying. And, more, a lad who didn’t need to knock Johan down to feel tall or make Johan afraid to feel brave.
Never in his long life of war and hate had Johan met someone courageous enough to be kind.
This is the story of Johan Kipper, known across the Germanies as Bartley’s Man. How he went from down-and-out mercenary to, well, you know what he became. Everyone knows what he became. Bartley’s Man.
Bartley’s Man Started out as several stories in The Grantville Gazette. We, Paula Goodlett and Gorg Huff, were filling in the gaps just for the fun of it. Later, we were asked to rewrite and add to it so that it could stand alone as a novel. This expanded edition of Bartley’s Man is written expressly for Eric Flint’s Ring of Fire Press which sadly passed with Eric. But it’s still a good read and introduction to Eric’s 1632 universe.
Moving Universes (#2)
Moving Universes
This second anthology will concentrate on stories about movement and the development of transport systems. It’s not going to be exact.
The Monster: Deals with the building of the first passenger plane in the 1632 universe
The Arrow: With the construction of a delta wing aircraft
The Dog and Pony Show: Russia’s first airship and the politics surrounding it.
Backdoor: Takes us to a hard SiFi space opera universe and potentially important aspects of jump points.
High Road to Venice: The Jupiters are no in service and air travel can still be an adventure.
A Nerd at Sea: Still in the 1632 universe but now the adventures are on the open sea.
Cuba: Still at sea but we’ve moved universes. Now were in the Demon Rift universe. The king of France want’s the new world and it’s gold.
The Spark of Inspiration: Airplanes need sparkplugs but they need more than that. Nothing that skilled craftsmen can’t provide with a bit of help.
Doc: There is more than one way of moving. Sometimes it’s moving attitudes that counts.
Fresno Construction: If you’re going to have cars, you need roads. Don’t worry, the down-timers are on it.
Ball Whats?: Those crazy up-timers want us to make what? A new kind of barring?
A Wok on the Wild Side: When a friend needs your help in the WarSpell Multiverse you pack up your Wok and go adventuring
Jildijard: When a guy and his car appear right in front of your car? Well your parents are never going to believe it wasn’t your fault. Jildijard (the car) is the product of alien technology but it’s also a person.
The Slavery Attractor: This isn’t fiction but is a treatise on economics. But I think it matters so I included it.
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