1638: The Sovereign States by Eric Flint & Gorg Huff & Paula Goodlett

Author:Eric Flint & Gorg Huff & Paula Goodlett [Flint, Eric & Huff, Gorg & Goodlett, Paula]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Science Fiction, Time Travel, Alternative History, Action & Adventure
ISBN: 9781625799302
Google: 1bO6EAAAQBAJ
Publisher: Baen Books
Published: 2023-09-05T04:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 16

Ufa Boom

Ufa Dacha cafeteria

November 4, 1637

Alla Lyapunov thought the speech was exciting and clever. And amazingly cold-blooded. Much more cold-blooded than anything Sheremetev had ever done, and Sheremetev was her ideal of cold-blooded evil since he’d killed her parents. This wasn’t evil, but it was cold-blooded.

The speech Czar Mikhail had given to the people of Tsaritsyn had been recorded on magnetic paper tape. That was a special paper that had large amounts of finely ground iron oxide in the mix so that it came out brown. It had a smooth finish and it could record an oscillating magnetic field. It was three quarters of an inch wide and the tape player that it used weighed something like fifty pounds, but it produced excellent recordings. All of which she knew because she’d spent the whole afternoon a week ago being lectured about the stuff in the Dacha school.

Much to Alla’s dismay, it turned out that the Lyapunov heir in this new world had to be an overeducated nerd. It wasn’t an option. It was a job requirement. She really wished she could be back in the kitchen in Captain Petrov’s house. At least she wouldn’t have these headaches.

She bit a chunk out of her egg salad on black bread sandwich and wished she’d had one of Elina’s hot buttered croissants instead. The Dacha cafeteria had good, solid food, but it wasn’t great food.

Cook had been a master chef even before he’d gotten the translated up-time French cookbook, and by the time Anna had become Alla again, he was really great. Even the servants in Captain Petrov’s house were well fed. Especially the kitchen servants.

She finished her lunch, such as it was, and went back to school.

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