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I also think the Grantville Gazette stories are often better than the main novels. Do I care about the details of yet another boring battle? No. But I do find a story about getting rich selling Barbie dolls, or setting up a sewing machine company, or building a dirigible interesting. Though I do think the cast of hundreds in the stories is often overkill. I'm sorry, I couldn't tell you who my second cousins are, so I don't care diddly about whose uncle married whose sister-in-law's niece. I handle that part the way I do most stories with large casts: I ignore all names, and just track events.
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