1634: The Galileo Affair

In 1634, Baen discovered the color orange!
Also, Galileo was the first person to discover a planet full of cat people!

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>1 daard23: Orange! Ye Olde Tymey Fonts! Shuriken! Open carry! 'Merican flag!

It's... say it with me...

BAEN!!!butwhere'sthebiggunsandboobs

So the affair of the title was with cat women? It beats being locked up by the pope.

Some real fourth wall breaking going on here: I mean, the only reason he's rolling up one off his sleeves is to signal to the Baen book buying demographic "hey! I'm a patriotic and right-wing 1 American!"

1 Warning: content may include some of Flint's sorta lefty characters.

Hey! Is Mr. Flag-Tattoo hiding his calculator and/or cell phone from Galileo in that roll of blueprints?

>4 Hammy_JLK: Functionally, I suppose it's a calculator: not much connectivity in 17th century Florence.

(Now I'm a bit puzzled by what's going on with his hand and the calculator. Is he holding onto it with his pinkie and maybe ring finger? Is it glued to the blueprints? Or is the picture capturing the instant before the calculator falls out of the blueprints and cracks on the cobblestones?)

Does anyone see the little silhouette-o of a man?

>5 bam2001: It really looks like it's about to smash on the road, and good luck replacing or even repairing that in 1634, even if you know how. Maybe it is glued on.

Adding motion to his arm by rolling up the sleeve isn't going to help. And why not both sleeves up? Maybe he does that later. Or maybe it isn't jingoistically tattooed. With a flag of the wrong amount of stripes.

@TorMented: Scaramouche?

@daard23: Thank you for joining us here, and with such "quality" content.

Question: I’ve just come across 1634: The Galileo Affair, and it looked interesting enough to pick up, but I know nothing of its author(s) or the series. Is it likely to be rewarding as a stand-alone work, or am I gonna do better to start with the first and buy into a whole series (which looks quite lengthy)?

>9 jasbro: I recommend you start at the beginning with 1632. The premise is an unexplained transfer of a large globe of land and people (including a coal mine) from present day West Virginia to 17th century Germany. The first couple of books are the best.

>10 2wonderY: (joke about 17th C Germans not finding it too different when sent to 20th C West Virginia)

I was today years old when I noticed the positioning of Signor Galilei's telescope. A-HEM. How did we all miss that before?

We'll never not see it henceforth!

>12 paradoxosalpha: Maybe that's why Mr. 'Murica rolled up his sleeve to show the tat. He was feeling inadequate with only that tiny handgun.