well, somewhat anyway, and more in the way one can interpret it than explicitly. It's _Pyramid Scheme_ by Eric Flint and Dave Freer, and is available in the Free Library section of the baen.com (no www) web site. It's fun, but like _Antigrav Unlimited_ the last chapter feels more like "I really wanted to write a lot more, but the deadline was coming up and the wordcount was high enough already" than an actual ending, despite resolving the direct conflict - it just has a lot of dangling threads. All the better for use as source material, though, should it strike someone's fancy to include it, in some form.

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this time for the two short stories in this "free sample" of an anthology

http://www.baen.com/chapters/W200305/0743436075.htm?blurb

One is ... well, I won't spoilerize it, but the second is a pretty cool bit about Uplifted insects.

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