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1. It would be interesting to have for in the Ring of Fire novel series additional early 21st century additional American even European and Asian Towns and Cities gradually time travel transplanted. And then mid 21st century American even European and Asian Towns and Cities possibly genuinely extraterrestrial species/races factions Towns and Cities and even outer space additional Towns and Cities, and then late 22nd Century American even European and Asian Towns and Cities possibly genuinely extraterrestrial species/races factions Towns and Cities gradually time travel transplanted and even outer space additional Towns and Cities and then early to mid 22nd century American even European and Asian Towns and Cities possibly genuinely extraterrestrial species/races factions Towns and Cities and even outer space additional Towns and Cities gradually time travel transplanted. Multi generational sagas as done by author Ken Follett https://ken-follett.com/. Seems like would be the best way to do alternative history timelines scenarios such as the ring of fire novel series. Like in a Ring of Fire/1632/Grantville and Stargate franchise crossover. I get that Grantville would be the first one to be time travel transplanted but I have a hard time believing that it would be the only one to do so. http://www.stargatenovels.com/ https://www.space.com/stargate-robocop-reboot-series-amazon#:~:text=Hollywood%2Dbased%20MGM%20Studios%20originally,Stargate%22%20and%20%22RoboCop.%22 https://www.gateworld.net/news/2022/03/done-deal-amazon-owns-stargate-today/. If it is a matter of space why couldn’t it be argued that the cause/source of the first/original ring of fire with Grantville ended up also managing to enlarge that particular reality’s Earth into a Super Earth (with additional land masses/continents such as the mythical/legendary long lost continents of Submerged lands
   Further information: Continental fragment

   The Sahul Shelf and the Sunda Shelf during the last glacial maximum and today. The area in between is called “Wallacea”.

   Map showing hypothetical extent of Doggerland, c. 8,000 BC
   Although the existence of lost continents in the above sense is mythical (aside from Zealandia[2] and Greater Adria[3]), there were many places on Earth that were once dry land, but submerged after the ice age around 10,000 BCE due to rising sea levels, and possibly were the basis for Neolithic and Bronze Age flood myths. Some were lost due to coastal erosion or volcanic eruptions. An (incomplete) list follows:

   A large island in the Mediterranean Sea, of which Malta is the only part not now submerged.
   Balkanatolia, a sunken land in the Mediterranean Sea.
   Beringia, connecting Asia and North America.
   Doggerland, the bed of the North Sea, which once connected Great Britain to Continental Europe before being inundated by rising sea levels during the Holocene.
   Ferdinandea, submerged volcanic island which has appeared at least four times in the past.
   Kerguelen Plateau, a submerged micro-continent which is now 1–2 kilometres (0.62–1.2 miles) below sea level.
   Maui Nui, once a large island of the Hawaii archipelago; several major islands represent residual high ground of Maui Nui.
   Sundaland, the now submerged Sunda Shelf.
   Viking-Bergen Banks are submerged hills in the North Sea which formed Viking-Bergen Island during the Last Glacial Period and possibly the northernmost point of Doggerland. Lost continents
   Main article: Submerged continent
   Greater Adria, a continent connecting between Italy and North Africa.
   Zealandia, a scientifically accepted continent that is now 94% submerged under the Pacific Ocean, surrounding the areas of New Zealand and New Caledonia. Mythological lands
   Main article: List of mythological places

   Plato’s Atlantis described in Timaeus and Critias
   Agartha, in the Hollow Earth.
   Atlantis, Plato’s utopian paradise.
   Avalon, the mythical lost land or island in Arthurian, Cornish and Welsh legend.
   Buyan, an island with the ability to appear and disappear in Slavic mythology.
   Cantre’r Gwaelod, in Welsh legend, the ancient sunken realm said to have occupied a tract of fertile land lying between Ramsey Island and Bardsey Island in what is now Cardigan Bay to the west of Wales.
   Iram of the Pillars, a reference to a lost city, country or area mentioned in the Qur’an.
   Jomsborg and Vineta, legendary cities on the south coast of the Baltic Sea supposed to have been submerged in the Middle Ages.
   Kitezh, a legendary underwater city located in Russia, populated by spiritual people.
   Kumari Kandam, a mythical lost continent with an ancient Tamil civilization in the Indian Ocean
   Lemuria, a mythical lost continent in the Indian or the Pacific Ocean.
   Llys Helig Welsh legends regarding the local rock formations conceal the palace of Prince Helig ap Glanawg, said to be part of a larger drowned kingdom near Penmaenmawr, Wales.
   Lyonesse in Arthurian literature: it was the home of Tristan and is usually associated with the Isles of Scilly, Cornwall (an area inundated by the sea c.2500BC)[citation needed]. The tale parallels the Welsh and particularly Breton legendary lost lands.[citation needed]
   Mu, a mythical lost continent in the Pacific Ocean
   Shangri-La, a fictitious valley in Tibet the idea of which may have been inspired by the myth of Shambhala
   Quivira and Cibola, also known as the Seven Cities of Gold. These were suspected somewhere in America by the Conquistadors.
   El Dorado, mythic city of gold.
   Ys, a mythical drowned city in Brittany, similar to other Celtic lost lands in Welsh and Cornish tradition. Most versions of the legend place the city in the Baie de Douarnenez. All also inhabited by its own environments and ecology and even civlizations and cultures of sentient intelligent people groups so that not neccessarily those of Grantsville and other time travel transplanted inhabited villages, towns and cities can remain know it all in fact they end up being surprised to have things and discovered for themselves). Including to Australia
   Africa
   Antarctica
   Asia
   Europe
   South America
   North America
   America
   Eurasia(Europe and Asia)) even if among the smaller of the Super Earths and tweak the laws of science of that particular reality/universe so that it would work for the Earth to become a Super Earth and still be inhabited by complex intelligent and sentient life forms. I guess I was thinking it could turn out more so much more be involved and also additionally provide why Grantville and its inhabiteds was time travel transported int the first place in fact.

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2. Is there any plan to make a video series? I think it would be incredible.

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   1. We would all love that! While we can’t speak for the estate or how things currently stand, it’s public knowledge that the series has been “optioned” so a studio had the right to make a series in the past. I don’t know the current status of that, though. But it would be great!!!

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3. Hi all, I really long to encounter all of the materials above in a library setting. That’s how I read all of the books, and as many of the Grantville Gazettes as I could come by. Think I’ve only read the first ten or so of the Gazettes. Would like to read all the rest and the magazines–if I buy all of them I could end up becoming a donor to the library. Thankful that I signed up for this avenue toward more reading in the 1632 universe. Will soon find my ‘sea legs’ about acquiring at least a small part of what you offer–and catching up!

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   1. As each book is released, it is set to be released to libraries via Hoopla. That takes several months, but Issues 1 – 4 definitely show they are available.

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4. I’ve purchased almost every book in the series, but this is still bewildering to me, and the way some of the Grantville Gazette stories were republished in hardback has made it worse.

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   1. I’m sorry to hear that you are finding it confusing. Most of the Gazette stories that were gathered and printed in novel form were from Ring of Fire Press and aren’t available any more.

      We have all looked at the massive list of books and magazines and reacted a bit like a deer in the headlights. My goodness! SO MANY BOOKS! Where do I start and where do I go next? Eric created a chronological list of books, but it still felt like a wall o’ books to conquer to me, so I created the list below. That breaks it up into smaller (mostly geographical) chunks of generally 4-7 related books. I feel MUCH less overwhelmed looking at that list.
      https://author.1632magazine.com/canon-continuity/reading-order-small-bites/

      We are planning to start having an intro paragraph for stories in the magazine because we know readers won’t necessarily remember the details they need to follow everything in the story. We know this because we are readers ourselves, as well as writers. Hopefully these things will help you feel less bewildered! Thanks for staying with us. We hope you continue to enjoy the universe.

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5. I have everything in the 1632 universe that’s been put into print, but there’s a big hole in the print universe that needs to be filled. I’m talking about the story that was ONLY released in ebook form, “The Barbie Consortium”. So many stories and characters and even history revolve around this story. Who do I need to talk to, how much do I have to pay, to get this story in print form ?

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   1. That’s a Baen book, and one of my favorites. They would be the ones to put it out in paperback.

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6. ITC Has the TV right , which is the movie /serial branch of the BBC. Probably the only people who could do the 1632 world justice.

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   1. ITC or ITV?

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7. Does anyone have an idea if and when the sequel to ‘No Peace Beyond The Line’ will be out. I would like to find out what happens to Eddie when he saves Mike and Admiral Simpson before I die.

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8. The auto-renewal of my subscription never processed and I haven’t found a resubscribe button anywhere. I looked at your “Help and Contact Us” page which suggests that I should use the “Contact Us” form on the same page, but there is no such form. I’ve replied to the newsletter, but that just seems to go into a black hole.

   How do I renew my subscription?

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   1. Sigh. Technology. I’ll see if I can figure out what happened to the Contact US form, because it was there and people have used it. That doesn’t mean it hasn’t disappeared, just that I didn’t realize there was a problem. And yes, it both should have renewed and didn’t. I changed the expiration date, so you have an active subscription again for the next week or so. Hopefully it will now auto-renew. If not, I’ll dig into it more to figure out the problem.

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9. Today, I just downloaded 9 Grantville Gazettes & paid with a credit card. Unfortunately, I was also billed through paypal. I would like a refund to my credit card – the amount of the double bill was $44.91. Your contact sheet is unavailable on the Help and Contact button in both DuckDuckGo & Microsoft Edge. I can EMail the receipts if they are needed.

   Thanks for your attention.
   James McEwen (t_town9998@yahoo.com)

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   1. I’ll look into that problem with the contact and help pages next week. Right now, I’m on vacation and a bit limited in time and energy. However, when I get back to my room tonight or tomorrow morning, I will take care of that refund for you. At the moment, I have to run to catch up to the rest of my family!

      Also, my apologies for not seeing this message sooner.

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   2. I’m glad we were able to get the problem sorted quickly. Happy Holidays!

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10. Greetings from Northern Ireland. I have been try to source a copy of A 1632 Christmas for several years so it’s good to get the opportunity to acquire it. I would have liked a print copy to revisit every year, but just glad to have it in some form.

    Unfortunately with the time zone differences I have been unable to join the Zoom salons, but just glad one of my two favourite series is continuing (the other being Wild Cards).

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    1. You can buy printed copies from Amazon. I will be looking into getting PoDs through our website, but that will be in 2025, not before Christmas. So glad to hear that you are excited to get it!

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11. After I log in, when I click on Subscriber Content > 1632 & Beyond (Subscribers), the last issue listed is #7. Will issues 8 and 9 and the two Christmas special issues be added to the list? I sometimes like to read the issues on the web, instead of my downloaded copies.

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    1. Yes. I apologize. I have no excuse, I’ve just been busy – like everyone else. I’ll work on getting up to date on that, and I’m going to have someone else help me with that to make sure it doesn’t happen again.

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    2. Issue 8 is live now. I’ll work on 9 next.

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12. According to my subscription page, 1632 & Beyond billed me for a subscription renewal on Oct. 10, 2024. However, the charge has never shown up on my credit card account. I just now double-checked all my credit statements since September, 2024 and found no sign of it. Next, I went to my card issuer’s website and re-checked my account there, but it doesn’t appear. The payment back in October, 2023 when I subscribed _does_ show up on the statement that covers that period.

    Even though the charge hasn’t cleared, I can still log in and can still download issues of 1632 & Beyond–I downloaded issue #9 a few minutes ago, in fact. Either you have shortchanged yourselves, or you have billed my charge to some other hapless person. If you want to leave matters like this you may, but I thought you’d like to know about it.

    I would have used the “contact us” form your site alludes to, but I cannot find a link to it anywhere. This comments page is the only way I can see to let you know about the situation!

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    1. Geez Louise. If it’s not one thing it’s another! The contact form was broken and I have fixed it. Thank you for letting me know.

       I do not know what has possessed WooCommerce this time, but I’ll work on figuring it out. Thank you for your honesty! It means a lot.

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13. I just read Iver P. Cooper’s X-Rays! in the 1632 and Beyond Issue 9. He has done an excellent non-fiction article. I have thought that it would be great if a story with a company like GTR Labs of 510 Elk St, Gassaway, WV 26624 were in Grantville when the Ring of Fire happened. Someone has to come up with the new x-ray tubes and scale back down to vacuum tube generators. A town like Grantville would have a few fixed rooms of what I call ‘doc in a box’ variety. 30 KW, 125 KVP generator 4-way float table, a chest bucky, and either a floor stand or a floor to ceiling tubestand. Lots of Vets use an old portable machine or a ‘doc in a box’ room. Vets that do farm animal would have a ‘Chariot’ or handheld machine. But, Grantville will need machines to replace the current bio-med machines that are needed for the hospital.

    The 30KW, 125 KV room last for the life of a Dr. I remember checking out a flouro room that a Dr wanted to sell with her practice as she was retiring. The state inspector didn’t know how to operate the spot device and blew the x-ray tube. Our salesman had one of those old style tubes in his garage. I was able to use it and showed her what he had done. She had forgotten to cock the spot device so he could flouro. Not take spot films. This was in 1987. The room was from the late 40’s.Though it had an image tube, it still had the original B2 flouro screen.

    A Chariot is a wheeled lightweight 10KW portable machine. Usually 30 ma is the maximum the tube can put out.

    Lots of doctor’s offices in 2000 had converted to CR readers. No film, chemistry or dark room needed. A cassette had a screen that stored the light until is was ‘read’ by a laser when the screen was passed through the reader. This was then sent to a monitor to be seen by the doctor.

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14. I really do hope that sometime we will get something about Mike, Bekky, Eddie, Jeff, and all in the main story-line. Is anything in the works that will be out sometime this century?

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15. Is there a particular reader I need to download to read the magazine? I have downloaded issue one and it will not open with the apps I have on my system…

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    1. The epub should work in any ereader, including Kindle, Kobo, etc. There is also an .rtf file that you may have downloaded instead. I don’t use those myself, but I know some readers prefer the .rtf. That probably won’t work with the ereader – although, as I said, I don’t use them and could be wrong. But you definitely should be able to read the .epub on any standard ereader.

       https://kindlepreneur.com/epub-to-kindle/

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16. G’day,

    I don’t have any ability as a storyteller but would like to raise a potential new area where up-timer knowledge could potentially be used to improve productivity in the 1632 universe – the process of the shearing of sheep. I grew up in the Australian bush (i.e. countryside) and was surprised to discover in the piece “A Looming Challenge” by Pam Poggiani in Grantville Gazette IV the following quote from private correspondence from Don Van Nostran from the Mid-States Woolgrowers Cooperative Association, who states that:

    “The shearing of sheep is much faster up-time than down-time. With the old-style hand-clippers, a man could shear 30 plus or minus 10 sheep in one day; with modern powered clippers, he can do about 100 plus or minus 20.”

    My parents ran 2000 First-cross ewes (offspring of a Border Leicester ram and a strong-wool Merino ewe) on 1324 acres outside of the small town of Guyra in the New England tablelands of NSW (the Australian state of New South Wales). Shearing occurred in August, reducing the weight of the ewes in time for spring lambing in September. Our shearing shed had three stands, and shearing of the entire flock (with mechanical shears) was complete within 4 days, so on average our shearers were shearing at least 165 sheep per day. So the figures quoted from Mr. van Nostran were unimpressive.

    I suspect that historical factors may play a part in this difference. The European colonisation of Australia occurred at the same time as the Merino breed of sheep started spreading outside of Spain, and European setters of Australia soon discovered that large parts of Australia had an ideal climate for the raising of merino sheep. The industrial revolution and Europe’s growing population created a ready market for the wool of those sheep, leading to vast stations (the Australian term for a ranch) devoted to raising merino sheep. These large herds needed to be shorn, and professional shearers who moved from station to station shearing sheep as their main job, working out of buildings specifically designed for efficient shearing of sheep soon developed. As shearers were (and are) paid on a piece-rate basis, there was a strong motivation to develop better techniques for the efficient shearing of sheep, and I can provide evidence that Australian full-time professional shearers saw shearing 100 sheep per day with blade shears and 200 with mechanical shears as tough but not unattainable goals for an average Australian shearer.

    The main difficultly is that the improved methods of shearing sheep outlined in the paper may not have been known about in West Virginia, unless an up-timer had travelled to Australia or New Zealand pre-2000 and visited a shearing shed. Perhaps there’s something in this post that could be used in a story.

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    1. Thank you for that. It’s very interesting. Shearing sheep is definitely not an area the West Virginians would know much about. Down-timers, on the other hand, would probably have developed skills that have been lost in the last hundred years or so. (That’s pure speculation, but based on what has happened in many other industries.) If you have any interest in writing non-fiction based on the topic and how 17th century sheep shearers might have plied their trade, we are always looking for interesting non-fiction that ties into our universe and stories!

       Just post it on the 1632 Slush section of Baens Bar.
       https://baensbar.net/

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