Welcome to our September 2026 issue. We hope you enjoy it!
Table of Contents
Introduction and Editor’s Notes Bjorn Hasseler
Magdeburg Messenger (fiction)
1. A Duty to Home Síân Reid
2. No One Stands Alone Brad Banner & Bobbie Banner
3. Netanel And Sarah’s Story Natalie Silk
4. It Was Just A Joke! Tim Sayeau
5. Out of the Frying Pan, Into the Friar Todd S. Jones
Nonfiction
6. Mannington Minute Jackie Britton Lopatin
Eric Flint’s 1632 & Beyond
Issue 19
A new 1632 book is out! 1637: The Pilgrim’s Passage by Eric Flint and Griffin Barber.
This year’s 1632 convention will be at Philcon in Cherry Hill, New Jersey on November 20-22. (That is the weekend before Thanksgiving in the US.) If you are going, please let us know in the Facebook group.
A roleplaying game is on the way! Steve Jackson Games will publish GURPS Ring of Fire for the fourth edition of GURPS (Generic Universal RolePlaying System). You can find out more at sjgames.com. If you were part of the BackerKit, you have probably received an email about digital rewards.
In this issue, we welcome three more new authors. We don’t have an official theme, but all these stories are about people in some sort of trouble.
Magdeburg Messenger
(Fiction)
Síân Reid’s first 1632 & Beyond story is “A Duty To Home.” It’s about a girl from the Three Leagues who has been working in Grantville. The cover illustration is inspired by this story.
“No One Stands Alone” is co-written by father and daughter Brad Banner and Bobbie Banner. This is Bobbie Banner’s first story. It examines sexual abuses and its effects.
“Netanel and Sarah’s Story” by Natalie Silk shows how one of the families in “Down This Path” (Issue 5) came to be in Zaborstadt.
“It Was Just A Joke!” but some people don’t have a sense of humor. Find out what happened in Tim Sayeau’s story.
Remember the mercenaries who were told to leave the Grantville area? There’s always someone who just doesn’t get it. In his first story, Todd Jones relates what happens when a couple chance meetings on the road escalate.
Columns
Jackie Britton Lopatin updates us on what’s going on in Mannington: construction.
Coming Soon:
With the publication of 1637: The Pilgrim’s Passage, we have arrived at what’s been a rare state of affairs in the last quarter-century: There are no new 1632 book on the publication schedule.
But we know a little about what’s coming…
1637: Their Finest Hour
1638: The Hinge of Fate
These might not be the next two, because…
…there will be more…
