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Volume 13 #9: Joseph Hanauer, Part Two

Previous / Next Joseph Hanauer, Part Two:These Things Have No Fixed Measure Written by Douglas W. Jones 12th of Sivan, 5391 ( June 12, 1631 ) As Yossie walked down the road Thursday morning, he was struck by an unlikely fact. His surroundings no longer shocked him. When he’d arrived in Grantville, the well-painted houses […]

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Volume 13 #1: The Anaconda Project, Episode Two

Previous / Next The Anaconda Project, Episode Two Eric Flint Chapter 2 “You look tired, Melissa,” said Judith Roth sympathetically. She gestured to a luxurious divan in the great salon of the Roth mansion. “Please, have a seat.” Melissa Mailey went over to the divan, hobbling a little from the effects of the ten-day journey […]

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1632 & Beyond Issue 11 #8: Available Now

1632 & Beyond 11 #9: Coming Soon

1632 & Beyond Issue 11 #7: The Impact Of Mannington On Grantville And Grantville On Mannington

Previous / Next The Mannigton Minute: The Impact Of Mannington On Grantville And Grantville On Mannington Jackie Britton Lopatin My husband, Leonard Lopatin, and I feel so blessed to be living in historic Mannington, a small town in the West Virginia mountains on Highway 250. When people here would ask us how or why we […]

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1632 & Beyond Issue 11 #7: Economics Are Not Abstract

Previous / Next Economics Are Not Abstract Gorg Huff We act like they are. We assume that they are. But they are not. The economics of Grantville are not the economics of Amsterdam. The principles are the same, but the details are different, and the devil, the weather, and economics are in the details. In […]

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1632 & Beyond Issue 11 #6: Johan and the Purple Pencil

Previous / Next Introduction: Baen Books will publish the novel Red Shield sometime next year. In it, the up-time Scouting organizations merge (mostly to keep down how many volunteers they need) into a single down-time organization called Pioneer Scouts, after the American pioneers. Among other changes, the top award is named the Golden Eagle Award, […]

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1632 & Beyond Issue 11 #5: A Troubled Journey

Previous / Next Marianne previously appeared in “Marianne,” Grantville Gazette 97 and “Finding Her Way,” Grantville Gazette 101. A Troubled Journey Mark Roth-Whitworth Paris Late Spring, 1637 A very young woman loitered in an alley by the street crossing, turned so as not to show the muck-spattered side of her dress, watching the squad of […]

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1632 & Beyond Issue 11 #4: Cittadino In Villa Or The Economy Of The Citizen In The Country

Previous / Next Cittadino In Villa Or The Economy Of The Citizen In The Country Lancelot Schaubert Vincenzo Tanara was currently stuck in a tree trying to not get caught stealing said tree. He liked growing wealth through stealth, preferably long-term stealth wealth. So he was stuck in the tree he was stealing, waiting for a […]

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1632 & Beyond Issue 11 #3: Clan MacDonald

Previous / Next This story follows “Bremen or Bust,” in 1632 & Beyond Issue 9. It originally appeared in The Legend of Jimmy Dick from Ring of Fire Press. Clan MacDonald Terry Howard A Tale of Charles and Charles March 1635 Lyndon Johnson entered Club 250, the most infamous bar in Grantville, across the street […]

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1632 & Beyond Issue 11 #2: The Play’s the Thing

Previous / Next The Quiney brothers have previously appeared in: “Franconia! Part 1,” Grantville Gazette 10 “Franconia! Parts 2 and 3,” Grantville Gazette 25 “Ya’ Gets Yer Money and Ya’ Gets Yer Choice,” Grantville Gazette 26 “Et Docere Et Rerum Exquirere Causas,” Grantville Gazette 92 “One To A Customer,” Grantville Gazette 95 “If You Want […]

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1632 & Beyond Issue 11 #1: Waving Goodbye

Previous / Next Rural Grantville October 1636 George McClenannan Grant It was a cool day for October. Of course, October days tended to be cool since the Ring of Fire. That was fine with Curtis Maggard. He was used to being outdoors in worse. He spent as much time hunting, fishing, and trapping as he […]

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Volume 12 #12: Stretching Out, Part Two

Previous / Next Stretching Out, Part Two, Amazon Adventure Written by Iver P. Cooper Belem do Para, Estado do Maranhão (northern Brazil), Late 1632 Like an arrow falling from heaven, the cormorant plunged into the waters of the Para. For a few seconds it was lost from sight. Then it emerged triumphantly, a fish in its […]

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Volume 12 #1: The Anaconda Project, Episode One

Previous / Next The Anaconda Project, Episode One Written by Eric Flint Chapter 1. The Map “This is absurd,” said Morris Roth, as forcefully as he could. He had a bad feeling that wasn’t very forceful at all, given that he was wearing an absurd costume—he thought it was absurd, anyway, although it was just standard […]

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1632 & Beyond Issue 10 #6: Available Now

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1632 & Beyond Issue 10 #5: Here or There?

Previous / Next Here or There? Virginia DeMarce Regensburg, Upper Palatinate, USEMarch 1637 “I liked Amberg better.” Paolo Fucilla stared nostalgically across the Danube toward the left bank. “Regensburg may grow on you.” Carlo Rugatti heaved a sigh. “It may grow something on us.” Paolo persisted in his gloom. “It’s a low-lying site, with a […]

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1632 & Beyond Issue 10 #4: Come Dig My Earth

Previous / Next Amalia & Maggie Stories “A Christmas Stollen” in 1632 & Beyond Special Christmas Issue #002 “Leftovers” in Grantville Gazette #100 “A Knight’s Tale— Therapies” in 1632 & Beyond Issue #004 “Rites of Passage” in 1632 & Beyond Issue #008 Come Dig My Earth By Edith Wild Jimmy Wild’s Place, Grantville4:50 p.m., February […]

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1632 & Beyond Issue 10 #3: Our Man Hiuchi

Previous / Next This story is part of a set of interconnected stories, the continuing saga of the Nihonmachi Japanese diaspora that began when they were driven from their enclave in Ayutthaya, Siam to Phnom Penh, Khmer, and which will eventually have them reach Grantville, USE. The first part of this episode is a direct […]

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1632 & Beyond Issue 10 #2: Driving Force

Previous / Next Alyse Ballantine Stories “For Want of a Nail” in Grantville Gazette #59 “WWJD Is the Wrong Question” in Grantville Gazette #74 “Before the Barbed Wire’s Strung” in Grantville Gazette #91 “One Woman’s Treasures” in Grantville Gazette #98 Driving Force Sarah Hays GrantvilleFebruary 1636 Alyse Ballantine stopped suddenly. “‘Scuse me, miss. Are you […]

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1632 & Beyond Issue 10 #1: Grantville Gumshoe in the Pre-enactor Murder

Previous / Next Grantville Gumshoe in The Pre-enactor Murder Tom Kidd 1637 Their lies no longer fool me: superheroes, flying cars, antigravity, matter transportation, human-like mechanical beings, space travel, Dick Tracy and his talking wrist-clock, the Worldwide Web of infinite knowledge—it’s all baloney. Their hyena grins and poison ivy handshakes itch at my suspicious mind. […]

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Volume 11 #12: Butterflies in the Kremlin Part Four

Previous / Next Butterflies in the Kremlin, Part Four Written by Gorg Huff and Paula Goodlett Yaroslavich Dacha, outside of Moscow A Dissertation on the Valueof Freedom and Security “Those that give up their freedom for a little temporary security deserve neither freedom or security and ultimately will lose both.” So goes an up-time quote. […]

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Volume 11 #11: Stretching Out, Part One: Second Starts

Previous / Next Stretching Out, Part One: Second Starts Written by Iver P. Cooper Grantville, May 2, 1632 “Race time ten minutes,” blared the speaker. The murmur of the fairground crowd rose, and then subsided. “I can’t believe you talked me into this,” Maria Vorst said. Maria had come to Grantville with her brother Adolph, […]

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Volume 10 #19: The Feast

Previous THE FEAST by Anette Pedersen Guildmaster B in a fair-sized northern European town is giving a party to celebrate his second son’s engagement to the daughter of another guildmaster. Come and let me show you what’s going on. The Street The street leading past the house is not one of the main streets through […]

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Volume 10 #18: All Roads Lead to…

Previous / Next ALL ROADS LEAD. . . . By Iver P. Cooper A seventeenth-century visitor might well think that all roads lead to Grantville, not Rome, because down-time roads pale by comparison. “Captain Gars,” riding on Route 250, noted its “perfect flatness,” and considered it to be “the finest road he had ever seen in his life.” […]

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Volume 10 #17: Herd Immunity

Previous / Next Herd Immunity By Vincent W. Coljee Life, disease and death in the 1630s Imagining life in a small town in Germany in the 1630s is difficult for the average twenty-first century dweller. Picture awaking from an interrupted night’s sleep, courtesy of the local swine brawling in the alley below your bedroom window. […]

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Volume 10 #16: Crude Peniccilin

Previous / Next Crude Penicillin: Potential and Limitations By Kim Mackey “That which we know frequently impedes us in acquiring new knowledge.” Claude Bernard (1813-1878), French physiologist. Background and Early History of Penicillin The Age of Disinfection began with the work of Pasteur and Lister in the 1860s and 1870s. While this initial work focused on […]

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Volume 10 #15: Butterflies in the Kremlin, Part 3

Previous / Next Butterflies in the Kremlin, Part 3:Boris, Natasha . . . But Where’s Bullwinkle By Gorg Huff and Paula Goodlett “Order Kameroff to take his battalion to the west.” The barely bearded Russian wearing two stars on his collar moved his finger along the map, over a set of hills then northwest along a river. “He is […]

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Volume 10 #14: The Doctor Phil Chronicles: Doctor Phil’s Family

Previous / Next The Doctor Phil Chronicles:Doctor Phil’s Family By Kerryn Offord Dr. Gribbleflotz’ office, HDG Enterprizes, Jena Phillip took the next letter from his inbox. It was marked personal, and checking the back, he could see it was from his American friend, Jonathan Fortney. He broke the seal and started reading. He had to […]

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Volume 10 #13: Franconia! Part 1

Previous / Next Franconia! Part 1 by Virginia DeMarce Grantville,February 1634 “No, no, no, no, no, no, n-o-o-o-o.” Amber Higham threw both of her hands up in the air. The class came to a stop. “This unit worked last year. It worked like a charm. Why isn’t it working this year?” She glared at her […]

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Volume 10 #12: Little Angel

Previous / Next Little Angel By Kerryn Offord Grantville,January 1634 Maria Helena Kolb slowly searched the line of trees. Somewhere, hidden in the shadows, she was sure Benji Matheny was hiding in ambush. Time to send in the cannon fodder. “Daisy, Regina, when I give you the word, I want you to run around that tree over […]

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Volume 10 #11: The Prepared Mind

Previous / Next The Prepared Mind By Kim Mackey “Chance favors the prepared mind.” —Louis Pasteur Grantville, May 1632 When Amy Kubiak walked into the biology classroom, Lori Fleming had her head on her desk. Amy smiled. Pete Farmer had been a good biology teacher when Amy had had him in high school. But now […]

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Special Issue 2 #11: The View from Nakatomi Tower

Previous The View from Nakatomi Tower Walt Boyes and Bjorn Hasseler December 24, 1635 The last strains of the soundtrack played, and the credits rolled. The very old, squeaky VHS tape cassette managed to make it through another showing. Out in the auditorium, first the up-timers in the audience started to cheer, then the slightly […]

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Special Issue 2 #10: Sad Spectacles of Deceitful Iniquity at Christmastime

Previous / Next Sad Spectacles of Deceitful Iniquity at Christmastime Eric Flint and Lucille Robbins Nuremberg Nadler’s Apothecary November 21, 1637 Hearing the bell on the door of his apothecary ring, Ulrich Nadler came out of the workroom to see who had entered. He was still working the pestle in the mortar because the concoction […]

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Special Issue 2 #9: One Night Only

Previous / Next One Night Only Michael Lockwood Magdeburg Opera House December 24, 1635 Gunther Wagner nervously popped his knuckles as he paced behind a dropped curtain. On the other side of the curtain, a mindless buzz droned from the audience as they made their way to their seats. He pulled the curtain open just […]

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Special Issue 2 #8: A Christmas Stollen

Previous / Next A Christmas Stollen Edith Wild Grantville High School 1636 The bell rang as Amalia skidded into the locker room. She rushed over to her assigned locker. She quickly undid her padlock, opened her locker, pulled out her PE uniform and sneakers. Amalia placed them on the bench that ran between the rows […]

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Special Issue 2 #7: Natala

Previous / Next Natala Iver P. Cooper Kodachi Machi (Santa Cruz), Monterey Bay November, 1634 “Hold up the child,” said Yamaguchi Takuma. He dipped the pitcher into the water of the San Lorenzo River, then lifted it up again, a few droplets scattering as he did so. “I baptize thee Luis Goto, in the name […]

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Special Issue 2 #6: Santa’s Lapp

Previous / Next Santa’s Lapp George Haberberger North of the Ume River, Sweden December, 1633 The sun came up in a different place than yesterday, Erik was sure. He was sitting on a pile of reindeer pelts, sitting so that a rock and a pine were aligned on his left, and two pine trees were […]

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Special Issue 2 #5: No Proper Carol

Previous / Next No Proper Carol Sarah Hays November 29, 1638 “Mama,” Marty Haag Ballantine said. “Have you ever heard the song about the herd of haunted cattle?” Alyse Ballantine, surprised at the breakfast table, asked, ” ‘Ghost Riders in the Sky’?” He nodded. “Sure,” Alyse said. “I like Roy Clark’s instrumental best, but my […]

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Special Issue 2 #4: Christmas at the Schickelmans

Previous / Next Christmas at the Schickelmans John Deakins 1637 The misplaced Pequot/Englishman Eliezer St. Clair had homesteaded as a blacksmith on a creek short of West Point. The Dutch patroon Kiliaen van Rensselaer had given his family more than a dozen acres on the river’s north side. Gerhard Schickelman and his wife Anke Janssen […]

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Special Issue 2 #3: At Christmas Time

Previous / Next At Christmas Time Mark Huston Based on the Anton Chekov story “What shall I write, old woman?” “A letter to my daughter. And her husband,” replied Hilde. They were sitting in the smoky common room of the village inn. “For Christmas,” she added with a stiff nod to the young man who […]

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Special Issue 2 #2: The Gift

Previous / Next The Gift Chuck Thompson Grantville December, 1636 Most mornings, before rising, Inez Wiley liked to warm her brain by going over her plans for the next few days. She had gotten halfway through tomorrow when a sound interrupted her thoughts. Skritch skritch. Skritch skritch. “Better be that tabby alley cat scratching at […]

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Special Issue 2 #1: Grantville’s Secret Santa

Previous / Next Grantville’s Secret Santa Jackie Britton Lopatin “Oh, I remember my first Grantville Christmas.” The elderly woman spoke to her large audience from the podium. “It was amazing.” “I had recently started working part-time at the newspaper office so I was able to earn some rent money while learning more about journalism. The […]

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1632 & Beyond Special Issue 002

Welcome to our Special Issue #2, Christmas 2024. We hope you enjoy it! Next Introduction and Table of ContentsBjorn Hasseler Introduction Magdeburg Messenger (1632 Fiction) 1. Grantville’s Secret Santa Jackie Britton Lopatin 2. The Gift Chuck Thompson 3. At Christmas Time Mark Huston 4. Christmas at the Schickelmans John Deakins 5. No Proper Carol Sarah […]

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Special Issue 1 #8: Nobody’s Going Home

Previous / Next Nobody’s Going Home Virginia DeMarce Amberg, Upper Palatinate December, 1636 “I didn’t expect that I wouldn’t be able to go home for Christmas this year.” Madeline Clinter pouted, half-serious and half-not-so-serious. “The way things have turned out, we’d have been better off if they’d left the normal school in Grantville.” “Nope.” Lizzy […]

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Special Issue 1 #6: The Glad Game

Previous / Next The Glad Game Bethanne Kim Croat Raid, Grantville August, 1632 Adam Holst fought to keep his horse under control. At twenty-four, Adam fancied himself hardened to battles and their aftermath, but his horse was a different story. Storm just didn’t have the instincts, or personality, of a war horse in spite of […]

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Special Issue 1 #5: A Christmas for Kjell

Previous / Next A Christmas for Kjell George Grant Allgutsrum Kyrka, Allgutsrum, Öland, Sweden December 13, 1632, Julian Calendar (December 24, Gregorian Calendar) The Winter Solstice Hindric Carlsson could see that his sister, Gertrud, was nervous about the lit candles on her head. She was playing Saint Lucia in the procession, so she was wearing […]

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Special Issue 1 #4: A Weimaraner Christmas

Previous / Next A Weimaraner Chrismas Walt Boyes Weimar End of November, 1638 Adolph Graube, jagdmeister to Duke Albrecht of Weimar, looked up as someone came into his tiny office in the stables. It was his former boss, Gerhard Schmidt. There was barely enough space in the office for a table and a chair, so […]

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Special Issue 1 #3: The Gift of the Puppet

Previous / Next The Gift of the Puppet Tracy S. Morris Denis paused mid-step as he walked through the door of the apartment that he shared with Betsy above her mother’s garage. It looked like the North Pole exploded across their tiny home. Bits of tinsel, wrapping paper, and ornaments lay scattered across the floor […]

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Special Issue 1 #2: It’s Tradition

Previous / Next It’s Tradition Anne Keener Grantville December, 1633 Joseph Kantor sank into his chair as his homeroom teacher started talking about holiday traditions, presentations, and a class party. She means a Christmas party, he thought. I wonder if I can leave school early that day. Otherwise, I’ll have to decide if it is […]

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Special Issue 1 #1: A Christmas in the Wonderland Isles

Previous / Next A Christmas in the Wonderland Isles Garrett W. Vance Port Looking Glass, Dodo Island Early December, 1637 Pers watched the sunrise over the Indian Ocean. Sol’s bloated red orb glistened as if wet from crawling out of the tepid waters. Port Looking Glass’ sprawl of diverse structures, nearly all painted in rich […]

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Issue 9 #7: Available Now and Coming Soon

Issue 9 #6: X-Rays!

Previous / Next X-Rays! Iver Cooper X-rays may be used for medical imaging and treatment, metallurgical examination, and chemical characterization. How soon will this be possible in the 1632 Universe? X-Rays X-rays are a high-energy form of electromagnetic radiation. On the electromagnetic spectrum, they lie in between ultraviolet and gamma rays. Surprisingly, there isn’t an […]

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Issue 9 #5: Rose-Hip & Red Velvet

Previous / Next Rose-Hip & Red Velvet Tim Sayeau Grantville August, 1637 Adina Daoud surveyed her family sitting around the kitchen table. Joe Russo, her husband, still in his EMT uniform, sat next to their adopted son, Lorenz Buechner Russo. Seated catty-corner from the guys were the two Daoud-Russo daughters still at home, Elizabeth Suzanne […]

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Issue 9 #4: The Rice Farmer’s Daughter And The Samurai

Previous / Next The Rice Farmer’s Daughter And The Samurai Garrett W. Vance Nishioka House, Nihonmachi, Phnom Penh, Kingdom of Khmer, Indochina 1635 The stoic people of Nihonmachi worked mostly in silence as they went about the grim task of cleaning up after a brief, brutal pitched battle. A relatively small number of Ishida’s samurai […]

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Issue 9 #3: Family Matters

Previous / Next Family Matters Marc Tyrrell Chapman House, Grantville Friday, June 4, 1632, 6:15 p.m. “Do you know what that idiot brother of mine just did?!?” Gerald Chapman’s voice was loud enough that everyone in the house, and probably most of the neighbors, could hear him. His wife, Leah, rolled her eyes as she […]

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Issue 9 #2: Bremen or Bust

Previous / Next Bremen or Bust Terry Howard Grantville Friday evening, December 23, 1634 On Christmas Eve, white-haired, skinny as a rail Asa, and gray-haired, frail, and nearly emaciated Dory, dressed in their pajamas, were ready for bed. Wrapped in bathrobes, they sat on the French Provincial couch in front of the fireplace with its […]

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Issue 9 #1: Unintended Consequences

Previous / Next Unintended Consequences George Grant Boston May 1635 Mr. Roger Ludlow looked around his new office with satisfaction. While cruder than anything he would have inhabited in England, as far as he was concerned it was the best there was in the New World. He had achieved his highest ambition. Last year he […]

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Volume 10 #10: None so Blind

Previous / Next None So Blind By David Carrico MagdeburgJanuary, 1635 The slap knocked Willi sprawling, eyes watering with pain. He had to bite his lip hard to keep from crying out. “Five nothings!” Willi felt Uncle’s hand grab the back of his rags and haul him up. The hand shook him so hard he […]

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Volume 10 #9: Grand Tour

Previous / Next Grand Tour By Iver P. Cooper My name is Mister Thomas Hobbes. If you are one of the Americans from the future, you know me as a political philosopher, the praised and reviled author of Leviathan. If you are a fellow down-timer, in this Year of Our Lord 1633, then you probably don’t […]

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Volume 10 #8: Fiddling Stranger

Previous / Next Fiddling Stranger By Russ Rittgers August 1633 Dolf was the first in his farming village to notice the stranger. Not that strangers walking or riding past on their way to or from Aschersleben were unusual. He was ten, old enough to have finished his formal schooling, or so his father said. “Got […]

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Volume 10 #7: The Launcher

Previous / Next The Launcher By Richard Evans Bern, Swiss Confederacy, Early Spring, 1634 “Will this spot work?” “Looks high enough.” A few steps toward the edge of the cliff let Peter gaze down toward the ever—but slowly—growing lake below. The lake, cut out of the fast-flowing River Aare, had been intended to slow the […]

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Issue 8 #6: Available Now and Coming Soon

Issue 8 #6: Stilettos, Part 2

Previous / Next Stilettos, Part 2 Bethanne Kim In up-time West Virginia, a stiletto was a type of women’s shoe with an exceptionally high, exceedingly thin heel. By 2000, most people had forgotten the 1950s origins of the name. Stiletto high heels were named for a specific type of Italian knife with an unusually long, […]

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Issue 8 #5: Emancipation and Education

Previous / Next Emancipation and Education Terry Howard Grantville September 1636 Reverend Mary Ellen Jones had a dilemma. It was Wednesday evening after the midweek service and choir practice, early in September 1636. A nervous young man named William Schmid was waiting until he could speak to her alone. “Reverend Jones, I need your assistance. […]

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Issue 8 #4: The Diablo is in the Details

Previous / Next The Diablo is in the Details Aaron Jameison Greso Venice Late May 1634 Zuan, the pilot boat’s oarsman, kept smiling as he bobbed his head. “They were standing in a line outside the door of the new CPE embassy. I’d swear to it.” “Why would anyone stand in line to buy a […]

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Issue 8 #3: A Week Together

Previous / Next A Week Together Bjorn Hasseler This story follows “Reed and Kathy Sue” (Grantville Gazette 64 and IX). Kathy Sue and Reed wrote letters to each other while Reed was deployed in support of Third Division from June 1635 to March 1636. Reed just returned home the previous evening after the events of […]

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Issue 8 #2: Rites of Passage

Previous / Next Rites of PassageEdith Wild Amalia von Herbert and Maggie Vogel have appeared in three previous stories: “A Christmas Stollen” in A 1632 Christmas “Leftovers” in Grantville Gazette 100 “A Knight’s Tale – Therapies” in 1632 & Beyond Issue 4 Herr Johannes Esslie’s Math Classroom, Grantville High SchoolAfter School, February 2, 1637 Johannes […]

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Volume 8 #1: How Lovely Are Thy Branches

Previous / Next How Lovely Are Thy Branches Garrett W. Vance Dodo Island, The Wonderland Isles Colonies December 21, 1637 It was just before sunrise as Pers finished up his simple breakfast of bread, cheese, and a thin slice of dried beef. Having grown up at sea, he had never developed a taste for what […]

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1632 & Beyond Issue #008

Volume 10 #2: A Filthy Story

Previous / Next A Filthy Story by Aamund Breivik Daniel Pedersson cursed, and swung the entrenching tool again. It went splat instead of crack, again, and he cursed some more. Not that swearing helped; he was already covered in filthy sewage slush beyond all imagination. The supply depot’s jury-rigged sewer system had worked fine all summer, but now […]

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Volume 10 #1: On The Matter of D’Artagnan

Previous / Next On The Matter of D’Artagnan by Bradley H. Sinor “Charlton Heston or Tim Curry?” mused Cardinal Richelieu. Since there was no one else in the room, the chief minister to His Majesty Louis XIII of France was speaking for his own benefit. Richelieu sat in a large chair behind the huge desk […]

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Writing a Profiler

December 6, 2024 1632 & Beyond, 1632verse, From the Editor, Writing Advice by 1632 & Beyond Leave a Comment

Bjorn Hasseler In 2017, I slushed a story called “Sunshine.” Susan Diana “Sunshine” Moritz appeared in some early Gazette stories and was mostly known for being Willow Moritz’s younger sister and a much less sympathetic […]

Writing Reed & Kathy Sue Burroughs

November 14, 2024 1632 & Beyond, 1632verse, From the Editor, Grantville Gazette, Uncategorized, Writing Advice by Bjorn Hasseler 1 Comment

By Bjorn Hasseler The one hard and fast rule about a story is “don’t bore the reader.” The rest are recommendations—because you can find exceptions to all the other “rules.” But if you’re just starting […]

Some News to Share

October 31, 2024 1632 & Beyond, 1632verse by TimeSpiker Leave a Comment

Hail Friends, I will begin with a little reminiscing, then share some news with you. I became the Art Director of the Grantville Gazette back in 2008 with Volume 15 after my dear friend Paula […]

Volume 9 #27: Butterflies In The Kremlin, Episode 2, A ‘Merican in Moscow

Previous / Next Butterflies In The Kremlin, Episode 2A ‘Merican in Moscow by Gorg Huff and Paula GoodlettSpring, 1633 “Home,” Boris sighed then waved at the white stone walls of the Kremlin which stood sixty feet tall and dominated the mostly wooden city of Moscow. Bernie Zeppi, after the long trip, didn’t care if it […]

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Volume 9 #25: The Essen Chronicles, Part 3: Trip to Paris

Previous / Next Note: The Essen Chronicles series consists of several parts, Crucibellus (Grantville Gazette #7), Louis de Geer (Grantville Gazette #8) and Trip to Paris (Grantville Gazette #9) The Essen Chronicles, Part 3: Trip to Paris by Kim MackeyChapter One October 1632 was an eventful month for Josh and Colette Modi. Their first wedding anniversary prompted Colette […]

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Volume 9 #4: Those Daring Not So Young Men

Previous / Next Those Daring Not So Young Men by Rick Boatright “Thank you for coming.” “Of course we came, lass.” “At least it’s over now.” “Over? What’s over?” “This steam nonsense.” “Tisn’t nonsense, lass. Your grandfather died because he got the last bit working.” “It’s still nonsense, Mr Iverson.” She pointed at the “monster” in […]

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Volume 8 #15: Butterflies in the Kremlin: Part 1

Previous / Next Butterflies in the Kremlin: Part 1A Russian Noble by Gorg Huff and Paula GoodlettSpring, 1632 Boris Ivanovich Petrov pulled the horse to a stop and looked around. “This place is almost worth the trip. See the cuts in the earth where the land was changed. Look at these hills. The structure is […]

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Volume 8 #14: The Essen Steel Chronicles, Part 2

Previous / Next Note: The Essen Chronicles series consists of several parts, Crucibellus (Grantville Gazette #7), Louis de Geer (Grantville Gazette #8) and Trip to Paris (Grantville Gazette #9) The Essen Steel Chronicles, Part 2Louis de Geer by Kim MackeyJuly, 1631 Louis de Geer refolded the letters from his niece in Grantville. Interesting information, he thought. But he […]

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Volume 8 #13: The Doctor Gribbleflotz Chronicles Part 3

Previous / Next The Doctor Gribbleflotz Chronicles, Part 3Doctor Phil’s Distraction By Kerryn OffordApril 1635, The rectory, St. Martin’s in the Fields. South of Rudolstadt Yesterday I helped Stepmama turn Papa’s old Geneva gown. We unpicked the seams, darned threads to reinforce the worst worn spots and re-dyed the fabric before hand sewing it back […]

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Amish Country and 1632

October 10, 2024 1632 & Beyond, 1632verse by Bethanne Kim 1 Comment

Following up on my recent post about the Frontier Culture Museum, I ran across this related post I started last winter. Given how succesful I felt the museum visit was, I think my instinct that […]

The Frontier Culture Museum

September 18, 2024 1632 & Beyond, 1632verse, Blog, non-fiction by Bethanne Kim

I have driven past signs for “this “The Frontier Culture Museum” off Interstate 81 in Virginia many times and have often thought about stopping there, but we were always in a rush to get somewhere. Finally, on the way home from DragonDon 2024, we had the time. As an added bonus, we had perfect weather. […]

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1632 & Beyond Issue 7 #5: Mail From Up-Time, Episode 2: Atlantic Giant

Previous Mail From Up-Time, Episode 2: Atlantic Giant By George Grant Editor’s Note: “Mail From Up-Time” appeared in Issue 5. The stories are connected by the discovered mail but do not share any characters. In “Mail From Up-Time”, the author established that some mail for people left up-time was set aside for later delivery […]

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1632 & Beyond Issue 7 #4: Summer’s Kitchen

Previous / Next Summer’s Kitchen Marc Tyrrell Editor’s Note:s Various combinations of Sandy, Summer, Bob, Paul, and Helmut previously appeared in: “Schrödinger’s Spouse,” Grantville Gazette 102 “A Meeting at Midsummer, Part 1,” Eric Flint’s 1632 & Beyond, Issue 2 “A Meeting at Midsummer, Part 2,” Eric Flint’s 1632 & Beyond, Issue 3 “Making Hay While […]

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1632 & Beyond Issue 7 #3: Stilettos

Previous / Next Stilettos Bethanne Kim Grantville High School CafeteriaOne Month Before Prom, Spring 1636 Ryan Bonnaro couldn’t help but grin. His friend looked like a lovelorn Italian straight out of a movie. The fact that the lovelorn Italian in question had become one of his best friends since he arrived in Grantville was the […]

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1632 & Beyond Issue 7 #2: Trudi’s Trenchers

Previous / Next Trudi’s Trenchers Gorg Huff Editor’s Note: Trudi von Bachmerin was previously seen in 1636: The Viennese Waltz. Grantville High SchoolMonday, November 3, 1631 Trudi von Bachmerin looked at the high school in something close to terror. This was her first trip to Grantville and the wide, blacktopped Route 250 had been only […]

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1632 & Beyond Issue 7 #1: Ceaseless the River Runs

Previous / Next Ceaseless, The River Runs By Garrett W. Vance Previously in this storyline: Retired samurai Nishioka Yoriaki and his wife Nishioka Momo fled fled the Nihonmachi Japanese enclave in Ayutthaya for Safety in Phnom Phen, Cambodia with help from their friend and Dutch captain Blom Coneliszoon. Five years later, Blom returns to take them […]

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1632 & Beyond Issue #007

Volume 7 #11: Essen Steel, Part 1: Crucibellus

Previous / Next Note: The Essen Chronicles series consists of several parts, Crucibellus (Grantville Gazette #7), Louis de Geer (Grantville Gazette #8) and Trip to Paris (Grantville Gazette #9) Essen Steel, Part 1: Crucibellus By Kim Mackey Chapter One By early morning they had passed beyond the siege lines and lay hidden in a copse of woods four […]

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Volume 7 #10: Dr. Phil Zinkens A Bundle

Previous / Next Dr. Phil Zinkens A Bundle By Kerryn Offord Jena, 1633 The new chemical “battery” was most interesting. Just by adding two electrodes of different metal into a glass container of weak oil of vitriol one could generate enough of the new electricity to light the small light bulb. Dr. Phillip Theophrastus Gribbleflotz […]

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Volume 7 #9:The Dr. Gribbleflotz Chronicles, Part 2

Previous / Next The Dr. Gribbleflotz Chronicles, Part 2Dr. Phil’s Amazing Essence Of Fire Tablets By Kerryn Offord and Rick Boatright 1633, Jena, Dr. Gribbleflotz’s office Dr. Phillip Theophrastus Gribbleflotz took another look at the bill. He was spending that much on candles? Surely not. “Frau Mittelhausen. This bill for candles. Who has been using wax candles […]

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Volume 89 #3: A Puritan Voice, Part 4

Previous / Next A Puritan Voice, Part 4by Michael Lockwood Chapter 4: Outside Amiens Phillippe looked around him trying to gauge if Gerard was where he needed to be before Phillippe could begin his part of the plan. Gerard was to circle quietly around the Englishman’s campsite to intercept him should he try to flee. […]

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Volume 87 #6: A Puritan Voice, Part 2

A Puritan Voice, Part 2by Michael Lockwood Previous / Next Chapter 2: Rouen Nicholas ducked into a random shop door just as the skies opened up with a sudden icy blast of sleet. Sharp, familiar smells wafted into his nose on swirling eddies of warm air mixing with the cold from the door as he […]

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Volume 86 #5: A Puritan Voice Part 1

Next A Puritan Voice Part 1by Michael Lockwood Chapter 1: Le Havre Nicholas Knapp, known aboard the ship by the stolen name of Jean-Marc Crevier, stood at the bow of the ship, enjoying his first taste of freedom from his cramped cabin in months. His first taste of cold freedom, he thought as he wrapped […]

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Volume 6 #12: Dr. Phil’s Aeolian Transformers

Previous / Next Dr. Phil’s Aeolian TransformersKerryn Offord and Rick Boatright Jena It had been a hard day of almost wasted discussions with the scholars at the university. John Grover and Ken Butcher, accompanied by Derrick Mason, a young radio operator on loan from the army, had been trying to identify the materials and skills […]

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