Previous / Next Fire Breathing Hogs Written by Kevin H. Evans Prologue Engineer Lothar Schneider walked into the crew office. Glancing up he checked out the assignment boards and spotted his name. Yeah, there it was. He had received the first run. He turned and saw his fireman hang up his time card. “Otto, are […]
i Previous / Next In the Army Now Written by Gorg Huff and Paula Goodlett David Bartley and Johan Kipper got off the train at Camp Saale and looked around. It wasn’t the first time they had been here, but it was their first time as regular army instead of weekend warriors. The camp was […]
Previous / Next Dafydd and Goliath Written by Terry Howard North Anglesey Coast of Wales, August 1635 Squire Dafydd Jones sat at dinner wearing a new velvet jacket over a shirt of the finest linen. The silver on the table sparkled from having been polished and repolished. The finest of everything he had graced the […]
i Previous / Next Daedalus’ New Wings Written by Kerryn Offord Magdeburg, September, 1634 Tracy Kubiak stared at the shop window, not really seeing anything. She was in Magdeburg to inspect the local division of her company, Grantville Canvas and Outdoor, but she was finding it hard to stay motivated. Maybe it was just because […]
Previous / Next A Bell for St. Vasili’s Written by Keith Robertsson November, 1633 “Ux Te!” Kseniya hadn’t at all expected what she was seeing. When Princess Natalia Petrovna hired Father Gavril to come to Grantville and set up a church for the people who were coming to study, she’d mentioned that her brother Vladimir […]
Previous / Next One Fine Day Written By John Zeek Dec. 23, 1633 “Where is it? It’s late,” Heinrich muttered under his breath as he waited impatiently for the tram. Soon he would be out of this nest of heretics. Soon he would far away from this cursed city, this Grantville, the so-called city from […]
Previous / Next An Electrifying Experience Written By Jack Carroll Somewhere in the eastern Harz mountains, 1635 Something’s burning! Stefan Leichtfuss stopped in his tracks to sniff, and began slowly scanning his eyes all around. There! A wisp of smoke was rising out of that new wooden cabinet mounted on the post! Before he could move, there was […]
Previous / Next By Hook or By Crook By Victoria L’Ecuyer Hamburg, January 1633 Someone grabbed Annabet Nutsch and covered her eyes. “Guess who!” Annabet stiffened. She recognized the voice and jabbed her elbow into her brother’s ribs. “Grow up, Johann.” She wrestled free and shook her finger at the tall, gangly young man with […]
Previous Wingless Wonders Written by Kevin H. Evans Lighter-than-air technology is a lot like the game Go. It is easy to learn, but very hard to master. Many countries tried the technology, but only a few managed to master it. By far the largest number of rigid airships were built by Germany. On the other […]
Previous / Next Plausibility Denial or Truth is Stranger Than Fiction Written by Gorg Huff Predictions and Reality Some years ago the barflies who frequent the 1632 Tech Manual, after much debate, came up with the number of computers in Mannington, West Virginia. Which was also the number of computers in Grantville. At the most […]
Previous / Next Better Foundations, Part 1: An Introduction to Concrete Written by Iver P. Cooper Concrete—”Liquid Stone”—has made possible many innovations in architecture. Yet concrete is no Space Age wunderkind; it has its roots in antiquity. Concrete, albeit of a kind inferior to the modern product, was used by the Romans in the construction of […]
Previous / Next Hallelujah, Part One Written by David Carrico Magdeburg – July, 1634 “It’s here! It’s here!” The three men looked around as Marla Linder burst through the door. Next moment, she laid an oblong package on the table in front of them. “What is here?” Franz Sylwester asked his wife. The inevitable smile […]
Previous / Next Turn Your Radio On, Episode One Written by Wood Hughes Prologue April 1634, Grantville, State of Thuringia-Franconia, United States of Europe “Der Kronz” was in an exuberant mood as he walked into the Voice of America offices, whistling an up-timer tune by the name of “Do the Hustle” and without a care […]
Previous / Next High Road to Venice Written by Gorg Huff and Paula Goodlett Merton Smith rolled his wheel chair over to the phone and called up the weather service. “Hi, Dan. How’s it look for a flight to Venice?” “Not horrible. The reports from the weather stations are mostly in. There is a warm […]
Previous / Next The Royal and Ancient Game Written by Mark H. Huston St Andrews Scotland, Winter 1634 James O’Fehl, the butler of Ramsay Manor, wearily tugged open the heavy wooden door to Andrew’s bedchamber. He could see faint streaks of morning light through gaps in the drawn draperies. Andrew was sleeping soundly in the […]
Previous / Next A Gentile in the Family? Written by Terry Howard Late winter 1635 “Sarah? Just what do you think is going to happen when your father finds out?” Rivka asked as they left the grade school. She was one of those precocious little girls who behave like they were born twenty years old […]
Previous / Next First Impressions Written by Iver P. Cooper The pickpocket thought he had spotted an easy mark. First of all, he could tell from the fellow’s clothing that he was a foreigner. So he wouldn’t get the same kind of help if he raised a hue and cry that a citizen would. Secondly, […]
Previous / Next The Creamed Madonna Written by Kerryn Offord Late summer 1635, Jena Dr. Phillip Gribbleflotz was at a bit of a loose end. He’d finally concluded that there was something fundamentally wrong with the theory that pyramid power could be used to invigorate the Quinta Essentia of the human spirit, and had regretfully given up […]
Previous / Next The Anaconda Project, Episode Eight Written by Eric Flint After they left the restaurant—or “café,” rather—Piccolomini glanced up at the sky, which had grown leaden. “Snowing soon,” he said, reaching up and drawing his cloak around him more tightly. Von Mercy followed suit. The temperature wasn’t too bad, but there was something […]
Previous / Next The Anaconda Project, Episode Seven Written by Eric Flint “So, what you think?” asked Piccolomini. The Italian general from Florence who was now in Austrian service raised his cup. The man sitting across from him at the round little table in the small but very crowded restaurant frowned down at the cup […]
Previous / Next More McDonalds Terry Howard This story follows “Bremen or Bust” in Issue 9 and “Clan McDonald” in Issue 11. Officer Lyndon Johnson walked through the green front door of Club 250 in the middle of the lunch rush. The bar was not half as full as it used to be. More and […]
Next Table of Contents The Story So Far . . . by Walt Boyes 1. On the Walls of Wismar by Tim Sayeau 2. The Monkey on the Bible by Chuck Thompson 3. Hatching Iron by Iver P. Cooper 4. Notes from the Buffer Zone: Foreshadowing by Kristine Kathryn Rusch 5. Hot Off Eric Flint’s Ring of Fire […]
Next Table of Contents Grantville Gazette #092 Grantville Gazette, Volume 92Editor-in-Chief ~ Walt Boyes Managing Editor ~ Bjorn Hasseler The Story So Far . . . by Walt Boyes 1. Et Docere et Rerum Exquirere Causas by Virginia DeMarce 2. Lamb of God by A. P. Davidson 3. Last Will by Matias Travieso-Diaz 4. A […]
Next Table of Contents Grantville Gazette #091 Grantville Gazette, Volume 91Editor-in-Chief ~ Walt Boyes Managing Editor ~ Bjorn Hasseler The Story So Far . . . by Walt Boyes 1. There Oughta Be a Law by Virginia DeMarce 2. The Rooster and The Spoon by Natalie Silk 3. Proposal and Counterproposal by Jack Carroll 4. […]
Next Table of Contents Grantville Gazette #097 Grantville Gazette, Volume 97 Editor-in-Chief ~ Walt Boyes Managing Editor ~ Bjorn Hasseler The Story So Far . . . by Walt Boyes 1. Proposal for Angelina by Terry Howard and Jack Carroll 2. Marianne by Mark Roth Whitworth 3. The Evil of Thy Doings. A Calabar’s War […]
Next Table of Contents 1. Faith with Heretics by Virginia DeMarce 2. The First Step by Sean Little 3. Lady Wroth and the Revolution by Sarah Iovan 4. The Kreutzer by George Grant 5. A Puritan Voice, Part 9 by Michael Lockwood 6. Propane, Butane, and Natural Gas in the 1632 Universe by Iver P. […]
Next Table of Contents Grantville Gazette #090 Grantville Gazette, Volume 90Editor-in-Chief ~ Walt Boyes Managing Editor ~ Bjorn Hasseler The Story So Far: Editing In a Plague Year by Walt Boyes 1. First Kiss by Tim Roesch 2. Insomnia, or Dream and Reality by Thomas K. Scot 3. A Puritan Voice, Part 5 by Michael […]
Butterflies in the Kremlin Gorg Huff and Paula Goodlett This serial formed the basis for the 1632 Russia novels published by Baen, 1636: The Kremlin Games, 1637: The Volga Rules, and 1638: The Sovereign States. Butterflies in the Kremlin, Part 1, A Russian Noble (Grantville Gazette #8) Butterflies in the Kremlin, Episode 2, A ‘Merican […]
Essen Chronicles Kim Mackey Essen Chronicles, Part One: Crucibellus (Grantville Gazette #7) Essen Chronicles, Part Two Louis de Geer (Grantville Gazette #8) Essen Chronicles, Part Three Trip to Paris (Grantville Gazette #9)
A Puritan Voice by Michael Lockwood A multi-part saga of travel and betrayal by Michael Lockwood that eventually finds its way, as so many things do, to Grantville. A Puritan Voice, Part 1 (Grantville Gazette 86) A Puritan Voice, Part 2 (Grantville Gazette 87) A Puritan Voice, Part 3 (Grantville Gazettee 88) A Puritan Voice, Part 4 (Grantville Gazette […]
The Aethers of Magdeburg (series) David Carrico and Mark Huston A tale of radio, industrial espionage, and love set in post-Ring of Fire Magdeburg. The Aethers of Magdeburg, Part 1 (Grantville Gazette Volume 90) The Aethers of Magdeburg, Part 2 (Grantville Gazette Volume 91) The Aethers of Magdeburg, Part 3 (Grantville Gazette Volume 92)
Nihonmachi (series)Garrett W. Vance The first part of this was published in a Baen anthology and is not available online, so we are providing a slightly longer summary of that story. This is essentially a tale of three friends. Retired samurai Nishioka Yoriaki, now a humble boatman selling his wife’s delicious bento lunches up and […]
Previous Safety First: Industrial Safety in 1632,Part Two, Technical Aspects Written by Iver P. Cooper Ambrose Bierce, in The Devil’s Dictionary, defined an “accident” as “an inevitable occurrence due to the action of immutable natural laws.” But some industrial accidents are avoidable, and the secret to minimizing them is to know what the hazards of the […]
Previous / Next Standing on the Shoulders of Giants: Mathematics After the Ring of Fire Written by William Truderung The Ring of Fire was an event that shook the world of 1631 to its foundations. One of the disciplines destined to be revolutionized is mathematics, which was still in its infancy at the time. This […]
Previous / Next NONFICTION: What’s For Dinner: Typical Dishes From 1632. Written by Anette Pedersen The common dishes in 1632 were quite different from what most western people eat today, and the following article will try to show what would have been prepared and served in the household of a moderately prosperous craftsman—say a printer […]
Previous / Next Note: This is a story of Marla Linder, Franz Sylwester, and their music. It consists of Sonata, Part One (Grantville Gazette Volume 15), Sonata, Part Two (Grantville Gazette 16), Sonata, Part Three (Grantville Gazette 17), and Sonata, Part Four (Grantville Gazette 18). This touching story is part of 1635: Music and Murder, published by Baen. Sonata, Part […]
Previous / Next Stretching Out,Part Five: Riding the Tiger Written by Iver P. Cooper Marshall’s Creek, Suriname RiverLong Dry Season, 1634 (July-November 1634) Maria Vorst sniffed the wound, and grimaced. “It’s infected.” Her patient shrugged stoically. “How did it happen?” Captain Marshall answered for her charge. “Not sure, but probably just a cut from razorgrass, […]
