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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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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 #6: The Salon

Previous / Next The Salon By Paula Goodlett and Gorg Huff “Ah . . .” The sound of a throat clearing drew Heather’s attention away from the paperwork on her desk at Trommler Records. “Hey, Jacob. What’s up?” “It is Thursday, Heather. I wanted to leave about three so I can attend the salon.” “Salon?” “The salon at […]

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Volume 10 #5: Twenty-eight Men

Previous / Next Twenty-eight Men by Mark Huston January, 1635 The cold wind cut through to the very core of the men as they walked to the entrance of the mine. It was dark, well before dawn, in the dead time of the night. The cold was complete, a January cold, dry, harsh and sharp. […]

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Volume 10 #4: NCIS: Lies, Truths and Consequences

Previous / Next NCIS: Lies, Truths and Consequences By Jose J. Clavell “You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.” John 8:32 Naval HeadquartersMagdeburg Navy YardMagdeburg, USE 0900 Hours Local In the charming vernacular of his time, the admiral was ready to have kittens. The tension in his office was thick […]

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Volume 10 #3: Star Crossed

Previous / Next Star Crossed By Terry Howard “Yoo hoo! Manuel!” When Emmanuel Onofrio heard Verlinda Fritz yoohooing down the hall, his mind yelled, “Run!” He was looking forward to a quiet, restful lunch in the teacher’s lounge. Keeping the rowdy kids in line so the others could learn seemed to get harder year by […]

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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 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 […]

Volume 9 #32: White Gold

Previous White Gold by Kerryn Offord As the gentle winds blow, you look out from the veranda of your plantation house over the acres of sugar cane. What you see isn’t fields of cane. What you see is fields of gold. The white gold called sugar, slowly growing to maturity. In Pernambuco in the early […]

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Volume 9 #31: The Daily Beer

Previous / Next The Daily Beer by Anette PedersenThe Importance of Beer Beer was food. Before the potato arrived in Northern and Central Europe, barley, rye and oats were the main sources of nutrients. Of these, barley was the easiest and most robust crop. Barley isn’t that good as bread or porridge, so almost the […]

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Volume 9 #30: A Tempest In a Baptistry

Previous / Next A Tempest In a Baptistry by Terry Howard The question of re-baptism and the distress it caused in the sixteen hundreds, including what has at times been described as bloody murder, is still with us. In 1965, President Johnson’s daughter Luci was re-baptized into the Roman Catholic Church. While most of the […]

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Volume 9 #29: The Sound of Mica

Previous / Next The Sound of Mica by Iver P. Cooper It is the year 1634, and the Voice of America is on the air. Since the VOA is an AM (amplitude modulation) radio station, speech and music are encoded as fluctuations in the amplitude (intensity) of a radio-frequency carrier wave. The radio waves, emanating […]

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Volume 9 #28: Radio in 1632, Part 3

Previous / Next Radio in 1632, Part 3 by Rick Boatright In our two previous discussions of telecommunications in the 1632 series, we focused on radio communications uniquely available to up-timers (“Radio in the 1632 Universe,” Grantville Gazette, Volume One) , and to wired communications (“So You Want to do Telecommunications in 1633,” Grantville Gazette, Volume Two). In this […]

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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 #26: At the Cliff’s Edge

Previous / Next At the Cliff’s Edge by Iver P. Cooper Friedrich Adelsohn, Captain of the Third Company of the Mounted Constabulary of the State of Thuringia-Franconia, stared at the ox. The ox stared right back. After a moment, it lowered its gaze, and resumed its attempts to convert the roadside into a nicely trimmed […]

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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 #24: The Transmitter

Previous / Next The Transmitter by Gorg Huff “But the article says that Monsieur Bell’s selenium cells had a resistance of one hundred to three hundred oms!” Piair La Corrian pointed imperiously at a pile of papers on his desk. “That’s a variation of two hundred watts. With one positive and the next negative, four […]

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Volume 9 #23: The Order of the Foot

Previous / Next The Order of the Foot by Richard Evans Grantville Police Department OfficesA Monday morning, early winter 1634 “We’ve had another complaint about Bigfoot, Chief. This time over by the fairgrounds where the locals store their flocks before they can be sold and then processed at the slaughterhouse.” Officer Ralph Onofrio looked up […]

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Volume 9 #22: Safe at First Base

Previous / Next Safe at First Base by Mark H Huston “I tell you, I saw it in the movie. Plain as the nose on your face. And you have a large nose, Johan. The up-time device looked just like this—” “Heinrich. Listen to yourself. Movies are like dreams; they are not real. This is reality.” With […]

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Volume 9 #21: Little Jammer Boys

Previous / Next Little Jammer Boys by Kim Mackey The terrified servant handed the message to Johnny von Sachsen as he and his younger brother, Augi, entered the elector’s palace in Dresden. It was terse and to the point. Come to my bedchambers. Now. In their father’s handwriting. John George I, Elector of Saxony, was […]

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Volume 9 #19: Waves of Change

Previous / Next Waves of Change by Paula Goodlett and Gorg Huff “I WANT TO LISTEN!!!” Joseph screamed, making it impossible for anyone to listen. “For God’s sake, girl. Let your brother listen to the damned thing.” “But, Papa . . .” Marie couldn’t help the whine in her voice. Papa raised his hand. Marie […]

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Volume 9 #20: Try Try Again

Previous / Next Try, Try Again by Paula Goodlett “It isn’t right.” Marie lowered her eyes so that her employer wouldn’t see the glare she couldn’t suppress. “Ma’am, I did what the package said to do. Twice.” She picked up the container of Spirits of Hartshorn and tried to get Frau Werrin to look at […]

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Volume 9 #18: If at First You Don’t Succeed . . .

Previous / Next If at First You Don’t Succeed . . . by Paula Goodlett “That will never work.” Margaret looked up at her younger brother, Nathan, and stuck her tongue out at him. “Says you. And what do you know, what with all your years of experience?” “Pa says it won’t work. And you’ve […]

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Volume 9 #17: Tool or Die

Previous / Next Tool or Die by Karen Bergstralh Late January, 1632 Martin Schmidt walked briskly down the Tech Center hallway, his mind full of plans. The thread rolling machine was working well and he was eager to take the next step and build a drop forge. A drop forge needed a source of power […]

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Volume 9 #16: Ultralight

Previous / Next Ultralight by Sean Massey Wismar, GermanyMarch, 1635 Flight had taken hold of Johann Rommel. Since the thirty-something merchant from Wismar first saw the American air force in action last October, he had decided he wanted one of their strange flying beasts, something they called an air craft, for himself. After several months of […]

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Volume 9 #15: The Minstrel Boy

Previous / Next The Minstrel Boy by John Zeek Saturday morning, February 1634 “Well, that’s that.” Bill Frank lowered the hood of the new rail engine. “Though I have no idea how we’re going to deliver it.” Hagen Filss, who had been handing him tools, responded, “Maybe when Sergeant Hatfield and Private Schultz get back […]

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Volume 9 #14: Moonraker

Previous / Next Moonraker by Karen Bergstralh The black hull towered above Monsieur De Roche. It was the pinnacle of his dreams and the final blow to his shipyard. Copper cladding gleamed in the late afternoon sun. The loans to buy that alone would sink him. The ship hung above his head, supported for a […]

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Volume 9 #13: Pocket Money

Previous / Next Pocket Money by John and Patti Friend Kloee glared at Emery, as Dakota held up a dried cob. “So this is the big deal you found to get us some extra money?” Kloee and her kin were meeting in Papaw Murray’s barn because it was the one place they could go without […]

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Volume 9 #12: Wings on the Mountain

Previous / Next Wings on the Mountain by Terry Howard The regulars left the table nearest the fire when the strangers came in. At the base of the Matterhorn summer nights are chilly, so a fire is welcome starting in the late afternoon. Strangers paid much higher prices for everything and the whole village, not […]

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Volume 9 #11: Under the Tuscan Sun

Previous / Next Under the Tuscan Son by Iver CooperNovember, 1633 Curzio Inghirami had learned a great deal during his visit to Grantville, but he now was back home at Villa Scornello, the family seat. It was a few miles outside of Volterra, a town in the grand duchy of Tuscany. He beckoned to one […]

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Volume 8 #10: Water Wings

Previous / Next Water Wings by Terry HowardSomewhere in the North Sea The line arcing off the boat kinked between deck and water. Eric, watching for just that, yelled to the crew uncoiling the stiff hose, “Hold it! Back it up!” Then the kink swelled a bit. Eric screamed, “Back it up! Back it up […]

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Volume 8 #9: Gearhead

Previous / Next Gearhead by Mark H Huston It was quiet. Way too quiet. Of all the things Trent Haygood hated about the seventeenth century, the quiet was the worst. He missed the sounds of engines. Internal combustion engines. Hell, he’d be happy with some noise from a steam engine. As he sat on the […]

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Volume 9 #8: Fly Like a Bird

Previous / Next Fly Like a Bird by Loren Jones Paul Meinhart left Grantville in the autumn of 1632, but not before he spent several months in the Grantville jail. He’d been imprisoned for such a stupid little thing, yet the Americans had treated him like a murderer. The one good thing that came out […]

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