Welcome to our July l2025 issue. We hope you enjoy it!
Table of Contents
Note: You can open a copy of the Redbird Map with this link.
State Library Papers
What Is Redbird? and Map of the Redbird Institute (scroll down for the map) Bethanne Kim
Redbird Reader
1. Chautauqua, Disney, And The World’s Fair Bjorn Hasseler
2. But Will It Play In Peoria? Tracy Morris
3. Renamed Bethanne Kim
4. Escaping The What-Ifs Mike Knopp
5. A Flask And A Handshake Natalie Silk
6. That Old Chestnut George McClellan Grant
7. To Kill A Redbird Marc Tyrrell
Dragon Awards
(More) State Library Papers: Available Now and Coming Soon
This issue of Eric Flint’s 1632 & Beyond is the first one in which all the stories focus on a single theme. That is Redbird Institute, a new STEM, arts, and vacation venue a few miles east of the Ring of Fire.
State Library Papers
(Non-Fiction)
This is our first issue that opens with a non-fiction article. It’s “What is Redbird?” by Bethanne Kim. It’s background information for the entire issue.
Redbird Reader
(Fiction)
The tale begins with Countess Emelie and Count Ludwig Guenther in “Chautauqua, Disney, and the World’s Fair” by Bjorn Hasseler.
There’s also a traveling component which faces an early challenge in Tracy Morris’s “But Will It Play In Peoria?”
Opportunities arise, and some people seize them in “Renamed” by Bethanne Kim.
Redbird is up in steep hills and needs a special railroad. Not all experiments go well. See Michael Knopp’s “Escaping The What-Ifs.”
More opportunities arise in “A Flask And A Handshake” by Natalie Silk. But you do want those close to you to take them?
George McClellan Grant relates the building of Redbird from an unusual perspective in “That Old Chestnut.”
Not everyone is a fan, as we find out in Marc Tyrrell’s “To Kill A Redbird.”
These stories take us from idea to construction to the opening days of the first season. In next issue (#13), we will explore more stories set during Redbird’s first season.
Dragon Awards
The Dragon Awards are voted on by fans and announced at Dragon Con, Labor Day weekend each year. There’s an alternate history category. Several 1632/Ring of Fire books have been nominated for the Dragon over the years, with 1637: No Peace Beyond the Line winning.
You’re going to vote for the book you’re going to vote for.
But if you need a suggestion: 1635: The Weaver’s Code by Eric Flint and Jody Lynn Nye at https://awards.dragoncon.org/then look for “nominate” in the right hand nav under Past Recipients.
If you haven’t read it yet, go do that.
