Eric Flint’s 1632 & Beyond Issue 18

As Eric Flint’s 1632 & Beyond completes its third year with this issue, we would like to bring you some updates.

We are excited to feature three new-to-1632 authors in this issue. That’s a first for 1632 & Beyond. It shows that despite the size of this series, you can jump right in and write. This issue does not have a theme. It’s the sort of stories most of us started with: writing about something we care about and exploring what happens with it in the new timeline.

The next Baen book in the series is coming in August: 1637: The Pilgrim’s Passage by Eric Flint and Griffin Barber. You can find out more about in the Coming Soon section, but we want to highlight it here as the one hundredth fiction book in the series. That includes Baen novels and anthologies and Ring of Fire Press novels and anthologies.

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.)

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 or 1632Gurps.com.

Magdeburg Messenger (Fiction)

“When The Bell Went Silent,” by Chuck Thompson and Griffin Barber, is set in the Mughal Empire. Dara Shikoh needs a navy, and some are really unhappy about that. This is our first short story set in India.

Weather forecasts have been mentioned in the 1632 series. Now we get the story of how those came about. George McClellan Grant brings us “A Break In The Clouds.”

The USE has radios, and Venice is starting to put the pieces together. It starts with “Rumors on the Rialto” by Jack Carroll.

All the up-timers have things they want from up-time, but some have things they need. The Fire Department’s solution? “Shut Up And Train More” by Owain Alexander.

What happens when you explore up-time knowledge and find an up-time fairy tale that’s strikingly similar to your own family history. Pascal Durand brings us the fascinating story of “Who Killed Snow White?”

Sometimes you can’t trust your own perception. What do you do then? Find out in “Through The Eyes of a Canine” by Cray Dimensional.