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Volume 16 #13: Unintended Consequences: Dealing with the Population Density Explosion

Previous Unintended Consequences: Dealing with the Population Density Explosion Written by Walt Boyes The reconstruction of Magdeburg brings to mind issues in population density. Although relatively large cities existed in 1634 in OTL, none of them qualifies as a really modern city, as the up-timers would recognize them. The up-timers will cause an unparalleled population […]

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Voume 16 #12: Seeing the Heavens

Previous / Next Seeing the Heavens Written by Iver P. Cooper “The soul without imagination is what an observatory would be without a telescope,” according to Henry Ward Beecher. In the seventeenth century, solar system astronomy lay at the center of the debates as to place of mankind in the universe, and the relationship of […]

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Volume 16 #11: The High-Stepping Beauties

Previous / Next The High-Stepping Beauties Written by Kevin H. Evans Joseph stood on the platform, his eyes tightly shut, straining with his whole self to hear the whistle. It was time. The schedule said it was time, the whistle would tell. There it was, the distant chime. It was the first notes of a […]

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Volume 16 #9: Tell Me What You Eat, and I’ll Tell You Who You Are

Previous / Next Tell Me What You Eat, and I’ll Tell You Who You Are Written by Anette Pedersen Food and Cooking According to Class in 1632 Introduction In the Germany of 1632 the difference between the food available to the rich and to the poor was immensely bigger than it is today. Not so […]

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Volume 16 #8: Sonata, Part Two

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 […]

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Volume 16 #8: Stretching Out Part Four Beyond the Line

Previous / Next Stretching Out, Part Four:Beyond the Line Written by Iver P. Cooper Trinidad, April, 1634 It was a lake, but one unlike any other they had seen. This was the famous Pitch Lake of Trinidad. A hundred acres of tar. David Pieterszoon de Vries, captain of the fluyt Walvis, studied it for a few […]

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Volume 16 #7: Hunting Traditions

Previous / Next Hunting Traditions Written by Garrett W. Vance Walt Dorrman looked up at the cold blue skies of an early October morning and knew that it was time to go hunting. He went to his small but well loved gun collection and held them one by one, as if greeting old friends. He […]

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Volume 16 #6: Sure Thing

Previous / Next Sure Thing Written by Kerryn Offord Sunrise, Monday, March 13, 1634,Magdeburg Elisabetha Schmelzer was sure the shadow walking behind her was a man, and that he was following her. Every time she stopped, he stopped as well. She wasn’t quite ready to panic just yet, but a woman alone in this area […]

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Volume 16 #5: The Galloping Goose

Previous / Next The Galloping Goose Written by Herbert and William Sakalaucks “Okay, guys, very carefully, peel the logo stencils and coverings off the doors and I’ll get the big one on the back end,” Arlen instructed. The sharp smell of drying paint hung in the air, a fine mist shrouding the gathered crowd, as […]

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Volume 16 #4: Doc

Previous / Next Doc Written by Gorg Huff and Paula Goodlett “Get out of the goddamned way, Little Ferdie!” Ferdinand Bader got out of Sergeant Sandler’s way as quickly as he could. Not that he was really in the way, but it was typical of Sandler to shout, just as it was typical of Captain […]

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Volume 16 #3: Wedding Daze

Previous / Next Wedding Daze Written by Virginia DeMarce Grantville, August 1634 Velma Hardesty took a good look at herself in the mirror. Jacques-Pierre Dumais came to the trailer and talked to her for an hour or two at least three or four times a week and gave her ideas on which she was to […]

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Volume 16 #2: E. Coli: A Tale of Redemption

Previous / Next E. Coli: A Tale of Redemption Written by Terry Howard Ken paused in front of Jimmy Dick barely long enough to say, “Incoming,” before moving down the bar and taking shelter in the back room. Jimmy glanced in the mirror to see his ex-wife, Bina Rae, framed by the early afternoon sun, […]

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Volume 16 #1: Duty Calls

Previous / Next Duty Calls Written by Karen Bergstralh March, 1634 The room was packed with villagers happy to see visitors and hear the latest news and gossip. Rob Clark, stretching his legs, found two young boys under the table. It seemed to him that every inch of space was crammed with people. Some youngsters […]

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Volume 15 #15: Tennis: The Game of Kings

Previous Tennis: The Game of Kings Written by Iver P. Cooper Many of the stories of the 1632 Universe relate to the flow of ideas—technological and social—from the up-timers to the down-timers. But the flow can be in the other direction, too. My story “The Chase” (Ring of Fire 2) relates how the up-timers learn […]

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Volume 15 #14: The Theobroma Shell Game

Previous / Next The Theobroma Shell Game Written by Karen C. Evans Chocolate, that magical substance that smoothes out the rough parts of our lives. Those of us who have been living with the Grantville “disaster” these past years are reconciled to the fact that we will never have chocolate again. It isn’t available in […]

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Volume 15 #13: The Geared Locomotive or What Wood You Shay To?

Previous / Next The Geared Locomotive or What Wood You Shay To? Written by Kevin H. Evans Geared locomotives were developed to handle rough track industrial applications. Most notable were logging short lines, and mining short lines. The traditional steam locomotive has cylinders parallel to the ground with the effort of those cylinders transferred to […]

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Volume 15 #12: Soundings and Sextants,Part Two

Previous / Next Soundings and Sextants,Part Two, Celestial Navigation Methods Written by Iver P. Cooper According to Marx’s book on the Spanish flota, ship’s navigators were regarded with scorn and, on many occasions, the denouement to the stranding of a ship’s crew was the assassination or execution of the navigator (71). Up-time celestial navigation methods may […]

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Volume 15 #11: Butterflies in the Kremlin, Part Six

Previous / Next Butterflies in the Kremlin,Part Six: The Polish Incident or The Wet Firecracker War Written by Gorg Huff and Paula Goodlett Third Lieutenant Boris Timrovich, Tim to his friends, was savoring the victory. Right up to the time he was called into the commandant’s office. He had beaten Third Lieutenant Igor Milosevic in […]

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Volume 15 #10: Sonata, Part One

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 […]

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Volume 15 #9: Dog Days

Previous / Next Dog Days Written by Richard Evans Spring 1632, Grantville, Thuringia, Germany, early morning Old Pete sat in his favorite spot and huffed out a breath of air that made his mouth flap comfortably. He laid his head down onto his paws and watched the streets through the white wooden pickets of the […]

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Volume 15 #8: The Whippoorwill

Previous / Next The Whippoorwill Written by John Zeek “I’m getting too old for this shit.” Anse Hatfield swung off his horse, the dull pains in his back and legs reminding him that camping rough and riding all day was a young man’s game. He waved to Sergeant Albrecht. “Hold off making camp. Now that […]

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Volume 15 #7: A Falcon Falls

Previous / Next A Falcon Falls Written by Kerryn Offord Saturday Morning, December 31, 1633, Grantville “Swan Lake! How does she expect us to do Swan Lake? And in Magdeburg. The woman is raving.” Harvey Matowski glanced back up the road. Nearly half a mile away, just outside the high school, he could see the headlights […]

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Volume 15 #6: Breakthroughs

Previous / Next Breakthroughs Written by Jack Carroll General Electronics laboratoriesMarch 1634 Something didn’t fit, and it looked important. Else Berding had gone to the break room for a cup of coffee. She came out to see Jennifer Hanson in the hallway, carrying on a conversation through a ham walkie-talkie. It was a little bit […]

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Volume 15 #5: The Old Gray Goose

Previous / Next The Old Gray Goose Written by Terry Howard GrantvilleThanksgiving, 1635 “Why are you not happy, Herr Benito? We have a half day off.” The new butcher’s helper, Hans Knefler, glanced over at the man he’d been assigned to work with out of the corner of his eye as they walked home from […]

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Volume 15 #4: A Pirate’s Ken

Previous / Next A Pirate’s Ken Written by Iver P. Cooper The lookout squinted. In the east, a horizon-hugging bank of clouds glowed red, heralding the imminent sunrise. In the west, the sky was a deep azure, with only a few stars still glimmering. Below his perch was a dark skeleton of masts and spars. […]

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Volume 15 #3: The Summer of Our Discontent

Previous / Next The Summer of Our Discontent Written by Virginia DeMarce Grantville, May 1634 Susan Logsden sat in the front pew of Grantville’s rebuilt Presbyterian church, flanked on one side by Grampa Ben and Grandma Gloria and on the other by her half-sister Pam Hardesty and half-brother Cory Joe Lang. She couldn’t stop the […]

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Volume 15 #2: Letters of Trade

Previous / Next Letters of Trade Written by David Dingwall October 1630Downham Market, Norfolk To John Paulet, Winchester To my good friend John, and to your lady wife Jane, we congratulate you at the glad news of the birth of your first son, Charles. We hope both mother and child are well, and his auspices […]

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Volume 15 #1: The Anaconda Project, Episode Four

Previous / Next The Anaconda Project, Episode Four Written by Eric Flint Krzysztof Opalinski was obviously puzzled by Morris’ reference to himself as Gandalf. But, to Melissa’s surprise, his companion Jakub Zaborowsky grinned. “Not exactly, Herr Roth—at least, not from our viewpoint. You are more in the way of our Elrond. Perhaps Galadriel.” Morris gaped […]

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1632 & Beyond Issue 12 #8: To Kill A Redbird

Previous To Kill A Redbird Marc Tyrrell A townhouse in Hamburg Monday, February 11, 1636, 8:25 p.m. “So, that is my proposal, meine Herren. What do you think?” Hans Geisel looked around the well-lit, wood paneled room at the five other men seated there, watching their body language. Predictably, Wilhelm van den Berg was relaxed, […]

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1632 & Beyond Issue 12 #7: That Old Chestnut

Previous / Next I used to be a stately tree, tall and straight, dominating my neighbors in the forest. Until Grantville came to town. My name is Chris, and I used to be a European chestnut tree, but Grantville brought the chestnut blight with it when it came back from the year 2000. I had […]

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1632 & Beyond Issue 12 #6: A Flask and a Handshake

Previous / Next A Flask and a Handshake Natalie Silk Spring 1636 “Wife!” Danel Nahon rushed through the door of his small home and saw that Dora wasn’t there. Dora’s favorite stool by the hearth had her mending basket resting on top of it. With three young growing children, the basket was always filled with […]

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1632 & Beyond Issue 12 #5: Escaping The What-Ifs

Previous / Next Escaping The What-Ifs Mike Knopp Redbird Institute Construction Site North of Röblitz, West Virginia County, Thuringia-Franconia October 6, 1635 Pierre Petit stood at the top of the hill, watching the train steadily move up the incline. A metallic pinging of the pinion on the rack and safety catches rang distinctively under the […]

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1632 & Beyond 12 #4: Renamed

Previous / Next Renamed Bethanne Kim Redbird Institute Early July 1635 Phil Bartolli fished a plain red handkerchief out of his pocket to wipe his brow. Reconsidering, he wiped his whole face. “I keep hearing that we’re in the middle of the Little Ice Age, but it sure doesn’t feel like it on a day […]

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1632 & Beyond 12 #3: But Will It Play In Peoria?

Previous / Next But Will It Play In Peoria? Tracy S. Morris March 1635 “Eeeeh, what’s up, Paul?” Betsy Springer held a carrot between two fingers like Bugs Bunny pretending to hold a cigar as she pingponged into Managing Editor Paul Kindred’s office at the Grantville Times with her usual high energy. Today, his star […]

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1632 & Beyond Issue 12 #2: Chautauqua, Disney, And The World’s Fair

Previous / Next Chautauqua, Disney, And The World’s Fair Bjorn Hasseler Rudolstadt, Rudolstadt-Schwarzburg County, SoTF August 1634 Countess Emelie of Oldenburg-Delmenhorst was nineteen, six months pregnant, and distracting herself with the most marvelous idea. She and her fifty-three-year-old husband Count Ludwig Guenther of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt had returned to Rudolstadt from Magdeburg just a few days ago. […]

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1632 & Beyond Issue 12 #1: What is Redbird?

Previous / Next What is Redbird? Bethanne Kim Why is this in nonfiction when Redbird is fictional? It’s not a story. It’s the story behind the story. Most of what is written in this universe is solidly built on the foundation of what is real. Grantville isn’t real, but Mannington (the town Grantville is based […]

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Volume 14 #13:Stretching Out, Part Three: Maria’s Mission

Previous / Next Stretching Out, Part Three: Maria’s Mission Written by Iver P. Cooper Grantville, September 1633 “You’ve heard the news, Mevrouw Vorst?” David de Vries brandished a folded copy of the Grantville Times. Maria Vorst turned to face him. “Who hasn’t, Captain? Is it really as bad as the papers say?” “Probably worse. Over sixty […]

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Volume 14 #12: Joseph Hanauer, Part Three: All Creatures Stand in Judgment

Previous / Next Joseph Hanauer, Part Three: All Creatures Stand in Judgment Written by Douglas W. Jones 10th of Tamuz, 5391 ( July 10, 1631 ) The trip by cart from Grantville to a wooded hillside above Magdala had only taken a day. Seen from the hillside, the village looked large. Yossie had expected Magdala to be […]

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Volume 14 #1: The Anaconda Project, Episode Three

Previous / Next The Anaconda Project, Episode Three Written by Eric FlintChapter 3 Fortunately, they were hungry—or James might have spent half an hour instead of three minutes making wisecracks about Lord and Lady Roth and the way they bid fair to make pikers out of any European aristocrats barring maybe the odd emperor here […]

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Volume 13 #10: Butterflies in the Kremlin, Part 5

Previous / Next Butterflies in the Kremlin, Part Five,The Dog and Pony Show Written by Gorg Huff and Paula Goodlett Natasha alighted from the carriage at her family’s dacha outside of Moscow, along with her aunt, Sofia Petrovna. Both were wearing full regalia, “dressed to the nines,” as Bernie put it. Aunt Sofia served as […]

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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

1632 & Beyond Issue 10 #7: Coming Soon

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 #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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