Eric Flint's 1632 & Beyond: Alternate History Stories

1632 & Beyond Issue 18 #2: A Break In The Clouds

Previous / Next A Break In The CloudsGeorge McClellan Grant PrologueGrantville GrangeJuly 1631 The Grange Hall’s air conditioning was not keeping up, hot and humid as the evening was. Freeman Barnes was just finishing his presentation to the other up-time farmers, striding back and forth across the low stage. “…so it isn’t going to be […]

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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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Issue 9 #1: Unintended Consequences

Previous / Next Unintended Consequences George Grant Boston May 1635 Mr. Roger Ludlow looked around his new office with satisfaction. While cruder than anything he would have inhabited in England, as far as he was concerned it was the best there was in the New World. He had achieved his highest ambition. Last year he […]

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1632 & Beyond Issue 7 #5: Mail From Up-Time, Episode 2: Atlantic Giant

Previous Mail From Up-Time, Episode 2: Atlantic Giant By George Grant Editor’s Note:             “Mail From Up-Time” appeared in Issue 5.  The stories are connected by the discovered mail but do not share any characters. In “Mail From Up-Time”, the author established that some mail for people left up-time was set aside for later delivery […]

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1632 & Beyond Issue 5 #3: Mail From Up-Time

Previous / Next Mail From Up-TimeGeorge Grant Grantville Post Office May 1635 “Shit!” Bernita Jenkins’ day had started normally. The work had even been rather light. She and Selma had sorted the flats and letters, thrown parcels, sorted and distributed the accountables, and gotten a start on putting up the box mail before the window […]

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The Matthew Grant Letters

The Matthew Grant Letters by George Grant Previous / Next by George Grant Editor’s Note: Capitalization practices, a few spellings, and the signature are taken from the historical Matthew Grant’s letters. June 1635 The Christian of London arrived in Massachusetts Bay, carrying the Stiles party and other passengers, a small amount of cargo, and mail […]

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1632 & Beyond Issue #002

Welcome to our November 2023 issue. We hope you enjoy it! Next Introduction and Table of Contents by Bjorn Hasseler Introduction by Bjorn Hasseler The Magdeburg Messenger (1632 fiction) Escape from Moscow by Gorg Huff and Paula Goodlett The Frog in the Well by Sean Little A Meeting in Midsummer: Part I by Marc Tyrrell […]

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