Eric Flint's 1632 & Beyond: Alternate History Stories

Volume 4 #4: Chip’s Christmas Gift

Previous / Next Chip’s Christmas Gift Russ Rittgers Chip and Joachim had just finished working out with quarterstaffs, six-foot-long hardwood sticks, at the von Thierbach estate manor, absorbing a new collection of bruises to join those of the previous two days. Chip wanted to practice techniques he’d previously learned in the army and Joachim simply […]

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Volume 4 #2: ‘Til We Meet Again

Previous / Next ‘Til We Meet Again Virginia DeMarce The worst thing about working for Mechanical Support was that the facilities were scattered out all over Grantville, even now, two and a half years after the Ring of Fire. They’d never been able to take the time to centralize them; they didn’t really have any […]

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Volume 4 #1: Poor Little Rich Girls

Previous / Next Poor Little Rich Girls Paula Goodlett and Gorg Huff “Will you two just give it up?” Heather asked, exasperated. “What good is that valley girl impersonation going to do you? No one here in Badenburg has ever heard of a valley girl.” “For sure, Heather, for sure,” Vicky Emerson answered. “We’re just […]

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Volume 3 #11: Flint’s Lock

Previous / Next Flint’s Lock Part one of a series devoted to firearms in the 1632 universeLeonard Hollar, Bob Hollingsworth,Tom Van Natta, and John Zeek [Editor’s note: The Grantville Firearms Roundtable is a group of experts on firearms whom I asked to develop a series of articles for the Grantville Gazette on the issue of […]

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Volume 3 #10: The Impact of Mechanization on German Farms

Previous / Next The Impact of Mechanization on German Farms Karen Bergstralh What will happen when Grantville introduces nineteenth-century farm equipment to seventeenth-century farmers? Will there be a rapid adaptation of the new machines followed by a similarly rapid increase in productivity? Will this in turn lead to an equally rapid decrease in the numbers […]

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Volume 3 #9: Iron

Previous / Next Iron Rick Boatright The most dangerous mammal in North America kills over 130 people each year, and seriously injures another twenty-nine thousand. The most recycled material in North America was dumped in landfills until the late 1970s, but now, nearly 100 percent of that material contains recycled content. The animal? The white-tailed […]

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Volume 3 #8: Euterpe, Episode 2

Previous / Next Euterpe, Episode 2 Enrico M. Toro To Father Thomas Fitzherbert SJ of theIllustrissimus Collegium Anglicanum in RomeFrom Maestro Giacomo Carissimi inThuringen Gardens, GrantvilleAugust 1633 Very Reverend Father, I am sorry it took so long to write you again, but a journey through Europe in these days is everything but short and comfortable. […]

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Volume 3 #7: Hell Fighters

Previous / Next Hell Fighters Wood HughesI: The MissionThe monastery of Subiaco:Home of the Order of St. Benedict “Brother Johann? The fathers are ready.” Brother Johann closed the small book he was studying and rose, straightening his black robe. While he had been aware of the gathering of abbots, he had no idea why the […]

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Volume 3 #6: Hobson’s Choice

Previous / Next Hobson’s Choice Francis Turner Cambridge, England1632 AD A hesitant knock at the door disturbed the summer afternoon of study and desultory argument. “Who is it?” asked Thomas Healey. The door opened and a skinny but well-dressed youth, much encumbered with baggage, stood in the dimly lit, cramped landing. Standing next to him […]

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Volume 3 #5: If the Demons Will Sleep

Previous / Next If the Demons Will Sleep Eva Musch There were still two hours until his appointment at the city hall. Istvan Janoszi was walking around Grantville at a rapid pace, watching it wake up on a Saturday morning. He had been thoroughly briefed before he came, so he knew that the pace of […]

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Volume 3 #4: Other People’s Money

Previous / Next Other People’s Money Gorg HuffI When Sarah Wendell had agreed to go out with David Bartley, it had seemed like a good idea at the time. She had totally forgotten that she was months away from her sixteenth birthday. The Wendell house rule was no dating till sixteen. Remembering that little detail […]

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Volume 3 #3: The Sound of Music

Previous / Next The Sound of Music David Carrico Franz Sylwester, one-time violinist in the chapel ofthe archbishop of MainTo Friedrich Braun, journeyman instrument crafterfor Master Hans Riebeck, in MainzOn the nineteenth day of January in theyear of our Lord 1633 Greetings, my friend, I am sure by now that you have despaired of hearing […]

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Volume 3 #2: Pastor Kastenmayer’s Revenge

Previous / Next Pastor Kastenmayer’s Revenge Virginia DeMarce April 1635 Ludwig Kastenmayer would never forget the day. April 11, 1634, by the reckoning of these up-timers, who had adopted the pope’s calendar. The day that one of them had stolen his daughter. It was the worst thing that had happened to him since Count Ludwig […]

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Volume 3 #1: Postage Due

Previous / Next Postage Due Eric Flint “You’ve got to be kidding.” Anne Jefferson looked around the table in the big dining room of the USE’s embassy in Amsterdam, at each of the other people sitting there. Immediately to her left sat Rebecca Abrabanel, the ambassador of the United States of Europe to the United […]

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