Eric Flint's 1632 & Beyond: Alternate History Stories

1632 & Beyond Issue 16 #5: Antwerp Antics

Previous Antwerp AnticsJohn Deakins Antwerp1636  Anthony Van Dyck was happy, but nervous. Things were going extremely well. Still, he kept waiting for the next black cloud to billow over the horizon. Antwerp was blooming like a springtime rose. King Ferdinand wouldn’t allow the Inquisition to establish itself in Antwerp again. Instead of being an uneasy […]

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1632 & Beyond Issue 16 #3: A Shocking Development

Previous / Next A Shocking DevelopmentJack Carroll Coudenberg Palace Gardens, BrusselsSummer 1637 The patrol passed the end of a wall running along one side of the fish pond, and turned the corner. The sight that greeted them was far from normal. A saddled horse stood half across the path bordering the water, with its head […]

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1632 & Beyond Issue 16 #1: House of Verbannen

Previous / Next The House of VerbannenMarc Tyrrell Klempf Warehouse, ZülpichWednesday, June 11, 1631, 2:45 p.m. Alphons Verbannen looked at the bodies scattered on the floor like broken, discarded dolls. Shaking his head in disgust, he cleaned his blade on the clothes that Meester Klempf would no longer need before sheathing it. “Did you find […]

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