Eric Flint's 1632 & Beyond: Alternate History Stories

Issue 9 #6: X-Rays!

Previous / NextX-Rays! Iver CooperX-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-RaysX-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 exact definition of X-rays, […]

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Issue 9 #5: Rose-Hip & Red Velvet

Previous / Next Rose-Hip & Red VelvetTim SayeauGrantville August, 1637Adina 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 Russo and Sophia […]

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Issue 9 #4: The Rice Farmer’s Daughter And The Samurai

Previous / Next The Rice Farmer’s Daughter And The SamuraiGarrett W. VanceNishioka House, Nihonmachi, Phnom Penh, Kingdom of Khmer, Indochina 1635The 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 had eradicated a […]

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Issue 9 #3: Family Matters

Previous / NextFamily MattersMarc TyrrellChapman 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 stirred that night’s dinner, […]

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Issue 9 #2: Bremen or Bust

Previous / NextBremen or BustTerry HowardGrantville Friday evening, December 23, 1634On 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 glazed Italian tiles and […]

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