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Volume 7 #8: Not At All The Type

Previous / Next Not At All The TypeBy Virginia DeMarceSummer 1634, Grantville, State of Thuringia-Franconia“That was the year I broke my nose at the demolition derby.”Tina Marie Hollister pointed to the knot. She’d never bothered to have it repaired. Never had the money, to tell the truth. Probably wouldn’t have bothered even if she’d been […]

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Volume 7 #2: Mule ‘Round The World

Previous / NextMule ‘Round The WorldBy Virginia DeMarceNovember, 1633, Wednesday morning before Thanksgiving“It was well done of you, Henry. It really was.” Enoch Wiley looked rather doubtfully at a pile of yellowish mush on the cracker in his hand. “What is this stuff?”“Cora makes it out of mashed chickpeas. Some kind of a substitute for […]

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Volume 6 #7: The Woman Shall Not Wear That

Previous / Next THE WOMAN SHALL NOT WEAR THATVirginia DeMarceSummer, 1634No. Pastor Ludwig Kastenmayer put it out of his mind. His eyes must have deluded him. The cleaning woman at Countess Katharina the Heroic Lutheran Elementary School, here on the outskirts of Grantville, could not have been wearing . . . that.He put it out of his mind […]

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1632 & Beyond Issue 6 #1: Passing Fair

Previous / NextPassing FairVirginia DeMarceEditor’s Note: References are given at the end of the story.Grantville, SoTFNovember 1636“Where’s Master Marmion?” Renee Carson demandedThe rest of the high school’s advanced drama class (elective; juniors and seniors only; may be repeated for credit a second year; non-mandatory option for participation with community theater and/or local professional theater groups; […]

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1632 & Beyond Issue #006

Welcome to our July 2024 issue. We hope you enjoy it!NextIntroduction and Table of ContentsBjorn HasselerIntroductionMagdeburg Messenger (1632 Fiction)1. Passing Fair Virginia DeMarce2. From Cramps to Matrimony Terrry Howard3. Cassini Runs Home Robert E. Waters4. A Guest at the New Year Tim Sayeau5. Buzz! Beekeeping in the 1632 Universe Part 2 Iver P. CooperNews & […]

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Grantville Gazette 5 #7: Murphy’s Law

Previous / Next Murphy’s LawBy Virginia DeMarcePart I: Grand ScamSpring, 1634 “I have to decide within the week,” Leopold Cavriani said. “I have no hesitation, of course, about leaving my daughter Idelette here with the Reverend and Mrs. Wiley. She will learn practical business from Count August von Sommersburg’s factor, the count being one of the […]

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Grantville Gazette 4 #2: ‘Til We Meet Again

Previous / Next‘Til We Meet AgainVirginia DeMarceThe 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 central place to […]

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1632 & Beyond Issue 5 #1: A Rose By Any Other Song

Previous / NextA Rose By Any Other SongVirginia DeMarceGrantville, SoTFSeptember 1635“And now, we bring you News from the Netherlands.”The general manager of the Voice of America pondered as he listened.“It’s a good skit.” The VOA disk jockey grinned.“Tom and Dick Quiney are, if nothing else, reliably irreverent,” John Grover admitted. He was facing a move […]

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Grantville Gazette #001

NextTable of ContentsGrantville Gazette, Volume 1 Editor-in-Chief ~ Eric FlintBaen’s BarEditor’s Preface1. Portraits by Eric Flint2. Anna’s Story by Loren Jones3. Curio and Relic by Tom Van Natta4. The Sewing Circle by Gorg Huff5. The Rudolstadt Colloquy by Virginia DeMarce6. Radio in the 1632 Universe by Rick Boatright7. They’ve Got Bread Mold,So Why Can’t They […]

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Volume 101 #6: Never Have I Ever

Previous / Next by Virginia DeMarceMagdeburgJune, 1637So this was the wonderful capital of the United States of Europe. Susanna Allegretti glared out a third-floor back window onto an alley.So wonderful that her almost-a-fiancé, Marc Cavriani, delivered her to Hesse House, as his father had arranged.So wonderful that the landgravine was busy, very busy, plotting to […]

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Volume 100 #4: If You Want to Write a Play with Witches

Previous / Nextby Virginia DeMarceButzbach, Province of the MainFebruary-March, 1637“We’re not doing the Scottish play—not in this part of the USE.” Christina Pittlin was adamant. “You can put almost any of the others into the repertoire for the company’s stint here, but not that one.”“It’s considered one of Shakespeare’s best.” Mike Mundell perched on the […]

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Volume 95 #1: One to a Customer

Previous / NextGrantvilleOctober, 1636“That’s the kind of mistake that tends to come one to a customer,” Rob Clark commented. Tom Quiney’s The Invisible Bishop, as performed by Massinger’s men, had caused a considerable amount of controversy among the parishioners of St. Alfred’s Episcopal church.“Imprudent, at least.” That was Gillian, the young English jeweler who had come […]

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Volume 94 #1: Faith with Heretics

Previous / Nextby Virginia DeMarceHeldrungen, Sommersburg County, SoTFSummer-Fall, 1636The older boy sat quietly on the stone bench in the chapel vestibule at the Wasserburg, the moated castle, in Heldrungen. His brother, three or four years younger, newly breeched, wriggled, wiggled, squirmed, and wriggled some more.Gottfried Pinckert, attorney, looked at Hans Appelt, the Dorfschulze, and the two pastors, […]

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Volume 93 #1: Giants in the Earth

Previous / Nextby Virginia DeMarceSömmerda, SoTFSpring, 1636“Hans, can you come over here?”Hans Bechstein frowned. Slowing down production in the travertine quarries was not smiled upon by the foremen. They were taking stone out of the Steinrinne here at Bilzingsleben much faster than they had ten years before. The Ring of Fire had been good to the local […]

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Volume 92 #1: Et Docere et Rerum Exquirere Causas

Et Docere et Rerum Exquirere Causas Previous / Nextby Virginia DeMarceGrantvilleApril, 1636The news that Archbishop Laud, still exiled in the Low Countries, had, at the recommendation of Veleda Riddle, appointed Tom Simpson, who was still with Mike Stearns, fighting the Ottomans in Austria, as bishop-elect of the State of Thuringia-Franconia caused an immense stir in […]

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