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Volume 27 #3: The Truth About That Cat and Pup

Previous / Next The Truth About That Cat and Pup Written by Virginia DeMarce Grantville, January 1635 “. . . start planning for Jonas and Ronella’s wedding,” Carol finished. “I can hardly believe that we got them officially engaged. Finally. They sit around staring at each other. Jonas, as if he can’t really believe his luck. Ronella, […]

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Volume 26 #1: Advice and Counsel

Previous / Next Advice and Counsel Written by Virginia DeMarce Grantville, October 1634 “I love October’s bright blue weather.” The Reverend Mary Ellen Jones stood on the rectory porch, just breathing, and almost regretted it when she saw her next appointment walking down the street. It wasn’t as bright and as blue in Thuringia as […]

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Volume 26 #7: Ya’ Gets Yer Money and Ya’ Gets Yer Choice

Previous / Next Ya’ Gets Yer Money and Ya’ Gets Yer Choice Written by Virginia DeMarce Grantville, November 1634 Tom Quiney rested his elbows on the balustrade of the concrete bridge that was such a landmark feature in downtown Grantville. Their goal, a white-painted storefront office, was just in sight. “Should we?” his brother Dick […]

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Volume 25 #1: Franconia Parts 2 and 3

Previous / Next Franconia! Parts 2 and 3 Written by Virginia DeMarce PART IIASK AN AUGUST SKY If that my lines, being placed before thy book,Could make it sell, or alter but a lookOf some sour censurer, who’s apt to say,No one in these times can produce a playWorthy his reading . . .Which to this tragedy must […]

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1632 & Beyond Issue 14 #2: The Arabian Queen

Previous / Next The Arabian Queen Virginia DeMarce This story begins right after “The Play’s The Thing” in Issue 11. Butzbach, Province of the MainApril 1637 “Are you going to start mining The Black Rose pretty soon, Master Massinger?” Dick asked. “You really should,” Tom urged. “We can get another ‘noble evil; common man good’ […]

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Grantville Gazette #091

Next Table of Contents Grantville Gazette #091 Grantville Gazette, Volume 91Editor-in-Chief ~ Walt Boyes Managing Editor ~ Bjorn Hasseler The Story So Far . . . by Walt Boyes 1. There Oughta Be a Law by Virginia DeMarce 2. The Rooster and The Spoon by Natalie Silk 3. Proposal and Counterproposal by Jack Carroll 4. […]

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Volume 16 #4: Silver Age

Previous / Next Silver Age Written by Virginia DeMarce Grantville, March 1635 Pam Hardesty squatted down next to a set of encyclopedias in the National Research Center. Tuesday. Cross-training for would-be librarians. Someone, somewhere up the food chain, had decided that they would be better-prepared to help researchers in the future if they had some […]

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Volume 18 #2: Quintessentially Blonde

Previous / Next Quintessentially Blonde Written by Virginia DeMarce Grantville, January 1635 “Why are you asking, Missy?” Debbie Jenkins asked. “You know Pam Hardesty. In the going-to-be-a-librarian-someday classes with me. She’s thinking about when she comes to get married. If she does. And what she’s going to tell a respectable down-time man about that blank […]

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Volume 15 #3: The Summer of Our Discontent

Previous / Next The Summer of Our Discontent Written by Virginia DeMarce Grantville, May 1634 Susan Logsden sat in the front pew of Grantville’s rebuilt Presbyterian church, flanked on one side by Grampa Ben and Grandma Gloria and on the other by her half-sister Pam Hardesty and half-brother Cory Joe Lang. She couldn’t stop the […]

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1632 & Beyond Issue 11 #2: The Play’s the Thing

Previous / Next The Quiney brothers have previously appeared in: “Franconia! Part 1,” Grantville Gazette 10 “Franconia! Parts 2 and 3,” Grantville Gazette 25 “Ya’ Gets Yer Money and Ya’ Gets Yer Choice,” Grantville Gazette 26 “Et Docere Et Rerum Exquirere Causas,” Grantville Gazette 92 “One To A Customer,” Grantville Gazette 95 “If You Want […]

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1632 & Beyond Issue 10 #5: Here or There?

Previous / Next Here or There? Virginia DeMarce Regensburg, Upper Palatinate, USEMarch 1637 “I liked Amberg better.” Paolo Fucilla stared nostalgically across the Danube toward the left bank. “Regensburg may grow on you.” Carlo Rugatti heaved a sigh. “It may grow something on us.” Paolo persisted in his gloom. “It’s a low-lying site, with a […]

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Volume 10 #13: Franconia! Part 1

Previous / Next Franconia! Part 1 by Virginia DeMarce Grantville,February 1634 “No, no, no, no, no, no, n-o-o-o-o.” Amber Higham threw both of her hands up in the air. The class came to a stop. “This unit worked last year. It worked like a charm. Why isn’t it working this year?” She glared at her […]

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Special Issue 1 #8: Nobody’s Going Home

Previous / Next Nobody’s Going Home Virginia DeMarce Amberg, Upper Palatinate December, 1636 “I didn’t expect that I wouldn’t be able to go home for Christmas this year.” Madeline Clinter pouted, half-serious and half-not-so-serious. “The way things have turned out, we’d have been better off if they’d left the normal school in Grantville.” “Nope.” Lizzy […]

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1632 & Beyond Issue 6 #1: Passing Fair

Previous / Next Passing FairVirginia DeMarce Editor’s Note: References are given at the end of the story. Grantville, SoTFNovember 1636 “Where’s Master Marmion?” Renee Carson demanded The 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 […]

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1632 & Beyond Issue #006

Welcome to our July 2024 issue. We hope you enjoy it! Next Introduction and Table of ContentsBjorn Hasseler Introduction Magdeburg Messenger (1632 Fiction) 1. Passing Fair Virginia DeMarce 2. From Cramps to Matrimony Terrry Howard 3. Cassini Runs Home Robert E. Waters 4. A Guest at the New Year Tim Sayeau 5. Buzz! Beekeeping in […]

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

Previous / Next A Rose By Any Other SongVirginia DeMarce Grantville, 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 […]

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Grantville Gazette #001

Next Table of Contents Grantville Gazette, Volume 1 Editor-in-Chief ~ Eric Flint Baen’s Bar Editor’s Preface 1. Portraits by Eric Flint 2. Anna’s Story by Loren Jones 3. Curio and Relic by Tom Van Natta 4. The Sewing Circle by Gorg Huff 5. The Rudolstadt Colloquy by Virginia DeMarce 6. Radio in the 1632 Universe […]

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