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Volume 6 #15: On the Design, Construction and Maintenance of Wooden Aircraft

Previous / NextOn the Design, Construction and Maintenance of Wooden AircraftJerry Hollombe, Private Pilot (ASEL), Airframe & Powerplant MechanicIntroductionThis essay started out to be about what it takes to build an airplane using wood, wire, dope and fabric. It’s still about that, but it’s also about why there shouldn’t be a down-time aerospace industry, nor […]

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Volume 6 #14: Bouncing Back: Bringing Rubber to Grantville

Previous / NextBouncing Back: Bringing Rubber to GrantvilleIver P. CooperChemistry Professor Joe Schwarcz writes, “It’s hard to fight an effective war without rubber. Fan belts, gaskets, gas masks, and tires are critical to the war effort.” While he had modern warfare in mind, Grantville’s war machines—modified cars and trucks—need rubber to remain functional. In 1633, Quentin […]

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Volume 6 #13: Exegesis and Interpretation of Up-timer Printed Matter

Previous / Next Non-fictionExegesis and Interpretation of Up-timer Printed MatterFrancis TurnerDerived from my Hobson’s Choice story, this article is about a subject that I think people frequently think is simpler than it actually is. It is my belief that down-timers who get their hands on purloined up-time books will generally have a hard time figuring […]

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Volume 6 #12: Dr. Phil’s Aeolian Transformers

Previous / Next Dr. Phil’s Aeolian TransformersKerryn Offord and Rick BoatrightJenaIt had been a hard day of almost wasted discussions with the scholars at the university. John Grover and Ken Butcher, accompanied by Derrick Mason, a young radio operator on loan from the army, had been trying to identify the materials and skills available down-time […]

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Volume 6 #11: Dr. Phil’s Amazing Lightning Crystal

Previous / NextDr. Phil’s Amazing Lightning CrystalKerryn OffordJena, Freedom ArchesTasha Kubiak tried to tune out the pompous ass who was still pontificating. Somehow both Tracy Kubiak and Danielle Kowach, the two other members of the Kubiak Country partnership who could speak competent German, had managed to be needed elsewhere when this trip had come up. […]

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Volume 6 #10: The Doctor Gribbleflotz Chronicles, Part 1: Calling Dr. Phil

Previous / NextCONTINUING SERIALSThe Doctor Gribbleflotz Chronicles, Part 1: Calling Dr. PhilKerryn OffordSunday. After Church Lunch, Drahuta PropertyDeep in the middle of “Kubiak Country” the extended Kubiak clan had gathered at the home of Belle and Ivan Drahuta for Sunday lunch. Grown men and women were messing about playing touch football in the yard with […]

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Volume 6 #9: The Dalai Lama’s Electric Buddha

Previous / NextPublisher’s Note: This story held the record for shortest published story in the 1632 universe until George Grant’s “The Small Crisis” was printed in Issue 5 of “Eric Flint’s 1632 & Beyond” in May 2024. This story was published in March 2006. The Dalai Lama’s Electric Buddhaby Victor Klimov“Respectful greetings from His Majesty […]

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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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Volume 6 #6: Grantville is Different

Previous / NextGrantville is DifferentRuss RittgersIt was late August, 1632, when Georg Bauer climbed out of the ditch he’d been digging for Jena’s new sewer line. Sweat was still pouring off him when he first heard about Grantville.Almost twenty-two, with dark hair and a strong build, Georg was the fourth son of a farmer who […]

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Grantville Gazette #006