Eric Flint's 1632 & Beyond: Alternate History Stories

Volume 93 #9: A Matter of Choice

A Matter of ChoicePrevious / Nextby Eric Flint“This may be illegal, Jack—and I’m damn sure it’s immoral and ill-advised.” Kevin Gallo scowled at the large screen on the wall of Jack Kensington’s laboratory. The image being displayed was a depiction of the gene splicing Jack proposed to do.“Illegal? That gets complicated, especially when you’ve got […]

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Volume 93 #10: Adrift in Space-Time

Adrift in Space-TimePrevious by Edward M. LernerWhat has gone before . . .In “On the Shoals of Space-Time” (Grantville Gazette 91, September, 2020), the starship Greater Good, after a near-catastrophic accident, limps at sub-light velocity to a nearby solar system. Its few survivors (four crew, all Doltan) and three passengers (one Doltan, two Vol’taki) are:—LARROK, the lone engineer, […]

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Volume 93 #8: Hot Off Eric Flint’s Ring of Fire Press!

Hot Off Eric Flint’s Ring of Fire Press!Previous / Nextby Walt BoyesThe best news for the new year is that Ring of Fire Press is now publishing a book a week, so we have lots of stuff to tell you about:The Portals of SpringThe Portals of Springby Nathan DodgeDavin Blackthorn, the scion of a powerful […]

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Volume 93 #7: Notes from The Buffer Zone: Heroic Lazy Sods

Previous / Nextby Kristine Kathryn RuschThe German government has produced a series of amusing Public Service Announcements about Covid-19. (Yes, you saw that. I used “amusing” and “Covid-19” in the same sentence.)The videos resemble those videos that documentarians put together with interviews from survivors of some great tragedy. The older person reminisces, and some actor […]

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Volume 93 #6: Life at Sea in the Old and New Time Lines Part 6: Lest You Drown

Life at Sea Part 6: Lest You DrownPrevious / Nextby Iver P. CooperOn Aug. 31, 1773, Samuel Johnson said, “No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned.” In 1765, Wilkinson claimed […]

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Volume 93 #4: A Puritan Voice, Part 8

A Puritan Voice, Part 8Previous / Nextby Michael LockwoodChapter 8: GrantvilleThis entire trip had been a waste. Nicholas had come to Grantville looking for answers. Instead, he found only more questions. Instead of solidifying his faith, the sand that it was built upon was being washed away. The waves of doubt those questions raised eroded […]

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Volume 93 #3: I Have a Proposal for You

I Have a Proposal for YouPrevious / Nextby Georgios IconomouPalazzo Contarini dal Zaffo, Venice Late Summer, 1634 Alvise Contarini stood at the open window as the welcome breeze stirred his sweat-damp hair, releasing some of the long day’s tension and driving the heat away. Lost in his thoughts, he let a few moments slip by before he […]

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Volume 93 #2: Cassini at the Plate

Previous / NextClick here for links to all parts of the Cassini story. by Robert E. WatersHiggins Hotel Dining Room, GrantvilleJuly 4, 1636 (The Day of Departure)Eleven-year-old Giovanni Domenico Cassini sat across from his uncle while picking at the small pile of freshly-scrambled eggs and two slices of bacon slick with grease. He wasn’t very hungry. […]

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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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