Previous / Next by Gustavo Bondoni Natalie cursed. Whoever had coined the truism that if you felt the cold through your spacesuit you were already dead had never spent any time in a Volov 17. The designers had had decades to perfect a suit cheap enough that even people on the nascent asteroid colonies could […]
Previous / Next by Walt Boyes The Ring of Fire Press has been publishing a book a week since January, so we have lots of stuff to tell you about: David Brin has joined Ring of Fire Press with a new YA series, and Steven M Stirling is bringing us his new Black Chamber trilogy, […]
Previous / Next by Kristine Kathryn Rusch This past month, I wrote a novel in my Spade/Paladin universe. The stories are mysteries, set at science fiction conventions. As the conventions became more acrimonious, ‘long about 2015, my willingness to write more Spade/Paladin slowed down. I hated getting criticized by people of every political persuasion for […]
Previous / Next by Iver P. Cooper Introduction Natural gas and its components are important fuels in post-Ring of Fire Grantville. They also have other utilities. In this article, we will try to better characterize Grantville’s natural gas resource and the means by which propane and butane might be extracted from it and put to […]
Previous / Next by Michael Lockwood “Gut Tag, Herr Knapp, and Herr Culloden.” Nicholas and Baird turned from their examination of a merchant’s wares and saw an unremarkable man standing patiently behind them. He was notable for his plainness. He could have been from any part of Europe, though the shape of his face hinted […]
Previous / Next by George Grant Freeman Barnes finished splitting the firewood he had brought out of the woods. He switched off the log splitter, then stacked the split wood in the shelter. Freeman brushed the wood debris off his pants. He was very late finishing the coming winter’s preparations, but felt there was finally […]
Previous / Next by Sarah Iovan Loughton Hall, Kent April, 1634 Mary Sidney, Lady Wroth, crossed the wide, soft carpets of the library at Loughton Hall. She stood over the desk and brooded at her unfinished manuscript. Today it would not get the best of her. Today she would write. The light was good, but […]
Previous / Next by Sean Little Texel Island August, 1633 “My ship. My first ship.” Those words filled Michiel Adriaenszoon’s thoughts as the crew heaved at their oars, and the boat bounced along on the slight waves. It had all happened so suddenly. Only a few days ago, he was a steersman, the first mate […]
Previous / Next by Virginia DeMarce Heldrungen, Sommersburg County, SoTF Summer-Fall, 1636 The 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, […]
Next Table of Contents 1. Faith with Heretics by Virginia DeMarce 2. The First Step by Sean Little 3. Lady Wroth and the Revolution by Sarah Iovan 4. The Kreutzer by George Grant 5. A Puritan Voice, Part 9 by Michael Lockwood 6. Propane, Butane, and Natural Gas in the 1632 Universe by Iver P. […]
