1632 Minicon 2019

by Bjorn Hasseler | Feb 23, 2019

This year’s 1632 Minicon will be at Spikecon in Layton, Utah on July 4-7. Spikecon is actually four cons in one: It’s Westercon 72, NASFic (the North American Science Fiction convention, which is held in years when Worldcon is held outside the US),...

Best of 2018

by Bjorn Hasseler | Feb 23, 2019

Best of 2018 It’s time to nominate your favorite Gazette story for the Best of 2018. This can be any fiction that appeared in the Grantville Gazette in 2018, in issue 75 through issue 80. Please send your nominations to walt@waltboyes.com or bjorn@1632.org....

Clique, Clique, Boom

by Bjorn Hasseler | Feb 13, 2019

Calvert High School, Grantville April, 1635   "Why must we attend gym?" Anna Keime groaned as the girls filed into their locker room after gym class. She was a new arrival this semester and was adeptly fitting into the social structure. "Mens sana in corpore...

Best of 2018

by Bjorn Hasseler | Dec 16, 2018

You—our readers—get to nominate a story from Grantville Gazette issues 75-80 as the Best of 2018, Please send your nomination to walt@waltboyes.com or bjorn@1632.org. Nominations are open until April 1. We will post the finalists in Grantville Gazette 83, coming out...

Exemplars

by Bjorn Hasseler | Dec 16, 2018

Besançon, Burgundy Thursday, May 8, 1636   A knock at the door of his suite broke into Patriarch Kyril Lukaris's thoughts. One of his assistants hurried to the door, and a guard matched the priest stride for stride. The guard already on duty at the door edged...

The Observer

by Bjorn Hasseler | Jun 11, 2018

Grantville Thursday, March 15, 1635   Barbara Kellarmännin stood at the bus stop in the Brethren settlement. This time of year, any frequently-trampled ground was both muddy and slushy, so she had chosen a firm spot a short distance away from her fellow students....

The USE Army

by Bjorn Hasseler | Apr 2, 2018

In early September, 1633, after Hans Richter's first solo flight, the Committees of Correspondence began recruiting in Grantville (1633, Chapter 33). These forces became the USE Army, which appears in all of the main spine novels from 1634: The Baltic War on, as well...

Best of 2017 Award

by Bjorn Hasseler | Oct 16, 2017

Best of 2017 Award by Bjorn Hasseler                  Grantville Gazette readers chose “The Winter Canvas: A Daniel Block Story” by Meriah Crawford and Robert Waters as our Best of 2016 story.              This is the last issue of 2017, and it...

NESS: Krystalnacht on the Schwarza Express

by Bjorn Hasseler | Feb 13, 2017

Tuesday, June 19, 1635 West Virginia County Astrid Schäubin puttered around her room, straightening everything. She tugged at the solid but inexpensive table beside her bed, trying to square it up. It creaked across the wooden floorboards. "Astrid, are you still up?"...