1632 Minicon 2019 Panels and Panelists

by Joy Ward | Apr 15, 2019

Please join us at Spikecon in Layton, Utah on July 4-7 for the 1632 Minicon. Spikecon is actually four cons in one: Westercon 72, NASFiC 2019, 1632 Minicon 2019, and Manticon 2019. Westercon is the West Coast Science Fantasy Conference, and is held in different cities...

Rock and Roll Barbie

by Joy Ward | Feb 15, 2019

The Knaub Home Early Autumn, 1636   “Katrin, why do you hate your family so much? Do you want to see us reduced to the laughing stock of Bremen? What have I or your brother ever done to you to make you despise us in this way?” Herr Knaub stood in his...

Barbie and the Musicians of Bremen

by Joy Ward | Apr 20, 2017

Bremen April 1635   "Marieke! Come here now, girl!" Marieke cringed in her bedroom, looking out the blue curtain-framed window at what had begun as a sunny spring day. Her father's bellow told her the day was probably getting worse rather than better. Marieke's...

Minicon at Fencon

by Joy Ward | Aug 14, 2016

Are you only living in 2016 because you missed the Ring of Fire? Do you wish you could use up-time info to devise cool, weird tech? Do you really want to sell some Barbie dolls in Vienna? Sounds like you need a Ring of Fire fix! No better place than FenCon in Dallas,...

The Night Soil King

by Joy Ward | Feb 15, 2016

In November of 1634 a great tidal wave overran the entire area from the Waddensea lowlands in the north of Germany and the Netherlands to the west coast of Denmark killing thousands of people and animals. It arose at night while many slept with no chance to escape....