Northwest Passage, Part Seven

by Herbert Sakalaucks | Nov 28, 2010 | 0 comments

Le Chaume, Mid January 1634 The torches were starting to gutter out as the sun rose, but the fires were still being stoked as the villagers gathered, their packing and loading finished. Their day had started long before the dawn as the entire Huguenot population of Le...

The Walls Are Falling Down

by Kristine Kathryn Rusch | Nov 27, 2010 | 0 comments

Well, it finally happened. For decades—and I do mean decades—I have wondered why science fiction hasn't received the respect it deserves. Science fiction fans, in self defense, created a ghetto and then closed the walls of that ghetto so that anyone...

A Martian? Odd, I See (or A Taste of Milwaukee’s Finest)

by Bud Webster | Nov 20, 2010 | 0 comments

“There was a racket like a flock of crows eating a bunch of canaries—whistles, cackles, caws, trills, and what have you. I rounded a clump of stumps, and there was Tweel!” “Tweel?” said Harrison, and “Tveel?” said Leroy and...

Transit

by James Copley | Nov 20, 2010 | 0 comments

“Making Ideas into Reality Since 1975″ —An Old SoldierHambühren, 5 miles west of CelleHans stopped just outside the door. The sun had barely cleared the horizon, and the sky was a great golden canvas with wispy streaks of pink clouds strewn...

Fire and Brimstone

by Terry Howard | Nov 20, 2010 | 0 comments

Grantville, summer of 1636″What can I do for you, Mr. Underwood?” the young lawyer asked.”I want an injunction compelling that bar to change its name. It’s embarrassing,” Deacon Albert Underwood said. “I asked the man politely to...

Second Chance Bird, Episode Two

by Garrett W. Vance | Nov 20, 2010 | 0 comments

Chapter Three: Out the Door Grantville, near the end of May, 1635 How does one go about leaving on a year journey? A journey around Africa on a ship about as technologically advanced as the Mayflower?! Pam stood in her bedroom scowling at the things she had arranged...

Renaissance Boogie: Dancing in Early Modern Europe

by Iver P. Cooper | Nov 18, 2010 | 0 comments

Soon after the Ring of Fire, the residents of Grantville will discover that dancing was far more important in seventeenth century European society than it was in twentieth century America. In The Courtier (1561), Castiglione recounts an anecdote about a noblewoman who...

A Visit to Wietze

by Kerryn Offord | Nov 18, 2010 | 0 comments

(This is an opinion piece. It is my personal view of what Wietze might be like. However, I will attempt to justify my “view” with cites from references and canon.)After the Ring of Fire the up-timers need fuels. Not just gasoline, but also diesel. They can...

Black Gold

by Jeff Corwith | Nov 18, 2010 | 0 comments

Gerhard Grave’s residence, Wietze, February 1634 Christian Grave used one of the new-fangled forks (three prongs rather than the Italian two-pronged variant) to lift a portion of medium-rare beef to his mouth. The taste of the well-cooked meat flooded his mouth...