Minicon 2014 – Amended with Marcon Schedule

by Staff | Mar 27, 2014 | 0 comments

We’re going to Marcon! They asked for us! They’re excited! We’re excited! Come be with us the weekend of May 9-11. Check out the details here: http://marcon.org/wordpress/ The convention theme this year is “Technical Difficulties.” What could be more perfect for the...

What the Wizard Gave the Scarecrow

by Terry Howard | Dec 22, 2013 | 0 comments

GrantvilleEarly 1633 Jack Clements took a couple of slow sips from his water glass, meanwhile getting a kick out of the show Oscar Davidson was putting on. The way Oscar was gesticulating with his fork, it was a wonder he hadn't catapulted his mashed potatoes onto...

An Excellent Woman

by Kerryn Offord | Dec 22, 2013 | 0 comments

Magdeburg, July 1635 Dylan Pence breathed hard and sweated profusely as he staggered up the last flight of stairs in pursuit of the faster runners. Once on the seventh-floor landing of the still incomplete Karickhoff's Hotel, Dylan ran across to the other...

Just a Teeny Problem

by Staff | Dec 21, 2013 | 0 comments

Alas, there was a software update, which, most unfortunately, didn't work as well as it should have. I'm afraid that we're going to be a bit late with the downloads for the  1 January issue of the Grantville Gazette.At the present time, which is 21...

Time Spike: The Mysterious Mesa, Part Two: Across the Drained Sea

by Garrett W. Vance | Dec 19, 2013 | 0 comments

Across the Drained Sea   Ni-T'o gently adjusted Nate's elbow as the former US cavalry scout pulled back the bowstring. Nate was a sure shot with pretty much any gun, but the stone-age weapon was giving him fits. Ni-T'o let out a soft, sighing whistle, which Nate...

Karma

by Peter Wood | Dec 19, 2013 | 0 comments

Hans leaned forward on his yard-sale-caliber easy chair and stirred his wine spritzer with a plastic drink sword. "You and Debra wouldn't fight so much if you had more karmatrons.""Karmatrons?" Rob glanced at his wife. How had they been so...

Crowdfunding

by Kristine Kathryn Rusch | Dec 15, 2013 | 0 comments

I have decided that I love crowdfunding. As I write this, I’m wearing a t-shirt from the successful Kickstarter campaign for the upcoming Veronica Mars movie, the one the studios refused to back for years despite fan interest. When fan interest funded the film,...

Ein feste Burg, Episode 12

by Rainer Prem | Nov 30, 2013 | 0 comments

Chapter 17: Hard LaborJagdschloss of the Duke of Saxe-Eisenach, MarksuhlThe morning of Christmas Eve 1634 "Scheiße!" Maximiliane von Pasqualini's diction was not exactly as one would expect from a noblewoman. She looked down. A puddle of water was...

Infectious Pestilence, Part 2: Fighting the Plague After the Ring of Fire

by Iver P. Cooper | Nov 30, 2013 | 0 comments

Few days following the death of rats, Men pass away like falling walls. —Shih Tao-nan (1792) The Unholy Trinity: Bacterium, Flea and Rat In part 1, I discussed how, historically, early modern Europe coped with the plague. The Ring of Fire (RoF) brought physicians,...