Letters From Gronow, Episode 1
Magdeburg From the Journal of Philip Fröhlich 16 October 1634 Monday Breakfast/lunch– 2 barley rolls 1 pfennig 1 cup small beer 1 quartered pfennig Supper– 1 wurst 1 pfennig 2 mugs beer 1 pfennig Did the cash entries in Master Gröning's accounts today, then reviewed...
The Marshal Comes To Suhl
Early April, 1634 Suhl Dusk came early that evening with a light, intermittent rain. Four, in the shadows, watched the old man walking down the alley. He used a cane and wore a wide-brimmed hat and a long coat of some heavy cloth that shed the rain like...
The Story So Far . . .
Our story continues in Grantville Gazette 70. In 1631, or 2000, the town of Grantville and a ring around it were transported to an alternate universe and plunked down in the middle of Thuringia in Germany, during the height of the Thirty Years’ War. Figuring out...
Best of 2016 Award
Best of 2016 Award We have had some wonderful stories over the past 10+ years. So, we have decided to give an award for the best 1632 Universe fiction published in the Grantville Gazette in 2016. If this goes well, we’ll do it again for 2017. Here’s...
About the Faces on the Cutting Room Floor Number Eight: Authenticity, Site Surveys, and Blind Serendipity
I have been asked a number of times how much research I did in order to invoke the sense of place that often pervades 1635: The Papal Stakes. The answer is, "Lots." And there are two parts to that answer. The first part is the frank admission that strong reliance upon...
Hungary and Transylvania, Part 4: High Politics of Hungary at the Ring of Fire
Here is the list of persons either living in the Ring of Fire period or who directly impacted the political scene leading up to the Ring of Fire: István Bocskay, Prince of Transylvania (1557-1606) He was a very important figure leading up to this period:...
Notes from The Buffer Zone: Escapist Fiction
It’s been a hell of a last six months or so. Not only was the American election a nightmare of screaming and fighting—not just among the candidates, but among the voters as well—and in 2017, the acrimony has grown worse. To make matters even worse, celebrities, icons,...
The Monster Under the Bed
On Top of a Little Boy’s Bed, Bamberg, July, 1636 Joseph Drahuta knew how old he was—nine, but he also knew how old he felt—older. First, there had been the entire Ring of Fire thing, when his entire life changed down to his underwear. Who would have thought...
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