THIS ISSUE’S COVER- 97

by Garrett W. Vance | Aug 24, 2021 | 1 comment

This Issue’s Cover- 97 Inspired by Iver P. Cooper’s The Ghost Galleon and his ongoing fascinating accounts of the Japanese exploration and settlement of North America in the 17th Century of the New Timeline. The image is not meant to depict any actual characters...

Ring of Fire Con

by Bjorn Hasseler | Aug 24, 2021 | 0 comments

  Ring of Fire Con   At Capclave   Friday-Sunday, October 1-3, 2021   Rockville MD              This year, Ring of Fire Con returns to an in-person format.  We will be at Capclave in Rockville, Maryland, on October 1-3.  Join us there.            Here is...

Hot Off the Ring of Fire Press

by Walt Boyes | Aug 22, 2021 | 1 comment

We continue to publish a book a week, usually dropping on Thursday, so make sure you check. Click on the blue titles to go straight to that book’s page on RingofFirePress.com. Here are the current and upcoming releases:   NEW RELEASES SIT. STAY. KILL. By...

The Story So Far . . .

by Walt Boyes | Aug 22, 2021 | 0 comments

Sometimes the rollercoaster ride gets really rough. In April I reported that we’d lost both of the writing duo, Kevin and Karen Evans. It is my unwelcome duty to tell you that we have lost another member of the 1632 family. This time, it was Head Geek Rick...

Black Smoker Curandero

by Ian Pohl | Aug 21, 2021 | 1 comment

Teodoro leaned back in his pilot couch and started the pre-flight. Dios mio, he was weary. The advance team aboard Blue Horizon had flown multiple missions each day for four weeks straight. They'd mapped the hydrothermal vent field three kilometers below the ship down...

Ill-Met in Space-Time, Part III

by Edward M. Lerner | Aug 20, 2021 | 2 comments

What has gone before . . .   In "On the Shoals of Space-Time" (Grantville Gazette 91, September 2020 issue), the interstellar passenger ship Greater Good, after a near-catastrophic accident, limps at sub-light velocity to a nearby solar system. Its few surviving...

Notes from The Buffer Zone: Science Fiction City

by Kristine Kathryn Rusch | Aug 20, 2021 | 0 comments

I live in Las Vegas, which most people call Sin City. The city itself calls itself The Entertainment Capital of the World, which it probably is, considering just how much high-level entertainment is here, not counting the professional level of entertainment, the kind...

“Rice is Life”: Rice Cultivation and Society in the 1632 Universe

by Iver P. Cooper | Aug 19, 2021 | 0 comments

Dramatic Opportunities   This article is directed to writers of stories set in the alternate history 1632 universe, and their readers. While rice farming may be simply a part of the scene setting for such a story, there are some situations in which it may play a...

Slave of the Slaves

by Brendan Roche | Aug 18, 2021 | 3 comments

"I must dedicate myself to the service of God until death, on the understanding that I am like a slave, wholly occupied in the service of his master . . ."—Personal Journal of St. Peter Claver, 1604     Cartagena June, 1633   Whenever sails appeared on...