Time Spike Character Grid

The full version of the Timespike grid is too long to fit in a single post.  You can download the full 155 page word document from this link:   Time Spike Character Grid ver 1 Version 1c of the grid is up to date with the published books and stories and...

White Gold (Sugar in 1632)

WHITE GOLD By Kerryn Andrew Offord The following article assumes an exchange rate of $50: 1 guilder. The sweet crystals of sugar from sugar cane. They could call it “White Gold”. Sugar was extremely expensive up until the late nineteenth century. In the early modern...

Why Airships Make Sense

Why Airships Make Sense for France/Spain/England And why they make NO sense for the USE or The Airship FAQ v1.2 By Charles Prael Quite a few people (myself included) have brought up the question of “why doesn’t Grantville/the USE/etc. build airships?” This essay is an...

Computers in Grantville

A survey of computers in Mannington was done during and after the first two minicons.  It was astonishingly difficult to refine the number of computers that would have been in town in April of 2000.  The numbers below are what the board eventually agreed to...