Minicon 2017

This year, the Minicon was bigger and better than ever. This was because the Balticon concom asked Joy Ward, the co-editor of Eric Flint’s Ring of Fire Press and a Gazette author, to produce four days of panels and activities instead of our normal two. Joy put...

Minicon 2011 Snerkers Panel

Dragon Con 5 Atlanta Georgia  Date: 5 September 2011 10:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. Posted: 9/7/2011 1:04 PM  Posted By: Virginia Demarce Originaly posted to the “Snerker’s Only” topic on Baen’s Bar. Panelists at the table: Eric Flint,...

1632 Maps: The Tower of London

Maps of the Tower of London 1597 Ordinance Survey of the Tower of London by Gulielmus Haiward and J. Gascoyne 1713 copy by Robert Whitehand 1752 copy by Joseph Heath A superb web site about the history of tower hill.  A lovely hand-colored period print of Haiward...

Sometimes Whipping Dead Horses Works …

(Version fifteen of the quick list of very, very dead horses) Introduction This document has evolved from the barflies use of the phrase “beating a dead horse” to refer to topics discussed repeatedly. We’ve been talking about the 1632 universe since...