My name is Mike J Nagle. I have been creating political maps of the world related to the 1632/Ring of Fire series since December, 2016. Some of the maps show the political situation at the Time of the Ring of Fire; that is, on May 25, 1631. These maps are historically accurate for the Original […]
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 attempt to answer that question – as well as the […]
Recommended reading order for the 1632 series (aka the Ring of Fire series) By Eric Flint Updated from January 21, 2016 Skip to the Flowchart Whenever someone asks me “what’s the right order?” for reading the 1632 series, I’m always tempted to respond: “I have no idea. What’s the right order for studying the Thirty […]
Grantville has a public library, and each of the schools (high, middle, and elementary) has its own library. These libraries are modeled on those of Mannington, West Virginia, and if you can prove that one of the Mannington’s libraries had a particular book before May 2000, then Ed Board will assume that the comparable library […]
These photos show the shelves in the science and technology section of the Mannington Middle School Library (Dewey 500s and 600s). Each thumbnail links to a page showing a larger picture of the bookcase and a tabular listing of the books in the picture. Photos by Iver Cooper. Iver Cooper, the photographer and editor for […]
From: Virginia DeMarce <virginiademarce@yahoo.com>Date: Tue Dec 10, 2002 2:59:56 PM US/PacificSubject: Revised population allocation per 2000 census OK, folks, the following analysis is Eric-Approved, on the basis of the 2000 census. The figures used earlier were projections from 1990, and it turns out that Mannington did a few things in the decade that weren’t expected. […]
From a radio specialist’s perspective, Eric Flint could not have chosen a worse time to drop a town into than 1632. Just at the beginning of the period where there are telescopic observations of the heavens, approximately simultaneous with the trial of Galileo, 1632 drops Grantville into the beginning of a time best known as […]
The people of the USE will need horses for a long time. The US in the OTL did not see full tractor mechanization of farming until well into the 50’s (the Depression and WWII contributed to the late date). The introduction of 19th century horse drawn farm machinery will spread. It is more efficient and […]
What does a Spark Gap transmitter and crystal Radio do? The radios of Grantville, and what we brought with us, “salvage” radio design How does Radio work anyway, and why do we keep talking about the Maunder Minimum So what ARE they using if not sparks? Part 1: How spark transmitters work: Take the electricity […]
This is how it all started, with a post from Eric Flint to the “Authors” conference in Baen’s Bar. This was before there was such a thing as a “1632 Tech Manual” conference, and the proposed title was “Fire in the Hole” (later changed to 1632). Topic: Fire in the Hole (1 of 353), Read […]