by Rick Boatright | Jan 22, 2016 | 1632 Tech
Recommended Reading Order for the 1632 Series (aka the Ring of Fire series) By Eric Flint, November 1, 2020 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...
by Rick Boatright | Apr 6, 2015 | 1632 Tech
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...
by Rick Boatright | Apr 6, 2015 | 1632 Tech
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. Bookcase 3450...
by Rick Boatright | Apr 6, 2015 | 1632 Tech
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...
by Rick Boatright | Apr 6, 2015 | 1632 Tech
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,...
by Rick Boatright | Apr 6, 2015 | 1632 Tech
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...
