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...

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...

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...

So You Want to Write a Grantville Gazette Story?

When a 1632 fan sits down at the computer keyboard and starts tapping out a story, the motivation is often to explain how some gizmo of the future gets introduced to the 1632 Universe. Radio. Rubber. Machine guns. Whatever. The catch is, that’s the background, not the...

Bookcase 3447

  Fri 08/19/05 03:09:34 PM PICT3447 Original Image photo by Iver Cooper photo analysis by Kerryn Offord photo analysis by Kerryn Offord Shelf Place Author Title Publisher Year Physical description 1 1         Thin paper back 1 2 WALSH (??)...