Welcome to the Year of Our Lord

Get your pickup truck and deer rifle -- We're joining the Thirty Years' War

Albacon is where we're going to run the 1632 track in 2008.

In April of the year 2000, a six-mile sphere centered on Grantville, West Virginia was displaced in space and time to Germany and May, 1631. The inhabitants of Grantville decided to start the American revolution early; the nobility of Europe were not amused.

This story, by Eric Flint, is the basis for a great deal of lively discussion on Baen's Bar on the Baen Book web site since 1999.

The 1632 universe has spawned sequels including an anthology, Ring of Fire, 1633, 1634: The Galileo Affair, 1634: The Ram Rebellion, 1634: The Baltic War, 1634: The Bavarian Crisis, 1635: The Cannon Law and continuing issues of the 1632 universe's magazine The Grantville Gazette both as electronic and print editions.

This site collects in one place, all the technical information, archives, and files of interest to the happy habitants of the Baen's Bar 1632 Group. You are invited to browse this site, get involved in the discussion groups and even read the free e-book versions of the stories that started it all - 1632 and 1633.

In the right column, browse around the site for files and pages of interest to Barflies in general and those who would write in the 1632 Universe. If you want to include an up-timer in your story, you need to get your character from Virginia's Grid.

Eric says you can make up down-timers because there's milyuns and milyuns of 'em. But famous down-timers … he may have plans for.

Potential authors need to check out the Author's Manual files and peruse Rick Boatright's "Dead Horses" article to see if your idea has been flogged to a pile of dog food.

In any case, You are welcome to browse, lurk, participate, smoke, maybe burst into glorious song or even flames. Stranger things have happened here … recently!

Stranger Things:

  • July 2007: Minicon 6 in Tulsa, July 20-22. Were you there?

    Grantville Gazette issue 13 is out. If you haven't subscribed yet, why not?

  • December 2006: Rick Boatright is happy to announce that the 1632 archive is entirely updated through Dec 2006.

    SEARCH NOW WORKS.

    The archive holds the quarter-of-a-million messages posted to Baen's Bar in the 1632Tech, 1632Slush, 1632SlushComments and Mutter of Demons conferences since late 2000.

  • November 2006: A message from Eric Flint:

    Baen Books has finished scheduling for the October 2007 through January 2008 period. Here's what's scheduled in terms of the 1632 series:

    • October 2007: 1634: THE BAVARIAN CRISIS
    • November 2007: The mass market paperback release of GG II
    • December 2007: The mass market paperback release of 1634: THE RAM REBELLION
    • January 2008: RING OF FIRE II

  • October 2006: 1635: The Cannon Law released in hardcover

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