The following is a list of publications in the 1632 series of alternate history fiction. For Grantville Gazettes, please see The Grantville Gazettes.
| Title | Publication date | Authors | ISBN | Notes | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1632 | February 2000[1] | Eric Flint | The first work in the 1632 series.Grantville, West Virginia, in the year 2000, is transposed within an area of southern Thuringia of Germany in the 1630s. Grantvillers subsequently take on the Holy Roman Empire's troops in the Thirty Years' War, to maintain their own town's integrity.[2] | ||||
| 1633 | August 2002[3] | David Weber and Eric Flint | The direct sequel to 1632.Grantville joins sides with Gustavus Adolphus, and tries to recreate the Germanies in the image of the United States.[4] | ||||
| April 2004[5] | Eric Flint and Andrew Dennis | First book of the South European thread.A diplomatic and trade mission to the Italies goes awry when youngsters attached to the mission decide to rescue Galileo from the Inquisition, and end up in a plot to assassinate the Pope. The plot is hatched by a French operative turned rebel, who wishes to destroy France to allow the rise of the Huguenots. | |||||
| October 2006[6] | Eric Flint and Andrew Dennis | The direct sequel to The Galileo Affair. Cardinal Borja, incensed with the behavior of Pope Urban, decides to assassinate the Pope and his political allies and to have himself declared the new Pope. Though Borja manages to take over the Vatican and establish quorum with cowed Cardinals, the old Pope escapes. | |||||
| May 2007[7] | Eric Flint and David Weber | The direct sequel to 1633.Western Europe maneuvers to contain Gustavus Adolphus, resulting in a naval battle in the Baltic, and the conquest of Denmark by Sweden, and victory for Grantville's navy of ironclads. | |||||
| October 2007 | Eric Flint and Virginia DeMarce | The direct sequel to The Baltic War.The Prince Cardinal Infante of Spain takes on vice-regal duties in the Spanish Netherlands, then decides to separate from Spain and declare himself King. With the aide of Grantvillers, he acquires a bride in the rebellious daughter of the Holy Roman Emperor, Duchess Anna Maria. | |||||
| December 2008 | Eric Flint and Virginia DeMarce | A sequel to The Galileo Affair and The Bavarian Crisis.A French Huguenot rebel plots to blame Richelieu for an attack on Grantville. Focuses chiefly on the lives of mid-level government employees and private citizens of Grantville following the end of those prior novels, and leading to major political changes throughout the USE. | |||||
| October 2010[8] | Eric Flint | A sequel to The Baltic War.Sweden and USE invade Poland, Gustavus Adolphus is seriously injured, and the invasion comes to a halt. Episodes five and six of The Anaconda Project, an interrupted series in Grantville Gazette volumes 12–21, were incorporated into chapters four and five of 1635: The Eastern Front. | |||||
| April 2011[9] | Eric Flint | Direct sequel to The Eastern Front.Oxenstierna usurps the power of USE parliament, sides with the nobility, and forces the country into a civil war which is ultimately won by supporters of FoJP and CoC led by Mike Stearns. | |||||
| June 2012[10] | Eric Flint, Gorg Huff, and Paula Goodlett | Novelization of the Butterflies in the Kremlin stories, originally published in The Grantville Gazettes.Bernie Zeppi takes a job as technical adviser to the Russians' attempt to bootstrap themselves into an industrial revolution. | |||||
| October 2012 | Eric Flint and Charles E. Gannon | Direct sequel to The Cannon Law.The Pope is pursued across Italian countryside by assassins sent by Borja, while the USE mounts commando raids to rescue Frank Stone and his wife from Spanish captivity. | |||||
| October 2013[11] | Eric Flint and David Carrico | A semi-detective novel set in Magdeburg, from December 1635 to March 1636. | |||||
| June 2014[12] [13] | Eric Flint and Charles E. Gannon | Start of the naval thread.Eddie Cantrell and Anne Cathrine marry and are sent by Admiral Simpson to Caribbean to secure access to the Jennings Oil Field. Naval battle ensues with the Spanish and settlers which ends in a standoff. | |||||
| 1636: The Viennese Waltz | November 2014 | Eric Flint, Paula Goodlett, and Gorg Huff | Sequel to Barbie Consortium stories, continues directly with some characters from Saxon Uprising.The Barbie Consortium travel to Vienna as part of a plan to fix the Austro-Hungarian economy and defend its future. Meanwhile, the Ottomans, flush with victory, turn their gaze to Europe and their old enemy. | ||||
| 1636: The Cardinal Virtues | July 2015[14] | Eric Flint and Walter H. Hunt | A sequel to The Baltic War and Commander Cantrell in the West Indies.Cardinal Richelieu's position in France is further threatened by Gaston, the younger brother of King Louis XIII, while the same monarch and his wife devise a plan to protect the throne from his ambitious brother and enemies.[15] This book was a finalist for the 2016 Dragon Award for Best Alternate History Novel.[16] | ||||
| 1635: A Parcel of Rogues | January 2016 | Eric Flint and Andrew Dennis | Sequel to The Baltic War, following characters left in Britain.Cromwell and the Americans flee north to Scotland to escape King Charles of England and his new Prime Minister the Earl of Cork. This book was a finalist for the 2016 Dragon Award for Best Alternate History Novel. | ||||
| 1636: The Ottoman Onslaught | January 2017 | Eric Flint | Direct sequel to both 1636: The Saxon Uprising and 1636: The Viennese Waltz.The USE's war with Poland enters a new stage while the invasion of Bavaria comes to a conclusion. Meanwhile, the Ottoman Empire comes ever closer to their long-sought goal of capturing Vienna.[17] This book was a finalist for the 2017 Dragon Award for Best Alternate History Novel.[18] | ||||
| 1636: Mission to the Mughals | April 2017[19] | Eric Flint and Griffin Barber | A delegation from the USE is sent to the Mughal Empire to secure both trade deals and establish a new trade route. All the while, various elements in the royal court scheme to usurp Shah Jahan. | ||||
| 1636: The Vatican Sanction | December 2017[20] | Eric Flint and Charles E. Gannon | Sequel to The Papal Stakes.Urban VIII pulls together a consistory as a mini-Vatican II and is then assassinated. Cardinal Bedmar is elected as the new Pope but Borja still occupies the Vatican. Results in a deep divide within Catholicism; Spain, Poland, Bavaria go for Borja in Rome, deep division within Austria.[21] | Forthcoming | The official home page of author Eric Flint | Herb Sakalaucks | November 27, 2013, at 10:38 am | |
| 1637: The Volga Rules | February 2018[22] | Eric Flint, Paula Goodlett, and Gorg Huff | Sequel to The Kremlin Games.Czar Michael Romanov and his supporters withstand the siege of Ufa, his new capitol. The Czar sends envoys beyond the Urals and establishes a Constitutional Convention for a new Russian Empire. | ||||
| 1637: The Polish Maelstrom | April 2019[23] | Eric Flint | Sequel to 1636: The Ottoman Onslaught.The Ottomans continue with their invasion of Austria. At the same time, Saxony seized control of Lower Silesia, a region that has been in dispute with Poland for almost a century. Polish revolutionaries seized control of Galicia while Bohemia also became involved in that regional conflict. Includes (parts from) The Anaconda Project, an interrupted series in Grantville Gazette volumes 12–21. | ||||
| 1636: The China Venture | September 2019[24] | Eric Flint and Iver Cooper | Can uptimers, with their knowledge of the future, prevent the destruction of the Ming Empire by the Manchu that led to large-scale massacres (such as the 1645 Yangzhou massacre) in our timeline? | ||||
| 1636: The Atlantic Encounter | August 2020[25] | Eric Flint and Walter H. Hunt | Novel set in French North America | ||||
| 1637: No Peace Beyond the Line | November 2020[26] | Eric Flint and Charles E. Gannon | The Spanish do not sit idle after the United States of Europe had sent ships into the Caribbean. Sequel to . 2021 Dragon Awards for Best Alternate History Novel winner.[27] | ||||
| 1636: Calabar's War | April 2021[28] | Charles E. Gannon and Robert E. Waters | The evacuation of Dutch-held Northern Brazil.[29] | ||||
| 1637: The Peacock Throne | May 2021[30] | Eric Flint and Griffin Barber | Sequel to .[31] | ||||
| 1637: Dr. Gribbleflotz and the Soul of Stoner | September 2021[32] | Kerryn Offord & Rick Boatright | A new novel by Offord and Boatright that is a sequel to the collection of short stories that was published as 1636: The Chronicles of Dr. Gribbleflotz.[33] This material has not been previously released. This book was nominated for the 2022 Dragon Award for Best Alternate History Novel.[34] | ||||
| 1637: The Transylvanian Decision | November 2022[35] | Eric Flint & Robert E. Waters | Following the events described in 1637: The Polish Maelstrom, the ruler of Transylvania request the assistance of Bohemia to help them overthrow their Ottoman overlords.[36] First book to be released after Flint's death in July 2022. | ||||
| 1638: The Sovereign States | September 2023[37] [38] [39] | Eric Flint, Paula Goodlett & Gorg Huff | Third mainline novel in the Russian thread and sequel to 1637: The Volga Rules. Civil war continues in Russia. The oligarchs traditionalists holding Moscow continue to fight the czar and his uptimer advisors.[40] This is the second book to be released after Flint's death. This book was nominated for the 2024 Dragon Award for Best Alternate History Novel.[41] [42] | ||||
| Security Solutions | April 2024 | Bjorn Hasseler | Fourth book in Hasseler's NESS series. Sequel to Security Threats.[43] | ||||
| 1635: The Weaver's Code | October 2024[44] | Eric Flint & Jody Lynn Nye | The weaving industry in England is influence after contact with the Americans imprisoned in the Tower of London.[45] This is the third book to be released after Flint's death. | ||||
| 1637: The French Correction | March 2025[46] | Eric Flint & Walter H. Hunt | A sequel to 1636: The Cardinal Virtues. Civil war in France. After the unexpected death of King Louis XIII, who is the rightful ruler of France, Louis's younger brother Gaston, or Louis's newborn son Louis? This is the fourth book to be released after Flint's death. | ||||
| 1637: The Pacific Initiative | March 2025[47] | Iver P. Cooper | A sequel to the Rising Sun novella that was published in 1636: Seas of Fortune concerning the Japanese colony in west coast of North America. | ||||
| Title | Publication date | Editor | ISBN | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ring of Fire I | January 2004 | Eric Flint | Sequel to 1632 and prequel to 1633[48] | ||
| May 2006 | Eric Flint and Virginia DeMarce | Several intertwining short stories combine to form a narrative that covers the overthrow of the ruling order by the common people, in a democracy drive, led by a political newspaper featuring a political cartoon starring a ram[49] | |||
| Ring of Fire II | January 2008 | Eric Flint | Second anthology of short stories[50] | ||
| December 2009[51] | Virginia DeMarce | Several intertwining short stories combine to form a narrative that covers the development subsequent to the Ram Rebellion in Franconia.[52] | |||
| Ring of Fire III | July 2011 | Eric Flint | Third anthology of short stories[53] | ||
| 1635: Music and Murder | September 2013 | David Carrico | Collection of stories previous published in the Gazettes and also Ring of Fire II & III; prequel to 1636: The Devil's Opera.[54] | ||
| January 2014 | Iver Cooper | Composed of two novellas, Stretching Out (set in South America) and Rising Sun (focused on Japan)[55] | |||
| 1636: The Barbie Consortium | November 2014 | Gorg Huff & Paula Goodlett | The story of the Barbie Consortium, from its origins in competition with the Sewing Circle, to just before the climax of The Viennese Waltz. Much of the book is content originally published in the Grantville Gazette.[56] | ||
| Ring of Fire IV | May 2016[57] | Eric Flint | Includes a short story by Hugo and Nebula awards winning author David Brin.[58] | ||
| 1636: The Chronicles of Dr. Gribbleflotz | August 2016[59] | Kerryn Offord & Rick Boatright | Book is about a character that was first developed by Offord and Boatright and includes some material that was previous published in the electronic version of the Grantville Gazette plus additional new material.[60] This book is followed by 1637: Dr. Gribbleflotz and the Soul of Stoner. | ||
| 1635: The Wars for the Rhine | December 2016 | Anette Pedersen | Book is about a few characters which Pedersen introduced in the Ring of Fire I anthology and is also a sequel to 1635: The Tangled Web involving intrigue in the German states along the Rhine.[61] | ||
| 1636: Flight of the Nightingale | November 2019 | David Carrico | Includes two unrelated novellas, The Flight of the Nightingale and Bach to the Future. Some of the material is new while the rest was previously published in the Gazette. The first novella is a suspense thriller in which a downtime singer-songwriter being chased through Northern Italy while trying to escape to freedom in Grantville. The second novella is a serial that includes new material added to that was previously published six parts within issues 26 through 69 about the downtimer musician Johann Bach and his introduction to the music of his never-to-be-born grandnephew Johann Sebastian Bach.[62] | ||
| 1637: The Coast of Chaos | December 2021 | Eric Flint, Paula Goodlett, & Gorg Huff | A short novel by Flint, Goodlett and Huff plus seven inter-related short stories from several additional writers about the response by Dutch and English colonists and Native Americans in North America upon hearing about the impending French takeover of the former English colonies in North America. A partial follow-up to 1636: The Atlantic Encounter[63] |
| Title | Publication date | Authors | ISBN | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Essen Steel | June 2013 | Kim Mackey | Originally published as a serial in 3 parts in Gazette volumes 7–9 as The Essen Chronicles.[64] | ||
| The Danish Scheme | June 2013 | Herbert Sakalaucks and Eric Flint | Originally published as a serial in 9 parts in Gazette volumes 22, 23, 28–31, and 33–35 as Northwest Passage. Heavily rewritten and includes new material by Herbert Sakalaucks plus a new short story by Eric Flint.[65] | ||
| Joseph Hanauer | June 2013 | Douglas W. Jones | Originally published as a serial in 3 parts in Gazette volumes 8, 13, and 14.[66] | ||
| No Ship for Tranquebar | June 2013 | Kevin H. Evans and Karen C. Evans | Originally published as a serial in 4 parts in Gazette volumes 27–30.[67] | ||
| Turn Your Radio On | June 2013 | Wood Hughs | Originally published as a serial in 6 parts in Gazette volumes 19–24.[68] | ||
| Second Chance Bird | June 2013 | Garret W. Vance | Originally published as a serial in 13 parts in Gazette volumes 32–41, and 43–45. Minor re-write from serial version.[69] | ||
| Medicine and Disease after the Ring of Fire | June 2013 | Vincent Coljee, Kim Mackey, Gus Kiritikos, Brad Banner, and Iver Cooper | A collection of 8 separate non-fiction articles originally published in Gazette volumes 10, 26, 29, 34, 35, and 38.[70] | ||
| Bartley's Man | August 2016 | Paula Goodlett and Gorg Huff | Originally published as a serial in 3 parts in Gazette volumes 46–48. Re-written with new material added.[71] | ||
| The Muse of Music | January 2017 | Enrico Toro and David Carrico | Originally published as 7 related stories in Gazette volumes 2, 3, 5, 13, 31, 44, 45, and 46 under various titles. Includes 2 non-fiction articles.[72] | ||
| Love and Chemistry | February 2017 | Jack Carroll and Edith Wild | Originally published as a serial in 6 parts in Gazette volumes 49–54 as The Undergraduate. Re-written with new material added.[73] | ||
| 1635: The Battle for Newfoundland | January 2018 | Herbert Sakalaucks | Sequel to The Danish Scheme. New material. First novel published by the press from unpublished material.[74] | ||
| Essen Defiant | March 2018 | Kim Mackey and David Carrico | Sequel to Mackey's Essen Steel. New material that has never been previously published. This book also help set up the events that led to the beginning to Pedersen's book 1635: The Wars for the Rhine that was first published in 2016.[75] | ||
| The Monster Society | April 2018 | Eric S. Brown, Robert E. Waters and Anna G. Carpenter | Originally published as a serial in 8 parts in Gazette volumes 61–71 plus one original installment with a promise that the storyline introduced in the new story would be continued in the Gazette.[76] | ||
| Letters From Gronow | May 2018 | David Carrico | Originally published as a serial in 6 parts in Gazette volumes 70–75. Includes new material that continues the story.[77] | ||
| The Persistence of Dreams | May 2018 | Meriah L. Crawford and Robert E. Waters | Originally published as a series of semi-related short stories about painter Daniel Block in Gazette volumes 46, 50, 60, 61, 62, and 67. The short story The Winter Canvas: A Daniel Block Story was awarded the Gazette's Best of 2016 Award.[78] Includes minor changes.[79] | ||
| The Hunt for The Red Cardinal | June 2018 | Bradley H. Sinor and Susan P. Sinor | Includes a new novel that is an expansion of their D'Artagnan short stories that were published in Gazette volumes 10 and 41, and Ring of Fire III, which are also included.[80] | ||
| The Chrysanthemum, the Cross, and the Dragon | August 2018 | Iver P. Cooper | New novel containing original unpublished material about the invasion of the Spanish Philippines by the Dutch and Japanese, an event that was briefly hinted at in Cooper's previous work 1636: Seas of Fortune, and also about the peaceful transfer of Spanish Formosa (northern Taiwan) to Zheng Zhilong, a private merchant and an admiral in the Ming navy, approximately 30 years ahead of schedule.[81] Republished in 2024 by Baen Books.[82] | ||
| The Legions of Pestilence | April 2019 | Virginia DeMarce | Includes material that was previously published in six parts in volumes 52–57 of the Gazette as An Uneasy Kind of Peace with new material about the development and growth of the buffer state between France and the USE called the County of Burgundy.[83] Republished in 2024 by Baen Books.[84] | ||
| The Legend of Jimmy Dick | June 2019 | Terry Howard | Includes material that was previously published as short stories in the Gazette from volumes 5 through 35.[85] | ||
| Up-time Pride and Down-time Prejudice | August 2019 | Mark H. Huston | New material that has a 1632 twist on the similarly named Jane Austen novel.[86] This book was a finalist for the 2020 Dragon Award for Best Alternate History Novel.[87] | ||
| A Red Son Rises in the West | September 2019 | John Deakins and Herb Sakalaucks | A new and not previously published novel about a young Native American's journey to Grantville and back to his homeland in what is now New England.[88] | ||
| The Trouble with Huguenots | November 2019 | Virginia DeMarce | Adventures of the Dr. Seuss loving Duke Henri de Rohan and his family that was previously published in several issues of the Grantville Gazette and Ring of Fire IV plus new material.[89] Republished in 2024 by Baen Books.[90] | ||
| Magdeburg Noir | January 2020 | David Carrico | Another Carrico 1632 police drama; a follow-up to 1635: Music and Murder and 1636: The Devil's Opera. Material that was previously published in the Grantville Gazette plus some new material.[91] | ||
| A Holmes For the Czar | February 2020 | Paula Goodlett and Gorg Huff | A detective story set in Goodlett and Huff's Russian sub-thread that started with 1636: The Kremlin Games and 1637: The Volga Rules. New material.[92] Two Cases for the Czar is the sequel to this book. | ||
| Fire on the Rio Grande | March 2020 | Kevin H. Evans and Karen C. Evans | An Encyclopædia Britannica article from Grantville introduces new ideas to remote the Spanish North American outpost of Santa Fe de Nuevo México. Would the Pueblo Revolt of 1680 occur ahead of schedule with the same deadly results? New material.[93] | ||
| A Red Son: Not Without Honor | July 2020 | John Deakins | Sequel to A Red Son Rises in the West. New material.[94] | ||
| Tales From the Mermaid and Tiger: Engines of Change | September 2020 | Kevin H. Evans and Karen C. Evans | A compilation of 7 short stories that were previous published in the Gazette from volumes 55 through 66 that centered around the chocolate and uptimer-style food cafe that is operated in Copenhagen by uptimer Reva Pridmore plus new material that bind the separate stories together to create a unified narrative.[95] | ||
| Things Could Be Worse: The Pastor Kastenmayer Stories | October 2020 | Virginia DeMarce | New and old material.[96] Republished in 2024 by Baen Books.[97] | ||
| Two Cases for the Czar | November 2020 | Paula Goodlett and Gorg Huff | Sequel to A Holmes For the Czar. Another mysterious death has occurred in Russia which only the Czar's detective can solve.[98] | ||
| Designed to Fail | December 2020 | Virginia DeMarce | Prince Frederik of Denmark, the second son of King Christian IV, gets appointed the governor of the new province of Westphalia in the USE. There is no end to problems, and he suspects his appointment was designed to fail.[99] Republished in 2024 by Baen Books.[100] | ||
| The Grantville Inquisitor | January 2021 | Bradley H. Sinor and Tracy S. Morris | Collection of short stories about the adventures of two reporters working for the Grantville Inquisitor. Mostly new material based upon characters that was first introduced in the Ring of Fire II anthology and various issues of the Gazette.[101] | ||
| A Matter of Security | March 2021 | Bjorn Hasseler | Down-time ex-mercenaries form a security firm based upon uptime principles. Includes new material plus material previously published in the Gazette.[102] Republished in 2024 by Baen Books.[103] | ||
| A Mission for the Czar | June 2021 | Gorg Huff and Paula Goodlett | Sequel to Two Cases for the Czar. Vasilii and Miroslava returns to solve another case.[104] | ||
| Missions of Security | June 2021 | Bjorn Hasseler | Sequel to A Matter of Security.[105] Republished in 2024 by Baen Books.[106] | ||
| Saving The Dodo | July 2021 | Garret W. Vance | Originally published in June 2013 as Second Chance Bird, but extensively rewritten with lots of new material.[107] | ||
| The Horsewoman | July 2021 | Karen Bergstralh | A commemorative publication of the late Bergstralh's complete work of short stories and non-fiction articles that were published in the Gazette (2003–2011).[108] | ||
| Mrs. Flannery's Flowers | August 2021 | Bethanne Kim | A young college student's short visit to her parents' home in Grantville to do laundry in 2000 turns into an unexpected trip to 17th century Germany.[109] | ||
| Security Threats | November 2021 | Bjorn Hasseler | New material. Sequel to Missions of Security.[110] Republished in 2024 by Baen Books.[111] | ||
| A 1632 Christmas | December 2021 | Edited by Walt Boyes, Joy Ward, and Bjorn Hasseler | An anthology of 21 Christmas (and Hanukkah) related short stories in the 1632-verse by Eric Flint and his many collaborators.[112] | ||
| The Gourmets of Grantville | December 2021 | Bethanne Kim | What happens when recipes and cooking techniques from 20th century America gets blended with 17th century German ingredients and culinary traditions? A Grantville version of fusion cuisine that would have inspired Wolfgang Puck.[113] | ||
| The Marshals | January 2022 | Mike Watson | An expansion and continuation of the six stories that were first published in the Gazette volume 68 about the start of the SoTF marshals service in Suhl that serves the district court based in the same city. 19th century American southwest law enforcement solving crimes in 17th century Germany.[114] | ||
| The Unexpected Sales Reps | February 2022 | Virginia DeMarce | A story about two not very successful con artists who decided to become spies. Or "How to succeed at spying without really trying..."[115] Republished in 2024 by Baen Books.[116] | ||
| I Want to Be Your Hero | March 2022 | Kerryn Offord | Novelization of Offord's John Felix “Puss” Trelli short stories that appeared in the Gazette volumes 34, 35, 39, 47, 49, and 80.[117] | ||
| The Private Casefiles of Archie Gottesfreund | July 2022 | David Carrico | A story about a former half-Scot/half-German mercenary turned detective.[118] |