The Grantville Gazettes

For the first volume in the series, see The Grantville Gazette.

Grantville Gazette
Editors
  • Eric Flint (2003–2022)
  • Paula Goodlett (2007–2015)
  • Walt Boyes (2015–2022)
  • Bjorn Hassler (2015–2022)
LanguageEnglish
Series1632 series
GenreAlternate History, Anthology
PublisherBaen Books
Publication date
Semi-periodic, and Periodic (bi-monthly)
Various dates from
February 2003 and
from 2004
(in print as books)
Publication placeUnited States
Media typee-zine and ebook
Paperback and hardcover
Websitelast snapshot of website

The Grantville Gazettes were a series of anthologies of short stories set in the 1632 universe introduced in Eric Flint's novel 1632[1] that was published as a bi-monthly electronic magazine from 2003 until shortly after Flint's death in 2022.

The Gazettes started as an experiment: a professionally edited, officially sanctioned "fan magazine" published electronically. Initially released as serialized e-magazines, they were later published as e-books (taking a page from the Baen Books experience with E-ARCs—Electronic Advance Reader Copies, which had been instituted several years earlier.) Because the electronic sales were successful, Baen contracted with Flint for more issues, to be published 3-4 times per year (bimonthly, starting in 2007[2]). Each would form part of the canonical background for the other works (novels and anthologies) in the rapidly growing 1632 series.

By mid-2012, e-magazines were published bimonthly, and six books had been published (five of those as both hardcover and mass market paperback) excerpted from the first 17 issues of the magazine. [2][3] Grantville Gazette IX was published in July 2021.[4]

After two decades of operations, the magazine celebrated the electronic release of its 100th volume in March 2022.[5][6]

On August 16, 2022, Lucille Robbins, the widow of Eric Flint, officially announced the immediate shutdown of both The Grantville Gazette and the Ring of Fire Press. Without a huge infusion of new cash, it was determined that both business ventures would not be economically viable without Flint's participation.[7][8]

The final electronic issue, Volume 102, was released in July 2022,[9] while the final hardcopy book version, Grantville Gazette IX (ISBN 978-1982125455), was released in July 2021.

In June 2023, it was announced that a new company, Flint's Shards Inc., had signed a contract with Lucille Robbins, Eric Flint's widow and heir, to produce a new electronic magazine called Eric Flint's 1632 & Beyond that will be released bimonthly on the first day of odd-numbered months with Bjorn Hasseler as Editor-in-Chief starting September 2023.[10]

  1. ^ "Uchronia: The Assiti Shards (1632) Series". www.uchronia.net.
  2. ^ a b "Ring of Fire Series". Baen Books. Retrieved June 11, 2012.
  3. ^ Virginia DeMarce (February 8, 2012). "1632 Tech: Virginia's Grid of Uptime Characters". Baen Books. Retrieved June 7, 2012.
  4. ^ Catalog listing in Arlington, Virginia public library website
  5. ^ Boyes, Walt (March 2022). "The Beginnings of the 1632 Story and the Grantville Gazette". Grantville Gazette. Vol. 100. ISBN 978-1956015621. Archived from the original on March 15, 2022. Retrieved March 15, 2022.
  6. ^ Boyes, Walt (March 2022). "The Story So Far..." Grantville Gazette. Vol. 100. ISBN 978-1956015621. Archived from the original on March 15, 2022. Retrieved March 15, 2022.
  7. ^ "Our Fellow Members of the Ring of Fire Press Family". The Grantville Gazette. Archived from the original on August 16, 2022.
  8. ^ "Our Fellow Members of the Ring of Fire Press Family". The Ring of Fire Press. Archived from the original on August 16, 2022.
  9. ^ "The Grantville Gazette". Archived from the original on August 11, 2022.
  10. ^ Glyer, Mike (June 23, 2023). "New Eric Flint 1632 Magazine". File 770.