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The Grantville Gazettes

{{Short description|Anthologies of short stories inspired by Eric Flint's novel 1632}}

{{For|the first volume in the series|The Grantville Gazette}}

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| name = Grantville Gazette

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| image = File:Grantville Gazette magazine logo.png

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| editors = {{plainlist|

  • Eric Flint (2003–2022)
  • Paula Goodlett (2007–2015)
  • Walt Boyes (2015–2022)
  • Bjorn Hassler (2015–2022)

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| country = United States

| language = English

| series = 1632 series

| genre = Alternate History, Anthology

| publisher = Baen Books

| release_date = Semi-periodic, and Periodic (bi-monthly)
Various dates from
February 2003 and
from 2004
(in print as books)

| media_type = e-zine and ebook
Paperback and hardcover

| website = {{URL|https://web.archive.org/web/20220811230112/http://grantvillegazette.com/|last 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{{Cite web|url=http://www.uchronia.net/label/flinassiti.html|title=Uchronia: The Assiti Shards (1632) Series|website=www.uchronia.net}} 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). 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. {{cite web |url=http://www.baenebooks.com/c-10-ring-of-fire-series-by-eric-flint.aspx |title=Ring of Fire Series |publisher=Baen Books|access-date=June 11, 2012}}{{cite web |url=http://1632.org/1632tech/grid.html |title=1632 Tech: Virginia's Grid of Uptime Characters |author=Virginia DeMarce |date=8 February 2012 |publisher=Baen Books|access-date=June 7, 2012}} Grantville Gazette IX was published in July 2021.[https://libcat.arlingtonva.us/Record/242924?searchId=7441816&recordIndex=4&page=1 Catalog listing in Arlington, Virginia public library website]

After two decades of operations, the magazine celebrated the electronic release of its 100th volume in March 2022.{{cite magazine |url=https://grantvillegazette.com/article/the-beginnings-of-the-1632-story-and-the-grantville-gazette/ |title=The Beginnings of the 1632 Story and the Grantville Gazette |first=Walt |last=Boyes |volume=100 |magazine=Grantville Gazette |date=March 2022 |isbn=978-1956015621 |url-status=dead |access-date=March 15, 2022 |archive-date=March 15, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220315054530/https://grantvillegazette.com/article/the-beginnings-of-the-1632-story-and-the-grantville-gazette/ }}{{cite magazine |url=https://grantvillegazette.com/article/the-story-so-far-32/ |title=The Story So Far... |first=Walt |last=Boyes |volume=100 |magazine=Grantville Gazette |date=March 2022 |isbn=978-1956015621 |url-status=dead |access-date=March 15, 2022 |archive-date=March 15, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220315052957/https://grantvillegazette.com/article/the-story-so-far-32/ }}

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.{{cite web |url=https://grantvillegazette.com/ |title=Our Fellow Members of the Ring of Fire Press Family |work=The Grantville Gazette |archive-url=https://archive.today/20220816011349/https://grantvillegazette.com/ |archive-date=2022-08-16 |url-status=dead}}{{cite web |url=https://ringoffirepress.com/ |title=Our Fellow Members of the Ring of Fire Press Family |work=The Ring of Fire Press |archive-url=https://archive.today/20220816011115/https://ringoffirepress.com/ |archive-date=2022-08-16 |url-status=dead}}

The final electronic issue, Volume 102, was released in July 2022,{{cite web |url=http://grantvillegazette.com/ |title=The Grantville Gazette |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220811230112/http://grantvillegazette.com/ |archive-date=2022-08-11 |url-status=dead}} 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.{{cite news |url=https://file770.com/new-eric-flint-1632-magazine/ |title=New Eric Flint 1632 Magazine |date=June 23, 2023 |first=Mike |last=Glyer |work=File 770}}

Print publication

Starting in November 2004, the first Gazette was also released experimentally in a paper edition with issue I as a paperback. The second volume was released in hardcover in March 2006, this and subsequent titles use Roman Numerals for titles such as are listed below in the section List of Gazettes, as appear on the print publication covers.

Each print edition contains an additional story that was not published in any e-magazine. Starting with volume V, each print edition contains stories from several of the magazines, and not all magazine stories are published in the books. The List of Gazettes section below gives the publication dates and a rough guide to which magazines are collected into particular books.

class="wikitable"
Print title

! Publication date

! ISBN

! e-Vols covered

! Additional Flint story

Grantville Gazette I

| November 2004{{cite web |url=http://www.baen.com/scheduleXML.asp |title=Publishing Schedule |publisher=Baen Books |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040811201726/http://www.baen.com/scheduleXML.asp |date= |archive-date=2004-08-11 |access-date=2017-01-29 |author= |url-status=dead}}

| {{ISBNT|0-7434-8860-1}}

| Whole issue 1

| Portraits

Grantville Gazette II

| March 2006{{cite web |url=http://www.baen.com/scheduleXML.asp |title=Publishing Schedule |publisher=Baen Books |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060116061235/http://www.baen.com/scheduleXML.asp |date= |archive-date=2006-01-16 |access-date=2017-01-29 |author= |url-status=dead}}

| {{ISBNT|1-4165-2051-1}}

| Whole issue 2

| Steps In The Dance

Grantville Gazette III

| January 2007{{cite web |url=http://www.baen.com/scheduleXML.asp |title=Publishing Schedule |publisher=Baen Books |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070114002317/http://www.baen.com/scheduleXML.asp |date= |archive-date=2007-01-14 |access-date=2017-01-29 |author= |url-status=dead}}

| {{ISBNT|1-4165-0941-0}}

| Whole issue 3

| Postage Due

Grantville Gazette IV

| June 2008{{cite web |url=http://www.baen.com/scheduleXML.asp |title=Publishing Schedule |publisher=Baen Books |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080309183134/http://www.baen.com/scheduleXML.asp |date= |archive-date=2008-03-09 |access-date=2017-01-29 |author= |url-status=dead}}

| {{ISBNT|1-4165-5554-4}}

| Whole issue 4

| The Anatomy Lesson

Grantville Gazette V

| August 2009{{cite web |url=http://www.baen.com/scheduleXML.asp |title=Publishing Schedule |publisher=Baen Books |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090628114658/http://www.baen.com/scheduleXML.asp |date= |archive-date=2009-06-28 |access-date=2017-01-29 |author= |url-status=dead}}

| {{ISBNT|1-4391-3279-8}}

| From issues 5–10

| Steady Girl

Grantville Gazette VI

| January 2012{{cite web |url=http://www.baen.com/schedule.asp |title=Publishing Schedule |publisher=Baen Books |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120121221714/http://www.baen.com/schedule.asp |date= |archive-date=2012-01-21 |access-date=2017-01-29 |author= |url-status=dead}}

| {{ISBNT|1-4516-3853-1}}

| From issues 11–19

| The Masque

Grantville Gazette VII

| April 2015{{cite web |url=http://www.baen.com/schedule.asp |title=Publishing Schedule |publisher=Baen Books |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150118045121/http://www.baen.com/schedule.asp |date= |archive-date=2015-01-18 |access-date=2017-01-29 |author= |url-status=dead}}

| {{ISBNT|978-1476780290}}

| From issues 20–30

| An Aukward Situation

Grantville Gazette VIII

| June 2018{{cite web |url=http://www.baen.com/bookdata |title=Publishing Schedule |publisher=Baen Books |date= |access-date=2018-03-16 |author= |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180324193058/http://www.baen.com/bookdata/events |archive-date=2018-03-24}}

| {{ISBNT|978-1481483292}}

| From issues 31–45

| Descartes Before the Whores

Grantville Gazette IX

| July 2021{{cite web |url=https://www.baen.com/bookdata/events |title=Publishing Schedule |publisher=Baen Books |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201231064900/https://www.baen.com/bookdata/events |date= |archive-date=December 31, 2020 |access-date=December 31, 2020 |author= |url-status=dead}}

| {{ISBNT|978-1982125455}}

| From issues 46–64

| Nasty, Brutish and Short

=Overall literary criticism and reception of the printed versions=

Sales of the printed versions of the Grantville Gazette I{{cite news |url=http://www.locusmag.com/2005/Issues/02LocusBestsellers.html |title=Locus Bestsellers, February 2005 |magazine=Locus |date=February 2005}}{{cite news |url=http://www.locusmag.com/2005/Issues/03LocusBestsellers.html |title=Locus Bestsellers, March 2005 |magazine=Locus |date=March 2005}} and Grantville Gazette II{{cite news |url=http://www.locusmag.com/2006/Issues/06LocusBestsellers.html |title=Locus Bestsellers, June 2006 |magazine=Locus |date=June 2006}} were high enough to have these issues listed on the Locus (magazine) Bestsellers Lists with Volume I topping at number 9 in 2005 for Paperbacks and Volume II at 10 in 2006 for Hardcovers respectively.

Overall, most reviewers wrote favorable reviews{{cite news |last=Lardas |first=Mark |title=Fiction has a wide range in anthology |url=http://galvestondailynews.com/story.lasso?ewcd=53b4b5e7d6674992 |date=January 28, 2007 |newspaper=The Galveston County Daily News |access-date=August 2, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110716231409/http://galvestondailynews.com/story.lasso?ewcd=53b4b5e7d6674992 |archive-date=2011-07-16}}{{cite web |last=Lawhorn |first=Willian |title=Grantville Gazette III by Eric Flint |url=http://www.sfrevu.com/php/Review-id.php?id=4680 |date=December 26, 2006 |website=SFRevu |access-date=August 2, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071110005657/http://sfrevu.com/php/Review-id.php?id=4680 |archive-date=2007-11-10}} while only a small number were negative.{{cite web |url=http://www.books.rosboch.net/?p=723 |title=Grantville Gazette II – Eric Flint (Editor) |date=May 16, 2011 |website=Rosboch Book Reviews}} A reviewer for Booklist wrote that "Flint's 1632 universe seems to be inspiring a whole new crop of gifted alternate historians."{{cite news |url=http://connection.ebscohost.com/c/book-reviews/23776766/grantville-gazette-iii |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140413183733/http://connection.ebscohost.com/c/book-reviews/23776766/grantville-gazette-iii |url-status=dead |archive-date=April 13, 2014 |title=Grantville Gazette III |last=Green |first=Roland |magazine=Booklist |date=January 1, 2007 |volume=103 |issue=9/10 |page=70 |id={{EBSCOhost|23776766}}}}

=Reception of printed volumes that do not have their own page yet=

==Grantville Gazette IV==

The reviewer for Observe and See wrote that the printed version of the Grantville Gazette IV is "It is every bit as enjoyable as the other editions" and reviewed each story in this edition.{{cite web |url=http://observe-and-see.blogspot.com/2012/09/book-review-grantville-gazette-iv.html |title=Book Review: "Grantville Gazette IV" Edited by Eric Flint |date=September 22, 2012 |website=Observe and See |author=}} The reviewer for The Billion Light-Year Bookshelf wrote extensive individual reviews for each of the included stories.{{cite news |url=http://billionlightyearbookshelf.com/reviews/grantvillegazette4.shtml |title=Grantville Gazette IV by Eric Flint (editor) |website=Billion Light-Year Bookshelf |first=Leigh |last=Kimmel |date=April 15, 2009}} The reviewer also noted that one of the stories from the Gazette was a part of the backstory of one of the novels that she had previously reviewed.

==Grantville Gazette V==

The reviewer for Booklist wrote that the printed edition of the Grantville Gazette V "add[s] dimensions to Flint's singular alternate-history creation."{{cite news |url=http://connection.ebscohost.com/c/book-reviews/44154131/grantville-gazette-v |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140521040908/http://connection.ebscohost.com/c/book-reviews/44154131/grantville-gazette-v |url-status=dead |archive-date=May 21, 2014 |title=Grantville Gazette V |magazine=Booklist |date=August 1, 2009 |volume=105 |issue=22 |page=45 |last=Green |first=Roland |issn=0006-7385 |id={{EBSCOhost|44154131}}}} The reviewer for The Billion Light-Year Bookshelf wrote individual reviews for each of the included stories.{{cite news |url=http://billionlightyearbookshelf.com/reviews/grantvillegazette5.shtml |title=Grantville Gazette V by Eric Flint, ed |website=Billion Light-Year Bookshelf |first=Leigh |last=Kimmel |date=June 7, 2011}} Most were positive, however she did warn the reader that at least one story could be incomprehensible unless the reader have already read most of the books in the series.

==Grantville Gazette VI==

The reviewer for the San Francisco Book Review wrote that "all of the stories are well-written and peopled with fascinating characters."{{cite news |url=http://citybookreview.com/grantville-gazette-vi/ |title=Grantville Gazette VI |magazine=San Francisco Book Review |date=January 3, 2012 |first=Beth |last=Revers}} The reviewer for the Library Journal also gave a positive review.{{cite news |url=http://connection.ebscohost.com/c/book-reviews/70144687/grantville-gazette-vi-sequels-1632 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140413205458/http://connection.ebscohost.com/c/book-reviews/70144687/grantville-gazette-vi-sequels-1632 |url-status=dead |archive-date=2014-04-13 |title=Grantville Gazette VI: Sequels to 1632 |magazine=Library Journal |date=January 2012 |last=Cassada |first=Jackie |volume=137 |issue=1 |page=80 |issn=0363-0277 |id={{EBSCOhost|70144687}}}}

==Grantville Gazette VII==

The reviewer for the SFRevu wrote that "The stories run quite a gamut. There are mysteries, action adventure, and little bit of rewritten history." Some of the stories are quirky and that "the characters have a sense of humor" while some of the other "stories aren't all humorous, they also deal with subjects related to inequality and opportunity. The reviewer also wrote that "Another really good part of the series, is the serious discussion of technology and how old technologies can be recreated until the equipment needed to build the modern technology is available." The reviewer also states that "The Gazette has been a pipeline for developing authors."{{cite news |url=http://www.sfrevu.com/php/Review-id.php?id=16768 |title=Grantville Gazette VII (The Ring of Fire) |website=SFRevu |date=March 29, 2016 |first=Bill |last=Lawhorn}} The reviewer for the Midwest Book Review wrote that the book "provides a lively set of vignettes and tales that juxtapose well with the primary books in the series and fill in many gaps with new stories and new information".{{cite web |url=http://www.midwestbookreview.com/bw/jun_15.htm |title=The Bookwatch |publisher=Midwest Book Review |date=June 2015 |volume=10 |number=6 |author=}}

The Ring of Fire Press

{{main|Ring of Fire Press}}

Many of the continuing serials had been republished as single volume collections by the publishers of the Gazette through their own Ring of Fire Press to make the material easier to access by its readers by not having its readers search through various Gazette back issues to access a previous episode of a particular serial.{{cite magazine |url=https://grantvillegazette.com/wp/article/publish-583/ |title=Announcing Ring of Fire Press |magazine=Grantville Gazette |volume=48 |date=July 1, 2013 |url-status=dead |access-date=July 23, 2018 |archive-date=July 23, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180723034457/https://grantvillegazette.com/wp/article/publish-583/ }}

Short story awards

Starting in 2017, the Gazette began to offer an award for the best short story that was published during the previous calendar year as determined by its readers.{{cite magazine |url=https://grantvillegazette.com/wp/article/best-of-2016-award/ |title=Best of 2016 Award |magazine=Grantville Gazette |volume=70 |date=March 1, 2017 |first=Walt |last=Boyes |url-status=dead |access-date=July 22, 2018 |archive-date=July 23, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180723034440/https://grantvillegazette.com/wp/article/best-of-2016-award/ }}

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Year

! Title

! Authors

! Issue

2016

| The Winter Canvas: A Daniel Block Story{{cite magazine |url=https://grantvillegazette.com/wp/article/best-of-2017-award/ |title=Best of 2017 Award |magazine=Grantville Gazette |volume=74 |date=November 1, 2017 |first=Bjorn |last=Hasseler |url-status=dead |access-date=July 22, 2018 |archive-date=July 23, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180723034255/https://grantvillegazette.com/wp/article/best-of-2017-award/ }}

| Meriah L. Crawford and Robert E. Waters

| 67

2017

| The Long Road Home, Part 2{{cite magazine |url=https://grantvillegazette.com/wp/article/the-story-so-far-13/ |title=The Story So Far... |magazine=Grantville Gazette |volume=77 |date=May 1, 2018 |first=Walt |last=Boyes |url-status=dead |access-date=July 22, 2018 |archive-date=July 23, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180723034356/https://grantvillegazette.com/wp/article/the-story-so-far-13/ }}

| Nick Lorance

| 69

2018

| Requiem For the Future{{cite magazine |url=https://grantvillegazette.com/article/best-of-2018-3/ |title=Best of 2018 |magazine=Grantville Gazette |volume=85 |date=August 24, 2019 |first=Bjorn |last=Hasseler |url-status=dead |access-date=September 14, 2019 |archive-date=September 19, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200919183036/https://grantvillegazette.com/article/best-of-2018-3/ }}

| David Carrico

| 76

2019

| Clique, Clique, Boom{{cite magazine |url=https://grantvillegazette.com/best-of-2019-winner/ |title=Best of the Gazette 2019 |magazine=Grantville Gazette |volume=89 |date=May 2020 |url-status=dead |access-date=December 16, 2020 |archive-date=November 24, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201124225851/https://grantvillegazette.com/best-of-2019-winner/ }}

| Bjorn Hasseler

| 82

2020

| First Kiss{{cite magazine |url=https://grantvillegazette.com/article/best-of-the-gazette-2020/ |title=Best of the Gazette 2020 |magazine=Grantville Gazette |volume=98 |date=November 2021 |first1=Walt |last1=Boyes |first2=Bjorn |last2=Hasseler |url-status=dead |access-date=November 15, 2021 |archive-date=November 15, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211115124010/https://grantvillegazette.com/article/best-of-the-gazette-2020/ }}

| Tim Roesch

| 90

Jim Baen's Universe

Starting with magazine issue #19, another Baen magazine was merged into the Grantville Gazette. For the next ten issues, there was no change in the Gazettes beyond a dual title on the title page. In magazine issue #30, Eric Flint introduced the "Universe Annex" to the Grantville Gazette{{cite magazine |editor-first=Eric |editor-last=Flint |magazine=Grantville Gazette |volume=30 |publisher=Baen Books |date=July 2010 |title=Introduction to the Universe Annex |url=https://grantvillegazette.com/article/publish-376/ |url-status=dead |access-date=November 27, 2021 |archive-date=November 27, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211127192828/https://grantvillegazette.com/article/publish-376/ }} featuring a story slot and columns from Jim Baen's Universe.

See also

References

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External links

  • {{official website|https://web.archive.org/web/20220811230112/http://grantvillegazette.com/|Last snapshot of official website in August 2022}}
  • [https://1632.org/1632-tech/story-time-frames/ Timeline and story listing]
  • {{isfdb series|25252|Grantville Gazette Anthologies and Magazines ISFDB Series Record # 25252 }}

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