Grantville Gazette 79 starts out in Grantville with Terry Howard's "The Stillborn Voice of John the Baptist," in which John Paul Kindred finds out giving away Bibles is more complicated than he thought.

Next, we go to England, where CoC members are struggling with a sweatshop in Caroline Palmer's "Charlotte's Threads."

The next stop is France, for "Uprooting the Seed," Tim Sayeau's next story about Marie-Madeleine.

Then it's off to Japan for Iver P. Cooper's "Escape From Nagasaki."

Thomas K. Scot's "Seeds of Fortune" is about a town in Württemberg whose inhabitants did some traveling of their own.

Back in Grantville, Terry Howard shows us that "Everyone Wants to Write," but one story submission has a problem.

Sean Little continue one non-fiction series with "The Age of Chapelle: Warship Design After the Ring of Fire, Part 2: Ship-Rigged Sloops of War," and Iver P. Cooper begins another with "The Art of Secret Communication in the 1632 Universe: Part 1, Classical (Manual) Cryptology."

Kristine Kathryn Rusch points out that "Fandom Changes" in her Notes from The Buffer Zone column. Walt Boyes talks about new and upcoming releases in Hot Off Eric Flint's Ring of Fire Press!

Finally, we return to the Time Spike universe in Garrett W. Vance's "The First Cavalry of the Cretaceous, Part Six: Snakes in the Grass."

Grantville Gazette 78 opens with "Goodbye" by Thomas K. Scot, about a journeyman setting out on his working travels.

"The Observer" by Bjorn Hasseler explains how the first down-time profiler got started.

Michael Lockwood's "The Freeman's Oath" is set in one of the North American colonies that passed to the control of France.  Can a freeman swear allegiance?

"Cremonensis Faciebat 1632, or Body and Scroll: The Luthier's Tale" by Tim Sayeau is about a violin maker who hears about Grantville and has to check it out.

"The Visible Dogs of Grantville" by Jackie Britton Lopatin picks up from her earlier "The Invisible Dogs of Grantville" and addresses the dilemma of what happens when Mom cleans out the house.

In this issue's "Notes from The Buffer Zone: Conventions in the Sky," Kristine Kathryn Rusch remembers writers who have passed on.

A new column debuts:  "Hot Off Eric Flint's Ring of Fire Press!"  Here are the latest 1632 and non-1632 titles coming out.

In the Universe Annex, Mike Watson brings us "The Enigma of Charlie Peabody."  Who is this man?

Grantville Gazette 77 features several stories of the USE armed forces in the new timeline.

Henrik has secret USE Air Force plans in Iver P. Cooper's "Con Air."

Marines face military justice in "The Proper and Correct Marine Response: A Tale of the USE Marines" by Tim Sayeau.

Next, Anne Keener provides a change of pace with a story about zealous students in "Lord of the Fruit Flies."

Navy Lieutenant Commander Matt Tisdel comes home to Grantville in "The Return of the Prodigal Son" by Kerryn Offord.

Sergeant Hartmann continues training both officers and men in "Honing the Blade, Part 2" by Nick Lorrance.

Iver P. Cooper also has a non-fiction article about airships: "The Wind is the Enemy, Part 2."

Bjorn Hasseler discusses "The USE Army."

Kristin Kathryn Rusch looks at technology in an urban area in her column "Notes from The Buffer Zone: Discovering a New World"

And David Carrico presents "Pendragon," in which a writer receives a mysterious visitor.