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of the Fourth of July Party.
Hahn, Liesel
Member of parliament from Hesse-Kassel.
Hans Georg, von Arnim
Commanding general of the Saxon army in Leipzig.
Hesse-Kassel, Amalie Elisabeth, Landgravine of
Ruler of Hesse-Kassel, widow of Wilhelm V.
Higgins, Jeffrey (“Jeff”)
Lieutenant Colonel, USE Army; husband of Gretchen Richter.
Hugelmair, Minnie
Teenage girl employed as an agent by Francisco Nasi; friend of Denise Beasley; adopted daughter of Benny Pierce.
Junker, Egidius “Eddie”
Former agent of the SoTF government, now employed as an agent and pilot by Francisco Nasi; informally betrothed to Denise Beasley.
Keller, Anselm
Member of parliament from the Province of the Main.
Kienitz, Charlotte
Leader of the Fourth of July Party in Mecklenburg
Knyphausen, Dodo
Major general in command of the 2nd Division, USE Army.
Koniecpolski, Stanislaw
Grand Herman of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.
Krenz, Eric
Lieutenant, USE Army.
Kresse, Georg
Leader of guerrilla movement in the Vogtland.
Kuefer, Wilhelm
Guerrilla fighter in the Vogtland; Kresse’s assistant.
Leebrick, Anthony
Officer, USE Army; aide to Mike Stearns.
Long, Christopher
Officer, USE Army; aide to Mike Stearns.
Mailey, Melissa
Adviser to Mike Stearns; leader of the Fourth of July Party.
Nagel, Friedrich
Lieutenant, USE Army.
Nasi, Francisco
Former head of intelligence for Mike Stearns; now operates a private intelligence agency.
Norddahl, Baldur
Norwegian adventurer and engineer in Danish service; friend and assistant of Prince Ulrik.
Opalinski, Lukasz
Polish hussar.
Oxenstierna, Axel
Swedish chancellor, chief advisor of Gustav II Adolf
Piazza, Edward (“Ed”)
President of the State of Thuringia-Franconia; leader of the Fourth of July Party.
Platzer, Caroline Ann
Social worker in Magdeburg; companion for Princess Kristina; betrothed to Thorsten Engler
Richelieu, Armand Jean
Cardinal; first minister of Louis XIII; the effective head du Plessis de of the French government.
Richter, Maria Margaretha “Gretchen”
Leader of the Committees of Correspondence; Wife of Jeff Higgins.
Saxe-Weimar, Ernst, duke of
Brother of Wilhelm Wettin; regent for Gustav Adolf in the Oberpfalz (Upper Palatinate).
Saxe-Weimar, Wilhelm IV, duke of
See: Wilhelm Wettin.
Stearns, Michael “Mike”
Former prime Minister of the Unites States of Europe; now a major general in command of the 3rd Division, USE Army; husband of Rebecca Abrabanel.
Strigel, Matthias
Governor of Magdeburg province; leader of the Fourth of July Party.
Stull, Noelle
Former agent for the SoTF government, now employed by Francisco Nasi; is being courted by Janos Drugeth.
Szklenski, Tadeusz (“Ted”)
Polish CoC member in Dresden.
Thierbach, Joachim von “Spartacus”
Leader of the Committees of Correspondence.
Torstensson, Lennart
Commanding general of the USE army.
Ulrik
Prince of Denmark; youngest son of Christian IV in the line of succession; betrothed to Princess Kristina of Sweden.
Vasa, Gustav II Adolf
King of Sweden; Emperor of the United States of Europe; also known as Gustavus Adolphus.
Vasa, Kristina
Daughter and heir of Gustav II Adolf.
Vasa, Wladyslaw IV
King of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.
Walczak, Waclaw
Leader of the Polish CoC contingent in Dresden.
Wettin, Wilhelm
Prime Minister of the USE; leader of the Crown Loyalist Party (formerly Saxe-Weimar, Wilhelm IV, Duke of).
Wojtowicz, Jozef
Nephew of Grand Hetman Koniecpolski; head of Polish intelligence in the USE.
Afterword
The 1632 series, also sometimes called the Ring of Fire series, is now up to nine novels and nine anthologies of short fiction. That’s what has been produced in paper editions. There is also a bi-monthly electronic magazine devoted to the series, the Grantville Gazette. As of the month this novel comes out, the magazine will have published thirty-four issues. If you measure things by word count, which is how authors tend to think, almost three million words have so far been published in paper editions—1,674,000 words in the novels and 1,312,000 in the anthologies. A little over two million words have also been published in purely electronic format in Gazette stories and articles, not counting the stories and articles that were reissued in paper editions.
About five million words, all told. To make things still more complicated, the story line of the series is very far from linear. The 1632 series isn’t so much “a” story as it is a complex of stories. (See below for my suggestion for the order in which to read the various volumes.) Any given character is likely to weave in and out of both novels and short fiction, in stories which are often written by several different authors or collaborations of authors.
To give an example of a character who appears in this novel:
Denise Beasley’s best friend Minnie Hugelmair was first introduced into the series in Virginia DeMarce’s story in the first Grantville Gazette paper edition, “The Rudolstadt Colloquy.” Thereafter, she reappears in Virginia’s “Mule ‘Round the World” (Grantville Gazette #7, electronic edition; Gorg Huff and Paula Goodlett’s “Trommler Records” (in the same electronic issue of the Gazette); my story “The Austro-Hungarian Connection” in Ring of Fire II; Wood Hughes, “Turn Your Radio On, Episode Three” (GG #21, electronic edition); Virginia DeMarce, “Franconia! Parts II and III,” (GG #25, electronic edition); my story “Steady Girl” in Grantville Gazette V (paper edition); Eric Flint and Virginia