The Ectozone: The Ghostbusters Universe At Your Fingertips

Illustration by John Tobias, Rich Rankin, and Suzanne Dechnik

Holy crap! The year that felt like it'd never end...actually ended!!!

Gregorian: Friday, 1 January 2021
Mayan: Long count = 13.0.8.2.13; tzolkin = 12 Ben; haab = 16 Kankinr
French: 12 Nivôse an 229 de la Révolution
Islamic: 17 Jumada I 1442r
Hebrew: 17 Teveth 5781
Julian: 19 December 2020
ISO: Day 5 of week 53 of 2020
Persian: 12 Dey 1399
Ethiopic: 23 Takhsas 2013
Coptic: 23 Kiyahk 1737
Chinese: Cycle 78, year 37 (Geng-Zi), month 11 (Wu-Zi), day 18 (Ji-You)
Julian day: 2459216
Day of year: Day 1 of 2021; 364 days remaining in the year
Discordian: Sweetmorn, Chaos 1, Year of Our Lady of Discord 3187
Order of Hermes: XII Day of Capricorn, XXX Age of Aquarius

So anything of note on the horizon?

Or at least, we think it's coming this year. We thought that last year too and look what happened.

"I take no responsibility!!!"

Yeah, but you're gone in three weeks, Jackass.

Have a safe and happy Thirty First Year of the Age of Aquarius

--Fritz V. Baugh

My own take on the Ghostbusters. Some of my own creations aren't this much fun to write! Click HERE to see the stuff...

Five newest stories (newest on top)

Ghostbusters: Picture Imperfect, Part Two
January 1989--Timeline Year Seven
Venkman and Winston are back, and the mystery of the new Vigo painting deepens as everyone's lives get more complicated. Decisions must be made and secrets must be revealed before the Ghostbusters can truly move forward again.
(First Posted December 15, 2020)

Ghostbusters: Picture Imperfect, Part One
January 1989--Timeline Year Seven
While Venkman and Winston are out of town, Egon and Ray get a call from the Manhattan Museum of Art, site of Vigo the Carpathian's recent defeat. Janine, meanwhile, finds herself questioning a lot of her recent activities.
(First Posted June 30, 2020)

Ghostbusters: Thirty Five Years Later
June 8, 2019--Timeline Year Thirty-Seven
The present is the transition point between the past and the future; and perhaps this is more true than ever. As Egon, Janine, and many other Ghostbusters past and present celebrate GBI's success, two similar looking vehicles--one a rusted wreck, one a state of the art high tech marvel--hint at the futures about to unfold in more than one universe.
(First Posted December 17, 2019)

Tales From The Ectozone: Coda And Terchi
March 21, 1998--Timeline Year Sixteen
After five and a half years of tension between them, it seems that something is about to change for Coda Monkeyfang and Terchi Bagwise. But will it be for good or ill?
(First Posted August 13, 2019)

Tales From The Ectozone: Kyrie Was Here, Part Four
1992--Timeline Year Ten
The mystery of Kyrie Wheatberry's fate has been answered. But she leaves behind a daughter seeking the answers behind her very existence: what combination of romance and tragedy lead Kyrie to live as a single mother an alien world?
(First Posted May 13, 2019)