Grantville Gazette III (9) (The Ring of Fire) - Softcover

Flint, Eric

Softcover

ISBN 10: 141655565X ISBN 13: 9781416555650

Publisher: Baen, 2008

Synopsis

A mysterious cosmic force -- the "Ring of Fire" -- has hurled the town of Grantville from 20th century West Virginia back to 17th century Europe, and into the heart of the Thirty Years War. With their seemingly magical technology, and their radical ideas of freedom and justice, the time-lost West Virginians have allied with Gustavus Adolphus, King of Sweden, to form the United States of Europe, changing the course of history -- in ways both small and large. University students, a restless breed in all centuries, become even more rambunctious in Cambridge, England because of the personal and theological impact of the time-lost Americans. At the same time, American teenagers conquer new financial worlds when their elders are looking the other way. A Lutheran pastor schemes to gain new adherents among the Americans. A Benedictine monk finds a new calling for his order. Practitioners of 20th century medicine and its 17th century counterpart struggle to find common ground in healing the sick and injured. These and other new stories -- including a new story by Eric Flint himself -- return the reader to one of the most popular series in alternate history science fiction.

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About the Author

Eric Flint is the author/creator of the New York Times best-selling Ring of Fire series. His  impressive first novel, Mother of Demons (Baen), was selected by SF Chronicle as one of the best novels of 1997. With David Drake he has written six popular novels in the Belisarius series, including the new novel The Dance of Time, and with David Weber collaborated on 1633, and 1634: The Baltic War, two novels in the Ring of Fire series, and on Crown of Slaves, a best of the year pick by Publishers Weekly. Flint received his masters degree in history from UCLA and was for many years a labor union activist. He lives in East Chicago, IL, with his wife and is working on more books in the best-selling Ring of Fire series.

From Booklist

The third volume of short fiction and nonfiction from the e-zine Eric Flint spun off from his alternate-history hit 1632 (2000) boasts the same combination of charm and intelligence as its predecessors and again has continuing character Anne Jefferson on the cover in less than she really enjoys wearing. Meanwhile, at the end, the nonfiction contributors launch a series of articles on seventeenth-century firearms, a topic almost as confused and shifting as seventeenth-century religion. Between cover and guns come stories of refugee experience, of a pastor setting up 12 American men to marry Germans and convert to Lutheranism, of the culture shock when a delegation of Benedictines encounters the 1632 town of Grantville, and of the influence of the Ring of Fire on the already lively enough religious controversy at Cambridge. And an essay considers the likely effects of mechanization on Germany's tangled land tenure system. Flint's 1632 universe seems to be inspiring a whole new crop of gifted alternate historians. Roland Green
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About this edition

• Publisher: Baen
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 141655565X
• ISBN 13: 9781416555650
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Number of pages: 464