NEW ENTRY IN THE NEW YORK TIMES BEST-SELLING, GENRE-DEFINING ALTERNATE HISTORY SERIES.
It’s been five years since a cosmic incident known as The Ring of Fire transported the modern day town of Grantville, West Virginia, through time and space to 17th century Europe. The course of world history has been forever altered. And Mother Russia is no exception.
Inspired by the American up-timers’ radical notion that all people are created equal, Russian serfs are rebelling. The entire village of Poltz, led by blacksmith Stefan Andreevich, pulls up stakes to make a run for freedom.
Meanwhile, Czar Mikhail has escaped house arrest, with the aid of up-time car mechanic Bernie Zeppi, his Russian associates—and a zeppelin. The czar makes his way to the village of Ufa. There he intends to set up a government-in-exile. It is to Ufa that the serfs of Poltz are heading, as well.
The path is dangerous—for the serfs as well as the czar. They face great distances and highwaymen. But the worst threat are those in the aristocracy who seek to crush the serfs and execute the czar in a bid to drive any hope for Russian freedom under their Parisian-crafted boot heels. But the Russians of 1637 have taken inspiration from their up-timer counterparts. And it could be that a new wind of liberty is about to blow three centuries early—and change Mother Russia forever.
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Those books are more and more ahistoricIt is just a fiction based on very limited knowledge of Easter Europe history - more myth then how it looked really
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Very good, but...One small problem. The parliaments of the United Sates of Europe, the Star Empire of Manticore, the Empire of Charis, and now the United Sovereign States of Russia are all divided into a house of commons and a house of lords. If Russia produces a crown loyalist party I may be forced to run screaming down the road. Why are there aways only 2 houses and why do they always have the same name?
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Failure in Russian contextGod damn, people, can't you get someone Russian to edit this? The names are all wrong, the dialogs are all not russian, but some alien speak, the everything reads so wrong ... I'm almost tempted to edit this myself.
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Worth itReally enjoyable, a fun continuation of the previous Russia books and an interesting glimpse of the ROF universe in 1637. It will be interesting to see how this links up to the main storyline/broader world.
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Fun RideWell written, and a fun ride.
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Bozhe moi!A great entry in the Ring of fire series. All sorts of fun things in this novel, including Russio/Uptime ingenuity versus a mongol horde. A very entertaining read. Here's hoping for more Eastern and Asian influences in the future of the Ring og Fire series.
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Thoroughly enjoyable and a great look at what has been going on in Russia and the eastern fringes of Europe since the Ring. There's a lot happening in this book but I still found myself caring about many of the characters. There's a lot of fodder for Gazette stories in this novel. Only downside is that like several other recent 163x books it leaves it on kind of a cliffhanger. I would definitely recommend it though.
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I enjoyed this book more than the prior
Kremlin Games. This is more about the
Downtimers,more complex ideals floating around and about workable compromise that leave both sides equably uhappy. Great!Posted on
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The verry best
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