The Ultimate Y2K Glitch....
1632 In the year 1632 in northern Germany a reasonable person might conclude that things couldn't get much worse. There was no food. Disease was rampant. For over a decade religious war had ravaged the land and the people. Catholic and Protestant armies marched and countermarched across the northern plains, laying waste the cities and slaughtering everywhere. In many rural areas population plummeted toward zero. Only the aristocrats remained relatively unscathed; for the peasants, death was a mercy.
2000 Things are going OK in Grantville, West Virginia. The mines are working, the buck are plentiful (it's deer season) and everybody attending the wedding of Mike Stearn's sister (including the entire membership of the local chapter of the United Mine Workers of America, which Mike leads) is having a good time.
THEN, EVERYTHING CHANGED....
When the dust settles, Mike leads a small group of armed miners to find out what's going on. Out past the edge of town Grantville's asphalt road is cut, as with a sword. On the other side, a scene out of Hell; a man nailed to a farmhouse door, his wife and daughter Iying screaming in muck at the center of a ring of attentive men in steel vests. Faced with this, Mike and his friends don't have to ask who to shoot.
At that moment Freedom and Justice, American style, are introduced to the middle of The Thirty Years War.
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fabulous in the true sense"Last night I had the strangest dream"... We all believe in some part of our psyche that we weill step up and measure up if/when we have to. Mike, Gretchen, Rebecca and Jeff, along with chars fromlater books have shot to the top of my list of favorites. May God bless us with similar insightys and resolve
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it's been 17 years now and this book is still on my bookshelf as a keeper -- plus the follow-on novels, the anthologies and the Grantville Gazette, so make that TWO shelves. The best back-in-time novel since deCamp's Lest Darkness Fall. Meet lovers Mike & Becky, no, meet lovers Jeff & Gretchen. Run for your life if Becky attacks you with her wit. Run faster if Gretchen reaches for ger gun. Best of all, just read this book and enjoy.
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Product ReviewRollicking and satisfying.
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