Though the Thirty Years Wars continues to ravage 17th century Europe, history as it once happened has been strongly deflected by the new force which is rapidly gathering power and influence: the United States of Europe, an alliance between Gustavus Adolphus, King of Sweden, and the West Virginians from the 20th Century led by Mike Stearns who were hurled centuries into the past by a mysterious cosmic accident-the Ring of Fire.
The USE has know-how of 20th century technology, but the American traditions of freedom and justice is having an even stronger impact on Europe, and the rulers of Europe are powerless to stuff the Grantville genie back into the bottle.
Virginia DeMarce, a trained historian and co-author of the New York Times best seller, 1635: The Bavarian Crisis, continues the saga of the time-lost Americans as seen through the eyes of both Americans and Europeans, as the Americans try to make sense of the strange world into which they have been hurled, and the Europeans try to understand the abilities and behavior of the visitors from the future. The result is a volume that will be irresistible to the thousands of fans of the Ring of Fire series.
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Product ReviewThis writer is a human bog. Between this book and her work in Bavarian crisis and Ram Rebellion She has managed to strip away most of the excitement in the series and leave us with long geneological screeds and much time with her characters sitting around complaining about their problems. In the other books we had a pathway to excitement via the writing of other authors. Not so here, Here you get to wait and wait and wait fot the author to get to the point. This is yet another anthology mis-labeed as a novel with the force of "but I am going to force you to read this Drech because its going to be "Canon" Behind it...Not cool. To drag through Dreeson, finally get some momentum and then step into this story where readers go to die is more than dissapointing.
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Product ReviewI found the characters to be interesting and the stories to be well-written.
I will say that it is necessary to be somewhat familiar with the 1632verse to get the full impact of the various stories. They all stand on their own, but background knowledge of Grantville and the alternate universe surrounding that transported community does make things more understandable.
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