Synopses & Reviews
1. The latest in the
New York Times best-selling series.
2. The Ring of Fire series is the most popular and best-selling alternate history series for the past six years and is still growing.
3. Ads in Locus, more
4. Full-color brochure.
5. Special kit mailing
6. Teaser chapter for Grantville Gazette V and The Stoneholding.
7. Co-op available.
The Thirty Years War continues to ravage 17th century Europe, but a new force is gathering power and influence: the Confederated Principalities 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 CPE has the know-how of 20th century technology, but needs iron and steel to make the machines. The iron mines of the upper Palatinate were rendered inoperable by wartime damage, and American know-how is needed on the spot to pump them out and get the metal flowing again—a mission that will prove more complicated than anyone expects. In the maelstrom that is Europe, even a 20th century copy of the Encyclopedia Britannica can precipitate a crisis, when readers learn of the 1640 Portuguese revolt, a crisis that will involve Naples as well. Another factor: Albanian exiles in Naples, inspired by the Americans, are plotting to recover lost Albanian turf, which will precipitate yet another crisis in the Balkans.
This troubled century was full of revolutions and plans for more revolutions before the Americans arrived, and gave every would-be revolutionary an example of a revolution that succeeded. Europe is a pot coming to a boil, and Mike Stearns will have his hands full seeing that it doesn't boil over on to Grantville and the CPE.
Synopsis
The Baltic War, which began in the novel "1633," is still raging, and the time-lost Americans of Grantville--the West Virginia town hurled back into the 17th century by a mysterious cosmic accident--are caught in the middle of it, in this installment of Eric Flint's bestselling Ring of Fire saga.
Synopsis
1. The latest in the New York Times best-selling series.
2. The Ring of Fire series is the most popular and best-selling alternate history series for the past six years and is still growing.
3. Ads in Locus, more
4. Full-color brochure.
5. Special kit mailing
6. Teaser chapter for Grantville Gazette V and The Stoneholding.
7. Co-op available.
The Thirty Years War continues to ravage 17th century Europe, but a new force is gathering power and influence: the Confederated Principalities 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 CPE has the know-how of 20th century technology, but needs iron and steel to make the machines. The iron mines of the upper Palatinate were rendered inoperable by wartime damage, and American know-how is needed on the spot to pump them out and get the metal flowing again--a mission that will prove more complicated than anyone expects. In the maelstrom that is Europe, even a 20th century copy of the Encyclopedia Britannica can precipitate a crisis, when readers learn of the 1640 Portuguese revolt, a crisis that will involve Naples as well. Another factor: Albanian exiles in Naples, inspired by the Americans, are plotting to recover lost Albanian turf, which will precipitate yet another crisis in the Balkans.
This troubled century was full of revolutions and plans for more revolutions before the Americans arrived, and gave every would-be revolutionary an example of a revolution that succeeded. Europe is a pot coming to a boil, and Mike Stearns will have his hands full seeing that it doesn't boil over on to Grantville and the CPE.
Synopsis
In the latest book of the "New York Times"-bestselling alternate-history series, Mike Stearns, leader of the modern-day West Virginians who have been hurled centuries into the past, has his hands full in 17th-century Europe as he forms an alliance with Sweden.
About the Author
Eric Flint is the author of the
New York Times best seller
1634: The Galileo Affair (with Andrew Dennis)—a novel in his top-selling “Ring of Fire” alternate history series. His first novel for Baen,
Mother of Demons, was picked by
Science Fiction Chronicle as a best novel of the year. His
1632, which launched the ring of Fire series, won widespread critical praise, as from
Publishers Weekly, which called him “an SF author of particular note, one who can entertain and edify in equal, and major, measure.” A longtime labor union activist with a Master’s Degree in history, he currently resides in northwest Indiana with his wife Lucille.
Virginia DeMarce, after jobs as peculiar as counting raisins for the Calif. Dept. of Agriculture, received her Ph.D. in Early Modern European History from Stanford University. She has published a book on German military settlers in Canada after the American Revolution and has served as president of the National Genealogical Society. She taught at Northwest Missouri State University and at George Mason University. She has had stories in the Ring of Fire anthology and Grantville Gazette (#1), and more stories in the online Grantville Gazettes. She has three grown children and five grandchildren, and lives in Arlington, VA, with her husband.