1634 : the Baltic War

Format:

Book

Title:

1634 : the Baltic War

Other title(s):

Sixteen, thirty-four

Sixteen hundred, thirty-four

Baltic War

Author:

Flint, Eric.

ISBN:

9781416521020

9781416555889

Publication Information:

Physical Description:

728 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm + 1 CD-ROM (4 3/4 in.).

Series title(s):

Ring of fire (Riverdale, N.Y.)

General Note:

"A Baen Books original"--Title page verso.

Contents:

CD ROM contents: Ring of fire baen.com ; Baen free library -- Art gallery -- Complete e-Books (in HTML, Microsoft Reader, Minipocket for palm/Win CE, Rocket RCA REB1100 and Rich Text formats): The ring of fire series: 1634: the Baltic war -- 1632 -- 1633 -- 1634: the Galileo affair -- 1634: the ram rebellion -- 1634: the cannon law -- -- Ring of fire anthologies: Ring of fire -- Grantville gazette: -- Grantville gazette I -- Grantville gazette II -- Grantville gazette III -- Grantville gazette online -- Joe's world series: The philosophical strangler -- Forward the mage -- Rivers of war series: 1812: the rivers of war -- Individual books: Mother of demons -- Boundary / Ryk Spoor -- Crown of slaves / David Weber -- Pyramid scheme / Dave Freer -- The course of empire / K.D. Wentworth -- The tyrant / David Drake -- The wizard of Karres / Mercedes Lackey and Dave Freer -- Heirs of Alexandria series/ Mercedes Lackey and Dave Freer: The shadow of the lion -- This rough magic -- A mankind witch -- Belisarius saga / David Drake: An oblique approach -- In the heart of darkness -- Destiny's shield -- Fortune's stroke -- The tide of victory -- The dance of time -- -- Rats, bats and vats series / Dave Freer: Rats, bats and vats -- The rats the bats and the ugly -- -- Anthologies: The world turned upside down -- The war masters -- Mountain magic -- -- Classic SF / edited by Eric Flint: A logic named Joe -- A plague of demons -- Imperium -- Interstellar patrol -- Interstellar patrol II: the federation of humanity -- Legions of space -- Med ship -- Odyssey -- Pandora's legions -- Planets of adventure -- The cold equations -- The creatures of man -- The lighter side of Keith Laumer -- The trouble with aliens -- The witches of Karres -- Transgalactic.

Summary:

The time-traveling Americans from the West Virginia town of Grantville find themselves caught in the middle of the Baltic War, with Gustavus Adolphus, King of Sweden, launching a counterattack on the combined forces of France, Spain, England, and Denmark.

Subject(s):

Thirty Years' War, 1618-1648 -- Fiction.

Americans -- Europe -- Fiction.

Time travel -- Fiction.

Space and time -- Fiction.

Black holes (Astronomy) -- Fiction.

West Virginia -- Fiction.

Geographic Term:

West Virginia -- Fiction.

Europe

West Virginia

Genre:

Alternative histories (Fiction)

Added Author:

Holds:

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Library	Call Number	Status
Searching... Independence Public Library	SCIENCE FICTION - FLINT	Searching... Unknown
Searching... Monmouth Public Library	Fic (sf) Flint, E. 2007	Searching... Unknown
Searching... Salem Main Library	SCI-FI Flint, E.	Searching... Unknown
Searching... Sheridan Public Library	Weber Ring of Fire v.3	Searching... Unknown

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Summary

New York Times bestselling authors David Weber and Eric Flint continue their Ring of Fire series--the saga of the residents of an entire West Virginia town who have been hurled back in time and their epic struggle for freedom and justice against the tyrannies of the 17th century. 448 p.

Author Notes

David Weber was born in Cleveland, Ohio on October 24, 1952. He received an undergraduate degree from Warren Wilson College and attended graduate school at Appalachian State University. He ran Weber Associates, a small advertising and public relations agency, for several years.

He currently writes science fiction and fantasy full-time. His first novel, Insurrection, in collaboration with Steve White, was published in 1990. He has authored or co-authored over 40 books including The Honor of the Queen, In Enemy Hands, The Service of the Sword, Storm from the Shadows, the Honor Harrington series, the Safehold series, and the Star Kingdom series.

Weber's first book in the Manticore Ascendant Series, co-authored with Timothy Zahn, made the New York Times bestseller list in October 2014. At the Sign of Triumph, book 9 in the Safehold series, made the New York Times bestseller list in 2016. Book 10, Through Fiery Trials, was published in January 2019.

(Bowker Author Biography)

Reviews (2)

Publisher's Weekly Review

The exciting eighth entry in the Ring of Fire saga, about a temporally displaced West Virginia mining town and its impact upon 17th-century Europe, neatly wraps up two plot threads left unresolved by Flint and Weber's 1633 (2002). A mission is mounted to rescue the Grantville diplomatic mission that Charles I is holding captive in the Tower of London (along with an obscure politician named Oliver Cromwell), while Admiral Simpson's fleet of ironclad warships sets off to break the siege of Luebeck in a spectacular display of "shock and awe." While the technology that the modern Americans employ is decidedly useful, Flint and Weber emphasize the effect that the ideas of liberty, equality and the rule of law have, and not just on the peasantry and middle classes. The authors contrast those princes who try to forestall the judgment of history with those striving to achieve a transition from absolutism to democracy without bloodshed. Readers will eagerly look forward to further installments in this richly imagined alternate history series. (May) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved

Booklist Review

*Starred Review* Call it 1632, or call it Ring of Fire, the alternate-history saga launched by Flint and sustained with the help of, first, Andrew Dennis (1634: The Galileo Affair, 2004; 1635: The Cannon Law, 2006) and then Weber (and others: see the Grantville Gazette theme anthologies) is certainly a landmark in that subgenre. The transplanted modern West Virginians and their allies in the United States of Europe now take to the sea, with Admiral Simpson bringing essentially Civil War naval technology to the seventeenth century. The impact is considerable. Meanwhile, the Spanish siege of Amsterdam simmers, with Gretchen Richter and the Committee of Correspondence holding high the banner of radical politics, which is quite plausible, given the era's many uprisings. The French besieging Luebeck are more determined, but the USE has such assets as Sweden's King Gustavus Adolphus and an early machine gun. And the sympathetic characters, who are in the majority even if on the wrong side, face ethical dilemmas far more complex than either the political machinations or the at-this-time advanced technology. The charming Swedish princess Kristina wants to learn to fly, but will that mean giving up autocratic habits and marrying a Danish prince? Eddie Cantrell wrestles with helping the king of Denmark build new weapons for use against the USE and with whether he can safely bed that same king's nubile daughter. And a German machine-gunner of peasant stock wonders whether he can love and be loved by someone obviously from the future a social worker. A splendid example of character-centered alternate-history, this is a must read for its series' growing fandom.--Green, Roland Copyright 2007 Booklist