1634 : the Bavarian crisis

Format:

Book

Title:

1634 : the Bavarian crisis

Author:

Flint, Eric.

ISBN:

9781416542537

9781439132760

Publication:

Physical Description:

690 pages : maps, genealogical tables ; 25 cm.

Series title(s):

Ring of fire (Riverdale, N.Y.)

General Note:

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

Summary:

As the Thirty Years War continues to ravage seventeenth-century Europe, the twentieth-century West Virginians, led by Mike Stearns, enter into an alliance with Gustavus Adolphus, King of Sweden, to gain access to the iron and steel needed to make their machines.

Subject(s):

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

Time travel -- Fiction.

Space and time -- Fiction.

Europe -- History -- 17th century -- Fiction.

Geographic Term:

Europe -- History -- 17th century -- Fiction.

Europe

Genre:

Historical fiction.

Alternative histories (Fiction)

Added Author:

DeMarce, Virginia Easley, 1940-

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Library	Call Number	Status
Searching... Sheridan Public Library	Flint	Searching... Unknown
Searching... McMinnville Public Library	Flint, E.	Searching... Unknown
Searching... Monmouth Public Library	Fic (sf) Flint, E. 2007	Searching... Unknown

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1634: The Bavarian Crisis

Author Notes

Eric Flint was born in southern California in 1947. He received a bachelor's degree from UCLA in 1968 and did some work toward a Ph.D. in history, with a specialization in history of southern Africa in the 18th and early 19th centuries, also at UCLA. After leaving the doctoral program over political issues, he supported himself from that time until age 50 as a laborer, machinist and labor organizer.

In 1993, his short story entitled Entropy and the Strangler won first place in the Winter 1992 Writers of the Future contest. His first novel, Mother of Demons, was published in 1997 and was picked by the Science Fiction Chronicle as a best novel of the year. He became a full-time writer in 1999. He writes science fiction and fantasy works including The Philosophical Strangler and the Belisarius series.

(Bowker Author Biography)

Reviews (1)

Publisher's Weekly Review

The intricacies of Habsburg family relations make surprisingly fascinating reading in the latest episode in Flint's saga of a 20th-century West Virginia town transported mysteriously to 17th-century Europe. The recently widowed Duke Maximilian of Bavaria reluctantly assents to a dynastic marriage with his niece, Archduchess Maria Anna of Austria, but her recent reading of an uptime encyclopedia and the American Constitution leads her to consider other, previously unimaginable options. Meanwhile, Don Fernando, the Spanish Cardinal-Infante, moves toward peace with the fledgling United States of Europe while laying siege to Amsterdam and searching for a suitable bride. Flint teams up once again with historian DeMarce (1634: The Ram Rebellion) to tell a complicated but coherent story. It is especially refreshing to read an alternate history that doesn't depend upon the clash of anachronistic arms, but rather on how modern ideas of human rights, education, sanitation and law might have affected the Europe of the 30 Years War. (Oct.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved