Summary
The Thirty Years War continues to ravage 17th century Europe, but a newforce is gathering power and influence: the United States of Europe, a newnation led by Gustavus Adolphus, King of Sweden, and the West Virginians fromthe 20th century led by Mike Stearns who were hurled centuries into the past bya mysterious cosmic accident. While the old entrenched rulers and manipulatorscontinue to plot against this new upstart nation, everyday life goes on inGrantville, even under the shadow of war, as this lost outpost of Americanfreedom and justice must play David against a 17th century Goliath of oppressivefeudalism.
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.
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