1635: The Tangled Web (8) (The Ring of Fire)

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This is a follow-up to New York Times best-seller Eric Flint and ace historian Virginia DeMarces 1634: The Bavarian Crisis. Here DeMarce follows Flints alternate timeline and delivers another entry in the hugely popular Ring of Fire alternate history series. Freedom-loving modern Americans thrown back in time must carve out lives in war-torn 17th century Europe a time and place thats got one foot firmly planted in the Dark Ages. Long-time Eric Flint collaborator and Stanford-educated historian Virginia DeMarce delivers an intricate web of interrelated adventures in alternate history master Eric Flints hugely popular Ring of Fire series. A cosmic accident sets the modern town of Grantville West Virginia down in war-torn seventeenth century Europe and a new nation is forged. Now bewildered down-timers and freedom-loving future folk who lived near the displaced form the future must learn to weave their lives together. 21st century ideals run head-on into medieval skullduggery along with a few admirable ancient customs that arent going to crumble overnight. Or ever. Up-timer and down-timer alike fight it out strike deals and forge a new nation. To do so both sides must break a few mind-forged manacles in the process. About 1634: The Bavarian Crisis by Eric Flint and Virginia DeMarce: . . . fascinating reading. . . . It is especially refreshing to readhow modern ideas of human rights educationand law might have affected the Europe of the 30 Years War. Publishers Weekly About Eric Flints Ring of Fire series: This alternate history series isa landmark Booklist Eric Flints 1632 universe seems to be inspiring a whole new crop of gifted alternate historians.Booklist reads like a technothriller set in the age of the Medicis Publishers Weekly each new entry appears better than the previous one a seemingly impossible featterrific. Midwest Book Review