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Grantville Gazette III: (Ring of Fire) from: Baen Books List Price: £6.50 City Travel Guides Price: £5.20 You Save: £1.30 (20%)Prices subject to change. |
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Binding: Mass Market Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54 EAN: 9781416555650 ISBN: 141655565X Label: Baen Books Manufacturer: Baen Books Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 464 Publication Date: June 15, 2008 Publisher: Baen Books Studio: Baen Books Sales Rank: 164033 Related Items:
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Editorial Review: Product Description: A mysterious cosmic force-the "Ring of Fire"-has hurled the town of Grantville from 20th century West Virginia back to 17th century Europe, and into the heart of the Thirty Years War. With their seemingly magical technology, and their radical ideas of freedom and justice, the time-lost West Virginians have allied with Gustavus Adolphus, King of Sweden, to form the United States of Europe, changing the course of history-in ways both small and large. University students, a restless breed in all centuries, become even more rambunctious in Cambridge, England because of the personal and theological impact of the time-lost Americans. At the same time, American teenagers conquer new financial worlds when their elders are looking the other way. A Lutheran pastor schemes to gain new adherents among the Americans. A Benedictine monk finds a new calling for his order. Practitioners of 20th century medicine and its 17th century counterpart struggle to find common ground in healing the sick and injured. These and other new stories-including a new story by Eric Flint himself-return the reader to one of the most popular series in alternate history science fiction. Synopsis: A third volume in the series of anthologies based on the saga that began in 1632 describes life for the inhabitants of Grantville, an American town from West Virginia that finds itself hurtled back in time and into the middle of the Thirty Years War, as they struggle to incorporate their advanced technology and modern-day culture into the seventeen |
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