Grantville Gazette VIII

Inbunden, Engelska, 2018

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The most popular alternate history series of all continues. When aninexplicable cosmic disturbance hurls your townfrom twentieth century WestVirginia back to seventeenth century Europe—and into the middle of theThirty YearsWar—you'd better be adaptable to survive. And the nativesof that time period, faced with American technology andpolitics, need to beequally adaptable. Here’s a generous helping of more stories ofGrantville, the American town lost in time, and its impact on the people andsocieties of a tumultuous age.Edited by Eric Flint and Walt Boyes, theeditor of the Grantville Gazette magazine from which the best selections aremade, these are stories that fill in the pieces of the Ring of Fire series begunwith Flint’s novel 1632. The setting has become a political, economic,social and cultural puzzle as supporting characters we meet in the novels gettheir own lives, loves and life-changing stories. The future and democracy havearrived with a bang—an historical explosion with a multitude of unforeseenconsequences.

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Utgivningsdatum2018-06-18
Mått156 x 235 x 36 mm
Vikt694 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieRing of Fire
Antal sidor496
FörlagBaen Books
ISBN9781481483292

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Eric Flint was the creator of the New York Times best-selling Ring of Fire series, the best-selling alternate history series of all time. Beginning with 1632, Flint—along with dozens of cowriters—chronicled what happened when the 20th-century town of Grantville, West Virginia, was transported through time and space to 17th-century Europe. In addition, Flint was the author, with New York Times best seller David Weber, of the Crown of Slaves Saga, as well as the Belisarius series with best-selling author David Drake. Flint was the editor of Jim Baen’s Universe, as well as numerous short story anthologies. Before becoming a writer, Flint worked as a trade union organizer, longshoreman, truck driver, auto worker, steel worker, oil worker, meatpacker, glassblower, and machinist. Eric Flint passed away in 2022.Walt Boyes is the editor of the Industrial Automation INSIDER magazine, the editor of The Grantville Gazette, a member of the 1632 universe editorial board, formerly editor of Control magazine and associate editor of Jim Baen's Universe. Along with Joy Ward, Walt is Co-Editor of Eric Flint's Ring of Fire Press. Walt is an active member of SFWA.