The Ring of Fire: Grantville Gazette VIII

The most popular alternate history series of all continues. When aninexplicable cosmic disturbance hurls your town from twentieth century WestVirginia back to seventeenth century Europeand into the middle of theThirty Years Waryou'd better be adaptable to survive. And the nativesof that time period, faced with American technology and politics, need to beequally adaptable. Heres 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 Flints 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 bangan historical explosion with a multitude of unforeseenconsequences.