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1632 (The Assiti Shards)
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Author: Eric Flint
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1632 (The Assiti Shards) Description
Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780671319724
ISBN: 0671319728
Label: Baen
Manufacturer: Baen
Number Of Items: 1
Book Pages: 608
Publication Date: 2001-01-30
Publisher: Baen
Studio: Baen
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780671319724
ISBN: 0671319728
Label: Baen
Manufacturer: Baen
Number Of Items: 1
Book Pages: 608
Publication Date: 2001-01-30
Publisher: Baen
Studio: Baen
Editorial Review of 1632 (The Assiti Shards)
FREEDOM AND JUSTICE -- AMERICAN STYLE
1632 And in northern Germany things couldn't get much worse. Famine. Disease. Religous war laying waste the cities. Only the aristocrats remained relatively unscathed; for the peasants, death was a mercy.
2000 Things are going OK in Grantville, West Virginia, and everybody attending the wedding of Mike Stearn's sister (including the entire local chapter of the United Mine Workers of America, which Mike leads) is having a good time.
THEN, EVERYTHING CHANGED....
When the dust settles, Mike leads a group of armed miners to find out what happened and finds the road into town is cut, as with a sword. On the other side, a scene out of Hell: a man nailed to a farmhouse door, his wife and daughter attacked by men in steel vests. Faced with this, Mike and his friends don't have to ask who to shoot. At that moment Freedom and Justice, American style, are introduced to the middle of the Thirty Years' War.
Customer Reviews of 1632 (The Assiti Shards)
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Review Summary: 1632
Review: In the small town of Grantville West Virginia, people are having a pretty good time - Mike Stern's sister is getting married, and the local chapter of the miner's union is out in force for the celebration. But when a mysterious event known as the 'Ring of Fire' transports the town to 1632 Germany - and right into the middle of a major war - the resulting culture clash will change the lives of the people on both sides and re-write history.
I had no idea the Thirty Year's War could be so much fun. Flint doesn't show the Americans conquering Germany with their superior firepower - the series is realistic about the impossibility of maintaining modern technology with 17th century infrastructure. Instead, 1632 concentrates on the effects of ordinary people whose world has been turned upside down, and shows the powerful influence of ideas.
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: Don't judge a book by its cover...
Review: The cover of the book made it look like Dukes of Hazzard meet the Conquistadors. Thank God that wasn't the case.
This is a very well thought out and written book. The characters are extremely realistic and likeable and the plot outline very intriguing. The many directions possible from a story arc as this make it even more appealing as the characters grow and develop throughout this series.
As a fan of alternate history or time travel type books I found this incredibly enjoyable. It was a fast paced and easy read.
I am hooked on the other books in this great series.
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: Fascinating look at cross cultural interaction
Review: This is a science fiction novel - for about the first five pages. The setup is sci-fi, but the bulk of the book is a thoughtful consideration of how a small community of 21st century Americans would cope with being plunked down in Germany in 1632 during the bloody 30 Years War, and how the surrounding communities and governments cope with them. With a great deal of historical accuracy, and a sunshiny outlook with four brilliant female characters, it is a fun, exciting and thought-provoking read. 5 stars!
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: nice story, badly told
Review: Flint has done someshing amazing here: he's invented a really interesting story and rendered it boring, utterly boring. The man has a great imagination but his writing is just painful and his characters wooden and undifferentiated. Too bad really, because the premise of the book offers all the potential a writer could want.
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: Anti-Catholic Propaganda, and an S. M. Stirling Knock-off
Review: As a proud practicing Catholic this book offended me. Obviously the author thinks all Catholics are backwards, decadent, manipulative and cruel. Or hopefully he thinks anyone that's Catholic back in the 17th century was all that. I bought this book because of the similarities it bears with S. M. Stirling's _Island in the Sea of Time_. This is pathetic, some how Mr. Flint appears to believe that one small mining town of West Virginia can somehow conquer Europe, but wait! His town has a union! Of course they'll win now!
And the West Virginians have the Socialist King Gustavus Adolfus II to help defend them from the evil Catholic menace! AND they have more bullets than a cowboy's six-shooter-that-shoots-seven. No matter how many times they whup the poor, backwards, 17th century Europeans they never run out of ammunition, they even have a high-school cheerleader sniper to help them! Worst of all the author continues to push far-leftist propaganda by creating two Americans who are foils: a business owner and a retired Navy paper-pusher turned... SURPRISE! businessman.
I'm going to continue this series, but only because I saw David Weber's name on the sequel.
Review Summary: 1632
Review: In the small town of Grantville West Virginia, people are having a pretty good time - Mike Stern's sister is getting married, and the local chapter of the miner's union is out in force for the celebration. But when a mysterious event known as the 'Ring of Fire' transports the town to 1632 Germany - and right into the middle of a major war - the resulting culture clash will change the lives of the people on both sides and re-write history.
I had no idea the Thirty Year's War could be so much fun. Flint doesn't show the Americans conquering Germany with their superior firepower - the series is realistic about the impossibility of maintaining modern technology with 17th century infrastructure. Instead, 1632 concentrates on the effects of ordinary people whose world has been turned upside down, and shows the powerful influence of ideas.
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: Don't judge a book by its cover...
Review: The cover of the book made it look like Dukes of Hazzard meet the Conquistadors. Thank God that wasn't the case.
This is a very well thought out and written book. The characters are extremely realistic and likeable and the plot outline very intriguing. The many directions possible from a story arc as this make it even more appealing as the characters grow and develop throughout this series.
As a fan of alternate history or time travel type books I found this incredibly enjoyable. It was a fast paced and easy read.
I am hooked on the other books in this great series.
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: Fascinating look at cross cultural interaction
Review: This is a science fiction novel - for about the first five pages. The setup is sci-fi, but the bulk of the book is a thoughtful consideration of how a small community of 21st century Americans would cope with being plunked down in Germany in 1632 during the bloody 30 Years War, and how the surrounding communities and governments cope with them. With a great deal of historical accuracy, and a sunshiny outlook with four brilliant female characters, it is a fun, exciting and thought-provoking read. 5 stars!
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: nice story, badly told
Review: Flint has done someshing amazing here: he's invented a really interesting story and rendered it boring, utterly boring. The man has a great imagination but his writing is just painful and his characters wooden and undifferentiated. Too bad really, because the premise of the book offers all the potential a writer could want.
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: Anti-Catholic Propaganda, and an S. M. Stirling Knock-off
Review: As a proud practicing Catholic this book offended me. Obviously the author thinks all Catholics are backwards, decadent, manipulative and cruel. Or hopefully he thinks anyone that's Catholic back in the 17th century was all that. I bought this book because of the similarities it bears with S. M. Stirling's _Island in the Sea of Time_. This is pathetic, some how Mr. Flint appears to believe that one small mining town of West Virginia can somehow conquer Europe, but wait! His town has a union! Of course they'll win now!
And the West Virginians have the Socialist King Gustavus Adolfus II to help defend them from the evil Catholic menace! AND they have more bullets than a cowboy's six-shooter-that-shoots-seven. No matter how many times they whup the poor, backwards, 17th century Europeans they never run out of ammunition, they even have a high-school cheerleader sniper to help them! Worst of all the author continues to push far-leftist propaganda by creating two Americans who are foils: a business owner and a retired Navy paper-pusher turned... SURPRISE! businessman.
I'm going to continue this series, but only because I saw David Weber's name on the sequel.