Grantville Gazette III, Volume 3

Eric Flint

Baen Books, Dec 26, 2006 - Fiction - 320 pages

A mysterious cosmic forcethe Ring of Firehas 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 Confederated Principalities of Europe, changing the course of historyin 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 woman terrorized by a notorious Hungarian countess seeks sanctuary in Grantville. A Lutheran pastor schemes to gain new adherents among the Americans. A Benedictine monk finds a new calling for his order. Europes leading musicians travel to Grantville to learn of the music of the future. 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 storiesincluding a new story by Eric Flint himselfreturn the reader to one of the most popular series in alternate history science fiction. Also included are articles exploring the technical problems the time-lost Americans face, including the centrality of iron to the industrial revolution, the problems of mechanizing agriculture in the 17th century, and the type of weapons which the Americans can mass-produce, adding up to an indispensable volume for the many followers of the "1632 "series.

What people are saying

Review: Grantville Gazette III (Grantville Gazette: Print Version #3)

User Review  - David - Goodreads

Good collection of stories in the Grantville alt history series. Also a few "non-fiction" articles on agriculture and firearms relevant to the on-going series. Interesting, but hardly riveting.

Review: Grantville Gazette III (Grantville Gazette: Print Version #3)

User Review  - Topher - Goodreads

I love the idea behind the ring of fire - a town in modern West Virginia is lopped off from our universe and tossed back into Germany at the time of the 30 years war. What happens after? The gazettes ...

About the author

Eric Flint's impressive first novel, Mother of Demons (Baen), was selected by SF Chronicle as one of the best novels of 1997. With David Drake he has written six popular novels in the Belisarius series, including the new novel The Dance of Time, and with David Weber collaborated on 1633, a novel in the Ring of Fire series, and on Crown of Slaves, a best of the year pick by Publishers Weekly. Flint received his masters degree in history from UCLA and was for many years a labor union activist. He lives in East Chicago, IL, with his wife and is working on more books in the best-selling Ring ofFire series.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Grantville Gazette III, Volume 3; Ring of fire series, Eric Flint
• Author: Eric Flint
• Editor: Eric Flint
• Publisher: Baen Books, 2006
• ISBN: 1416509410, 9781416509417
• Length: 320 pages
• Subjects: Fiction / Alternative History; Fiction / Fantasy / General; Fiction / Science Fiction / Action & Adventure; Fiction / Science Fiction / General; Fiction / Science Fiction / Space Opera