1634 : the Ram rebellion

Format:

Book

Title:

1634 : the Ram rebellion

Other title(s):

Ram rebellion

Author:

Flint, Eric author

ISBN:

9781416520603

Publication Information:

Physical Description:

496 pages : maps ; 25 cm

Series title(s):

Ring of fire (Riverdale, N.Y.)

Number in series:

General Note:

"A Baen Books original"--Title page verso.

Contents:

1. Recipes for revolution -- Cook books / Eric Flint -- Birdie's farm / Gorg Huff & Paula Goodlett -- Scrambled eggs / Eric Flint -- Birdie's village / Gorg Huff & Paula Goodlett -- Bacon / Eric Flint -- 2. Enter the Ram -- The Merino problem / Paula Goodlett -- The Brillo legends / Paula Goodlett, Virginia DeMarce, Stanley Leghorn, & Rick Boatright -- The Brillo letters / Paula Goodlett, Virginia DeMarce, Kerryn Offord, & Laura Runkle -- A night at the ballet / Kerryn Offord -- 3. The trouble in Franconia -- Motherhood and apple pie, while you're at it / Virginia DeMarce -- Common sense / Virginia DeMarce -- The Suhl incident / Eric Flint & John Zeek -- Bypass surgery / Virginia DeMarce -- In the night, all hats are gray / Virginia DeMarce -- Who's calling this race? / Viriginia DeMarce -- A nightmare upon the present / Viriginia DeMarce -- On ye saints / Eva Musch -- Suits / Eric Flint -- 4. The Ram rebellion / Eric Flint & Virginia DeMarce.

Summary:

As the Thirty Years War continues to ravage seventeenth-century Europe, the West Virginians from twentieth-century America enter into an alliance with Gustavus Adolphus, King of Sweden, to promote a revolution among the peasants.

Subject(s):

Thirty Years' War, 1618-1648 -- Fiction.

Americans -- Germany -- Fiction.

Germany -- History -- 1618-1648 -- Fiction.

West Virginia -- Fiction.

Geographic Term:

Germany -- History -- 1618-1648 -- Fiction.

West Virginia -- Fiction.

Germany.

West Virginia.

Genre:

Alternative histories (Fiction)

Added Author:

DeMarce, Virginia Easley, 1940-

Holds:

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Library	Call Number	Status
Searching... Jefferson Public Library	SCI-FI FLINT, E.	Searching... Unknown
Searching... Independence Public Library	SCIENCE FICTION - FLINT	Searching... Unknown
Searching... Monmouth Public Library	Fic (sf) Flint, E. 2006	Searching... Unknown
Searching... Salem Main Library	SCI-FI Flint, E.	Searching... Unknown

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Summary

The Thirty Years War continues to ravage 17th century Europe, but a new force is gathering power and influence: the Confederated Principalities of Europe, an alliance between Gustavus Adolphus, King of Sweden, and the West Virginians from the 20th century led by Mike Stearns who were hurled centuries into the past by a mysterious cosmic accident. Inspired by the example of American freedom and justice, a movement in Franconia among the peasants, who have revolted several times even before the arrival from the future of the town of Grantville, an independent revolutionary movement has arisen, flying the banner of the head of a ram. The West Virginians fully approve of liberating the peasants from the nobility, but they are also aware of how revolutionary movements can lead to bloodbaths. And avoiding that deadly possibility will require all of their future knowledge and all their plain old American horse-trading diplomacy. . . .

Author Notes

Eric Flint was born in southern California in 1947. He received a bachelor's degree from UCLA in 1968 and did some work toward a Ph.D. in history, with a specialization in history of southern Africa in the 18th and early 19th centuries, also at UCLA. After leaving the doctoral program over political issues, he supported himself from that time until age 50 as a laborer, machinist and labor organizer.

In 1993, his short story entitled Entropy and the Strangler won first place in the Winter 1992 Writers of the Future contest. His first novel, Mother of Demons, was published in 1997 and was picked by the Science Fiction Chronicle as a best novel of the year. He became a full-time writer in 1999. He writes science fiction and fantasy works including The Philosophical Strangler and the Belisarius series.

(Bowker Author Biography)