1636 : the Kremlin games

Format:

Book

Title:

1636 : the Kremlin games

Other title(s):

Sixteen thirty-six

Author:

Flint, Eric author

ISBN:

9781451637762

Publication Information:

Physical Description:

408 pages : maps ; 25 cm.

Series title(s):

Ring of fire (Riverdale, N.Y.) ;

Number in series:

12.

Summary:

After carving a place among the powers of 17th-century Western Europe, the out-of-time modern town of Grantville, West Virginia, must fight for its life in a war-torn Europe just emerging from medieval skullduggery, and Bernie Zeppi, former Grantville mechanic, will have the chance to find his purpose and save the woman he loves in Mother Russia.

Subject(s):

Time travel -- Fiction.

Seventeenth century -- Fiction.

West Virginia -- History -- Fiction.

Russia -- History -- Fiction.

Geographic Term:

West Virginia -- History -- Fiction.

Russia -- History -- Fiction.

Russia.

West Virginia.

Genre:

Alternative histories (Fiction), American.

Science fiction, American.

Time-travel fiction.

Science fiction.

Alternative histories (Fiction)

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Library	Call Number	Status
Searching... Monmouth Public Library	Fic (sf) Flint, E. 2012	Searching... Unknown
Searching... Salem Main Library	SCI-FI Flint, E.	Searching... Unknown
Searching... Sheridan Public Library	Flint Ring of Fire v.14	Searching... Unknown

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A new addition to the multiple New York Times bestselling Ring ofFire series! After carving a place for itself in war-torn 17th centuryEurope, the modern town of Grantville, West Virginia continues its quest forsurvival. A Grantville resident helps Russia modernize, but he in turn must dealwith 1600s Russian culture and politics -- or wind up dead! 1636.Grantville has bounced back and established its new mission and identity, but itseems some have been left behind -- people like Bernie Zeppi, courageous inthe battle, but unable to figure out what to do with himself in a worldthat's utterly changed. Then Russian emissary Vladimir Gorchacov arrivesin Grantville and hires Bernie to journey to Moscow and bring the future to aRussia mired in slavish serfdom and byzantine imperial plots. Bernie jumps atthe chance. He figures it to be an easy gig, complete with high pay andhot-and-cold running women. But one thing Bernie hasn't counted on is thechance to find his purpose in Mother Russia, from fighting the needless death ofchildren from typhoid to building the first dirigible in Russian history. Andthen there's love. Just as Bernie realizes his feeling for a certainRussian noblewoman may have gone way beyond respect, he finds them both enmeshedin the deadly politics of Kremlin power struggles.

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)

Reviews (1)

Publisher's Weekly Review

The latest installment of the massively multiauthor Ring of Fire series (after 1636: The Saxon Uprising), chronicling an alternate history in which the modern-day American town of Grantville is transported to the 17th century, stars "up-timer" auto mechanic Bernie Zeppi, who's hired by Russian prince Vladimir Gorchakov to bring the prince's country up to speed technologically. There's a great deal of charm to the reactions of 21st-century Americans when confronted by things they've only read about in history books, and likewise in 17th-century Russians trying to decipher Bernie's gadgets. Technology's not the most dangerous thing he's brought, though: his American ideas threaten to bring down Russia as its nobility knows it. The politicking and violence touched off by a spark of democracy prove explosive indeed. The story is better than the writing, but the plain prose manages to stay out of the way of interesting characters and a well-constructed plot filled with satisfying measures of comedy, romance, political intrigue, and action. (June) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.