1636 : the devil's opera

Format:

Book

Title:

1636 : the devil's opera

Other title(s):

Sixteen thirty-six

Sixteen hundred thirty-six

Devil's opera

Author:

Flint, Eric author

ISBN:

9781451639285

9781476737003

Publication:

Physical Description:

513 pages : maps ; 25 cm.

Series title(s):

Ring of fire (Riverdale, N.Y.)

Summary:

"1636. The United States of Europe, the new nation formed by an alliance between the Swedish King Gustavus Adolphus and the West Virginians hurled back in time, is on the verge of civil war. His brain injured, Gustavus is no longer in command. Swedish chancellor Oxenstierna, a leader of aristocratic reaction against democracy, is gathering the forces of the hidebound ruling class to drown the revolution in a bloodbath. In Magdeburg, the capital of the USE, Mike Stearns' wife Rebecca Abrabanel is organizing popular resistance to Oxenstierna's plot. Princess Kristina, heir to the USE's throne, is now residing in Magdeburg and is giving them her full support. But another plot is underway--one in the heart of the capital itself, and with murder as its method"-- Provided by publisher.

Subject(s):

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

Revolutions -- Fiction.

Americans -- Europe -- Fiction.

Time travel -- Fiction.

War stories.

Princesses -- Fiction.

Saxons -- Fiction.

Space and time -- Fiction.

Europe -- History -- 17th century -- Fiction.

West Virginia -- Fiction.

Geographic Term:

Europe -- History -- 17th century -- Fiction.

West Virginia -- Fiction.

Europe

West Virginia

Genre:

Alternative histories (Fiction)

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Library	Call Number	Status
Searching... Salem Main Library	SCI-FI Flint, E.	Searching... Unknown
Searching... Monmouth Public Library	Fic (sf) Flint, E. 2013	Searching... Unknown

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Summary

A new addition to the multiple New York Times bestselling Ring ofFire series! After carving a place for itself in war-torn 17th centuryEurope, citizens of the modern town of Grantville, West Virginia, take on amurderous conspiracy of operatic proportions in Magdeburg, the capital of theUnited States of Europe.

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)

Booklist Review

Germany, 1636. The USE the United States of Europe is still in its shaky birthing years. The mysterious appearance of a twenty-first-century American town (Grantville, West Virginia) in seventeenth-century Germany caused a major uproar, but an alliance with Gustavus Adolphus, the king of Sweden, allowed the displaced Americans to forge a new nation, the USE. But now, a few years later, Adolphus has been marginalized, and his successor, the stoutly antidemocratic Axel Oxenstierna, the Swedish chancellor, is hungry for power and has set his sights on the USE. Byron Chieske, the up-time American cop, and his down-time partner, Gotthilf Hoch, are concerned that some recent cases of sabotage and murder might only be the beginning of a much larger plot. This is the fourteenth book in the Ring of Fire series, and familiarity with previous stories is, if not essential, at least strongly recommended. Series fans, though, can expect to jump right in and pretty much spend the next 560 pages glued to their chairs. Another engaging alternate history from a master of the genre.--Pitt, David Copyright 2010 Booklist