1636 : the Saxon uprising

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Title:

1636 : the Saxon uprising

Alternate title:

Sixteen thirty-six

Sixteen hundred thirty-six

Ring of fire

Author:

Flint, Eric, author.

Series:

Ring of fire ;

Series Number:

10.

Summary:

Mike Stearns, a former prime minister of the United States of Europe, now serving as a general for Gustavus Adolphus, King of Sweden, is going to need all his military skills when he is sent to Saxony to restore order after rioting breaks out over the arrest of Gretchen, a member of a revolutionary group.

Audience:

Adult Follett Library Resources

Physical Description:

432 p. : maps ; 25 cm.

Genre:

Time-travel fiction.

Alternative histories (Fiction)

Science fiction.

Subject Term:

Saxons -- Fiction.

Americans -- Europe -- Fiction.

Geographic Term:

Lower Saxony (Germany) -- History -- Fiction.

Germany -- History -- 17th century -- Fiction.

West Virginia -- Fiction.

Publisher:

Baen,

Publication Date:

2011

ISBN:

9781439134252

Publication Information:

Riverdale, NY : Baen, c2011.

Call Number:

FLINT

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Summary

The West Virginia town of Grantville, torn from the twentieth century andhurled back into seventeenth century Europe, has allied with Gustavus Adolphus,King of Sweden, in the United States of Europe. So, when Gustavus invadesPoland, managing to unite all the squabbling Polish factions into repelling thecommon enemy, the time-lost Americans have to worry about getting dragged intothe fight along with the Swedish forces.

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)