Post #2,595
7/22/01 7:50:55 PM
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book review 1632 by Eric Flint
suspending a lot of belief on the science
take a 6 square mile containing a small town in West Virginia and translant it with inhabitants to 1632 in the middle of the German province of Thiringia in the middle of the thirty year war. Led by the UMWA the mining union they seed the future of American style democracy. Other than the non explaination of how they got there the science thereafter is solid, and a great read.
thanx,
bill
Our bureaucracy and our laws have turned the world into a clean, safe work camp. We are raising a nation of slaves.
Chuck Palahniuk
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Post #2,625
7/23/01 10:00:49 AM
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So you bastidges killed Gustavus Adolphus?!? Typical!
But hey, Flint is great. Further recommendation: The _Belisarius_ series.
Christian R. Conrad
The Man Who Knows Fucking Everything
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Post #2,626
7/23/01 10:09:43 AM
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nope we allied with him against Tilly -m
Our bureaucracy and our laws have turned the world into a clean, safe work camp. We are raising a nation of slaves.
Chuck Palahniuk
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Post #2,628
7/23/01 10:12:56 AM
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And WTF had poor Ben done to you???
You walked into a wall, Einstein?
Christian R. Conrad
The Man Who Knows His Fucking Pappenheimers
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Post #2,629
7/23/01 10:22:30 AM
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not ben the other one
no walls just severe bronchitis,thanx,
bill
for the man who remembers the black cuiriassairs(spelled something like that)
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Post #2,752
7/24/01 3:11:20 PM
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Ahem...
Yeah, I kind of figured that. That's why there was not one, but two, clues to that effect in the previous post! :-)
Christian R. Conrad
The Man Who Knows Fucking Everything About Pappenheim And Wallenstein
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Post #2,763
7/24/01 7:05:32 PM
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that brings me to something I have always
wondered. When clues caught should they be aknowledged or left open. Never get a good feel one way or the other.
thanx,
bill
Our bureaucracy and our laws have turned the world into a clean, safe work camp. We are raising a nation of slaves.
Chuck Palahniuk
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Post #2,774
7/25/01 9:34:59 AM
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Hinted at in the same way, I'd say.
Which oughta work, most of the time -- pure coinkydink it didn't, here.
(Never saw your Schwarze Kürassiere. Are you _sure_ they were there all the time???)
Christian R. Conrad
The Man Who Knows Fucking Everything, If Only He's Awake
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Post #3,131
7/30/01 8:17:08 PM
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Liked the book
Although it *is* one of a number fairly recent "modern folks transported into the past" books. It's becoming a genre all its own. Stirlings "Island in the Sea of Time", "Against the Tide of Years", "On the Oceans of Eternity" have similar themes, only to the 14th century BC.
French Zombies are zapping me with lasers!
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