Blue cloth over blue boards, gold lettering. Corners bumped, a little edge wear and rubbing, remainder stripe on bottom edge. Jacket in new Brodart, slight edge wear and rubbing. An attractive copy. ;
First book in the popular and ever-expanding 1632 shared universe. ; 1632; Remainder; 7¾" - 9¾" Tall; 504 pages;
"The Ultimate Y2K Glitch ...
"In the year 1632 in northern Germany a reasonable person might conclude that things couldn't get much worse. There was no food. Disease was rampant. For over a decade religious war had ravaged the land and the people. Catholic and Protestant armies marched and countermarched across the northern plains, laying waste the cities and slaughtering everywhere. In many rural areas population plummeted toward zero. Only the aristocrats remained relatively unscathed; for the peasants, death was a mercy.
"2000 - Things are going OK in Grantville, West Virginia. The mines are working, the buck are plentiful (it's deer season) and everybody attending the wedding of Mike Stearn's sister (including the entire membership of the local chapter of the United Mine Workers of America, which Mike leads) is having a good time.
"Then, Everything Changed ...
"When the dust settles, Mike leads a small group of armed miners to find out what's going on. Out past the edge of town Grantville's asphalt road is cut, as with a sword. On the other side, a scene out of Hell; a man nailed to a farmhouse door, his wife and daughter lying screaming in much at the center of a ring of attentive men in steel vests. Faced with this, Mike and his friends don't have to ask who to shoot ...
"At that moment Freedom and Justice, American style, are introduced to the middle of the Thiry Years War. "
Title: 1632
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0671578499
ISBN-13: 9780671578497
Illustrator: Illustrated by Elmore, Larry (Cover)
Location Published: New York, Baen Books: 2000
Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
Categories: Science Fiction and Fantasy
Seller ID: 9243
Keywords: science fiction alternate history time travel 17th century europe germany magdeburg germany sweden thirty years war king gustav ii adolf
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