1632 (The Ring of Fire Series)

Title: 1632
Author: Eric Flint
Publisher: Baen Publishing
Copyright: 2000
ISBN: 0-671-31972-8


I highly recommend The Ring of Fire series starting with the original novel “1632”.

Eric Flint is the creator and guiding light of this very collaborative science fiction alternate reality series. He authored “1632” but all other books in the series so far are collaborative efforts with an entire “bull pen” of stand out SF writers.

The short stories in the anthology volumes were entirely written by others - Eric Flint serving as editor. In all cases, in Eric Flint’s words, the contributions of the other authors have been integral to the main story lines of the series, including characters and events.

With so many contributors to this growing alternate history universe, and with Eric Flint’s guiding hand, The Ring of Fire is easily becoming the most rigorously complete “Future History” compilation I’ve seen.

The key event in this alternate universe is the sudden and unexplained transposition of the town of Grantville, West Virginia from 2000 AD to the hinterlands of the German principalities in 1632 - the height of the Thirty Years Wars. 21st Century Americans’ effects on 17th Century culture, beliefs, science, medicine, warfare, politics, and power structures give the authors a nearly infinite variety of themes, plots, characters, and surprises to keep this series going for many more years – I’m looking forward to them all.

I’ve not yet read all of the currently published volumes in The Ring of Fire series. Those I have read are without exception fun and interesting. At the bottom of this post are listed (with links) the volumes I’ve read over these past eight years.

Enjoy!

Novels:
1632 (The Assiti Shards)

1633

1634: The Galileo Affair (The Assiti Shards)

1634: The Bavarian Crisis (Ring of Fire)

1634: The Baltic War (The Ring of Fire)

1635: The Cannon Law (Assiti Shards)

Anthologies:
1634: The Ram Rebellion (The Assiti Shards)

Ring of Fire (The Ring of Fire)

Ring of Fire II (v. 2)

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Links to Book Reviews

1632 (The Ring of Fire Series)
A Boy and His Tank
A Desert Called Peace
A State of Disobedience
Benjamin Graham on Value Investing: Lessons From the Dean of Wall Street
Carnifex
Catastrophe
Chain of Destiny
Claws That Catch & the Looking Glass Series
Code of Honor
Dawn of Empire
Karate-Do: My Way of Life
Max: A Maximum Ride Novel
Mind Over Muscle
Nolo's Quick LLC
One Day On Mars
Night of Thunder
Persuader
Red Lightning
Red Phoenix
Steel Beach
The Corporate Blogging Book
The Kite Runner
The Last Centurion
The Proper Care & Feeding of Marriage
The Road to Damascus
The Tau Ceti Agenda
The Theory of Constraints and its Implications for Management Accounting
Trilogy - Kushiel's Dart, Kushiel's Chosen, Kushiel's Avatar
Trilogy - Kushiel's Scion, Kushiel's Justice, and Kushiel's Mercy
Twitter Power
Wikinomics

Links to My Library Categories:

Investing Library

Catastrophe

Title: Catastrophe
Author: Dick Morris & Eileen McGann
Publisher: HarperCollins
Copyright: 2009
ISBN: 978-0-06-177104-0


I recommend “Catastrophe.

Subtitled “How Obama, Congress, and the Special Interests are Transforming a Slump into a Crash, Freedom into Socialism, and a Disaster into a Catastrophe and How to Fight Back”, Catastrophe lives up to its subtitle.

Dick Morris & Eileen McGann present chapter by chapter the catastrophe that is the Left and its Messiah, Barack Obama.

Here is a selection of Chapter headings for flavor:

Chapter 1: “Obama’s War on Prosperity”
Chapter 4: “Obama’s Health Care Catastrophe”
Chapter 5: “Obama’s Blueprint for Political Domination”
Chapter 12: “Pay to Play: No-Bid Contracts Exchanged for Campaign Cash”

The authors include a recommendation for you to take specific action at the end of each chapter.

Catastrophe is an important resource for Americans motivated to stop the Socialist takeover of the United States.
Catastrophe

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Steel Beach

Title: Steel Beach
Author: John Varley
Publisher: The Berkley Publishing Group
Copyright: 1992
ISBN: 0-441-78565-4

I recommend “Steel Beach”.

Why do people kill themselves? Should humans be cloned? Could a person’s personality and memories be transferred into the body of his own clone? What if a sentient supercomputer developed a mental illness? Would or should people allow themselves to be governed by the ultimate philosopher-king?

These are issues John Varley tackles in “Steel Beach” where Luna is one of eight surviving human communities exiled from Earth after a short but successful alien invasion.

Hildy Johnson is a complex character at the heart of the conflict when CC, the sentient supercomputer in charge of Luna, goes split-personality schizophrenic. Hildy with her internal questions and struggles for answers is far more interesting than the plot. They make this book worth the read.

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