The most popular alternate history series of all continues. When aninexplicable cosmic disturbance hurls your townfrom twentieth century WestVirginia back to seventeenth century Europe—and into the middle of theThirty YearsWar—you'd better be adaptable to survive. And the nativesof that time period, faced with American technology andpolitics, need to beequally adaptable. Here’s a generous helping of more stories ofGrantville, the American town lost in time, and its impact on the people andsocieties of a tumultuous age.Edited by Eric Flint and Walt Boyes, theeditor of the Grantville Gazette magazine from which the best selections aremade, these are stories that fill in the pieces of the Ring of Fire series begunwith Flint’s novel 1632. The setting has become a political, economic,social and cultural puzzle as supporting characters we meet in the novels gettheir own lives, loves and life-changing stories. The future and democracy havearrived with a bang—an historical explosion with a multitude of unforeseenconsequences.