TIME TRAVEL ALTERNATE HISTORY FROM A MASTER. A new tale of time-displaced persons fighting for their lives in the ancient world, from Ring of Fire and Boundary series creator Eric Flint. It's been more than a year since the cruise ship
Queen of the Sea was transported in time and space to the ancient Mediterranean not long after the death of Alexander the Great.
Captain Lars Floden and the other "Ship People" are trying to plant the seeds of modern civilization. It's not an easy task, to put it mildly, even if they have a tacit alliance with the co-regents of Alexander's empire.
For the regents have plenty of enemies, too. Cassander is using every foul means available to turn Macedonia and Greece into his own empire. The brutal general Antigonus One-Eye is doing the same in Mesopotamia. And Ptolemy, the cleverest of them all, is expanding his Egyptian realm to the Red Sea.
Things aren't any easier in the colony that passengers from the cruise ship founded on the Caribbean island of Trinidad. President Allen Wiley is trying to build a twenty-first-century democratic nation.
War, religious strife, assassinations, espionage, poisonings, and other murders--and a fair amount of love, too--all mix together with the Ship People's knowledge from the twenty-first century to form a new weaving of the fates. Hopefully, that will lead to a bright new future. If it doesn't kill everyone first.
About Eric Flint's Ring of Fire Series: "This alternate history series is . . . a landmark . . ." --
Booklist "[Eric] Flint's 1632 universe seems to be inspiring a whole new crop of gifted alternate historians." --
Booklist ". . . reads like a technothriller set in the age of the Medicis . . ." --
Publishers WeeklyAuthor: Eric Flint, Paula Goodlett, Gorg Huff
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Baen
Published: 12/28/2021
Series: Assiti Shards #3
Pages: 496
Weight: 0.55lbs
Size: 6.70h x 4.10w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9781982125868
About the AuthorEric Flint was the creator of the
New York Times best-selling Ring of Fire series, the best-selling alternate history series of all time. Beginning with
1632, Flint--along with dozens of cowriters--chronicled what happened when the 20th-century town of Grantville, West Virginia, was transported through time and space to 17th-century Europe. In addition, Flint was the author, with
New York Times best seller David Weber, of the Crown of Slaves Saga, as well as the Belisaurius series, with best-selling author David Drake. Flint was the editor of
Jim Baen's Universe, as well as numerous short story anthologies. Before becoming a writer, Flint worked as a trade union organizer, longshoreman, truck driver, auto worker, steel worker, oil worker, meatpacker, glassblower, and machinist. Eric Flint passed away in 2022.
Paula Goodlett retired from the military as a noncommissioned officer in the early nineties. She broke her leg in 2003, which led to her browsing Baen's Bar lest she become bored during her enforced inactivity. Captivated by the 1632 universe concept, she began as a special assistant to Eric Flint. She eventually wrote a large important sequence of the storyline in
1634: The Ram Rebellion. She was editor of the
Grantville Gazette and chairs the 1632 Editorial Board. Additionally, Paula was assistant editor of the e-zine
Jim Baen's Universe. Paula mainly writes in tandem with Gorg Huff.
Gorg Huff is a Texas citizen who has enthusiastically helped in researching the 1632 series background, written numerous stories for the
Grantville Gazette, and contributed both maps and drawings to
1634: The Bavarian Crisis. Gorg began as a solo writer, but now principally teams with Paula Goodlett.