This is a reissue of the first half of A 1632 Christmas, one of the last Ring of Fire Press books Eric worked on. The second half is Special Issue 2, December 2024. These stories range from Grantville, through Germany, to Sweden and even farther.Garrett W. Vance's "A Christmas in Wonderland Isles" takes us back to Pam Miller and all the other wonderful people working to save the dodo bird in Wonderland Isles. In George Grant's "A Christmas for Kjell", we celebrate Saint Lucia in Sw...

NEW YORK TIMES BEST-SELLING SERIES. The ninth anthology of tales set in Eric Flint’s phenomenal Ring of Fire universe—all selected and edited by Flint.WHERE WERE YOU IN 1632?The most popular alternate history series of all continues. When a cosmic disturbance hurls your town from twentieth-century West Virginia back to seventeenth-century Europe—and into the middle of the Thirty Years War—you have to adapt to survive. And the natives of that time p...

How did we evolve? Did we have help? In a world torn apart by cataclysmic climate changes, survivors learn answers to these immortal questions as they join together based on their love of various dog breeds. Two voices, the weimaraner Haint and his mistress Amanda, tell the story of how each in their own way come to the realization of what they mean to each other. Along the way, Haint explains how his species came to help humans along in their evolutionary development. Haint also reveals t...

WHERE WERE YOU IN 1632?The most popular alternate history series of all continues. When a cosmic disturbance hurls your town from twentieth-century West Virginia back to seventeenth-century Europe—and into the middle of the Thirty Years War—you have to adapt to survive. And the natives of that time period, faced with American technology and politics, need to be equally adaptable. Here's a generous helping of more stories of Grantville, the American town lost in time, and its impact...

The sixth rollicking anthology of tales set in Eric Flint's phenomenal New York Times bestselling Ring of Fire universe.A cosmic accident sets the modern West Virginia town of Grantville down in war-torn seventeenth century Europe. It will take all the gumption of the resourceful, freedom-loving up-timers to find a way to flourish in the mad and bloody birth of the Renaissance. Are they up for it? You bet they are.Edited by Eric Flint, and inspired...

The seventh rollicking anthology of tales set in Eric Flint's phenomenal New York Times bestselling Ring of Fire universe.A cosmic accident sets the modern West Virginia town of Grantville down in war-torn seventeenth century Europe. It will take all the gumption of the resourceful, freedom-loving up-timers to find a way to flourish in the mad and bloody birth of the Renaissance. Are they up for it? You bet they are.Edited by Eric Flint, and inspir...

In Virginia DeMarce's witty and touching "Pastor Kastenmayers Revenge", a Lutheran pastor gets even with the American who eloped with his daughter by scheming to gain new adherents through eight separate arranged marriages between Lutheran down-timers and American up-timers.In other stories:● The same teenagers who launched the sewing machine industry in Volume 1 move on to conquer the financial world, in Gorg Huffs "Other Peoples Money".● Francis Turners's "Hobsons...

THE NEW WORLD FALLS INTO THE RING OF FIRE. All new stories set in the Ring of Fire series, edited by New York Times best-selling series creator Eric Flint.Europe, 1632. It is a time of upheaval and great change. But none so great as when an unexplained temporal and spatial phenomenon known as the Ring of Fire transports the blue collar town of Grantville, West Virginia, smack dab in the middle of the Thirty Years War. When the dust settles, it becomes clear that the town o...

NEW RING OF FIRE SERIES ENTRY FROM IVER P. COOPERA cosmic catastrophe, the Ring of Fire, strands the West Virginia town of Grantville back in time in the middle of the Thirty Years War. One of its ripple effects is that Japan has pulled back from a policy of isolation and staked out its own claims on the west coast of North America. But it is not the only power interested in that part of the New World, and the native Americans have also responded, in different ways...

Twice before, mysterious cosmic catastrophes have sent portions of the Earth across space and back in time—first, with theGrantville Disaster in West Virginia, and then again with a maximum security prison in southern Illinois.Now, the planet is struck with yet another such cataclysm, whose direct impact falls upon the Queen of the Sea, a cruise shipin the Caribbean. When the convulsions subside, the crew and passengers of the ship discover that they have arrived in a...

In Virginia DeMarce's witty and touching "Pastor Kastenmayers Revenge", a Lutheran pastor gets even with the American who eloped with his daughter by scheming to gain new adherents through eight separate arranged marriages between Lutheran down-timers and American up-timers.In other stories:The same teenagers who launched the sewing machine industry in Volume 1 move on to conquer the financial world, in Gorg Huffs "Other Peoples Money";Francis Turners "Hobso...

IF IT'S WAR YOU WANT . . . The best of military epic fantasy as the bestselling Saga of the Forgotten Warrior series continues.The Great Extermination has begun.In the Capitol, Grand Inquisitor Omand Vokkan hatches a plot to kill every member of the untouchable caste in all of Lok, down to the last man, woman, and child. As a member of the Order of Inquisition, Vokkan has no official say in the creation of Law, but he has powerful allies willing to do his ...