Grantville Gazette III

A mysterious cosmic force—the “Ring of Fire”—hashurled the town of Grantville from 20th century West Virginia back to 17thcentury Europe, and into the heart of the Thirty Years War. With their seeminglymagical technology, and their radical ideas of freedom and justice, thetime-lost West Virginians have allied with Gustavus Adolphus, King of Sweden, toform the United States of Europe, changing the course of history—in waysboth small and large. University students, a restless breed in all centuries,become even more rambunctious in Cambridge, England because of the personal andtheological impact of the time-lost Americans. At the same time, Americanteenagers conquer new financial worlds when their elders are looking the otherway. A Lutheran pastor schemes to gain new adherents among the Americans. ABenedictine monk finds a new calling for his order. Practitioners of 20thcentury medicine and its 17th century counterpart struggle to find common groundin healing the sick and injured. These and other new stories—including anew story by Eric Flint himself—return the reader to one of the mostpopular series in alternate history science fiction.