[tanknetter]

I know people talk a lot about the Fortschen book (One Second After), but there’s a really neat series of alt history/scifi novels that started with “1632” by Eric Flint that are worth the read.

The first book was done on a lark, plot was that a circa 1999 West Virginia coal mining town gets picked up and thrown back in time to Central Germany in the middle of the Thirty Years War. Basically Rednecks save the world by pitting modern firearms etc against arquebusses and pikes.

But the book really took off, and spurred a whole slew of follow ons that deal with the impact, and particularly the technological impact, of the knowlege and skills the West Virginians brought back with them.

The publisher (Baen) even has a dedicated tech section on their internet discussion site, with a LOT of not only STEM types, but also basement/garage hobbyists contributing ideas to ways that the knowledge available in a small modern day town could be applied to advance the technology environment of the mid-17th Century.

Really fascinating stuff, also very easy to lose hours and hours reading through.

[ansel12]

The Kindle version is free at Amazon.

http://www.amazon.com/1632-Ring-Fire-Eric-Flint-ebook/dp/B00BEQLQNE/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&sr=&qid=

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

One additional note you forgot;

Baen Books has a free library where one can download 1632 in any e-Book format for FREE. Dozens, nay hundreds, of other titles are also available for zilch.

[Sergio]

Thanks for the review Tank, I will look this series up.

[Ellendra]

I’m marking that forum as one of my new favorite websites. I’ve always been fascinated with that sort of DIY.