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Tensions build in France following the ascension of Gaston to the throne of his murdered brother, but there are factions supporting the claim of King Louis’ surviving infant son. As France moves toward civil war, other parties, both visible and invisible, maneuver to take advantage of the increased tension. Who will survive to reign over France—King Gaston, the exiled child and his regents, or the King of Spain?

In an alternate 15th century where magic still is part of life, the HolyRoman Empire rules Europe. Constantinople is under siege by the Venetians andtheir allies. Hekate, Goddess of Crossroads, presides over the conflict andcarnage as alternate visions of civilization collide. And since Constantinopleis the crossroad city of east and west, and it is here that Italian captainBenito Valdosta must deal with the powerful magical manifestation of the WeepingWoman, a disguised Hekate, in order to save his daughter and to destroy thefleets of the Chernobog assembling in the Black Sea before they can cut into thesoft underbelly of Europe. With land battle, naval action, cunningassassinations, and heartbreak aplenty — not to mention the ongoingconflict between Lord of the Dead Aidonus and Benito for the love of a woman,civilization is at the crossroads and choices must be made that will bringvictory and freedom for centuries to come — or a new Dark Age!Burdens of the Dead is the sequel to Much Fall of Blood, Book4 in the Heirs of Alexandria series.

1632

Philosophical Strangler

1633

The Dance of Time

1634: The Bavarian Crisis

Captain Mark Stephens was overseeing the change of shifts at the state of Illinois’ maximum-security prison when the world outside was suddenly ripped. They thought it was an earthquake until they found that the Mississippi river had disappeared, along wi

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.

Slow Train To Arcturus

Pyramid Power

The Trouble With Aliens

1634: The Ram Rebellion

Continuing the popular Belisarius saga, with two full-length novels in onevolume. Destiny's Shield: Evil from beyond time: The Malwa Empire squats likea toad across sixth century India, commanded by ruthless men with depravedappetites. But

Belisarius III

In this direct sequel to Crown of Slaves, two New York TimesBestselling authors — David Weber and Eric Flint — join forcesagain in a new novel in David Weber's Honor HarringtonUniverse.

A new sequel to The Witches of Karres!

After the West Virginia town of Grantville was unceremoniously hurled backthrough time to the 1630s, the seventeenth century would never be the same.Teenage capitalist girls have formed an investment group; a linotype operator,whose profession was wiped out by computers, finds a new life in an old century;a narrow gauge railroad, with a sit-down mower doubling as a locomotive,revolutionizes military transportation; the proud tradition of the U.S. Marinesis started ahead of schedule among downtime Europeans; and what will the mastermusicians and composers of the pre-Bach era make of heavy metal sounds? On amore personal level, two young lovers celebrate Christmas in a strange land andtime, a skilled blacksmith clashes with his guild, and a woman loses her husbandin an industrial accident and decides to leave Grantville. Plus factual articleson the problems of beginning an oil industry, building a machine gun, orstarting up the manufacture of textiles centuries ahead of their time. All thisand more in a new and absolutely indispensable volume for the many followers ofthe 1632 series.

When the strange fossil she'd discovered had ended up giving her a trip toMars, Helen Sutter thought she'd gone about as far as any paleontologist wouldever go in her lifetime. But when you've also married A.J. Baker, overconfidentsuper-sensor expert for the only private agency in space, the Ares Corporation,and your best friend Madeline Fathom Buckley is a former secret agent who's justsigned on as the chief of security for the newly created and already embattledInterplanetary Research Institute of the United Nations, there's alwayssomewhere farther to go. The newest discoveries will take her, A.J., and theirfriends Jackie, Joe, and Madeline to the mysterious asteroid Ceres, and beyond,in a desperate race to Jupiter's perilous miniature system ofradiation-bombarded moons. The next gold rush is on for alien technology, hiddenin lost bases around the system. And there are people willing to do anything toget it — even plan the first interplanetary war, four hundred millionmiles from home! The sequel to Boundary.

A new novel in David Weber's Honor Harrington Universe! As theslavemasters of Mesa plot against the Star Empire of Manticore and the newlyliberated slave planet of Torch, Anton Zilwicki and the notorious Havenitesecret agent Victor Cachat set off on a dangerous mission to uncover the truthconcerning a wave of mysterious assassinations that have been launched againstManticore and Torch. Most people are sure that the Republic of Haven is behindthe assassinations, but Zilwicki and Cachat suspect others of being the guiltyparty. Meanwhile, powerful forces in the Solarian League are maneuvering againsteach other to gain the upper hand in what they all expect to be an explosivecrisis that threatens the very existence of the League itself!

The Thirty Years War continues to ravage 17th century Europe, but a newforce is gathering power and influence: the United States of Europe, a newnation led by Gustavus Adolphus, King of Sweden, and the West Virginians fromthe 20th Century led by Mike Stearns who were hurled centuries into the past bya mysterious cosmic accident. While the old entrenched rulers and manipulatorscontinue to plot against this new upstart nation, everyday life goes on inGrantville, even under the shadow of war, as this lost outpost of Americanfreedom and justice must play David against a 17th Century Goliath of oppressivefeudalism.

A new addition to the multiple New York Times bestselling Ring ofFire series! After carving a place for itself in war-torn 17th centuryEurope, the modern town of Grantville, West Virginia continues its quest forsurvival. A Grantville resident helps Russia modernize, but he in turn must dealwith 1600s Russian culture and politics — or wind up dead! 1636.Grantville has bounced back and established its new mission and identity, but itseems some have been left behind — people like Bernie Zeppi, courageous inthe battle, but unable to figure out what to do with himself in a worldthat’s utterly changed. Then Russian emissary Vladimir Gorchacov arrivesin Grantville and hires Bernie to journey to Moscow and bring the future to aRussia mired in slavish serfdom and byzantine imperial plots. Bernie jumps atthe chance. He figures it to be an easy gig, complete with high pay andhot-and-cold running women. But one thing Bernie hasn’t counted on is thechance to find his purpose in Mother Russia, from fighting the needless death ofchildren from typhoid to building the first dirigible in Russian history. Andthen there’s love. Just as Bernie realizes his feeling for a certainRussian noblewoman may have gone way beyond respect, he finds them both enmeshedin the deadly politics of Kremlin power struggles.

Science fiction giant Keith Laumer delivers a fast-paced, wry adventure oftime travel and twisted realities in three classic interwoven tales!American Brion Bayard is abducted on the streets of Stockholm, and thrustinto what he believes is a truck. He’s relieved to find his captors veryapologetic, and very British — that is, until they begin speakingabout nations of which Bayard has never heard. His captors were from Earth, yes.But not his Earth. Turns out that there are countess parallel Earths,each different, where history has taken every possible turn — and thereare even more uninhabitable worlds, destroyed by the misuse of cross-timetravel. Bayard discovers that the Earth he has now been thrust into, theEarth of the Imperium, is at war with a dangerously aggressive parallel Earththat has taken a wrong turn somewhere in time and whose ruler is... a parallelversion of Bayard himself! Now Bayard’s mission is clear: to prevent hisalternate self from destroying the new plane of reality that he now calls home,the Imperium.

The West Virginia town of Grantville, torn from the twentieth century andhurled back into seventeenth century Europe, has allied with Gustavus Adolphus,King of Sweden, in the United States of Europe. So, when Gustavus invadesPoland, managing to unite all the squabbling Polish factions into repelling thecommon enemy, the time-lost Americans have to worry about getting dragged intothe fight along with the Swedish forces. But Mike Stearns has another problem.He was Prime Minister of the USE until he lost an election, and now he’sone of Gustavus’s generals; and he has demonstrated that he’s verygood at being a general. And he’s about to really need all his militaryaptitude. Gretchen, who never saw a revolution she didn’t like, has beenarrested in Saxony, and is likely to be executed! The revolutionary groups whichshe has been working with are not about to let that happen, and suddenlythere’s rioting in the streets. So Gustavus orders Mike Stearns to go toSaxony and restore order. But he makes one mistake. He didn’t tell Mike totake his troops along on the mission. But he didn’t tell him notto, either...

Let’s do the “Time Warp” again! Another rollicking,thought-provoking collection of tales by a star-studded array of top writersincluding bestseller Mercedes Lackey and Eric Flint himself — all set inEric Flint’s phenomenal Ring of Fire series. Rock on, Renaissance! A cosmic accident sets the modern West Virginia townof Grantville down in war-torn seventeenth century Europe. It will take all thegumption of the resourceful, freedom-loving up-timers to find a way to flourishin the mad and bloody end of medieval times. Are they up for it? You bet theyare!

The sixth rollicking, thought-provoking anthology of tales set in EricFlint’s phenomenal New York Times bestselling Ring of Fireseries — all inspired and edited by the creator himself, Eric Flint.A cosmic accident sets the modern West Virginia town of Grantville down inwar-torn seventeenth century Europe. It will take all the gumption of theresourceful, freedom-loving up-timers to find a way to flourish in the mad andbloody end of medieval times. Are they up for it? You bet they are! Edited byEric Flint, and inspired by his now-legendary 1632, this is the fun stuffthat fills in the pieces of the Ring of Fire political, social, andcultural puzzle as supporting characters we meet in the novels get their ownlives, loves, and life-changing stories.

1636. Grantville has bounced back and established its new mission andidentity, but it seems some have been left behind — people like BernieZeppi, courageous in the battle, but unable to figure out what to do withhimself in a world that’s utterly changed. Then Russian emissary VladimirGorchacov arrives in Grantville and hires Bernie to journey to Moscow and bringthe future to a Russia mired in slavish serfdom and byzantine imperial plots.Bernie jumps at the chance. He figures it to be an easy gig, complete with highpay and hot-and-cold running women. But one thing Bernie hasn’t counted onis the chance to find his purpose in Mother Russia, from fighting the needlessdeath of children from typhoid to building the first dirigible in Russianhistory. War with Poland is afoot and Russia itself is about to get a revolutionfrom within — three centuries early. Bernie Zeppi, former Grantville automechanic, is going to have the chance to prove he’s not the loser hebelieved himself to be. For now Bernie’s task is to save the woman heloves and the country he has come to call his own from collapse into a new DarkAge!

A new addition to the multiple New York Times best-selling Ring ofFire series! It's springtime in the Eternal City, 1635. But it's no Romanholiday for uptimer Frank Stone and his pregnant downtime wife, Giovanna.They're in the clutches of would-be Pope Cardinal Borgia, with the real Pope— Urban VII — on the run with the renegade embassy of uptimeAmbassador Sharon Nichols and her swashbuckling downtime husband, Ruy Sanchez deCasador y Ortiz. Up to their necks in papal assassins, power politics, murder,and mayhem, the uptimers and their spouses need help — and they need itquickly!