description 1632 Overview
1632 is a 2000 alternate-history novel by Eric Flint and the opening book of the Ring of Fire series. It transports the fictional West Virginia town of Grantville, along with its modern residents and technology, to Thuringia during the Thirty Years' War. The townspeople must secure food, organize defenses, and negotiate with seventeenth-century communities, making the novel a blend of time displacement, military history, politics, and social reconstruction.
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1632 ranks #42 of 129 in the Alternate History ranking, behind Against the Tide of Years, ahead of Bring the Jubilee.
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1632 scores 6.99/10 (Fair) on Lunoo, making it rated in the Alternate History category.
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