Assiti Shards series by Eric Flint, Co-Authors names by book titles (#04~11,13,15~17)
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Overview: The Assiti Shards series is a fictional universe invented by Eric Flint. It is a shared universe open to authors of many calibre levels, concerning several alternate history worlds, related to a prime timeline. The defining characteristic of the fictional universe is the existence of the "Assiti Shards effect", and the impact that strikes by Assiti Shards have on characters in the stories. The series is rather large and expansive, having started publication in 2000, and, consisting of 15 print books, and 21 e-magazine anthologies, in two different published timelines of the same multiverse.
Genre: Science Fiction | Alternative History
#04 – 1634 – The Ram Rebellion (Virginia DeMarce)
The Thirty Years War continues to ravage 17th century Europe, but a new force is gathering power and influence: the Confederated Principalities of Europe, an alliance between Gustavus Adolphus, King of Sweden, and the West Virginians from the 20th century led by Mike Stearns who were hurled centuries into the past by a mysterious cosmic accident.
#05 – 1634 – The Baltic War (ARC) (David Weber)
After a cosmic accident sets the modern West Virginia town of Grantsville down in war-torn seventeenth century Europe, the United States of Europe is forged in the fire of battle. The Baltic War reaches a climax as France, Spain, England, and Denmark besiege the U.S.E. in the Prussian stronghold of Lubeck. The invention of ironclads, the introduction of special force tactics during a spectacular rescue operation at the Tower of London – the up-timers plan to use every trick in the time traveller’s book to avoid a defeat that will send Europe back to a new Dark Age!
#06 – 1634 – The Bavarian Crisis (ARC)(Virginia DeMarce)
This troubled century was full of revolutions and plans for more revolutions before the Americans arrived, and gave every would-be revolutionary an example of a revolution that succeeded. Europe is a pot coming to a boil, and Mike Stearns finds himself walking the fine line between keeping the pot boiling while keeping it from boiling over and destroying the USE in the process.
#07 – 1635 – The Cannon Law (Andrew Dennis)(PDF)
Rome, 1635, and Grantville’s diplomatic team, headed by Sharon Nichols, are making scant headway now it has become politically inexpedient for Pope Urban VIII to talk to them any more. Sharon doesn’t mind, she has a wedding to plan. Frank Stone has moved to Rome and is attempting to bring about the revolution one pizza at a time. Cardinal Borja is gathering votes to bring the Church’s reformers to a halt in their tracks, on the orders of the King of Spain. Meanwhile, trouble is brewing in the streets, shadowy agitators are stirring up trouble and Spain’s armies are massed across the border in the Kingdom of Naples, Cardinal Barberini wants the pamphleteers to stop slandering him and it looks like it’s going to be a long, hot summer. Except that Cardinal Borja has more ambitions than his masters in Madrid know about, and has the assistance of Spain’s most notorious secret agent to bring about his sinister designs.
#08 – 1635 – The Dreeson Incident (ARC)(Virginia DeMarce)
There are more sinister agents at work, however. One of them, Ducos, almost succeeded in assassinating the Pope, but his plan was ruined by quick action by a few Americans. Now, the would-be assassin not only has a score to settle, but has also decided on two excellent targets: Grantville’s leader Mike Stearns and his wife Rebecca. . . .
#09 – 1635 – The Tangled Web (Virginia DeMarce)
Though the Thirty Years War continues to rave 17th-century Europe, history as it once happened has been derailed by a new force: the United States of Europe, an alliance between the King of Sweden and a group of accidental time-travellers from 20th-century West Virginia.
#10 – 1635 – The Eastern Front (Eric Flint)
Unrest and rebellion begins to unfold in the Germanies as the new prime minister attempts to roll back the reforms instituted by Stearns. Gustavus Adolphus’s ambitions in the east threaten to bring Poland and Austria into the war. Europe is a storehouse of high explosives, and nobody is sure how many fuses are already lit. Can Mike Stearns stop the conflagration or channel its power to his own ends? And if he does – will he get burned?
#11 – 1636 – The Saxon Uprising (ARC)(Eric Flint)
The West Virginia town of Grantville, torn from the twentieth century and hurled back into seventeenth century Europe has allied with Gustavus Adolphus, King of Sweden, in the United States of Europe. So, when Gustavus invades Poland, managing to unite all the squabbling Polish factions into repelling the common enemy, the time-lost Americans have to worry about getting dragged into the fight along with the Swedish forces.
#13 – 1635 – The Papal Stakes (ARC)(Charles E Gannon)
It’s springtime in the Eternal City, 1635. But it’s no Roman holiday 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 uptime Ambassador Sharon Nichols and her swashbuckling downtime husband, Ruy Sanchez de Casador y Ortiz. Up to their necks in papal assassins, power politics, murder, and mayhem, the uptimers and their spouses need help and they need it quickly.
#15 – 1636 – Seas of Fortune (Iver Cooper)
After carving a place for itself in war-torn 17th century Europe, citizens of the modern town of Grantville, West Virginia, the up-timers and their allies take on continental America and the Japan!
#16 – 1636 – Commander Cantrell in the West Indies (Charles E Gannon)
Eddie Cantrell, now married to the king of Denmark’s daughter, is sent by Admiral Simpson to the Caribbean to secure access to the most valuable commodity on that continent–not the gold and silver which the Spanish treasure, but the oil which up-time machines and industry need. The admiral has also provided Eddie’s small task force with the new steam-powered frigates that have just come out of the navy’s shipyards.
#17 – 1636 – The Viennese Waltz (Paula Goodlett, Gorg Huff)
A cabal of ten- to twelve-year-old girls? They aren’t twelve anymore. And they gave up playing with dolls some years ago, when they sold them all and started an investment consortium. A consortium that did quite well. The Barbie Consortium hits Vienna. In several different ways. The princes and princesses, dukes and duchesses, the common men and women on the street have no idea what’s about to happen.Neither do the girls, but they’re determined it’ll happen their way.
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