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To each his own, Slayda. Personally I'm glad I'm not expected to like what everyone else likes.
You might find For King and Country more to your taste (but you also might not), it's a much more serious story than the Time Scout ones. Baen has a couple of free chapters up on the Webscriptions site, so you can sample it for free, if you care to. |
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I really enjoyed that one too. Another one of hers that I read a long time ago is "The Doomsday Book" which takes place mostly in the time of the great plague. Willis writes entertaining fiction that can be enjoyed by many. My daughter read "Doomsday" in the third grade. Willis is humorous and can handle devilishly complicated plot ideas quite well. She also does not fill her books with British idioms like some UK writers; a great relief to US readers.
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Does anyone know if 1632 is available formatted for the Sony Reader? It'll save me from having to tinker with the RTF file.
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If you are a budding historian, "Time and Again" by Jack Finney is hard to beat.
http://www.amazon.com/Time-Again-Jac.../dp/0684801051 |
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1632, 1633, 1634: The Baltic War, 1634: The Galileo Affair, 1634: The Ram Rebellion, 1635: The Cannon Law. There are also several volumes of "The Grantville Gazette", fan written stories in the 1632 universe.
The entire series is available either through the Baen Free Library, either from the website, or on one or another of the CDs bound into various Baen hardcovers. The concept is that the West Virginia mining town of Grantville is caught in a cosmic accident and dropped into Germany during the 30 Year's War. The Free Library is here: http://www.baen.com/library/ ISO images and Zipped collections of the various CDs issued thus far are here: http://baencd.thefifthimperium.com/ Edmond Hamilton used a similar device in _City at the End of Forever_, in which an American town is catapulted into the future by a hit from a nuclear bomb. You can get it here: http://manybooks.net/titles/hamilton...worldsend.html ______ Dennis |
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