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![1636: The Devil's Opera (Ring of Fire Series Book 14) by [Eric Flint, David Carrico]](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51E5LYzrovL._SY346_.jpg)
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New York Times Best Selling Series
Eric Flint and David Carrico serve up the latest entry in the best-selling alternate history saga of them all, the Ring of Fire!
It is the year 1636. The United States of Europe, the new nation formed by an alliance between the Swedish king Gustavus Adolphus and the West Virginians hurled back in time by a cosmic accident, is on the verge of civil war. His brain injured in the war with Poland, the USE's emperor Gustavus Adolphus is no longer in command. Enter Swedish chancellor Oxenstierna, a leader of aristocratic reaction against democracy. His goal: to assemble the forces of the hidebound ruling class in Berlin and drown the revolution in a bloodbath.
In Magdeburg, the capital of the USE, Mike Stearns' wife Rebecca Abrabanel is organizing popular resistance to Oxenstierna's plot. As part of the resistance, the American musician Marla Linder and her company of down-time musical partners are staging an opera that will celebrate the struggle against oppression. Princess Kristina, the heir to the USE's throne, is now residing in Magdeburg and is giving them her support and encouragement.
But another plot is underway--this one right in the heart of the capital itself, and with murder as its method. The only people standing in the way are a crippled boy and the boxing champion who befriended him, and an unlikely pair of policemen. Can the American detective Byron Chieske and his down-timer partner Gotthilf Hoch thwart the killers before they succeed in their goal?
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“This alternate history series is…a landmark…”—Booklist
“[Eric] Flint's 1632 universe seems to be inspiring a whole new crop of gifted alternate historians.”—Booklist
“…reads like a technothriller set in the age of the Medicis…”—Publishers Weekly
Eric Flint is a modern master of alternate history fiction, with over three million books in print. He’s the author/creator of the New York Times best-selling Ring of Fire series. With David Drake he has written six popular novels in the “Belisarius” alternate Roman history series, including, and with David Weber collaborated on 1633 and 1634: The Baltic War. Flint was for many years a labor union activist. He lives in Chicago, Illinois.
David Carrico's writing career literally began with a cliche. He finished reading a particularly bad novel, threw it across the room, and declared, "I can write better than that." It took a while, but eventually he began selling stories, many of them laid in the 1632 universe and published in Grantville Gazette. 1636: The Devil's Opera is his first novel. David lives in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
- LanguageEnglish
- Publication dateDecember 10, 2013
- File size4071 KB
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About the Author
David Carrico made his first professional SF sale to The Grantville Gazette e-magazine in 2004. His stories have also appeared in the Grantville Gazette and Ring of Fire anthologies from Baen Books and in Jim Baen's Universe e-magazine. Baen Books published Carrico's e-book story collection 1635: Music and Murder, as well as two novels written in collaboration with Eric Flint: 1636: The Devil's Opera and The Span of Empire, which was nominated for the 2017 Dragon Award for Best Military SF or Fantasy novel. --This text refers to the mass_market edition.
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- ASIN : B00F8N7WD2
- Publisher : Baen Books; 1st edition (December 10, 2013)
- Publication date : December 10, 2013
- Language : English
- File size : 4071 KB
- Simultaneous device usage : Unlimited
- Text-to-Speech : Enabled
- Screen Reader : Supported
- Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
- X-Ray : Enabled
- Word Wise : Enabled
- Print length : 720 pages
- Lending : Enabled
- Best Sellers Rank: #265,208 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #967 in Alternative History
- #1,037 in Alternate History Science Fiction (Books)
- #61,824 in Literature & Fiction (Kindle Store)
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About the authors
Eric Flint is the co-author of three New York Times best sellers in his Ring of Fire alternate history series. His first novel for Baen, Mother of Demons, was picked by Science Fiction Chronicle as a best novel of the year. His 1632, which launched the Ring of Fire series, won widespread critical praise, as from Publishers Weekly, which called him an SF author of particular note, one who can entertain and edify in equal, and major, measure. A longtime labor union activist with a Masters Degree in history, he currently resides in northwest Indiana with his wife Lucille.
David has been an avid SF reader since discovering the books of Andre Norton in 6th grade. He eventually tried his hand at writing the stuff, and made his first professional sale in 2004. He writes space opera, alternate history, fantasy, and urban fantasy. His books are published by Baen Books and Eric Flint's Ring of Fire Press, both of whom will be releasing books by David in 2022. His current work in progress is a new space opera novel which he is co-writing with Eric Flint which will be published by Baen Books.
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My biggest complaint and the reason the book gets 3 stars and not 4 is that it's about 20 pages too long. Apparently Mr. Carrico believes that there is a great unwritten opera about King Arthur and Guinevere out there somewhere. He spends a major portion of the last third of the book giving us a synopsis of his libretto for this opera. It does absolutely nothing to move the story along and is completely unnecessary even as exposition. The existence of the opera itself is essential for the story, but story line of the opera is not and by giving it to us, he brings the whole book to a grinding halt. It would have been much better to give us the events of opening night without the libretto.
A good read and worth the time, but needed someone to take out the stopping points just as the story was approaching climax.
Eric set the bar extremely high with 1632 and 1633 with stories that never missed a beat or lagged at all. The Devil’s Opera is in that vein. There are interesting developments in every chapter that keep you looking forward to the next one. The kind of story that you find it hard to set down and eagerly look forward to picking up again.
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