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Edited by Eric Flint and Virginia DeMarce.
RIDING THE RAZOR'S EDGE OF REVOLUTION
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 the King of Sweden, and the town of
Grantville, West Virginia from the 20th century, which was hurled
centuries into the past by a mysterious cosmic accident.
In Franconia, whose peasants had revolted several times even before the
arrival of the West Virginians from the future, the living example of
American freedom and justice has inspired the rise of an independent
revolutionary movement, flying a banner with the head of a ram.
The West Virginians fully approve of liberating the peasants from the
nobility, but they are also aware of how revolutionary movements can
lead to bloodbaths. And avoiding that deadly possibility will require
all of their future knowledge plus plain old American horse-trading
diplomacy...
