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    1634: The Ram Rebellion
    1634: The Ram Rebellion
    1634: The Ram Rebellion
    Audiobook18 hours

    1634: The Ram Rebellion

    Written by Eric Flint and Virginia DeMarce

    Narrated by George Guidall

    3.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    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. Inspired by the example of American freedom and justice, a movement in Franconia among the peasants, who have revolted several times even before the arrival from the future of the town of Grantville, an independent revolutionary movement has arisen, flying the banner of 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 and all their plain old American horse-trading diplomacy. . . .
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRecorded Books, Inc.
    Release dateFeb 6, 2015
    ISBN9781490647418
    1634: The Ram Rebellion

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    • 3/5
      I liked The Ram Rebellion on its own merits - I'm not at all sure I believe 17th-century European peasants would have successfully overthrown the aristocracy had they only had good printing presses, but whatever - but it's primarily interesting because of its structure. It's basically a set of short stories written around a theme - the aforementioned peasant rebellion - with framing sections interspersed to give it something like a narrative flow. The individual sections are a trifle uneven, but it works surprisingly well.
    • 3/5
      A collection of short stories from various contributers which hang together to create a novel. The overall writing was not as engaging as others in the Assiti Shards series because of the disjoint nature of the presentation. We see vignettes of a 'Committee' tasked to bring the Franconian--a pre-German area where villagdes and areas are under a mishmash of Imperial Knights, landlords, and other variations of ownership and land useage rights--together under the USE poilitical body. The Committee is a group of bureaucrats trying to introduce a concept ot individual rights which recognized both the peasant and the noblility, including the minor land barons. The tension of the main plot lines is based on the peasant wars of the era and area where the common farmers, villages, and minor craftsmen were on the verge of rebellion. The problem for the Grantsville uptimers was to make the revolution coming a relatively peaceful transition of working accepting govemment of the people by the people under the USE rather than another power grab by the winners in the coming conflict.
    • 4/5
      The Ram Rebellion can be thought of or viewed in three different ways, with different results. It is an anthology of related fiction, containing eighteen short stories and the novella which shares the book name; in which case the quality is quite mixed, for the individual pieces range from excellent to somewhat poor. A second view might be that of a continuation of the alternate history contained in other parts of the 1632 series; but this means it is one of the lesser works in that series, and does not match the quality of several others.The third view is that of something new in fantasy or fictional universes. It is a sort of novel, created in a consistent universe by the collaboration of a number of authors who vary in skills, experience, and background knowledge. This makes it a different experiment than the ‘Grantsville Gazette’ series. Rating it as a novel, it would get only an average review due to the same inconsistencies noted above. But I’m inclined to give it higher marks since it seems to be the first work of its kind, and the genre certainly bears promise. A part of its limits can be circumvented by reading it in its place, after the first works in the series. Fans will enjoy it, but don’t read this one first or you may lose the chance to become a fan.
    • 3/5
      I enjoyed the first and last thirds but not the middle third. This anthology gives details about the administrative workings of the New United Sates, but isn't essential to follow the overall Ring of Fire storyline. It explains how control is extended over the small independent knights and lords.
    • 3/5
      This was a disappointment. It's short stories tied together, not a coherent novel, so the writing is very uneven. Some of the stories were good, and relevant, which is the reason it gets 3 stars, but much of the work was substandard. I'm a bit too hooked on this series, and was expecting more. Too much has gotten away from Flint for this series to fulfill its potential.