Recent reads

1632, by Eric Flint. An action-oriented counterfactual romp in which a West Virginia coal-mining town is suddenly and mysteriously transported in time and space to the titular year, in the middle of the tangle of cutthroat religious and secular wars which later came to be known as the Thirty Year's War. I enjoyed the story, even when I could tell that the author was stacking the deck in favor of his idealized crew from the United Mine Workers of America. Reminiscent of Leo Frankowski's Cross-Time Engineer, a paperback series that I read many years ago, in which modern technology and political ideas remake the world in their image.