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Rent 1632 (Assiti Shards)
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Format: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Pocket Books
Published: Feb 2001
Genre: Fiction - Science Fiction - General
Retail Price: $9.99
Pages: 597
Synopsis
A six-mile long sliver of 1990s West Virginia--along with all its inhabitants--mysteriously winds up in the central Europe of the 1600s and the Virginians must learn to cope with their new, technologically and (somewhat) ideologically primitive neighbors.
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Reviews
This book was recommended to me by a middle school student of mine, so I wasn't exactly expecting total brilliance. I'm going to find that child tomorrow and thank him for telling me about it. This is a wonderful alternate history, up there with Harry Turtledove for me. It is well written with good characters and the action is great. I think my favorite part is that the Americans in the past don't just slid into the ancient world like a lot of time travellers do, they actively take a role in making a better world. And they don't do it for their own gain, but to eliminate some of the worst of modern history Nazis. Highly recommended.