1636: The Atlantic Encounter
Walter H. Hunt · Eric Flint
Oct 2022 · RB Media · Narrated by George Guidall
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THE BEST-SELLING RING OF FIRE SERIES CONQUERS THE NEW WORLD!
It has taken almost five years for the United States of Europe to stabilize its
position in 17th-century Europe. Now it turns its attention to the New World,
where the English have ceded their colonial claims to France. There are vast lands
and rich resources across the Atlantic for any nations powerful enough to rule and
control them—and equal incentive for other nations to block their path.
The time-displaced Americans know about the future path that led to their own
United States in North America, in the other universe they came from. But do they
want to repeat that history as it was? Yes, they had democracy—but they are
helping to create that in Europe. And they have learned the bitter prices paid for
chattel slavery and the near-extermination of the native populations.
Knowledge is power. Perhaps a new course can be taken. Accordingly, an
expedition is sent to the New World to see just what might be happening there
and what might be done. They are armed with their technology, among which are
a radio and an airship. More importantly, they are armed with the knowledge of
future history and their determination not to repeat the errors of their past.
What could possibly go wrong?
It has taken almost five years for the United States of Europe to stabilize its
position in 17th-century Europe. Now it turns its attention to the New World,
where the English have ceded their colonial claims to France. There are vast lands
and rich resources across the Atlantic for any nations powerful enough to rule and
control them—and equal incentive for other nations to block their path.
The time-displaced Americans know about the future path that led to their own
United States in North America, in the other universe they came from. But do they
want to repeat that history as it was? Yes, they had democracy—but they are
helping to create that in Europe. And they have learned the bitter prices paid for
chattel slavery and the near-extermination of the native populations.
Knowledge is power. Perhaps a new course can be taken. Accordingly, an
expedition is sent to the New World to see just what might be happening there
and what might be done. They are armed with their technology, among which are
a radio and an airship. More importantly, they are armed with the knowledge of
future history and their determination not to repeat the errors of their past.
What could possibly go wrong?
About the author
Eric Flint was born in southern California in 1947. He received a bachelor's degree from UCLA in 1968 and did some work toward a Ph.D. in history, with a specialization in history of southern Africa in the 18th and early 19th centuries, also at UCLA. After leaving the doctoral program over political issues, he supported himself from that time until age 50 as a laborer, machinist and labor organizer. In 1993, his short story entitled Entropy and the Strangler won first place in the Winter 1992 Writers of the Future contest. His first novel, Mother of Demons, was published in 1997 and was picked by the Science Fiction Chronicle as a best novel of the year. He became a full-time writer in 1999. He writes science fiction and fantasy works including The Philosophical Strangler and the Belisarius series.
George Guidall is one of the most prolific narrators of audiobooks in the world. He has recorded nearly 650 unabridged novels, everything from "Crime and Punishment" and "The Iliad" to "Snow Falling on Cedars." He began his career as an actor, appearing on Broadway and touring Europe with Helen Hayes in the "Glass Menagerie," " Miracle Worker" and "The Skin of Our Teeth." He received an Obie Award for Best Performance Off-Broadway, and has continued his performances in theater for over 40 years. Guidall has also appeared on television, with roles on the soap "One Life to Live" and "Law and Order," and in movies such as "Malcolm X" and "Tales from the Darkside." His first job reading audiobooks was for the Library of Congress' American Foundation for the Blinds' Talking Books. Since then he has won the most prestigious Audiobook Award, the Audie Award, for Best Unabridged Narration of a novel for his recording of John Irving's "A Widow for One Year." He won the Audie again in 2000 for Wally Lamb's "I Know This Much is True."
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