[Sherman Logan]

Eric Flint has written and/or edited a lengthy series based on the idea a typical WV town winds up suddenly in S. Germany in 1632, middle of the 30 Years’ War. They decide to start the American Revolution a little early.

Does a good job of showing the quite significant limitations of superior technology, in combat and economics, especially when available only in small quantities.

As the saying goes, quantity has a quality of its own.

[JimC214]

You might like Poul Andersons “The Man Who Came Early”. The story is presented in the first person, related by a Saga-Age Icelander named Ospak Ulfsson. During a violent thunderstorm, an unexplained phenomenon transports the titular 20th-century American GI back in time to Ospak’s homestead. The American, who becomes known as Gerald “Samsson”, is an engineering student drafted to serve at Keflavik during the Cold War between the U.S. and the Soviet Union. It's from around 1956 and the story is sort of a reverse A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court.

[knews_hound]

For those who might be interested, the 2 book series 1632 and 1633 are both available to read for free from the Baen Free Library.

I highly reccomend them both.

1632

1633

These "Alternative Universe" novels can be quite good when produced by a thoughtful author.  These are excellent examples of that.

Cheers,

knewshound

http://www.knewshound.blogspot.com/

[zeugma]

Eric Flint has written and/or edited a lengthy series based on the idea a typical WV town winds up suddenly in S. Germany in 1632, middle of the 30 Years’ War. They decide to start the American Revolution a little early.

Does a good job of showing the quite significant limitations of superior technology, in combat and economics, especially when available only in small quantities.

For anyone interested, the first two books in the series are available online for free from Baen Publishing.

Both 1632 and 1633 are available in a number of formats for download, or you can read it online as html.

I've read the entire series, including the Gazettes, which are collections of short stories that take place in the '1632' universe.