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Flint wrote //1632// with the specific intent to praise "the common folk who built this country and keep it running," who in most science-fiction and alternate history novels, he says in the afterward, "hardly ever appear. If they figure at all, it is usually as spear carriers—or, more often than not, as a bastion of ignorance and bigotry." He also criticizes "the pervasive cynicism which seems to be the accepted 'sophisticated' wisdom of so many of today’s writers" and shows the residents of Grantville acting nobly and successfully - beating off multiple attacks on the town within a year of the ISOT, while opening the franchise to German refugees. In later works, however, the alternate history community widely believes Grantville's continued successes to be implausibly depicted as they go on to found the quasi-republican United States of Europe under the rule of a quite friendly Gustav Adolph. Nonetheless, the first book - at least - is considered by many a very good novel. | Flint wrote //1632// with the specific intent to praise "the common folk who built this country and keep it running," who in most science-fiction and alternate history novels, he says in the afterward, "hardly ever appear. If they figure at all, it is usually as spear carriers—or, more often than not, as a bastion of ignorance and bigotry." He also criticizes "the pervasive cynicism which seems to be the accepted 'sophisticated' wisdom of so many of today’s writers" and shows the residents of Grantville acting nobly and successfully - beating off multiple attacks on the town within a year of the ISOT, while opening the franchise to German refugees. In later works, however, the alternate history community widely believes Grantville's continued successes to be implausibly depicted as they go on to found the quasi-republican United States of Europe under the rule of a quite friendly Gustav Adolph. Nonetheless, the first book - at least - is considered by many a very good novel. |
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=== See Also === | === See Also === |
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The first three books were available as free e-books; as of February 2013, they seem to have been taken down. But you can still **[[http://www.baenebooks.com/p-379-1632.aspx|read the first several chapters]]** of //1632//. | The first three books were available as free e-books; as of February 2013, they seem to have been taken down. But you can still **[[http://www.baenebooks.com/p-379-1632.aspx|read the first several chapters]]** of //1632//. |
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