1634: The Bavarian Crisis
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| Author |
Virginia DeMarce and Eric Flint (Series creator and editor) |
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| Cover artist | Tom Kidd |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Series | 1632 series |
| Genre |
Alternate History /Science fiction |
| Publisher | Baen Books |
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Publication date
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October 1, 2007 |
| Media type | Print (hardback) |
| Pages | 448 pp |
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| OCLC | 144329893 |
| 813/.54 22 | |
| LC Class | PS3556.L548 A6175 2007 |
| Preceded by | 1634: The Baltic War and 1634: The Ram Rebellion and DeMarce short stories in the The Grantville Gazettes, issues II, III, IV, V and VI |
| Followed by | The Anaconda Project Ring of Fire II 1635: The Dreeson Incident |
1634: The Bavarian Crisis is a novel in the alternate history 1632 series, written by Virginia DeMarce and Eric Flint as sequel to Flint's novella "The Wallenstein Gambit"; several short stories by DeMarce in The Grantville Gazettes; 1634: The Ram Rebellion; and 1634: The Baltic War. The novel's first draft was completed in 2005, before work on The Baltic War began. Many chapters of that "early draft version" were available on line, but the final production reached print on 1 October 2007.
DeMarce, who wrote Flint congratulating him on his research and verisimilitude found in the novel 1632 soon joined with him as an expert collaborator and is one of the regular contributing writers to 1632 Tech Manual, the canonical Grantville Gazettes and a key member of the 1632 Research Committee with a PhD in history and an international expert specialized in European Genealogy. Her stories regularly deal with historical social and social science matters, as may be expected from DeMarce's PhD dissertation about the 1525 German Peasants' War and her life work as a 17th-century European history specialist. Unfortunately this shows strongly in The Bavarian Crisis, which has a tendency to feel more like a history lesson than a novel.
The Bavarian Crisis was delayed due to the delayed start and completion of the preceding major work in the set, The Baltic War. If The Bavarian Crisis had been published first, it would have contained plot spoilers for 1634: The Baltic War. As it begins concurrently with the events revealed in that book and that of 1634: The Galileo Affair as well as 1634: The Ram Rebellion, the overall scope of plot detail (historical canvas) in the series might be readily intuited. As it is, most of the narrative in all four novels span the same period of 1634, the late winter-to-early summer, though 1634: The Galileo Affair expends a few early chapters within the year 1633 as backdrop activities within the Catholic Church and Richelieu's offices are germane to the arch of the plotting.
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