Out of the Frying Pan, into the Friar
Thrust into the chaos of 17th-century Europe's bloodiest war, Thomas Wolf, of the Order of Friars Minor, risks his life to rescue a woman from mercenaries during his journey to Freiburg. When her town of Grantville is revealed to have moved through time, Thomas is drawn into a struggle with his understanding of science and a phenomenon that may shatter everything he believes. Together they risk all in a mad chase across the war-torn countryside to find safety within the Ring of Fire.
This is the first story in the Friar Thomas series.
Available for purchase at: Amazon (Kindle and Paperback) and Eric Flint's 1632 & Beyond (Digital)
Other stories by Todd S. Jones set in the 1632 Verse
- Fight Fire with Friar: Thomas Wolf, of the Order of Friars Minor, risks everything to rescue a boy and his parents who are falsely accused of witchcraft before they are burned at the stake.
- Trial by Friar: When an elder of a farming village near Wunschendorf is found dead under peculiar circumstances, Thomas Wolf, of the Order of Friars Minor, must rely on his skills in anatomy, science, and faith to uncover the killer before another life is taken.
Eric Flint's 1632 alternate history universe
1632 is an alternate history universe created by Eric Flint in the late 1990s with the first book (1632) published in 2000. Alternate history is when a story has something happen differently in the past so our history changes. In this case, some careless alien artists cause a six mile sphere from West Virginia in April 2000 to be swapped with an equally sized sphere from May 1631 in Thuringia, Germany.
Once the town of Grantville arrives in Thuringia and the people realize are in the middle of the Thirty Years War, the up-timers (the people from 2000) decide they can help improve the lives of the down-timers (everyone already in 1631 when they arrive). The two primary keys to this are widely disseminating virtually all of their knowledge and pushing religious toleration hard.
They quickly decide that they need to gear down to make the tools to make the tools to make the tools, instead of trying to make things they need, and that the best way to be successful in this is to work with the down-timers and share all their knowledge. (There are a few bits of military knowledge and tech they keep secret, but it's incredibly minimal.) In particular, they work hard to spread medical knowledge as far and wide as possible to save lives.
More about the 1632 alternate history universe (1632verse) and the rural town (Grantville) that goes from 2000 West Virginia to war-torn 1631 Thuringia, Germany.
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