1634: The Bavarian Crisis
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| Author | Virginia DeMarce and Eric Flint (Series creator and editor) |
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| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Series | 1632 series |
| Genre(s) | Alternate History /Science fiction |
| Publisher | Baen Books |
| Publication date | October 1, 2007 |
| Media type | Print (Hardback) |
| Pages | 448 pages |
| ISBN | ISBN10: ISBN 1-4165-4253-1 ISBN13: ISBN 9781416542537 |
| 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 |
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" in the anthology Ring of Fire; several short stories by DeMarce in The Grantville Gazettes; 1634: The Ram Rebellion; and 1634: The Baltic War.[1] 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 Peasants' War and her life work as a 17th Century European History specialist.
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.
[edit] Plot miscellany
Early revelations detail machinations by the Habsburg heiress Archduchess Maria Anna of Austria to gather information as aided and abetted by a dowager aunt and her younger sister behind the backs of her father Emperor Ferdinand II and his Jesuit watchdogs. Duke Maximilian I, Elector of Bavaria becomes a widower in need of suitable Catholic bride, while the Cardinal-Infante Ferdinand whose armies have reconquered 80–85% of the Low Countries by the summer of 1634 is contemplating a dynastic move of his own (and one which maybe includes Maria Anna) which his brother King Philip IV of Spain will find a bit disconcerting. Veronica Dreeson and Mary Simpson meanwhile plan a trip to tend to personal matters to the Upper Palatinate border region conquered by Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden and administered for him from Amberg by ally Duke Ernest of Saxe-Gotha, one of the four Wettin dukes that were supplanted by Grantville's (formation of the NUS) actions in 1631 and 1632. Events in the other 1634 novels (1634: The Galileo Affair, 1634: The Ram Rebellion, 1634: The Baltic War) are integrated into the action and political events behind the scenes, and this book ties a host of little oddities into a coherent canvas capturing a snapshot of the state of Europe in early summer of 1634.
Concurrent with their pet projects, the formidable Dreeson and Simpson women are accompanied by a trade delegation with the strategic goal of restoring the iron production of the Upper Palatinate to feed the war needs of the USE.
[edit] Notes and references
- Chapter titles, Latin to English translations, with some sources.
- ^ Flint, Eric (Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2005 03:18:37). Well... It's more complicated than that (1632 Tech Manual "Essay" archived at 1632.org now). Retrieved on 2007-10-21. “THE BALTIC WAR is the direct sequel to 1633. Truth be told, it's actually the second half of the same novel. I originally plotted that story as one novel, not two.”
[edit] Historical figures
- Archduchess Maria Anna of Austria
- Duke Maximilian I, Elector of Bavaria
- Cardinal-Infante Ferdinand
- Duke Ernest of Saxe-Gotha
- Duke Bernhard of Saxe-Weimar
- General Johan Banér
[edit] External links
- Simon & Shuster 1634:The Bavarian Crisis
- sample chapters (first draft)
- Official snippets
| Preceded by 1634: The Baltic War |
1634: The Bavarian Crisis | Succeeded by Ring of Fire II (in publication order) |
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