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It also got me interested in the 30 years war which i didnt realise was possibly even bloodier period than WW1 and 2 in europe for the populations impacted. He

It also got me interested in the 30 years war which i didnt realise was possibly even bloodier period than WW1 and 2 in europe for the populations impacted. He has another series in same premise with a modern cruise ship going back to ancient greek times, not as good as this series tho'. if anyone else has any other recommendations in same genre of time travel and re-booting up civilisation it be great to hear! I always found the genre interesting since Jules Verne's Mysterious Island https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32831.The_Mysterious_Island https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32831.The_Mysterious_Isl...

dj_gitmo 5y ago
I had no idea about this. Did Jules Verne really have to be the originator or every science fiction sub-genre? What a jerk.
- Apocryphon 5y ago
  He was a contemporary of Edison’s. Perhaps both were future men, out of time…
sanxiyn 5y ago
> if anyone else has any other recommendations in same genre of time travel and re-booting up civilisation it be great to hear! The island of Nantucket goes back to the Bronze Age. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Island_in_the_Sea_of_Time https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Island_in_the_Sea_of_Time
- ghaff 5y ago
  Yes, Stirling's Nantucket series is a good example. Loosely also his Emberverse (basically the flip side of the Nantucket series) although I lost interest as I often do with long-running series. Lucifer's Hammer by Niven and Pournelle. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court is probably the classic of the genre (Mark Twain). Most of these books are probably overly optimistic about what one or a small group of smart people who just happen to have to right skill sets could accomplish in such a situation with very limited supply chains.
bhaak 5y ago
The short story "The Man Who Came Early" by Poul Anderson touches on that theme as well. A soldier is transported back to Iceland of about the year 900 AD. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man_Who_Came_Early https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man_Who_Came_Early Another classic one is "Lest Darkness Fall" by L. Sprague de Camp in which an archaeologist is transported to Rome in the year 535 AD. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lest_Darkness_Fall https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lest_Darkness_Fall
- jwhitlark 5y ago
  David Drake wrote a sort of prequel to "Lest Darkness Fall" called "To Bring the Light", with an imperial Roman woman transported back to the founding of Rome. Drake's personal experiences increase the realism of his writing, IMO. He also wrote "Ranks of Bronze" which is sort of the reverse idea, a Roman Legion kidnapped by aliens for preindustrial warfare. Absolutely worth a read, and an interesting counterpoint to most of the 'bringing civilization to the barbarians' narrative these stories normally follow. H. Beam Piper did a bunch too, check out "Lord Kalvan of Otherwhen" if you can find it.
coremoff 5y ago
> if anyone else has any other recommendations in same genre of time travel and re-booting up civilisation There's a couple that I know of: https://www.goodreads.com/series/40821-belisarius https://www.goodreads.com/series/40821-belisarius https://www.goodreads.com/search?q=safehold&qid= https://www.goodreads.com/search?q=safehold&qid= Flint was involved in the Belisarius series (along with David Drake), and Safehold is basically Weber's "reboot" of one of the books in his "Armageddon Moon" series. If you liked 1632 you will probably like these as they're in a similar vein

dj_gitmo 5y ago

I had no idea about this. Did Jules Verne really have to be the originator or every science fiction sub-genre? What a jerk.

Apocryphon 5y ago
He was a contemporary of Edison’s. Perhaps both were future men, out of time…

sanxiyn 5y ago

> if anyone else has any other recommendations in same genre of time travel and re-booting up civilisation it be great to hear! The island of Nantucket goes back to the Bronze Age. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Island_in_the_Sea_of_Time https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Island_in_the_Sea_of_Time

ghaff 5y ago
Yes, Stirling's Nantucket series is a good example. Loosely also his Emberverse (basically the flip side of the Nantucket series) although I lost interest as I often do with long-running series. Lucifer's Hammer by Niven and Pournelle. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court is probably the classic of the genre (Mark Twain). Most of these books are probably overly optimistic about what one or a small group of smart people who just happen to have to right skill sets could accomplish in such a situation with very limited supply chains.

bhaak 5y ago

The short story "The Man Who Came Early" by Poul Anderson touches on that theme as well. A soldier is transported back to Iceland of about the year 900 AD. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man_Who_Came_Early https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man_Who_Came_Early Another classic one is "Lest Darkness Fall" by L. Sprague de Camp in which an archaeologist is transported to Rome in the year 535 AD. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lest_Darkness_Fall https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lest_Darkness_Fall

jwhitlark 5y ago
David Drake wrote a sort of prequel to "Lest Darkness Fall" called "To Bring the Light", with an imperial Roman woman transported back to the founding of Rome. Drake's personal experiences increase the realism of his writing, IMO. He also wrote "Ranks of Bronze" which is sort of the reverse idea, a Roman Legion kidnapped by aliens for preindustrial warfare. Absolutely worth a read, and an interesting counterpoint to most of the 'bringing civilization to the barbarians' narrative these stories normally follow. H. Beam Piper did a bunch too, check out "Lord Kalvan of Otherwhen" if you can find it.

coremoff 5y ago

> if anyone else has any other recommendations in same genre of time travel and re-booting up civilisation There's a couple that I know of: https://www.goodreads.com/series/40821-belisarius https://www.goodreads.com/series/40821-belisarius https://www.goodreads.com/search?q=safehold&qid= https://www.goodreads.com/search?q=safehold&qid= Flint was involved in the Belisarius series (along with David Drake), and Safehold is basically Weber's "reboot" of one of the books in his "Armageddon Moon" series. If you liked 1632 you will probably like these as they're in a similar vein