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Goodreads helps you keep track of books you want to read. Want to Read saving…. Want to Read Currently Reading Read. Other editions. Enlarge cover. Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Open Preview See a Problem? Details if other :. Thanks for telling us about the problem. 1636: The Saxon Uprising to Book Page. Preview — by Eric Flint. So, when Gustavus invades Poland, managing to unite all the squabbling Polish factions into repelling the common enemy, the time-lost Americans have to worry 1636: The Saxon Uprising getting dr The West Virginia town of Grantville, torn from the twentieth century and hurled back into seventeenth century Europe has allied with Gustavus Adolphus, King of Sweden, in the United States of Europe. So, when Gustavus invades Poland, managing to unite all the squabbling Polish factions into repelling the common enemy, the time-lost Americans have to worry about getting dragged into the fight along with the Swedish forces. But Mike Stearns has another problem. So Gustavus orders Mike Stearns to go to Saxony and restore order. But he makes one mistake. Get A Copy. Hardcoverpages. More Details Original Title. Other Editions 6. Friend Reviews. To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up. To ask other readers questions aboutplease sign up. Lists with This Book. Community Reviews. Showing Average rating 4. Rating details. More filters. Sort order. Start your review of The Saxon Uprising. Jun 30, Debrac rated it really liked it. Good 1636: The Saxon Uprising Ulrik and Kristina are a great match! Long live the King! Really like his cousin Erik Hand! He's good with a gun! The second half 1636: The Saxon Uprising the huge novel started in Eastern front - this one ends very well the main thread from there and of course continues the epic saga of the different 17 century that resulted from the transplantation of Grantville, W Va in Thuringia ; the books breathe new life in a series that was going stale with all 1636: The Saxon Uprising tedious details hashed 1636: The Saxon Uprising the side stories that lost my interest 1636: The Saxon Uprising I 1636: The Saxon Uprising Mr. Flint will keep delivering mainstream series books since the rest are usually fan-fic The second half of the huge novel started in Eastern front - this one ends very well the main thread from there and of course continues the epic saga of the different 17 century that resulted from the transplantation of Grantville, W Va in Thuringia ; the books breathe new life in a series that was going stale with all the tedious details hashed in the side stories that lost my interest and I hope Mr. Flint will keep delivering mainstream series books since the rest are usually fan-fic in quality and ok in small doses but not as main series carriers all the main characters appear and as usual Mike Stearn, the 9 year old Christina, Ulrik and now the aristocratic Polish spy who finds himself a main player in the defense of Dresden by the revolutionaries take center stage whenever they appear, though there are snippets from almost everyone; other notable characters that take over the pages are the 3 year old Barry, the adopted son of Rebecca and Mike and who supposedly would have been the famous philosopher Baruch Spinoza in our universe - and already at 3 he shows the signs, so Mike is determined to raise him a bit wilder :Colonel Hand the cousin of Gustav Adolf, while from the villains Prime Minister Wettin gets a better role than i expected, though Oxiensterna is shown as much stupider than I expected also - though of course 1636: The Saxon Uprising rush of events can make anyone lose it Dec 13, Joe rated it really liked it. What a fun read. This is one you wait for. Really everyone is good. The main line story really pays off in this one. A little politics. A little battle. Apr 14, Melinda rated it it was amazing Shelves: alternate-realityfavorites. 1636: The Saxon Uprising just keep getting better! Mar 23, Geoffrey rated it it was amazing Shelves: alt-historyfantasy. For the last few books, the Assiti Shards series had been all over the place. It felt like too much was happening in too short a time - a few decades worth of war happened in 4 short years with internal social convulsions thrown in between. Then, the last book, The Eastern Frontthrew in a seriously unexpected curveball. From that 1636: The Saxon Uprising twist, this book started up with a mess that turned into an unexpectedly fun novel. This one felt like a return to the first few books in the series. There For the last few books, the 1636: The Saxon Uprising Shards series had been all over the place. There are multiple story lines occurring at the same time with many of the usual suspects without that many new characters added in. It resolved 1636: The Saxon Uprising nicely while leaving open a handful of 1636: The Saxon Uprising lines to continue in the next books of the series. May 07, Peter Salomon rated it really liked it. Fun alternative history fiction, thankfully without the 1636: The Saxon Uprising 'Ram' episode which brings up the one drawback to this sprawling series: it's close to impossible to keep everything straight, to know which book to read in which order. Some are close to unreadable see the 'whole Ram episode' comment in the first sentence and some are just random tales with no contextual relationship to the main characters that attracted me to the series in the first place. I understand what the author is doing and Fun alternative history fiction, thankfully without the whole 'Ram' episode which brings up the one drawback to this sprawling series: it's close to impossible to keep everything straight, to know which book to read in which order. I understand what the author is doing and applaud the audacity of it and 1636: The Saxon Uprising amazed at the sprawling nature and the 'completist' atmosphere. As are all the main storyline books. Well worth reading, well worth following along for the ride. Aug 16, Warren Dunham rated it it was amazing. Ok I really liked this one, the fifth star is a little border line but this was one of the more enjoyable books in the series. It felt more focused like it knew were it was going and went there wrapping 1636: The Saxon Uprising at least more of the threads than normal in this series although it laves room for more problems in the future. Mike Sterns has just lost the position of prime minster of the USE to Wettin, a conservative who wants to roll back many of the changes made by Mikes Forth of July party. Unfortunatel Ok I really liked this one, the fifth star is a little border line but this was one of the more enjoyable books in the series. Unfortunately he has friends some who are even more aggressive about going back to the old ways, putting The aristocracy back in power and the presents back in its place. This may mean civil war. Again the best part of the book is the politics not that theirs not fighting and not 1636: The Saxon Uprising the fighting isn't good, but this series has been excellent about making the politics worth reading. Jan 03, Dan rated it it was amazing Shelves: Feb 23, Leigh Kimmel rated it liked it. The previous volume, The Eastern Front, ended with one heck of a cliffhanger. Gustavus Adolphus had gone charging into battle and received a head injury that left his mind addled. Aphasia, the technical term provided by the up-time doctor. And that leaves a power vacuum that the Swedish prime minister, Oxensternia, decides to fill. It's time to turn back the clock on some of these ridiculous notions of freedom and equality. Except a people who have become accustomed to working together in a civic The previous volume, 1636: The Saxon Uprising Eastern Front, ended with one heck of a cliffhanger. Except a people who have become accustomed to working together in a civic society are not as easy to put down as bands of angry peasants in rebellion. 1636: The Saxon Uprising a nice, readable book about ordinary hard-working people pulling together, although here and there the author's politics do show up enough to be annoying if you don't share them. This should be read in concert with The Eastern Front as it is the denouement of many of the threads set into motion in the former book. The resolution of the almost-civil war is satsifying. The trope of stating what happens in various places at key milestones of the story wore a little. But the characters shown and we're getting an interesting take on Ulric and Kristina that will play out later as well as the deaths of various minor and not so minor characters. I thoroughly enjoyed these two bo This should be read in concert with The Eastern Front as it is the denouement of many of the threads set into motion in the former book. I thoroughly enjoyed these two books and look forward to more of Michael Sterns exploits and what Rebecca and Gretchen get themselves up to. Jan 14, Daniel Bratell rated it really liked it. So it turned out that the book " The Eastern Front" was really a book cut in half. That explains 1636: The Saxon Uprising of its strange temperament. This is the other, longer half, and story threads are actually brought to some kind of conclusion, be what it may. For that, I'm awarding it a bonus star. The main value of this book series remain as a thought experiment. What would modern technology, history, knowledge, religion and politics, and culture, do it transplanted into Is this a plausible series o So it turned out that the book " The Eastern Front" was really a book cut in half. The Saxon Uprising by Eric Flint

The Habsburgs might dispute the claim. And if that 1636: The Saxon Uprising dynastic family could by some magic means recombine their splintered realms into the great empire ruled a century earlier by Charles V, they could probably made the claim stick. But the great Holy Roman Emperor was long gone. Today, it would take genuinely magical methods to reunite Spain and Austria—not to mention the newly emerged third branch of the dynasty in the Netherlands. France was now weak, too. In times past, the 1636: The Saxon Uprising had easily out-maneuvered him. In short, Gustav Adolf ought to be basking in the most glorious sunlight of a life which had been filled with a great deal of glory since he was a teenage king. Instead, he was lying on a bed in a palace in one of the most 1636: The Saxon Uprising cities in the Germanies with his mind apparently gone. It was very frustrating. This last sentence, for instance, had clearly been a question, and beneath all of the meaningless sentences you could detect a still intact grammar. Or, perhaps even more to the point, why it was that Gustav Adolf had not been brought to Magdeburg with its superb medical facilities, instead of being kept in primitive Berlin. His tone was blunt, to the point of being almost hostile. Just as it was he who insisted—oh, sure, politely, but he had about a dozen goons with him to enforce the matter—that I leave Berlin and come back here, once I 1636: The Saxon Uprising the risk of peritonitis. As opposed to spending another two days moving him to Magdeburg in a luxurious river barge. Did he recognize his cousin? It was hard to say. But what was he saying? It was as if his vocabulary was completely jumbled. The answers had been…interesting. An angry breath, you could even say. The Saxon Uprising - Wikipedia

It is set between November and March and is a direct continuation of the story started in 1636: The Saxon Uprising Eastern Front. After Gustavus Adolphus suffers a head trauma in battle, he becomes unable to continue to rule. The 1636: The Saxon Uprising chancellor Axel Oxenstierna uses this opportunity to try to reestablish the power of the nobility in the United States of Europe. He keeps the USE army occupied fighting against Poland and reinforcing Bohemialeaving Swedish forces and the various provincial forces as the only professional soldiers the the country. He uses this advantage to 'bully' Prime Minister Wilhelm Wettin into co-operating with him. The province of Hesse-Kassel, which has the strongest provincial force, decides to stay neutral in the conflict -- intending to use its soldiers solely to keep peace within its own borders. After the Prime Minister discovers that Bavaria invaded after promises made by the Swedish Chancellor, he confronts Oxenstierna 1636: The Saxon Uprising is arrested and removed from office. They enter into an informal alliance with the rebel forces in the Vogtland in order to protect as many people as possible from the butchery caused by Baner's men in Saxony. Princess Kristina and Prince Ulrik travel to Magdeburgarriving in an airplane and receiving a big fanfare, which further undermines the Swedish Chancellor. Mike Stearns takes 1636: The Saxon Uprising opportunity to lead his Third Division from Bohemia into Saxony to break the siege of Dresden. Gustav Adolphus regains his wits soon after that, and Axel Oxenstierna's uprising ends when he is shot dead by Erik Haakansson Hand. Wilhelm Wettin is released from custody and reinstated as Prime Minister. Sign In Don't have an account? Start a Wiki. Plot Edit After Gustavus Adolphus suffers a head trauma in battle, he becomes unable to continue to rule. Categories :. Cancel Save. Ring of Fire III.