1636: The Flight of the Nightingale

Ring of Fire, Book 28

By: David Carrico

Narrated by: George Guidall

Two short novels set in Eric Flint's best-selling Ring of Fire series from David Carrico, coauthor of 1636: The Devil's Opera and The Span of Empire.

Time waits for no one, but for the residents of 17th-century Europe, the future comes calling - ahead of time! Due to a temporal disturbance known as the Ring of Fire, the 20th-century town of Grantville, West Virginia, finds itself transported through time and space to Central Europe in the year 1632. The turmoil resulting from the event has massive repercussions for the up-time citizens of Grantville, the down-time citizens of Europe - and the world at large. Massive political and social upheavals take place. But change happens on a smaller, human scale, too.

In The Flight of the Nightingale, down-timer Francesca Caccini is inspired by the arrival of Grantville to seek a different destiny from what would have been her lot otherwise. And in Bach to the Future, Johann and his brothers commit themselves to preserve, protect, and promote their family's heritage from the future.

Two short novels, set in Eric Flint's best-selling Ring of Fire series, that shine a light on the overlooked corners of the Ring of Fire universe, where small actions can have life-altering consequences.

©2019 David Carrico (P)2021 Recorded Books

Beautiful human stories in a world of massive political turmoil.

The 1632 universe is an opus of political science and essentially the story of the clash of ideas, as well as technology. But this book shows those same ideas clashing in the minds of ordinary people, not kings or emperors. That’s what makes this particular story so compelling and powerful