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Informationen zum Autor Eric Flint was the creator of the New York Times best-selling Ring of Fire series, the best-selling alternate history series of all time. Beginning with 1632 , Flint—along with dozens of cowriters—chronicled what happened when the 20th-century town of Grantville, West Virginia, was transported through time and space to 17th-century Europe. In addition, Flint was the author, with New York Times best seller David Weber, of the Crown of Slaves Saga, as well as the Belisarius series with best-selling author David Drake. Flint was the editor of Jim Baen ’s Universe , as well as numerous short story anthologies. Before becoming a writer, Flint worked as a trade union organizer, longshoreman, truck driver, auto worker, steel worker, oil worker, meatpacker, glassblower, and machinist. Eric Flint passed away in 2022. Klappentext Captain Mark Stephens is overseeing the change of shifts at the maximum-security prison when everything changes. The Mississippi River has disappeared! along with all signs of civilization. Something has thrown the prison back in time millions of years. Zusammenfassung First Time in Paperback for This Time-Travel Adventure by a New York Times Best-Selling Author. Captain Andrew Blacklock was overseeing the change of shifts at the state of Illinois’ maximum-security prison when the world outside was suddenly ripped. They thought it was an earthquake until they found that the Mississippi river had disappeared! along with all signs of civilization. Then the sun came up—in the wrong direction. And a dinosaur came by and scratched its hide against the wall of the prison . . . Something had thrown the prison back in time millions of years. And they were not alone. Other humans from periods centuries! even millennia apart had also been dropped into the same time. Including a band of murderous conquistadores. But the prison had its own large population of murderers. They couldn’t be turned loose! but what else could be done with them? Death walked outside the walls! human savagery was planning to break loose inside! and Stephens and the other men and women of the prison’s staff were trapped in the middle. ...
