1636: The Barbie Consortium

Gorg Huff · Paula Goodlett

Nov 2014 · Ring of Fire Book 18 · Baen Publishing Enterprises

About this ebook

Prequel to 1636: The Viennese Waltz. The Barbies are rising. After their West Virginia town is transported to 1630s continental Europe, a group of teenage girls discover that bringing future technology and future business practices to a backward Europe just emerging from the Middle Ages can be very lucrative indeed¾and might even change the course of empire.

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Ratings and reviews

I enjoyed it right up until the end. Which seemed rather abrupt to me. I know it's a prequel leading into another book and all but as a story by itself it feels like a beginning and middle without a proper ending to me. Like every other book in this series I've read has had.

The rest of the line -- in Vienna -- makes more sense after this. Yes, bits and pieces otherwise available, but collected here and made cohesive.

About the author

Iver Cooper has been an active contributor to Eric Flint's Ring of Fire universe, with 22 short stories and 40 articles published so far in the online Grantville Gazette, and another short story in the hardcover anthology Ring of Fire II. Cooper is an intellectual property law attorney with Browdy & Neimark, Washington DC. He has received legal writing awards from the American Patent Law Association, the U.S. Trademark Association, and the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers, and is the sole author of Biotechnology and the Law, now in its twenty-something edition. In his spare time, he teaches swing and folk dancing, and participates in local photo club competitions. Cooper is married with a son and daughter.