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==Series premise==

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==Plot threads==

No matter what approach one takes to classifying a plot sequence in the series—be it geographical or character based—the key element of the series to comprehend is that the events depicted in its now voluminous works are not taking place in a vacuum, but in most cases are concurrent with developments in other parts of the European center. Indeed, in a October 2007 announcement on his web site, Flint announced an agreement that the three joint books (under contract since 2002) with best selling author [[David Weber]] will take place in a '''Naval thread''', indicating the Eurocentric focus of the series, at least taken with some expressed interest by [[Michael Stearns]] to curtail slave trading before it builds up steam, will likely create settings well outside Europe as the technologically advanced naval capabilities of the {{USE}} give it a reach not available to the average European power, even if it resorts to sailing ships over oceanic distances where the {{Emergency Committee}} and {{NUS!32}} authorities were careful to hide key portions of their library resources in order to maintain a technological edge as they {{geardown}}.

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====Eastern European thread====

The Eastern European thread is taken to be east of the East_Central_European_thread, the later of which may be understood as the base line through eastern parts of modern day Germany, Austria, western [[Hungary]]. The first fiction written within these theatres was the novelette {{ROF-1|s="The Wallenstein Gambit"}} and the prequel short stories leading up to it, all published in {{ROF-1}} but subsequent long fiction planned in the setting had to await authors scheduling issues, so the plot begun by Flint and finished in outline took a back seat to southern, western and central European events which both had ready collaborating authors and themes of their own to explore in the neohistory. So in June of 2006, the writing team of {{16writ|Paula|Goodlett}} and {{16writ|Gorg |Huff }} cracked the Eastern European barrier in {{GG08|IN="Butterflies in the Kremlin, Part 1: A Russian Noble"}} when they began the series action in [[Tsar|Tsarist]]ist [[Russia]] in the sometimes comic, sometimes serious serialized novel [[Butterflies in the Kremlin]], which is part adventure, part romance and part spy story. In action to date, an uptime American has moved to Moscow, scandalized the elite of the society, ticked off the beaurocracybureaucracy and much of the nobility, and helped fight a battle and win it with Poland. Meanwhile the Prince-spy in Grantville has fallen for an American girl (both a commoner and a non-virgin) and as of {{GG18}} are getting married, which is a big deal back in the society of old [[Moscovy]], where the church and the nobility hasn't quite come to grips with a changing world and after a century, half of them still haven't noticed that the grand-duchy has become the [[Tsardom of Russia]].

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