Let me second the recommendations of Eric Flint's 1632 and sequels. After seeing it on store shelves for a couple years, I finally took the plunge around Memorial Day. Not only did I like it, I made Peggy read it, and she liked it, and now we're chowing through all the extant sequels and supplementary books. This is a very humanist series and even better, the downtimers, the natives of the 17th century, are not made out to be ignorant, hidebound, and/or medieval; this is not a series about the "21st century man's burden". It's really, really worth a look.
-- Bob
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The Internet Is For Norns.
-- Bob
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The Internet Is For Norns.