1636, Kerryn Offord
1636, Kerryn Offord
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1636
The Chronicles of Dr. Gribbleflotz

Author: Kerryn Offord, Rick Boatright

Narrator: George Guidall

Unabridged: 17 hr 30 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 11/02/2018

Synopsis

A sparkling addition to the multiple New York Times best-selling Ring of Fire alternate history series created by Eric Flint. An alchemist of the 17th century confronts modern science with often amusing results. Phillip Theophrastus Gribbleflotz, the world's greatest alchemist and a great-grandson of Paracelsus-and a Bombast on his mother's side-was a man history had forgotten. But when the town of Grantville was transported by a cosmic accident from modern West Virginia to central Germany in the early seventeenth century, he got a second chance at fame and fortune. The world's greatest alchemist does not make household goods. But with suitable enticements Gribbleflotz is persuaded to make baking soda and then baking powder so that the time-displaced Americans can continue to enjoy such culinary classics as biscuits and gravy. Applying his superb grasp of the principles of alchemy to the muddled and confused notions the Americans have concerning what they call "chemistry," Gribbleflotz leaves obscurity behind. In his relentless search for a way to invigorate the quinta essential of the human humors, Gribbleflotz plays a central role in jump-starting the seventeenth century's new chemical and marital aids industries-and pioneering such critical fields of human knowledge as pyramidology and aura imaging. These are his chronicles.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Chris on November 17, 2016

The editor of this book needs a spanking. The first few chapters allow the reader to follow young Phillip as he grows his education and shows promise of a great future. He excels in observing and minding the small details. His quest for greater knowledge is only kept on check by the bad luck of his p......more

Goodreads review by Marijan on October 26, 2016

For the followers of 1631 universe: True, this is not just another pastiche of already published stories from Grantville Gazette. All of the Dr. Phil stories are incorporated in the book, but they fill only the small part around the middle of the book. At the beginning, we are given the opportunity t......more

Goodreads review by Pat Cummings on August 22, 2016

First, the disclaimer: I thought the initial books in Eric Flint's Ring of Fire (R0F) series were brilliant, genius, wonderful. Then, like many alternate history series (which it rapidly became), it just gradually got too complex for me to recall which "down-time" 1630s-native character was who, and......more

Goodreads review by Daniel on September 10, 2016

Even amongst the bizarre alt-history niche that is the Ring of Fire side-story novel, the Chronicles of Dr. Gribbleflotz is a bit of an anomaly (eugh, the grammar of that sentence will haunt me). The strangest thing about this book is that the first half of it is straight up historical fiction, tell......more

Goodreads review by Dennis on July 12, 2021

If only this book were true to its title! The first one-third, which would have made a nice book by itself, was indeed the chronicles of Dr. Gribbleflotz, and it is engrossing to read his coming of age story combined with his travelogue and scientific problem-solving. Unfortunately, when he meets th......more

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