num_pages: 550
description: As the Thirty Years War continues to devastate Europe, the inhabitants of the American town mysteriously transported from the twentieth century to the seventeenth century confront a new foe, Cardinal Richelieu of France, who will do anything to stop a threat to his power, while working in Venice to prevent a plague and dealing with a Venetian artisan determined to rescue Galileo from a heresy charge.
language: English
title: 1634: The Galileo Affair
titlecomplete: 1634: The Galileo Affair (The Assiti Shards)
characters: Cardinal Antonio Barberini, Cardinal Richelieu, Galileo Galilei, Cardinal Mazarin, Michel Ducos, Sharon Nichols, Frank Stone, Simon Jones, Mike Stearns, Pope Urban VIII, Tom Stone, Lawrence Mazzare, Magda Stone, Ruy Sanchez de Casador y Ortiz
genres: Fiction, Science Fiction, Historical, Adventure, Speculative Fiction, Science Fiction Fantasy, Time Travel, Alternate History, Historical Fiction, Fantasy
ratings_count: 3142
places: Venice
series: 1632 Universe/Ring of Fire, Assiti Shards
publisher: Baen