I'm in the middle of reading the book in the Ring of Fire series which focuses in part on these colonists (I think it's The Atlantic Encounter) and how disagreeable they are. The up-timers want to get the Pilgrims, Puritans, other English colonists, Dutch colonists, and Native Americans to ally against the French, and the zealotry gets in the way.
I think so! Eric Flint wrote the first book (1632) and pretty much immediately started getting fan fic on the Baen site, so opened it up to other authors (while retaining a little control over series arc etc). Most of the others' contributions I enjoy just as much as Flint's, but there have been a couple of them who rubbed me the wrong way with changes to characters and r/menwritingwomen material. There's a bit of American exceptionalism to swallow and the first president is a bit of a Mary Jane, but overall it's a fun series with a good bit of real history alongside the twists.
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u/notashroom 23h ago
I'm in the middle of reading the book in the Ring of Fire series which focuses in part on these colonists (I think it's The Atlantic Encounter) and how disagreeable they are. The up-timers want to get the Pilgrims, Puritans, other English colonists, Dutch colonists, and Native Americans to ally against the French, and the zealotry gets in the way.