1632 (The Ring of Fire Series)

Title: 1632
Author: Eric Flint
Publisher: Baen Publishing
Copyright: 2000
ISBN: 0-671-31972-8


I highly recommend The Ring of Fire series starting with the original novel “1632”.

Eric Flint is the creator and guiding light of this very collaborative science fiction alternate reality series. He authored “1632” but all other books in the series so far are collaborative efforts with an entire “bull pen” of stand out SF writers.

The short stories in the anthology volumes were entirely written by others - Eric Flint serving as editor. In all cases, in Eric Flint’s words, the contributions of the other authors have been integral to the main story lines of the series, including characters and events.

With so many contributors to this growing alternate history universe, and with Eric Flint’s guiding hand, The Ring of Fire is easily becoming the most rigorously complete “Future History” compilation I’ve seen.

The key event in this alternate universe is the sudden and unexplained transposition of the town of Grantville, West Virginia from 2000 AD to the hinterlands of the German principalities in 1632 - the height of the Thirty Years Wars. 21st Century Americans’ effects on 17th Century culture, beliefs, science, medicine, warfare, politics, and power structures give the authors a nearly infinite variety of themes, plots, characters, and surprises to keep this series going for many more years – I’m looking forward to them all.

I’ve not yet read all of the currently published volumes in The Ring of Fire series. Those I have read are without exception fun and interesting. At the bottom of this post are listed (with links) the volumes I’ve read over these past eight years.

Enjoy!

Novels:
1632 (The Assiti Shards)

1633

1634: The Galileo Affair (The Assiti Shards)

1634: The Bavarian Crisis (Ring of Fire)

1634: The Baltic War (The Ring of Fire)

1635: The Cannon Law (Assiti Shards)

Anthologies:
1634: The Ram Rebellion (The Assiti Shards)

Ring of Fire (The Ring of Fire)

Ring of Fire II (v. 2)

Links to other Book Reviews in this Blog