Ring of Fire II
by Eric Flint
Ring of Fire anthologies (2), Ring of Fire reading order / per Eric Flint (12), Assiti Shards (Ring Of Fire Anthology 2)
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A mysterious cosmic force-the "Ring of Fire"-has hurled the town of Grantville from 20th century West Virginia back to 17th century Europe, and into the heart of the Thirty Years War. With their seemingly magical technology, and their radical ideas of freedom and justice, the time-lost West Virginians have allied with Gustavus Adolphus, King of Sweden, to form the Confederated Principalities of Europe, changing the course of history-in ways both small and large.Tags
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Like almost any collection of short stories, this one is uneven. There were some fun ones - "Diving Belle" and "Lucky at Cards" stand out in my memory - and some tedious ones. "Second Thoughts" was fairly mind-numbing, which is somewhat baffling since the same main character in "The Austro-Hungarian Connection" was a hoot.
Overall, good background material if you're particularly invested in the Ring of Fire series, but otherwise, feel totally free to skip it.
Overall, good background material if you're particularly invested in the Ring of Fire series, but otherwise, feel totally free to skip it.
As the previous, and probably later, Ring of Fire books, this is a collection of short stories by different authors, edited and collected by Eric Flint. The stories have different topics, different style (to a degree), different length and somewhat different characters. Still Eric Flint tries to create some kind of common thread and in this one that would be Noelle Murphy, known from The Ram Rebellion.
I think these books are skippable, but they still add flesh to what happens in the world, and some of the longer short stories, are probably going to continue in other books.
I think these books are skippable, but they still add flesh to what happens in the world, and some of the longer short stories, are probably going to continue in other books.
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Eric Flint was born in southern California in 1947. He received a bachelor's degree from UCLA in 1968 and did some work toward a Ph.D. in history, with a specialization in history of southern Africa in the 18th and early 19th centuries, also at UCLA. After leaving the doctoral program over political issues, he supported himself from that time show more until age 50 as a laborer, machinist and labor organizer. In 1993, his short story entitled Entropy and the Strangler won first place in the Winter 1992 Writers of the Future contest. His first novel, Mother of Demons, was published in 1997 and was picked by the Science Fiction Chronicle as a best novel of the year. He became a full-time writer in 1999. He writes science fiction and fantasy works including The Philosophical Strangler and the Belisarius series. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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