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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. MORE TO COME.… (meer)
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.
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. ( )
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. MORE TO COME.
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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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