But faith based infamies are not limited to just the church of Rome- both Protestants and Catholics have a tendency to cry witchcraft and start piling up firewood, and the works correctly depict that toleration between various Protestant sects was rare as well. So do attitudes about property and the interaction of classes and frictions between townspeople and country folks. The various infamous Catholic Inquisitions appear in the works regularly, as do obstinate public figures acting on beliefs rooted in religious dogmas. Religious thought permeates the world view of the "down-timers" throughout and stands in stark contrast to the secular outlook of the 3,000 "up-timer" Americans who act as an (mainly) ensemble protagonist in the books. The book is eponymously named for the mysterious cosmic event described from within and without by those who witnessed it, and is seen in the wider world by some as work of the devil, a miracle, or a warning from God. Many characters debut in these short stories who play an important role in subsequent longer works. Unlike most short works in a novel created series, the stories within are important milieu shaping creations-story threads which are formalized into the series canon for they helped establish it, and act as a spring board for further developments in the books.
"Ring of Fire" is collection of short stories -half by a variety of established science fiction authors invited into the setting, half fan-fiction by enthusiasts who helped take the stand alone novel into a series numbering works in the tens of books all set in the universe initially created by Flint's science fiction novel " 1632" written as a stand-alone novel and turned into a series by popular demand. The series is set in war torn Europe during the middle of the Thirty Years' War in the era when the modern world was aborning- in a time when religion was a pretext for war veiling ambition or greed and authoritarianism held a hard hand around the throat of the populace imposed by both religion and governments. The "Ring of Fire" is both descriptive of the cosmic event as experienced by the series' characters, but also is at times used as the name for the series itself. "Ring of Fire" is the important canonical third published book of editor-author-historian Eric Flint's popular 1632 series, an alternate history series begun in the novel 1632 (February 2000). The Grantville Gazette (more anthologies, Nov-2004) (Written in parallel, with crossed plot lines) Notes= Physical Description: 6.6"x9.7"x1.6" 528 pages 1.6 lbEdition Info: Physical Description: 6.6"x9.7"x1.6" Hardcover Genre = Alternate history, Science-Fiction Subject = Anthology, fiction in a shared universe setting
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