#Shards of war update 41 series

#Shards of war update 41 series

Time Spike series Ī second timeline was introduced by Eric Flint when he released the novel Time Spike with co-author Marilyn Kosmatka in 2008. The series is considered broad and expansive. Many of the major novels in the series are collaborations between Eric Flint and other authors. The best stories, some commissioned, are collected into the Ring of Fire print anthology series.

In this case, the nonfiction relates to the Ring of Fire timeline. It is similar to Analog Science Fiction Science Fact, in that it publishes fiction and nonfiction. These are collected and published as the Grantville Gazettes, an online anthology magazine, focused solely on the Ring of Fire timeline. This timeline was opened up to third-party authors, and open submissions. However, the sensation and interest engendered by the 1632 novel's publication subsequently caused the other works to be delayed while the 1632 series was developed. This timeline involves the displacement and exchange of the late 1990s mining town of Grantville, West Virginia with a piece of 1630s medieval southern Germany (in Thuringia).Īlthough 1632 was written as a stand-alone novel in 2000, Flint had planned several other universes using the Assiti Shards story premise. Most of the works in this fictional universe fall within this particular timeline. This work led to a series of works that branched off this, into the Ring of Fire series (aka 1632 series).

The first literary work in this fictional universe was 1632 (pub. The various stories involve shards striking the Earth and timeshifting characters into different periods and places. These 'shards', according to the fictional universe backstory, are waste byproduct of artworks created by the sophisticated and curious alien race known as the Assiti. The Assiti Shards work by displacing bits of the world into other times and places, exchanging it with that which was there.

The series is rather large and expansive, having started publication in 2000, and as of 2008, consisting of 15 print books, and 21 e-magazine anthologies, in two different published timelines of the same multiverse (only one work is in the second timeline). The defining characteristic of the fictional universe is the existence of the 'Assiti Shards effect', and the impact that strikes by Assiti Shards have on characters in the stories. It is a shared universe concerning several alternate history worlds, related to a prime timeline. The Assiti Shards series is a fictional universe invented by American author Eric Flint.