While it's not a certain conclusion, I wouldn't expect something with temporary 'soap bubble' effect to be on the level of 'endangering time and space' warranting an extermination of an entire race 85 million years after Ring of Fire events.
The anthology was edited by Eric Flint and thus completely canonically approved by him in every detail.Īs a side note, the actual effect of Assiti Shards may be more fully discussed in ' Time Spike' series co-authored with Kosmatka.Īlso, it should be noted that Fta Tei (side branch of humans in the far future) exterminated Assiti for 'endangering time and space' with their 'art'. What happened is the largest shared universe in the history of science fiction. Flint decided that he’d throw the anthology open to new writerssome who’d never written fiction beforeand see what happened. In 'Ring of Fire III' anthology David Carrico's 'The Sound of Sweet Strings' novel(ette?) has a Coda section, which quotes a 1979 'in-universe' Oxford University Press publication 'From the Fall of The Fire: The Coming of Grantville and the Music of Europe' that mentions Grantville's contribution to music. But before these was the anthology, Ring of Fire. Lets do the 'Time Warp' again Another anthology of rollicking, thought-provoking tales by a star-studded array of top writers such as Davi. Contains a story by David Brin and an all-new story by Eric Flint. Not sure about real 'permanence', but the effect within canon clearly lasted at least for 300 years, till late 1900s. Check out this great listen on Audible.ca.
