1632 series

The 1632 series, also known as the 1632-verse or Ring of Fire series, is an alternate history book series and sub-series created, primarily co-written, and coordinated by American author Eric Flint and published by Baen Books. Following Eric Flint's death in 2022, Charles E. Gannon was named the series' "showrunner" by Baen in October 2025. The series is set in 17th-century Europe, in which the small fictional town of Grantville, West Virginia, was sent to the past from the year 2000 to the Thuringian Forest in central Germany in the year 1631, during the Thirty Years' War. By 2019, the series had seven published novels propelling the main plot and over ten published novels moving several subplots and threads forward. The series also includes fan-written, but professionally edited, collaborative material which were published in a bi-monthly magazine titled The Grantville Gazettes and some collaborative short fiction. In terms of time travel literature, the 1632 series can be considered similar to (or inspired by) Mark Twain's A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, in which a 19th-century American engineer, finding himself in 5th-century England, is able, all by himself, to introduce into the past society the full range of his time's technologies. In Flint's version, a whole modern community is transplanted into the past, in possession of a considerable amount of the material and written resources of modern society. Since both the Grantville Gazette and the Ring of Fire Press had ceased operations shortly after Flint's death in 2022, the series was originally expected to be concluded after manuscripts that had already been submitted to Baen prior to Flint's death were published in the upcoming year or so. In June 2023, it was announced that a new company, Flint's Shards Inc., had signed a contract with Lucille Robbins, Flint's widow and...