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Originally Posted by jbcohen
Is this series really sci-fi, I'm not really sure. Perhaps it's fantasy, I do not see a ring of fire as posibility making it a fantasy series.
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The throwaway reason Grantville ends up in 1630s Germany is that some advanced but sloppy alien race was doing high-tech art involving shaping spacetime, and the town was hit with the equivalent of a shard of the sculpture being created.
But this is an alternative history tale. As such, the how doesn't matter. No one in the story knows how the Ring of Fire happened. They, and readers, just take that as a given, and then proceed from there.