Eric Flint's 1632 & Beyond Issue #9

This issue's cover is for "Unintended Consequences," George Grant's profound in-universe look at what the Ring of Fire means. It is also the unintended theme. "Bremen Or Bust" was first printed in Terry Howard's The Legend Of Jimmy Dick (out of print). A good yarn in its own right, it also sets up an upcoming storyline. Marc Tyrrell's "Family Matters" shows that although the Ring of Fire didn't magically make family issues go away, it provided new-or old-ways of dealing with them. Sometimes what seems like a quiet shift of guard duty changes lives. Find out how in Garrett W. Vance's "The Rice Farmer's Daughter And The Samurai." "Rose-Hip And Red Velvet" by Tim Sayeau is the sequel to "A Guest At The New Year" in Issue 6. Sir William and Dame Dorothy reply to Adina's letter. One piece of up-time technology has appeared here and there in stories. In the non-fiction piece "X-Rays," Iver P. Cooper explains how they work and what might be available in the new timeline.