In the Ring of Fire series, Grantville Gazette XIII, or Grantville Gazette, Volume 8, is the eighth Grantville Gazette anthology published since February 2003 in the atypical series which consists of a mish-mash of main novels and anthologies produced under popular demand after publication of the initial novel which was written as a stand-alone work. Overall it is the ninth epublished anthology, counting the first eponymously named fiction only anthologies Ring of Fire , which preceded all the Gazettes. The Gazettes and Ring of Fire collections are, like most of the series works, including nearly all the longer fiction, collaborative efforts by more than one author set in the same shared universe created by Eric Flint who controls the series canon with shared resources at Baen's Bar and [[