User blog comment:JoshofBlades/My Opinion of Michael Kirkbride's Writings./@comment-1600847-20160816170411

For me, Kirkbride's writings follow a simple guideline:

-If the text appears in a TES game, it's canon.

-If the text is contradicted by an in-game source, it's not canon.

-If text doesn't appear in a TES game and it isn't contradicted by something in-game, it's in limbo: neither canon or non-canon.

Though I highly doubt Kirkbride weirder stuff (as Josh put it, time-travelling-space-robots) will ever appear in-game. Bethesda will likely want to keep TES fantasy/highfantasy, not sci-fantasy.