March 13, 2006
- Posting on Baen’s Bar. http://www.baen.com.
This is the preferred way to catch up with Eric. He wanders in and out of Baen’s Bar almost daily, monitoring several of the conferences personally. You can login to visit and read the conferences as a guest, but you will have to register to be able to participate, that is to say post any comments. We have a strict ‘No Hitting Rule’ at the Bar, so you don’t need to worry about wandering into a flame war. Just announce that you’re new and you’ll be gladly shown the ropes. Check out the Baen’s Bar FAQs listed on the left of the message board at Baen’s Bar. You will most likely find Eric posting to these conferences at Baen’s Bar:
- 1632 Tech Manual (Eric’s conference dealing with the 1632 universe)
- BuShips (David Weber’s conference)
- Classic SF (Eric’s conference devoted to his editing work)
- Dixon’s Vixen (Misty Lackey’s conference)
- Doctor Monkey (Dave Freer’s conference)
- Honorverse (Dave Weber’s conference devoted to the Honor Harrington universe)
- Mutter of Demons (Eric’s conference)
- Leave a message at the NEW EricFlint.net message board
- Send an email to eflint@comcast.net. Don’t expect a quick reply, but when the Bear wakes from his winter hibernation, he will clean out his in box, eventually.
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Hello, I just finished ‘TNT’ by James H Schmitz and edited by yourself, I was wondering if you or anyone you know was planning to continue the Trigger Argee and Telzy stories. I know that a new ‘Witches of Karres’ novel has been written so I was hoping that someone was going to continue his excellent Trigger and Telzy stories. Just a hope and a wish.
Thanks
Dennis M Gutknecht
Comment by Dennis M Gutknecht — June 28, 2006 @ 9:36 pm
Dear sir, I have read your thoghts on the Baen free library and feel obligated to respond. I was exposed to your work through 1632 and have been a fan ever since. The free library (and your attitudes about it) mean a lot to me. I'm disabled - 3 strokes - and prefer the ease of use of paper books when possible. Having said that, the free libary provides me with the opportunity to do much as you suggest. My funds are q
Comment by Lauren — June 29, 2006 @ 4:37 pm
I have just finished reading 1634: The Ram Rebellion, and am now reading 1632…again. It’s an odd feeling to encounter in a book various place names in Germany with which I am familiar. I grew up in the Army and lived in the Franconian region for a little over a year. Wurxburg gets prominent mention in the Ram Rebellion, but I missed seeing mention of Festung Marienburg (St. Mary’s Fortress), a massive castle/fortification across the Main River overlooking the city. Franconia’s oldest stone building is within the walls, St. Mary’s Church, built in the 8th century…Charlemange was at its opening. (And they had the “mummified” skulls of various bishops on display, at least in 1968). I also miss seeing mention of the town of Bad Windsheim, or Windsheim as it would have been then, but that’s hardly surprising, since it’s just another German town. Sort of in the middle of a triangle of Nurnberg, Wurzburg, and Rothenburg odT, on the river Aisch.
R.A. Curtis, Army brat.
Comment by R.A. Curtis — July 1, 2006 @ 8:42 am
I picked up 1632 one day. That particular one is extremely dog-eared. While I haven’t been able to get Gazette #2 yet, I will be at the end of the week.
On a side note. I don’t usually read fiction based in before the year 1900, so imagine my surprise when I enjoyed your series.
Comment by Jay — July 2, 2006 @ 3:32 am
I just finished Boundary and wanted to relay to you my great pleasure in your book! What a bunch of fun - well written - well executed plot.
Your book kept me on the edge of my seat and wanting to read more!
No better complement can be given.
Enjoy - Bob
Comment by Bob Holtz — July 9, 2006 @ 11:38 am
Eric - I love the 1632 universe but I was looking forward to other Assiti Shard books. If you ever do the one about Washington and Frederick the Great in the later Roman empire I recommand “Pagans and Christians” by Robin Fox. I have read about the ancient world for decades but his is the first book to show how the Pagans felt connected to their gods.
Comment by Mark r — July 24, 2006 @ 8:35 pm
We would like to invite Eric Flint to our book fair in West Virginia, just 80 minutes from Dulles Int. Airport (near Washington, DC), November 3-4, 2006. More information is available at our website http://www.wvbooks.org .
Sincerely,
Kimberly Nelson
304-264-8801
Martinsburg-Berkeley County Convention and Visitors Bureau
Comment by Kimberly Nelson — August 3, 2006 @ 1:03 pm
Dear Eric,
Hij, this is Sarah Caruso from Galaxy Press. I was at World Con and a good number of people mentioned your name to me, ie; they love your work - so GREAT job, I know you’ve been doing very well.
I work with the Writers of the Future and wanted to know where you are located now?
Love,
Sarah Caruso J.
Comment by Sarah Caruso Jansson — August 28, 2006 @ 5:10 pm
These’d be really useful dogs for the people in your 1634 series, they hunt bears, herd cattle etc. Thought it might make a nice detail sometime.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louisiana_Catahoula_Leopard_Dog
Comment by Jennie — August 30, 2006 @ 5:32 pm
Hi Eric. I may of left this mesage on the 1824:The Arkansas War web site while ago, but it’s worth repeating: MAPS! I noticed in reading many of your novels of alternative history that I have to keep an online map up and running while reading so I know where I am in the novel geographically speaking. This is especially true for people not from the area that the The Arkansas War takes place. It would be REAL GOOD if you included one large map of eastern Arkansas so can keep track of the battles, places and events of the novel.
Good luck,
David Walters
Pacifica, CA
Comment by David — September 9, 2006 @ 9:46 pm
First, I must tell you how much I appreciate and enjoy reading the books you have edited of past writers of science fiction. James Schmitz, Murray Leinster, Christopher Anvil, Keith Laumer, etc. were authors I used to pick up as newly published works at the bookstore and enjoyed. What a treat to be able to read them all over again. I am currently reading your volume of Howard L. Myers’ works. I understand from your preface, that there are other works by this author. I would like to register a request at this time that you please compile these remaining stories in soon-to-be published volumes.
In the meantime, I will enjoy the reading of the book I have, namely, “The Creatures of Man.”
But please be aware that it won’t take me THAT long to finish it!
Thanks,especially for all your past “revivals” (are Classics really “revived”?)and for any of your future edited/compiled literary works with Baen.
John
Comment by John — October 3, 2006 @ 1:24 pm
The Grantsville, WV High School is for sale. Really cool castle looking building that was built in 1921. It would be a shame to loose such a beautiful building to development. I have attached a link to the site where I saw the listing. Maybe it be a good museum of alternate histories. LOL, it sure would give future anthropologists a little mystery to solve.
((Webmasters note: Grant(s)ville WV is in Calhoun County and no where near Mannington WV in Marion county which was the prototype for Grantville (no 's') ))
Comment by scott h — October 23, 2006 @ 11:43 pm
Just finished 1824 and still don’t know if there is a sequel in the pipeline. OMG please let there be a sequel at least in the planning. I know earlier comments referred to only two book contract with DelRey but you can’t leave it hanging at this point.
Comment by Michael W — November 26, 2006 @ 8:36 pm
Eric,
I find it fantastic you are re-editing the past grandmasters of the F&SF genre. Schmidt,Liester and Van Vogt are three of my favourites. I was wondering if you intended to redo the null-A books of A.E. Van Vogt, especially the much lost book 3?
I would also like to congratulate you and thank you on your insightful editorials in the JBU. Groklaw.net is covering the SCO/IBM lawsuit, based around copyright infringement, and has some excellent views from an IT and legal view.
Keep up the good work, and don’t let too many free enterprises stop you earning a living … what would we have to read if you went broke and had to work for a living (A man who loved his work will never work a day in his life … Can’t remember who
).
Comment by Andrew A — December 7, 2006 @ 11:34 pm
I am a huge fan, since I picked up “1632″ by mistake, then read the first chapter. Since then I have been hooked on your work. I can’t wait for The Baltic War to come out. One thing though; I enjoy your Grantsville Gazettes tremendously and would like them to have them available in hard or paperback. I’ve read through #3 but have been left hanging on the rest. Good job Eric, thanks for a lot of pleasureable hours.
Comment by edward salinas — December 12, 2006 @ 5:49 pm
Dear Mr. Flint:
This is the first time in early fifty years of being an avid reader of Science Fiction and Fantasy. I just wanted to share the fact, that I have enjoyed all of your work. Those you wrote alone, and those you collaborated on. They have brought me many hours of pleasure.
This being Christmas Eve, I wanted to wish you and yours a holiday season filled with joy, health and prosperity. All the very best in 2007.
Sincerely;
Keith Buckler
Comment by keith buckler — December 24, 2006 @ 7:27 pm
ERIC: Loved 1632 and the entire Belisarius Series. Can I hope these will be available in audio form (tapes or CDs) soon? My wife won’t read them, but she would listen to them AND love them. We listen to a “book and tape” and play Upwords every day at dinner and supper. I tried to have her listen to the Galleleo Affair (SP!) on MP3 (?) but she didn’t like it (I didn’t either to tell the truth..”ok”, better than the last one..but a long way from 1632 for real reading pleasure. Hope my favs will show up on audio soon. BOB
Comment by Bob James — January 28, 2007 @ 9:51 am
I just read 1824. A great book but I have one slight problem. On page 279 it says that only 360,000 votes were cast in the general election. With eight million whites, there would be over 2 million men, probably closer to three. Therefore 360,000 would be between 12% and 18% of the available population. Were there really so few men allowed to vote at that time?
Comment by Mark Rubinstein — January 30, 2007 @ 10:38 pm
Dear Eric:
Comment by Bret Hooper — February 2, 2007 @ 10:25 pm
Dear Eric:
Who (you or Virginia) wrote “People don’t need an important issue to fight about. They’ll take anything available and inflate it to the size they need.”?
(Ram Rebellion, p. 368)
When quoting it, I would prefer to attribute that very perceptive observation to the correct author.
Comment by Bret Hooper — February 2, 2007 @ 10:47 pm
That witty observation is Virginia’s, Bret.
Eric
Comment by Eric — February 4, 2007 @ 5:23 pm
Dear Mr Flint
I have just come from checking the Baen Free Library site and have read your December 4 2006 post. I felt it was about time to say: Thanks, I really appreciate what you do there, I read my first military/alternative history book there - one of yours - and have read them all avidly since. I don’t fuss about how often you can put up books, I just appreciate that you do it at all. Thanks again for your time and effort. Now I’m going to download 7 new books!
Comment by Jennie — February 25, 2007 @ 11:46 pm
I just finished reading “On the Matter of D’Artagnan” and I just wanted to know what Richelieu would have choosen if he knew about Vincent Price (THE 1948 version with Gene Kelly)?
Comment by Bob — April 13, 2007 @ 11:47 pm
Hi mr Flint i have a question to ask my mom really enjoys your books Ring of Fire, 1632 and 1633 and now she is reading 1634 Galelio Affair. so i want to get her the rest of the series so if i can ask would you be so kind as to let me know which in the series come next in the timeline as the books are meant to be read and throughout the whole series leading up to 1635 Cannon Law. i would greatly appreciate any help that you could give thank you kindly a great fan of your work. Bobby Mathaney
Comment by bobby mathaney — May 16, 2007 @ 7:05 pm
Hi Eric, I’ve got to tell you that your ‘Joe’s World’ books made me laugh harder than nearly anything else I’ve read. Is there any chance of you adding to this series? Hell, I’ll help you write them if you’re short on time!
Justin
Comment by Justin — May 28, 2007 @ 4:11 pm
The Wizaed of Karres
I enjoyed your book very much and it fit perfectly with the original will there be a third book in the series? I felt there where a few loose ends at the end of the Wizard.
Thank you for your time
Donald
Comment by Donald Watson — May 28, 2007 @ 10:49 pm
Eric, I just wanted to let you know that I am a perfect example of the potential customer you’ve described in your essay on DRM. Until I just happened to stumble onto the e-version of “1632″ while searching out some of David Weber’s stuff , and decided to read the first chapter. I was throughly hooked at that point. Since I have a very limited income, I did the next best thing I could: I asked the Hammond Public Library (yes, I am one of your “neighbors!”) to add all of your books to their order list.
Since I had donated over four hundred hardcover books to HPL when I first moved to Northwest Indiana ten years ago, including the complete works of Asimov, Clarke, and Heinlien), they were most happy to accomodate my request. Hopefully, over time this will help to reduce your “Opacity” by some statistically significant amount.
I have to ask though, of all the places to live, why “East Chicago?”
Comment by Fr. Bill Leaming — June 1, 2007 @ 5:04 pm
Eric,
I read Witches of Karres and one or two others by James H Schmitz in their dutch translation in the seventies and since then I have tried to find more novels written by JHS.
Whenever I visit the USA I tend to walk into a bookstore and see if I can find any (new or second hand) books by James Schmitz. I have been lucky in the past to collect e.g. The Demon Breed and The Universe Against Her (both Ace books, originally worth 40c and I got each for $3.50!!).
More recently I stumbled upon the collection of books that you and Guy Gordon had assembled to document and reprint the entire works of JH Schmitz. W O W !!! Great Stuff, I didn’t know JHS had written that much!!
So I just wanted to thank you and Guy for all the efforts to get it all reprinted. Hopefully someday these Baen books will get translated into Dutch or at least sold locally in the Netherlands so that others over here can enjoy it too.
BTW on your website I noticed that you and others have teamed up to write a sequel to Karres, which gives me a new target
Also many other SF titles in your name, so pls keep writing and keep me busy reading…
Thanks again, Kind regards,
Ton
Hilversum, The Netherlands
Comment by Ton Smeele — June 20, 2007 @ 11:13 am
Hi Eric! Just finished 1634: The Baltic War.
I can’t belive I’m saying this, but this is the best book of the series to date (but then again I’m always saying that about each of the books in the series when they come out). The Baltic War really put things into perspective, and the new characters (Engler, etc.) and return of old characters (Cantrell) made for good reading - especially Simpson’s description of Eddie Cantrell’s behavior towards the Danish princess!
I read previously you had about 3 or 4 more books in the works taking place during 1634 - they can’t come out soon enough as far as I am concerned. Great universe you have created. Thanks very much.
Gene
Comment by Gene Sorkin — June 30, 2007 @ 9:52 pm
I’m a huge fan of the 1632 series. My question is what order do you suggest reading these novels?
thanks
nate
Comment by Nathan — July 23, 2007 @ 10:56 pm
Eric,
When I saw your interest in James H Schmitz I felt a kindred spirit. I too love his writings. Your style of good spirited characters smartly guiding themselves through the twists and turns of adversity (your Ring of Fire series) reminded of Schmitz style. You tend towards the higher political dimension and an interconnecting net of many characters; Schmitz tends to be more linear. You both have the ability to keep personalities of each character separated, consistent, and congruent with personal growth. It was these similarities that gave me such hope when you collaborated in the sequel to JHS’s Witches of Karres” and my utter surprise that “Wizard of Karres” so mist its mark.
I ponder this question for quite a while… for very selfish reasons. I want to read more stories about Captain Pausert, Goth, and the Leewit. I realized why the “Witches of Karres” had such a powerful effect on me. One reviewer called it a lucid dream created by Schmitz and he was right. James H Schmitz was Captain Pausert and Goth was likely real as well (possible the girl the book was dedicated to). The events were reflections of his life: sales for the American company of International Harvester in Germany during the rise of Hitler (Nikkeldepain and Councilor Onswud), dealing with European Aristocratic Society (the Empire). Though the plot may have been fabricated, the characters and social groups were clearly drawn from his experiences. That is why we’re drawn into his Space Opera… it smacks of real human experience!
So how can sequels ever be created from JHS’s Witches? Know the author. Do a psychobiography of him. Look for archetypes of his characters in his personal history… they will be there. As I’ve said Pausert is Schmitz and Schmitz is Pausert.
James M Thomas
Health Physicist and Social Psychologist (go figure)
Comment by James M Thomas — July 31, 2007 @ 12:57 am
Mr. Flint,
1632 is a great Alt. History/Sci-Fi series, but what about a possible movie to bring it to the big screen? I have met quite a few others from coast to coast who read this series (before I even knew about it) and it seems like a winner. Hope you can pull it off.
T. MacPherson MM1/SS (USN RET.)
Comment by T. MacPherson — September 19, 2007 @ 4:08 am
I recently finished reading “The Tyrant” on the baencd website. I was interested by your ideas, which seem to resemble Asimov’s ideas in the Foundation Series. Here are some of the ideas I thought I saw in “The Tyrant”. Please correct me if I am wrong.
1. Somehow, taking power through force creates a stable society. As Center says, the Confederation of Vanbert is supposed to resemble Rome. I seem to recall that Rome had some difficulties with succession. Since Demansk takes power through force and inspires only personal loyalty, why should Vanbert’s history be any different? I did not see any indication that the army was loyal to some political ideal, but only to Demansk. What makes Demansk think that he has established a stable political system, since he took power through violence, holds power through violence, and can only rely upon personal loyalty, which ends when he dies? The history of medieval Europe shows that hereditary rulership simply requires that the people who overthrow the king have a replacement with a few drops of royal blood.
2. A “moderate autocracy” sounds wonderful in theory. Unfortunately, very few rulers know what their great-grandchildren are going to be like. There is nothing that stops Demansk’s Triumvirate from using the power of the army to crush dissent and eradicate their personal enemies. The replacement of a incompotent and unstable oligarchy with a three-headed absolute monarchy is not an improvement. Once a ruler is given total control of the military and the purse strings, he has absolutely no reason to be “moderate” except when he feels like it.
Comment by Dylan Tullos — October 10, 2007 @ 5:20 pm
can you Please republish “1634: The Baltic War” .
There are no copies available now and apparently only a limited number were initially printed
Comment by joe mahoney — February 5, 2008 @ 4:20 pm
Dear Mr. Flint,
Can you tell me who wrote the poem that Dr. Balthazar Abrabanel recites in 1632 to the Roths. The one that begins “Friend, lead me through the vineyards”. Many Thanks
Comment by Matthew G. Marsh — February 7, 2008 @ 6:13 pm
I just finished your books 1632 and 1633. What a series!
I would like to mention that I do love to read books in the old fashioned method, in print. I work with computers all day and tend to push them away when I get home.
I notice that most of the Grantville Gazette volumes are in web format at this time. I look forward to seeing them being converted to print.
Comment by Matthew Mlodoch — August 25, 2008 @ 11:52 am
Still following the 1632 series and enjoying every page. Looking into establishing a real 4th of July Party someday. Keep up the good work and waiting for the next books to come out.
Comment by T MacPherson — October 16, 2008 @ 12:31 am
I was wondering what the exact chronological order of the 1632 series is because every book says something different, please let me know.
Comment by Donald B — October 18, 2008 @ 2:51 pm
hi eric
just finished 2 of your books boundry and time spike
first of boundry exellent work i like all plot lines in the book.
time spike i finished in one day i will go back to it in a few months
i am liking the 2 plot lines the past and present would like to read more about the present science plot line i am not much of a writer . just thought that i would post this keep up the exellent work got most of your books
and waiting for more keep them coming many thanks paul d uk
Comment by paul dennison — October 28, 2008 @ 3:10 pm
I can not access the Trail of Tears page tells me to install Word Press then says I all ready have done, then it tells me to clear database tables which I do and still no luck on getting access to that page
Comment by David — October 30, 2008 @ 4:11 pm
David, I suspect that the Trail Of Tears page is dead now. IIRC it only existed because Del Rey didn’t want it ‘pushed’ on Eric’s own place due to Eric’s other books from Baen.
Comment by Drak Bibliophile — October 30, 2008 @ 10:27 pm