Eric Flint’s writing career began with the science fiction novel Mother of Demons. With David Drake, he has collaborated on the six-volume Belisarius series, as well as a novel entitled The Tyrant.
His alternate history novel 1632 was published in 2000, and has led to a long-running series with many novels and anthologies in print. In addition, he’s written a number of science fiction and fantasy novels. He now has more than sixty novels in print as well as many pieces of short fiction and dozens of anthologies which he’s edited. Eric is also the publisher of Ring of Fire Press and the Grantville Gazette electronic magazine.
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In the year 1632 in northern Germany a reasonable person might conclude that things couldn’t get much worse. There was no food. Disease was rampant. For over a decade religious war had ravaged the land and the people. Catholic and Protestant armies marched and countermarched across the northern plains, laying waste the cities and slaughtering everywhere. In many rural areas population plummeted toward zero. Only the aristocrats remained relatively unscathed; for the peasants, death was a mercy.
2000 Things are going OK in Grantville, West Virginia. The mines are working, the buck are plentiful (it’s deer season) and everybody attending the wedding of Mike Stearn’s sister (including the entire membership of the local chapter of the United Mine Workers of America, which Mike leads) is having a good time.
THEN, EVERYTHING CHANGED….
When the dust settles, Mike leads a small group of armed miners to find out what’s going on. Out past the edge of town Grantville’s asphalt road is cut, as with a sword. On the other side, a scene out of Hell; a man nailed to a farmhouse door, his wife and daughter Iying screaming in muck at the center of a ring of attentive men in steel vests. Faced with this, Mike and his friends don’t have to ask who to shoot.
At that moment Freedom and Justice, American style, are introduced to the middle of The Thirty Years War.
Balticon 2017
I was just invited to be the Guest of Honor at Balticon over the weekend of May 26-29, 2017. That takes place in Baltimore, if you haven't figured it out already. The reason for the invitation so far ahead of time is because Balticon also agreed to host the 1632...
Eric Flint Newsletter – 25 JUNE 2015
There have been some modifications in my publication schedule from what it looked like in March. Here's how it looks now: 1636: The Cardinal Virtues will be coming out in a week, at the beginning of July. It’s probably already showing up in some bookstores. In...
Libertycon filling up fast
Minicon Update: Latest report from Uncle Timmy: they already have over 550 people preregistered and the Banquet is almost sold out. Remember that Libertycon has a hard cap of 700 registrations.
Change of Venue for 1632 con
After it became clear that we wouldn't be holding the 1632 series minicon at Contemporal this year, we approached LibertyCon and they've agreed to host us. LibertyCon is a longstanding and very popular SF convention in Chattanooga that I've attended a number of...
Eric Flint Newsletter – 13 MARCH 2015
I've discussed my publication schedule with Baen Books and here's how it looks now: 1636: The Cardinal Virtues will be coming out in July, 2015. 1635: A Parcel of Rogues will be coming out in January, 2016 Ring of Fire IV will be coming out in May, 2016 1636: The...
Macaulay on Copyright
Thomas Babington Macaulay Speechs to House of Commons Opposing Proposed Life + 60 Year Copyright Term on 5 Feb. 1841 Favoring a 42-year Fixed Term over a Life + 25 Year Term on 6 April 1842 A Speech delivered in the House of Commons on the 5th of February,...