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.
Eric’s 2012 Con schedule
Eric will be the guest of honor at SoonerCon 21, June 15-17 2012 in Oklahoma City, OK. http://www.soonercon.com/ Eric will be the master of ceremonies at LibertyCon 25, July 20-22 2012 at the Chatanooga Choo Choo hotel in Chatanooga, TN   http://www.libertycon.org/...
Misc website updates
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Salvos against Big Brother
We are making available here, in a single posting, all of Eric's columns from Jim Baen's Universe on copyright. We hope you enjoy this collection of the Salvos Against Big Brother: A Matter of Principle by Eric Flint I’m going to be writing a regular column on the...
Upcoming Publications
The next few books I have coming out, either as author or editor, are the following: This month: Eric Flint, 1636: The Saxon Uprising just came out. May 2011: Christopher Anvil, Rx For Chaos. This is a mass market paperback reissue. June 2011: Eric Flint and Dave...
New Ebook Short Story Collections !
For those of you with Kindle e-books, I recently put up a collection of my short fiction in the Kindle store at Amazon. The title of the volume is The Flood Was Fixed & Other Stories>. Some of these are reprints from various magazines but others have never been...
Ring of Fire III
April 13, 2011: I just turned in the last manuscript items for the anthology Ring of Fire III, which is coming out in July. The next thing I’m working on is my short story for Grantville Gazette VI, which is being published in January, 2012.