Eric Flint
Eric Flint (born California, 1947) is an American science fiction and fantasy author and editor. Some of his main works are alternate-history science fiction, but he also writes humorous fantasy adventures.
Flint has a masters in history specializing in West African history. He left his doctoral program over political issues and supported himself from that time until age 50 as a laborer, machinist and labor organizer. A long-time leftist political activist, Flint worked was a member of the Socialist Workers Party. After winning the 1993 Writers of the Future contest, he published his first novel in 1993 and moved to full time writing in 1996. Additionally, he has been editing the works of several classic SF authors, repackaging their short stories into anthologies and fix-up novels. Unfortunately, his original description of his editing was rather flamboyant, and some of these edits have been extremely contraversial, for example all references to smoking have been removed. Because of these edits, some people have nicknamed him "the Thomas Bowdler of Science Fiction".
Nevertheless, the resulting story collections have been very successful, commercially.
As of 2004 he lives with his wife Lucille (also an ex-labor organizer) in East Chicago, Indiana.
Electronic Publishing
Eric Flint is noted as the editor of the Baen Free Library. The Free Library is an experiment in electronic publishing where Flint and Jim Baen have convinced authors to post entirely unprotected free copies of seminal works for free download on the internet as an experiment to see if this increases the sales of their paper editions. (To date, in late 2003, the experiment appears to be a success.)
Published Works
(with David Drake) An alternate history series in which an AI is sent back in time to defeat a plot by others of its kind intent on the destruction of humanity.
- An Oblique Approach (1998)
- In the Heart of Darkness (1998)
- Destiny's Shield (1999)
- Fortune's Stroke (2000)
- The Tide of Victory (2001)
- The Dance of Time (forthcoming)
Assiti Shards series
An alternate history series in which the inhabitants of a small town in the USA find themselves transported back to Central Germany ... in 1632.
- 1632 series (also known as the 163x series)
- 1632 (2000)
- 1633 (2002) with David Weber
- Ring of Fire (Jan 2004, anthology)
- Andrew Dennis
- 1781 (2005 tentative) — George Washington's army travels to Rome.
- By Any Other Name (Publication date unknown) — being co-authored by Sarah Hoyt.
Heirs of Alexandria series
(with Dave Freer and Mercedes Lackey) Set in an alternate "Venetian Empire" in which magic thrives.
- The Shadow of the Lion (2002)
- This Rough Magic (2003)
Joe's World series
- The Philosophical Strangler (2001)
- Forward the Mage (2002 with Richard Roach)
Rats, Bats and Vats series
- Rats, Bats and Vats (2000 with Dave Freer)
- The Rats, The Bats and The Ugly (Sept. 2004 with David Freer)
Further Collaborations
- Honor Harrington series stories/novels (with David Weber)
- Changer of Worlds (2001, anthology)
- Crown of Slaves (2003)
- The Course of Empire (2003 with K. D. Wentworth)
- Pyramid Scheme (2001 with Dave Freer)
- The Wizard of Karres (2004 with Freer and Lackey; a sequel to Christopher Anvil
- Pandora's Legions (2002)
- Interstellar Patrol (2003)
- Works of Randall Garrett
- Works of Tom Godwin
- The Cold Equations and Other Stories (2003)
- Works of Keith Laumer
- Retief (2002)
- Odyssey (2002)
- Keith Laumer: The Lighter Side (2002)
- Future Imperfect (2003)
- A Plague of Demons (2003)
- Works of Murray Leinster
- Med Ship: The Complete Stories (2002)
- Works of Howard L. Myers
- The Creatures of Man (2003, with Guy Gordon)
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