Comprehensive information and links about 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 as a member of the Socialist Workers Party. After winning the 1993 Writers of the Future contest, he published his first novel in 1997 and moved to full time writing in 1999. Additionally, he has been editing the works of several classic SF authors, repackaging their short stories into collections and fix-up novels. Although some of his edits have engendered some controversy, the resulting story collections have been commercially successful and have succeeded in returning out of print authors to print.

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 various works for free download on the internet as an experiment to see if this increases the sales of their paper or (for-pay) electronic editions. In most cases, the works involved are early volumes in continuing series, where readers might be likely to purchase later works in the same series. So far, the experiment appears to be a success.

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. 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.The Gazette is a semi-pro SF magazine featuring fan fiction and non-fiction edited by Eric Flint and a volunteer editorial board. It is also published by Baen. Initial publication is in electronic form at Webion.net, but a mass market paper edition of the first issue was published as an experiment in November of 2004. The first printing sold out, and early results were good enough that the second issue is also slated for a paper edition in March 2006.

Other "Assiti Shards" universes which share only the time travel mechanism, but not the setting of the 1632 universe include two planned novels

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