Guest of Honor
Eric Flint's writing career began with the novel Mother
of Demons, which was selected by Science Fiction Chronicle as one of
the best novels of 1997. With David Drake, he has collaborated on the
six novels in the Belisarius series (An Oblique Approach, In the Heart
of Darkness, Destiny's Shield, Fortune's Stroke, The Tide of Victory
and The Dance of Time), as well as a novel entitled The Tyrant. His
alternate history novel 1632 was published in 2000, followed by many
sequels, several of which made the New York Times extended bestselling
list.
Flint has also co-authored SF adventure novels with
Author Guest of Honor Dave Freer: (Rats, Bats & Vats, The Rats, the
Bats, and the Ugly, and Pyramid Scheme. His comic fantasy novels The
Philosophical Strangler and Forward the Mage came out in May of 2001
and March of 2002. He is also working on a major fantasy series with
Mercedes Lackey and Dave Freer, the first volume of which The Shadow of
the Lion came out in March 2002 and the second volume This Rough Magic
appeared in December 2003.
Flint is also working on several other ongoing projects:
With David Weber on a series of novels set in Weber's Honor Harrington
universe. The first of those, Crown of Slaves, appeared in September of
2003. A new alternate history series taking place in Jacksonian
America, the first two volumes of which have already appeared: 1812:
The Rivers of War and 1824: The Arkansas War.
Further volumes in the Joe’s World series; which began
with The Philosophical Strangler and Forward the Mage. A new SF
adventure series with Ryk Spoor, the first volume of which came out in
March 2006. (Boundary.)
Several SF adventure volumes with K.D. Wentworth,
beginning with The Course of Empire. In addition to his own writing,
Flint is the editor of several series reissuing the works of past SF
authors. These include James H. Schmitz, Keith Laumer, Christopher
Anvil, Murray Leinster, Randall Garrett, Tom Godwin and Howard L.
Myers. He is also the editor of the online science fiction and fantasy
magazine, Jim Baen's UNIVERSE
Flint graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the University of
California at Los Angeles in 1968, majoring in history (with honors),
and later received a masters degree in African history from the same
university. Despite his academic credentials, Flint spent most of his
adult life as an activist in the American trade union movement, working
as a longshoreman, truck driver, auto worker, steel worker, oil worker,
meatpacker, glassblower and machinist. He has lived at various times in
California, Michigan, West Virginia, Alabama, Ohio, and Illinois. He is
currently living in northwest Indiana with his wife Lucille.
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