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Eric Flint is an American science fiction and fantasy author that is best known for his alternate history novels. Born in 1947 in Burbank, his father’s work saw Flint live in France for five years, though he eventually returned to the US, spending his teenage years in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada Mountains in California.
Order of Ring of Fire Series
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | 1632 | 2000 | Description / Buy | |
2 | 1633 | 2002 | Description / Buy | |
3 | 1634: The Galileo Affair | 2004 | Description / Buy | |
4 | 1634: The Ram Rebellion | 2006 | Description / Buy | |
5 | 1635: The Cannon Law | 2006 | Description / Buy | |
6 | 1634: The Baltic War | 2007 | Description / Buy | |
7 | 1634: The Bavarian Crisis | 2007 | Description / Buy | |
8 | 1635: The Dreeson Incident | 2008 | Description / Buy | |
9 | 1635: The Tangled Web | 2009 | Description / Buy | |
10 | 1635: The Eastern Front | 2010 | Description / Buy | |
11 | 1636: The Saxon Uprising | 2011 | Description / Buy | |
12 | 1636: The Kremlin Games | 2012 | Description / Buy | |
13 | 1635: Papal Stakes | 2012 | Description / Buy | |
14 | 1636: The Devil's Opera | 2013 | Description / Buy | |
15 | 1636: Commander Cantrell in the West Indies | 2014 | Description / Buy | |
16 | 1636: The Viennese Waltz | 2014 | Description / Buy | |
17 | 1636: The Barbie Consortium | 2014 | Description / Buy | |
18 | 1636: The Cardinal Virtues | 2015 | Description / Buy | |
19 | 1635: The Wars for the Rhine | 2016 | Description / Buy | |
20 | 1635: A Parcel of Rogues | 2016 | Description / Buy | |
21 | 1637: The Volga Rules | 2016 | Description / Buy | |
22 | 1636: The Chronicles of Dr. Gribbleflotz | 2016 | Description / Buy | |
23 | Bartley's Man | 2016 | Description / Buy | |
24 | 1636: The Ottoman Onslaught | 2017 | Description / Buy | |
25 | The Muse of Music | 2017 | Description / Buy | |
26 | Love and Chemistry | 2017 | Description / Buy | |
27 | 1636: Mission to the Mughals | 2017 | Description / Buy | |
28 | 1636: The Vatican Sanction | 2017 | Description / Buy | |
29 | 1632: The Battle for Newfoundland | 2018 | Description / Buy | |
30 | Essen Defiant | 2018 | Description / Buy | |
31 | The Monster Society | 2018 | Description / Buy | |
32 | The Chrysanthemum, the Cross, and the Dragon | 2018 | Description / Buy | |
33 | 1637: The Polish Maelstrom | 2019 | Description / Buy | |
34 | The Legions of Pestilence | 2019 | Description / Buy | |
35 | Up-time Pride and Down-time Prejudice | 2019 | Description / Buy | |
36 | 1636: The China Venture | 2019 | Description / Buy | |
37 | A Red Son Rises in the West | 2019 | Description / Buy | |
38 | 1636: Flight of the Nightingale | 2019 | Description / Buy | |
39 | The Trouble with Huguenots | 2019 | Description / Buy | |
40 | Magdeburg Noir | 2020 | Description / Buy | |
41 | A Holmes for the Czar | 2020 | Description / Buy | |
42 | 1636: The Atlantic Encounter | 2020 | Description / Buy | |
43 | 1637: No Peace Beyond the Line | 2020 | Description / Buy | |
44 | Two Cases for the Czar | 2020 | Description / Buy | |
45 | Designed to Fail | 2020 | Description / Buy | |
46 | 1636: Calabar's War | 2021 | Description / Buy | |
47 | 1637: The Peacock Throne | 2021 | Description / Buy |
Chronological Order of Ring of Fire Series
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | 1632 | 2000 | Description / Buy | |
2 | 1633 | 2002 | Description / Buy | |
3 | 1634: The Galileo Affair | 2004 | Description / Buy | |
4 | 1634: The Ram Rebellion | 2006 | Description / Buy | |
5 | 1634: The Baltic War | 2007 | Description / Buy | |
6 | 1634: The Bavarian Crisis | 2007 | Description / Buy | |
7 | The Trouble with Huguenots | 2019 | Description / Buy | |
8 | 1635: The Cannon Law | 2006 | Description / Buy | |
9 | 1635: The Dreeson Incident | 2008 | Description / Buy | |
10 | Magdeburg Noir | 2020 | Description / Buy | |
11 | A Holmes for the Czar | 2020 | Description / Buy | |
12 | 1635: The Tangled Web | 2009 | Description / Buy | |
13 | 1635: Papal Stakes | 2012 | Description / Buy | |
14 | 1635: The Eastern Front | 2010 | Description / Buy | |
15 | 1636: The Saxon Uprising | 2011 | Description / Buy | |
16 | 1636: The Kremlin Games | 2012 | Description / Buy | |
17 | 1636: The Devil's Opera | 2013 | Description / Buy | |
18 | 1636: Commander Cantrell in the West Indies | 2014 | Description / Buy | |
19 | 1636: The Viennese Waltz | 2014 | Description / Buy | |
20 | 1635: A Parcel of Rogues | 2016 | Description / Buy | |
21 | 1636: The Barbie Consortium | 2014 | Description / Buy | |
22 | 1636: The Cardinal Virtues | 2015 | Description / Buy | |
23 | 1636: The Chronicles of Dr. Gribbleflotz | 2016 | Description / Buy | |
24 | 1636: The Ottoman Onslaught | 2017 | Description / Buy | |
25 | 1636: Mission to the Mughals | 2017 | Description / Buy | |
26 | 1635: The Wars for the Rhine | 2016 | Description / Buy | |
27 | 1636: The Vatican Sanction | 2017 | Description / Buy | |
28 | 1637: The Volga Rules | 2016 | Description / Buy | |
29 | 1637: The Polish Maelstrom | 2019 | Description / Buy | |
30 | 1636: The China Venture | 2019 | Description / Buy | |
31 | 1636: Flight of the Nightingale | 2019 | Description / Buy | |
32 | 1636: The Atlantic Encounter | 2020 | Description / Buy | |
33 | 1637: No Peace Beyond the Line | 2020 | Description / Buy | |
34 | 1637: The Peacock Throne | 2021 | Description / Buy | |
35 | Bartley's Man | 2016 | Description / Buy | |
36 | The Muse of Music | 2017 | Description / Buy | |
37 | Love and Chemistry | 2017 | Description / Buy | |
38 | 1632: The Battle for Newfoundland | 2018 | Description / Buy | |
39 | Essen Defiant | 2018 | Description / Buy | |
40 | The Monster Society | 2018 | Description / Buy | |
41 | The Chrysanthemum, the Cross, and the Dragon | 2018 | Description / Buy | |
42 | The Legions of Pestilence | 2019 | Description / Buy | |
43 | Up-time Pride and Down-time Prejudice | 2019 | Description / Buy | |
44 | A Red Son Rises in the West | 2019 | Description / Buy | |
45 | Two Cases for the Czar | 2020 | Description / Buy | |
46 | Designed to Fail | 2020 | Description / Buy | |
47 | 1636: Calabar's War | 2021 | Description / Buy |
Order of Rats, Bats & Vats Series
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | Rats, Bats & Vats | 2000 | Description / Buy | |
2 | The Rats, the Bats & the Ugly | 2004 | Description / Buy | |
3 | Lucky Number 7 (Short Story) | 2017 | Description / Buy |
Order of Rats, Bats and Vats Short Stories/Novellas
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | Crawlspace (Short Story) | 2011 | Description / Buy | |
2 | The Genie Out of the Vat (Short Story) | 2011 | Description / Buy |
Order of Rats, Bats and Vats Collections
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | Crawlspace and Other Stories | 2011 | Description / Buy |
Order of Arcane America Series
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | Uncharted | 2018 | Description / Buy | |
2 | Council of Fire | 2019 | Description / Buy |
Order of Belisarius Series with David Drake
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | An Oblique Approach | 1998 | Description / Buy | |
2 | In the Heart of Darkness | 1998 | Description / Buy | |
3 | Destiny's Shield | 1999 | Description / Buy | |
4 | Fortune's Stroke | 2000 | Description / Buy | |
5 | The Tide of Victory | 2001 | Description / Buy | |
6 | The Dance of Time | 2006 | Description / Buy |
Order of Black Tide Rising Series
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | Under a Graveyard Sky | 2013 | Description / Buy | |
2 | To Sail a Darkling Sea | 2014 | Description / Buy | |
3 | Islands of Rage & Hope | 2014 | Description / Buy | |
4 | Strands of Sorrow | 2014 | Description / Buy | |
5 | Black Tide Rising | 2016 | Description / Buy | |
6 | The Valley of Shadows | 2018 | Description / Buy | |
7 | Voices of the Fall | 2019 | Description / Buy | |
8 | River of Night | 2019 | Description / Buy | |
9 | At the End of the World | 2020 | Description / Buy | |
10 | At the End of the Journey | 2021 | Description / Buy | |
11 | We Shall Rise | 2021 | Description / Buy |
Order of Boundary Series with Ryk E. Spoor
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | Boundary | 2006 | Description / Buy | |
2 | Threshold | 2010 | Description / Buy | |
3 | Portal | 2013 | Description / Buy |
Order of Boundary: Castaway Series with Ryk E. Spoor
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | Castaway Planet | 2015 | Description / Buy | |
2 | Castaway Odyssey | 2016 | Description / Buy | |
3 | Castaway Resolution | 2020 | Description / Buy |
Order of Crown of Slaves Series with David Weber
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | Crown of Slaves | 2003 | Description / Buy | |
2 | Torch of Freedom | 2009 | Description / Buy | |
3 | Cauldron of Ghosts | 2014 | Description / Buy |
Order of Demon Rift Series with Gorg Huff, Paula Goodlett
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | The Demons of Paris | 2018 | Description / Buy | |
2 | The Demons of Constantinople | 2020 | Description / Buy |
Order of Grantville Gazette Series
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | Grantville Gazette | 2004 | Description / Buy | |
2 | Grantville Gazette II | 2004 | Description / Buy | |
3 | Grantville Gazette III | 2006 | Description / Buy | |
4 | Grantville Gazette IV | 2008 | Description / Buy | |
5 | Grantville Gazette V | 2009 | Description / Buy | |
6 | Grantville Gazette VI | 2011 | Description / Buy | |
7 | Grantville Gazette VII | 2011 | Description / Buy | |
8 | Grantville Gazette VIII | 2012 | Description / Buy |
Order of Heirs of Alexandria Series with Mercedes Lackey
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | The Shadow of the Lion | 2002 | Description / Buy | |
2 | This Rough Magic | 2003 | Description / Buy | |
3 | A Mankind Witch | 2005 | Description / Buy | |
4 | Much Fall of Blood | 2010 | Description / Buy | |
5 | Burdens of the Dead | 2013 | Description / Buy | |
6 | All the Plagues of Hell | 2018 | Description / Buy |
Order of Honor Harrington Series
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | Crown of Slaves | 2003 | Description / Buy |
Order of Jao Series with David Carrico
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | The Course of Empire | 2003 | Description / Buy | |
2 | The Crucible of Empire | 2010 | Description / Buy | |
3 | The Span of Empire | 2016 | Description / Buy |
Order of Joe's World Series
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | The Philosophical Strangler | 2001 | Description / Buy | |
2 | Forward the Mage | 2002 | Description / Buy |
Order of Pyramid Series
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | Pyramid Scheme | 2001 | Description / Buy | |
2 | Pyramid Power | 2007 | Description / Buy |
Order of Queen of the Sea Series
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | The Macedonian Hazard | 2021 | Description / Buy |
Order of Raj Whitehall Series
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | The Tyrant | 2002 | Description / Buy |
Order of Stellar Guild Series
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | Tau Ceti | 2011 | Description / Buy | |
2 | On the Train | 2012 | Description / Buy | |
3 | When the Blue Shift Comes | 2012 | Description / Buy | |
4 | New Under the Sun | 2013 | Description / Buy | |
5 | The Aethers of Mars | 2014 | Description / Buy | |
6 | Red Tide | 2014 | Description / Buy | |
7 | Inci | 2015 | Description / Buy | |
8 | Wishing on a Star | 2015 | Description / Buy |
Order of Trail of Glory Series
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | 1812: The Rivers of War | 2005 | Description / Buy | |
2 | 1824: The Arkansas War | 2006 | Description / Buy |
Order of The Witches of Karres Series
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | The Sorceress of Karres | 2010 | Description / Buy | |
2 | The Shaman of Karres | 2020 | Description / Buy |
Order of Worlds of Honor Series
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | Changer of Worlds | 2001 | Description / Buy | |
2 | In Fire Forged | 2011 | Description / Buy |
Order of Eric Flint Standalone Novels
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | Mother of Demons | 1997 | Description / Buy | |
2 | Time Spike | 2008 | Description / Buy | |
3 | Slow Train to Arcturus | 2008 | Description / Buy | |
4 | When Diplomacy Fails | 2008 | Description / Buy | |
5 | Worlds | 2009 | Description / Buy | |
6 | The Gods of Sagittarius | 2017 | Description / Buy | |
7 | Iron Angels | 2017 | Description / Buy | |
8 | Worlds 2 | 2018 | Description / Buy | |
9 | Diamonds Are Forever | 2020 | Description / Buy |
Order of Eric Flint Short Stories/Novellas
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | The Truth about the Gotterdammerung (Short Story) | 2008 | Description / Buy | |
2 | The Witch's Murder (Short Story) | 2011 | Description / Buy | |
3 | Pirates of the Suara Sea (Short Story) | 2011 | Description / Buy | |
4 | The Red Fiddler (Short Story) | 2011 | Description / Buy | |
5 | Entropy and the Strangler (Short Story) | 2012 | Description / Buy | |
6 | The Fossil and Etchings (Short Story) | 2012 | Description / Buy | |
7 | A Soldier's Complaint (Short Story) | 2012 | Description / Buy | |
8 | The Thief and the Roller Derby Queen (Short Story) | 2012 | Description / Buy |
Order of Eric Flint Short Story Collections
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | Odyssey | 2002 | Description / Buy | |
2 | The Flood Was Fixed and other stories (Short Story) | 2011 | Description / Buy |
Order of David Drake Short Story Collections
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | Time Safari | 1982 | Description / Buy | |
2 | From the Heart of Darkness | 1983 | Description / Buy | |
3 | The Military Dimension | 1991 | Description / Buy | |
4 | The Military Dimension Mark II | 1995 | Description / Buy | |
5 | All the Way to the Gallows | 1996 | Description / Buy | |
6 | Grimmer Than Hell | 2003 | Description / Buy | |
7 | Balefires | 2007 | Description / Buy | |
8 | Night Demons | 2012 | Description / Buy |
Order of Raj Whitehall/The General Series
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | The Forge | 1991 | Description / Buy | |
2 | The Hammer | 1992 | Description / Buy | |
3 | The Anvil | 1993 | Description / Buy | |
4 | The Steel | 1993 | Description / Buy | |
5 | The Sword | 1995 | Description / Buy | |
6 | The Chosen | 1996 | Description / Buy | |
7 | The Reformer | 1999 | Description / Buy | |
8 | The Tyrant | 2002 | Description / Buy | |
9 | The Heretic | 2013 | Description / Buy | |
10 | The Savior | 2014 | Description / Buy |
Order of Exiled Series
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | Clan of the Claw | 2011 | Description / Buy | |
2 | By Tooth and Claw | 2015 | Description / Buy |
Order of 1632 Universe/Ring of Fire Series
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | 1636: The China Venture | 2019 | Description / Buy |
Eric Flint Anthologies
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | Foreign Legions | 2001 | Description / Buy | |
2 | The Warmasters | 2002 | Description / Buy | |
3 | Mountain Magic | 2004 | Description / Buy | |
4 | Black Tide Rising | 2016 | Description / Buy |
After getting his bachelor’s degree in the late 1960s, Flint initially pursued a Ph.D. in history at UCLA. He was fascinated by South African History, going so far as to write an article on the Kololo Period.
But the author was very politically active, having vehemently expressed his opposition to the Vietnam War, not to mention throwing his support behind the Civil Rights Movement.
After becoming a socialist, Flint abandoned his studies, having determined that the academic qualifications he sought wouldn’t serve him in the political arena.
The next two decades of the author’s life were a whirlwind. Eric Flint did many odd jobs to earn a living. He worked as a longshoreman, a meatpacker, a glassblower and a truck driver, eventually apprenticing as a machinist.
The machinist gig retained his interest the longest. He spent a quarter of a century in the role. With his political interests having occupied him for so long, the author was 50-years-old when he finally became a full-time writer. That was in 1999.
Eric Flint actually made his first publishing sale in 1993. The novelist started collaborating with Richard Roach, a friend, on a fantasy series in 1969. ‘Entropy, and the Strangler’, Flint’s short story which won the Winter Writers of the Future Contest, came out of years of collaboration with Richard.
The sale gave Flint and Richard the confidence to complete ‘Forward the Mage’, one volume in their fantasy series. Flint then followed it up with ‘The Philosophical Strangler’.
While ‘Entropy, and the Strangler’ had garnered some interest, Flint’s foray into fantasy fiction ended in failure. Even the author recognized that the stories he wrote with Richard did not fit into the accepted confines of fantasy.
And he wasn’t particularly surprised when his efforts to sell their collaborative works attracted a storm of rejection letters.
None of that deterred Flint, though. If anything, he felt compelled to give ordinary, mainstream fantasy and science fiction a go. It was around that period that ‘Mother of Demons’ and the Belisarius books were written.
It was also around that time that the author cemented his relationship with Baen Books. Flint’s most popular novel to date is 1632. It set him apart as an author of alternate history.
Outside of his efforts as a novelist, Eric Flint worked as a Baen Free Library Librarian, the first Librarian to be exact. He worked with Jim Baen to convince various authors to publish free electronic unprotected copies of their books on the internet.
Flint was always a strong proponent of e-publishing and he rejected claims that eBooks were a threat to traditional physical novels. He believed that the two could thrive side by side.
Eric Flint Awards
The novelist received the Dal Coger Memorial Hall of Fame Award. He was nominated for an Eliot Rosewater Indiana High School Prize in 2006.
Best Eric Flint Books
Flint isn’t just a writer; he is also an editor that has repackaged the works of classic SF authors for new audiences, with some of the best books in his bibliography including:
1632: Mike Stearn led the local United Mine Workers of America chapter, and all its members had chosen to attend his sister’s wedding. Then something catastrophic happened, and when Mike went to investigate, he found that their entire town had been transported to 1632.
Now they must use their meager tools to survive the 30-year war.
1633: Everything changed for Mike when his town was sent back to the Holy Roman Empire in 1632. Mike was elected president of their community and charged with launching the American Revolution several decades earlier with the intention of attaining the strength required to repel the forces that sought to destroy them.
Now the town has made an alliance with the King of Sweden. Mike and his people have advanced technology. But it will take the corporation of Gustavus and the Jews to fend off the catholic armies that will stop at nothing to obliterate their burgeoning nation.
When Does The Next Eric Flint book come out?
The next book by Eric Flint is 1637: The Peacock Throne and will be released on May, 4th 2021. It is the newest book in the Ring of Fire Series.