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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 these edits was rather flamboyant and some of these edits have been extremely controversial, for example all references to smoking have been removed from the stories. 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.

1 Electronic Publishing

Eric Flint is noted as the editor of the Baen Free LibraryThe Baen Free Library is an online experiment by science fiction writer Eric Flint and publisher Jim Baen of the science fiction publishing house Baen Books to determine whether the availability of books for free on the World Wide Web encourages or discou. The Free Library is an experiment in electronic publishing where Flint and Jim BaenJames Patrick "Jim" Baen (b. 1943) started his publishing career, appropriately enough, in the complaints department of Ace Books after stints in the Army, at CCNY, and in Greenwich Village in the 1960s working as the manager of a folk music coffee shop ( 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.)

2 Published Works

2.1 Belisarius seriesThe Belisarius Series is a collection of novels written by David Drake and Eric Flint and published by Baen Books. The series consists of the following books: An Oblique Approach In the Heart of Darkness Destiny's Shield Fortune's Stroke The Tide of Victo

(with David DrakeDavid Drake is a successful author of science fiction and fantasy literature. He is one of the premier authors of the military science fiction subgenre. In addition to his own works, he also often contributes the military angle to many collaborative works) 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.



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