David Weber, Author, Eric Flint, Author, James P. Baen, Author . Baen $25 (512p) ISBN 978-0-7434-7148-0
Fans of Weber's Honor Harrington series know that one of its more intriguing aspects is the "Honorverse," the historical, political and astrophysical foundation upon which he builds his plots. They will be delighted with this offshoot in
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Mercedes Lackey, Author, Eric Flint, Author, Dave Freer, Author . Baen $26 (832p) ISBN 978-0-7434-7149-7
Lusciously set in alternative-history 16th-century Venice, Corfu and sinister points northeast, this huge sequel to the authors' equally massive and magnetic Shadow of the Lion
will appeal to adolescents of all ages. In this world, broken off...
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Dave Freer, Author, Eric Flint, Author, Eric Flint, Joint Author . Baen $21 (432p) ISBN 978-0-671-31839-0
In this SF-fantasy romp through classical myth, the authors of Rats, Bats, and Vats
offer a charmingly picaresque journey that begins when an artifact of the alien Krim lands in the University of Chicago library and starts abducting people. Few of...
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Eric Flint, Author . Baen $24 (352p) ISBN 978-0-671-31986-1
This oddly satisfying humorous fantasy usually achieves the zany and frequently the bizarre. In the city of New Sfinctre the professional strangler and amateur philosopher Greyboar and his agent and sidekick, Ignace, accept a contract they're...
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Eric Flint, Author . Del Rey $25.95 (512p) ISBN 978-0-345-46567-2
The first of a projected two-volume series, Flint's witty, tightly written alternative history presents a subtly revised version of events in the final year of the War of 1812. In March 1814, in the Mississippi Territory, Gen. Andrew Jackson'
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Eric Flint, Author . Del Rey $25.95 (427p) ISBN 978-0-345-46569-6
In Flint's skillful, provocative sequel to his alternative history, 1812: The Rivers of War
(2005), the "Confederacy of the Arkansas" is thriving on the alliance of its Native American and African-American citizens. The independent...
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Eric Flint, Author . Baen $25 (559p) ISBN 978-1-4165-9142-9
Bestseller Flint (1635: The Dreeson Incident
), best known for his alternate history novels, assembles a highly enjoyable collection of tales based on his longer-form work and that of his fellow writers and collaborators. Fans of Flint's 1632...
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Eric Flint, Author, David Weber, Author . Baen $28 (728p) ISBN 978-1-4165-2102-0
The exciting eighth entry in the Ring of Fire saga, about a temporally displaced West Virginia mining town and its impact upon 17th-century Europe, neatly wraps up two plot threads left unresolved by Flint and Weber's 1633
(2002). A mission is...
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Eric Flint and Ryk E. Spoor, Baen, $25 (320p) ISBN 9781439133606
The whole crew from Flint and Spoor’s Boundary are back. The perennially cash-strapped Ares Corporation, the only private agency in space, has teamed with the Interplanetary Research Institute, part of the United Nations, to exploit millennia-old...
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Eric Flint, Author, David Drake, Author, &. Drake Flint, Author Baen Books $23 (480p) ISBN 978-0-671-57817-6
Following up An Oblique Approach and In the Heart of Darkness, Flint and Drake continue their primitive warfare series set in a Roman empire that has been changed by the arrival of a time traveler. Known as ""Aide,"" this crystalline entity, when...
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Eric Flint, Author, David Drake, Author, David Drake, Joint Author . Baen $22 (512p) ISBN 978-0-671-31996-0
High spirits and ingenuity mark the fifth volume in the Belisarius series from veteran Drake (Foreign Legions) and relative newcomer Flint (The Philosophical Strangler), who have devised an intriguing premise and developed it intelligently. Agents...
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Eric Flint, Author, David Drake, Author, David Drake, Joint Author Baen Books $24 (416p) ISBN 978-0-671-57871-8
This exuberant romp of an alternate-history novel is the fourth volume of a series (Destiny's Shield, etc.) in which two contending super-beings from the far future try to determine humanity's fate through changing the 6th century A.D. The villain,...
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Eric Flint, Gorg Huff, and Paula Goodlett. Baen, $25 (432p) ISBN 978-1-4516-3776-2
The latest installment of the massively multiauthor Ring of Fire series (after 1636: The Saxon Uprising), chronicling an alternate history in which the modern-day American town of Grantville is transported to the 17th century, stars “up-timer” auto...
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Eric Flint, Author, Andrew Dennis, Author . Baen $26 (420p) ISBN 978-1-4165-0938-7
Flint and Dennis's solid follow-up to 1634: The Galileo Affair
(2004), also set in Renaissance Italy, offers a deliciously Machiavellian plot. The temporally displaced modern Americans from Grantsville, W.Va., having met with a surprisingly...
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Eric Flint, Author, Andrew Dennis, Author . Baen $23 (560p) ISBN 978-0-7434-8815-0
After the emotionally draining tragedy that concluded Flint and David Weber's 1633
(2002), Flint (The Philosophical Strangler
) and newcomer Dennis provide a more lighthearted interlude in Renaissance Italy. Grantsville, a West Virginia mining...
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Eric Flint and Andrew Dennis. Baen, $26 (400p) ISBN 978-1-4767-8109-9
The 20th entry in Flint’s Ring of Fire alternate history series is, unfortunately, rather dull for much of its length. The novel has a promising start, with Oliver Cromwell and his party having just escaped from the Tower; they’re now rowing up the...
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Eric Flint and Alistair Kimble. Baen, $25 (273p) ISBN 978-1-4814-8256-1
Alternate history coauthors Flint (the Ring of Fire series) and Kimble switch genres for a sci-fi thriller with plenty of twists and turns but little real novelty. FBI agent Jasper Wilde is sent to Chicago to investigate a series of disturbing...
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Eric Flint, Author, Virginia DeMarce, Author . Baen $26 (690p) ISBN 978-1-4165-4253-7
The intricacies of Habsburg family relations make surprisingly fascinating reading in the latest episode in Flint's saga of a 20th-century West Virginia town transported mysteriously to 17th-century Europe. The recently widowed Duke Maximilian...
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Eric Flint, Author, David Drake, Joint Author . Baen $24 (400p) ISBN 978-0-7434-3521-5
Veteran Drake (Mistress of the Catacombs) and relative newcomer Flint (1632) manage to instruct as well as entertain in this latest volume in their popular Belisarius series. Human space has fallen into anarchy and barbarism after the collapse of...
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Eric Flint, Author, K. D. Wentworth, Author, James P. Baen, Editor Baen Books $22 (512p) ISBN 978-0-7434-7154-1
Can a proud and warlike people find common cause with their alien conquerors in the face of a greater danger? That's the question that military SF ace Flint (1633) and two-time Nebula Award finalist Wentworth (This Fair Land) ask in this ...
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Eric Flint, Author, Dave Freer, Author . Baen $24 (314p) ISBN 978-1-4165-5585-8
Flint and Freer’s latest collaboration (after 2007’s Pyramid Power
) doesn’t bring anything original to space opera, but its fast pace and pulpy premise make for an engaging if shallow adventure. When a vast relic made up of...
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Eric Flint, Author, Richard Roach, Joint Author . Baen $24 (480p) ISBN 978-0-7434-3524-6
While not as dazzling as Flint's Philosophical Strangler
(2001),
this prequel from the creators of the Joe's World series affords much the same kind of comic pleasure. The swashbuckling artist Benvenuti Sfondrati-Piccolomini arrives in the...
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Eric Flint and Walter H. Hunt. Baen, $25 (480p) ISBN 978-1-982124-15-1
Ghosts and fiends from Native American, Caribbean, and African folklore populate this well-constructed but slow-moving alternate history prequel to the Arcane America series (Uncharted, etc.). In 1759, the appearance of Halley’s Comet unleashes...
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