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Eric Flint
Eric Flint (February 6, 1947 – July 17, 2022) was an American author, editor, and e-publisher. The majority of his works are alternate history science fiction, but he also wrote humorous fantasy adventures. His works have been listed on The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, and Locus magazine best-seller lists. He was a co-founder and editor of the Baen Free Library.
Born in 1947 in Burbank, California, Flint worked on a Ph.D. in history specializing in southern African history. He left his doctoral program to become a political activist in the labor movement. He supported himself from that time until age 50 in a variety of jobs, including longshoreman, truck driver, machinist, and labor union organizer. As a long-time leftist political activist, Flint worked as a member of the Socialist Workers Party.
After winning the fourth quarter of 1993 Writers of the Future contest, he published his first novel in 1997 and moved to full-time writing in 1999.
Shortly afterwards, he became the first librarian of the Baen Free Library and a prominent anti–copy protection activist. He has edited the works of several classic science fiction authors, repackaging their short stories into collections and fix-up novels. This project met commercial success and returned several out-of-print authors to print.
In 2004, he was faced with a persistent drain on his time by fan fiction authors seeking comment on the four-year-old 1632 Tech Manual web forum focused on his 1632 series. In the same year, he suggested to Jim Baen the experimental serialized fan fiction e-zine The Grantville Gazette, which also found commercial success. Four of the Gazette magazine editions were collated into anthology formats, bought by Jim Baen and brought out in hardcover, paperback, or both formats. The last one purchased remains unpublished. Subsequently, Flint became editor of the new Jim Baen's Universe science-fiction e-zine while concurrently remaining a creative writer bringing out three to five titles annually. After the death of Jim Baen due to a stroke and completing the contract for the tenth Grantville Gazette, Flint founded a new website, grantvillegazette.com, which was modeled on the JBU e-zine. It continued to bring out The Grantville Gazettes and increased the publishing rate from four annually to bimonthly, which paid better than standard magazine pay rates.
He lived with his wife Lucille (also an ex-labor organizer) in East Chicago, Indiana.
In 2008, he donated his archive to the department of Rare Books and Special Collections at Northern Illinois University.
Flint was the author guest of honor for the 2010 NASFiC, ReConStruction.
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Eric Flint
Eric Flint (February 6, 1947 – July 17, 2022) was an American author, editor, and e-publisher. The majority of his works are alternate history science fiction, but he also wrote humorous fantasy adventures. His works have been listed on The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, and Locus magazine best-seller lists. He was a co-founder and editor of the Baen Free Library.
Born in 1947 in Burbank, California, Flint worked on a Ph.D. in history specializing in southern African history. He left his doctoral program to become a political activist in the labor movement. He supported himself from that time until age 50 in a variety of jobs, including longshoreman, truck driver, machinist, and labor union organizer. As a long-time leftist political activist, Flint worked as a member of the Socialist Workers Party.
After winning the fourth quarter of 1993 Writers of the Future contest, he published his first novel in 1997 and moved to full-time writing in 1999.
Shortly afterwards, he became the first librarian of the Baen Free Library and a prominent anti–copy protection activist. He has edited the works of several classic science fiction authors, repackaging their short stories into collections and fix-up novels. This project met commercial success and returned several out-of-print authors to print.
In 2004, he was faced with a persistent drain on his time by fan fiction authors seeking comment on the four-year-old 1632 Tech Manual web forum focused on his 1632 series. In the same year, he suggested to Jim Baen the experimental serialized fan fiction e-zine The Grantville Gazette, which also found commercial success. Four of the Gazette magazine editions were collated into anthology formats, bought by Jim Baen and brought out in hardcover, paperback, or both formats. The last one purchased remains unpublished. Subsequently, Flint became editor of the new Jim Baen's Universe science-fiction e-zine while concurrently remaining a creative writer bringing out three to five titles annually. After the death of Jim Baen due to a stroke and completing the contract for the tenth Grantville Gazette, Flint founded a new website, grantvillegazette.com, which was modeled on the JBU e-zine. It continued to bring out The Grantville Gazettes and increased the publishing rate from four annually to bimonthly, which paid better than standard magazine pay rates.
He lived with his wife Lucille (also an ex-labor organizer) in East Chicago, Indiana.
In 2008, he donated his archive to the department of Rare Books and Special Collections at Northern Illinois University.
Flint was the author guest of honor for the 2010 NASFiC, ReConStruction.