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1812: The Rivers of War
Eric Flint
Science Fiction & Fantasy
Eric Flint's acclaimed 1634: The Galileo Affair was a national bestseller from one of the most talked-about voices in his field. Now, in this extraordinary new alternate history, Flint begins a dramatic saga of the North American continent at a dire turning point, forging its identity and its future in the face of revolt from within, and attack from without.
In the War of 1812, U.S. troops are battling the British on the Canadian border, even as a fierce fight is being waged against the Creek followers of the Indian leader Tecumseh and his brother, known as The Prophet. In Europe, Napoleon Bonaparte's war has become a losing proposition, and the British are only months away from unleashing a frightening assault on Washington itself. Fateful choices are being made in the corridors of power and on the American frontier. As Andrew Jackson, backed by Cherokee warriors, leads a fierce attack on the Creek tribes, his young republic will soon need every citizen soldier it can find.
What if-at this critical moment-bonds were forged between men of different races and tribes? What if the Cherokee clans were able to muster an integrated front, and the U.S. government faced a united Indian nation bolstered by escaping slaves, freed men of color, and even influential white allies?
Through the remarkable adventures of men who were really there-men of mixed race, mixed emotions, and a singular purpose-The Rivers of War carries us in this new direction, brilliantly transforming an extraordinary chapter of American history.
With a cast of unforgettable characters-from James Monroe and James Madison to Sam Houston, Francis Scott Key, and Cherokee chiefs John Ross and Major Ridge-The Rivers of War travels from the battle of Horseshoe Bend to the battle of New Orleans, and brings every explosive moment to life. With exquisite attention to detail, an extraordinary grasp of history, and a storyteller's gift for the dramatic, Flint delivers a bold, thought-provoking epic of enemies and allies, traitors and revolutionaries, and illuminates who we are as a nation, how we got here, and how history itself is made-and remade.
From the Hardcover edition.
Grantville Gazette, Volume IX
Eric Flint
Science Fiction & Fantasy
This edition of the Grantville Gazette Volume 9 is derived directly from the online edition at http://www.grantvillegazette.com.
Stories include:
Young Love Lost by Jose J. Clavell
Mail Stop by Virginia DeMarce
Those Daring Young Men by Rick Boatright
Those Daring Not So Young Men by Rick Boatright
A Matter Of Taste by Kerryn Offord
Those Not So Daring by Rick Boatright
Anna the Baptist by Terry Howard
Fly Like a Bird by Loren Jones
Gearhead by Mark H. Huston
Water Wings by Terry Howard
Under the Tuscan Son by Iver P. Cooper
Wings on the Mountain by Terry Howard
Pocket Money by John and Patti Friend
Moonraker by Karen Bergstralh
The Minstrel Boy by John Zeek
Ultralight by Sean Massey
Tool or Die by Karen Bergstralh
If at First You Don't Succeed . . . by Paula Goodlett
Waves of Change by Paula Goodlett and Gorg Huff
Try, Try Again by Paula Goodlett
Little Jammer Boys by Kim Mackey
Safe at First Base by Mark H. Huston
The Order of the Foot by Richard Evans
Trip to Paris by Kim Mackey
At the Cliff's Edge by Iver P. Cooper
A 'Merican in Moscow by Gorg Huff and Paula Goodlett
Radio in 1632, Part 3 by Rick Boatright
The Sound of Mica by Iver P. Cooper
A Tempest In a Baptistry by Terry Howard
The Daily Beer Anette Pedersen
White Gold* by Kerryn Offord
Ring of Fire III
Eric Flint
Science Fiction & Fantasy
Collection #3 of rollicking and idea-packed alternate history tales written by today’s hottest science fiction writers and edited by New York Times best-seller Eric Flint. After a cosmic accident sets the modern-day West Virginia town of Grantville down in war-torn seventeenth century Europe, these everyday, resourceful Americans must adapt – or be trod into the dust of the past.
Let’s do the “Time Warp” again! Another rollicking, thought-provoking collection of tales by a star-studded array of top writers such as bestseller Mercedes Lackey and Eric Flint himself – all set in Eric Flint’s phenomenal Ring of Fire series.
Rock on, Renaissance! A cosmic accident sets the modern West Virginia town of Grantville down in war-torn seventeenth century Europe. It will take all the gumption of the resourceful, freedom-loving up-timers to find a way to flourish in mad and bloody end of medieval times. Are they up for it? You bet they are. The third rollicking and idea-packed collection of Grantville tales edited by Eric Flint, and inspired by his now-legendary 1632.
About Eric Flint’s “Ring of Fire” series:
“[Eric] Flint's 1632 universe seems to be inspiring a whole new crop of gifted alternate historians.” -Booklist
“[Eric Flint] can entertain and edify in equal, and major, measure.” -Publishers Weekly
Grantville Gazette V
Eric Flint
Science Fiction & Fantasy
The most popular alternate history series of all continues. When an inexplicable cosmic disturbance hurls your town from twentieth century West Virginia back to seventeenth century Europe - and into the middle of the Thirty Years War - you'd better be adaptable to survive. And the natives of that time period, faced with American technology and politics, need to be equally adaptable. Here's a generous helping of more stories of Grantville, the American town lost in time, and its impact on the people and societies of a tumultuous age.
Stories include:
Steady Girl by Eric Flint
Schwarza Falls by Douglas W. Jones
Recycling by Philip Schillawski and John Rigby
Got My Buck by Barry C. Swift
The Dalai Lama's Electric Buddha by Victor Klimov
Canst Thou Send Lightnings by Rick Boatright
Grantville's Greatest Philosopher? by Terry Howard
The Painter's Gambit by Iver P. Cooper
A Taste of Home by Chris Racciato
Young Love Lost by Jose J. Clavell
The Prepared Mind by Kim Mackey
Capacity for Harm by Richard Evans
Little Angel by Kerryn Offord
None So Blind by David Carrico
On the Matter of D'Artagnan by Bradley H. Sinor
A Filthy Story by Aamund Breivik
The Treasure Hunters by Karen Bergstrahl
Bathing with Coal by Russ Rittgers
Lessons in Astronomy by Peter Hobson
Wish Book by Gorg Huff and Paula Goodlett
O For A Muse of Fire by Jay Robison
Pilgrimage of Grace by Virginia DeMarce
Twenty-eight Men by Mark Huston
Federico and Ginger by Iver P. Cooper
The Jews of 1632* by Douglas W. Jones
Forward the Mage
Eric Flint
Science Fiction & Fantasy
An adventurous and high-flying fantasy novel, this is the thrilling tale of the swashbuckling Benvenuti Sfondrati-Piccolomini, who arrives in the city of Goimir intent on lending his talents to the King--but instead has a series of madcap misadventures en route to his involvement in an epic quest that pairs him with Gwendolyn Greyboar, a female revolutionary whose beauty is matched only by her ferocity--and in whom the fate of the kingdom rests.
Mother of Demons
Eric Flint
Science Fiction & Fantasy
An outcast with a perversion (she liked males); a great battle mother with an impossible task; a paleobiologist with a terrible sense of humor -- they were all revolutionaries, but had never expected this. . .
Burning Up Flint
Laurann Dohner
Romance / Science Fiction & Fantasy
Flint is tall, gorgeous and dangerous. He's a cyborg-the absolute ultimate alpha male. He takes what he wants and holds what is his. Mira is his now. He takes her aboard his ship and has her branded with his mark. He captured her, owns her, and she will serve his every need.
Mira is instantly drawn to Flint, fascinated by his seductive appeal. The sex between them is smoking hot. Until she finds out he is a breeder, contracted to a dozen cyborg women, and she is no more than a possession.
Mira won't share her cyborg and she belongs to no one-not even to a man who has captured her heart. She doesn't know if cyborgs feel... anything. Can Flint love her? Mira is determined to find out, no matter how much trouble she makes for the big guy.
1633
Eric Flint
Science Fiction & Fantasy
AMERICAN FREEDOM AND JUSTICE VS. SEVENTEENTH CENTURY TYRANNY
The new Confederated Principalities of Europe-an alliance between Gustavus,king of Sweden, and the West Virginia town, led by Mike Stearns, which was hurled back through time to the thirty years war - has big problems. As the greatest naval war in European history erupts, Cardinal Richelieu has created an alliance to destroy the CPE, and only American technology can save Gustavus from ruin.
Meanwhile Mike's wife Rebecca is trapped in war-torn Amsterdam, and his sister Rita is imprisoned in the tower of London. And much as Mike wants to reform tyrannical 17th-century Europe by Sweet Reason, he finds comfort in the fact that Julie, who trained as an Olympic marksman, still has her rifle....
Ring of Fire
Eric Flint
Science Fiction & Fantasy
The battle between democracy and tyranny is joined, and the American Revolution has begun over a century ahead of schedule. A cosmic accident has shifted a modern West Virginia town back through time and space to land it and its twentieth century technology in Germany in the middle of the Thirty Years War. History must take a new course as American freedom and democracy battle against the squabbling despots of seventeenth-century Europe. Continuing the story begun in the hit novels 1632 and 1633, the New York Times best-selling creator of Honor Harrington, David Weber, the best-selling fantasy star Mercedes Lackey, best-selling SF and fantasy author Jane Lindskold, space adventure author K. D. Wentworth, Dave Freer, co-author of the hit novels Rats, Bats & Vats and Pyramid Scheme (both Baen), and Eric Flint himself combine their considerable talents in a shared-universe volume that will be a "must-have" for every reader of 1632 and 1633.
Ring of Fire II
Eric Flint
Science Fiction & Fantasy
A mysterious cosmic force—the “Ring of Fire”—has hurled the town of Grantville from 20th century West Virginia back to 17th century Europe, and into the heart of the Thirty Years War. With their seemingly magical technology, and their radical ideas of freedom and justice, the time-lost West Virginians have allied with Gustavus Adolphus, King of Sweden, to form the Confederated Principalities of Europe, changing the course of history—in ways both small and large.
MORE TO COME.
Boundary
Eric Flint
Science Fiction & Fantasy
What is a palaeontologist doing on Mars? A strange shaped fossil could help to explain one of the greatest mysteries of Earth's past. It warranted a big dig, one that could lead to the mother lode, and professional immortality. But, what Dr Helen Sutter didn't realise was that it would take her all the way to Mars!
1635: The Eastern Front
Eric Flint
Science Fiction & Fantasy
The Thirty Years War continues to ravage 17th century Europe, but a new force is gathering power and influence: the United States of Europe, a new nation led by Gustavus Adolphus, King of Sweden, and the West Virginians from the 20th century led by Mike Stearns who were hurled centuries into the past by a mysterious cosmic accident. While the old entrenched rulers and manipulators continue to plot against this new upstart nation, everyday life goes on in Grantville, even under the shadow of war, as this lost outpost of American freedom and justice must play David against a 17th century Goliath of oppressive feudalism.
Praise for the New York Times Best-Selling Series:
“. . . gripping and expertly detailed . . . a treat for lovers of action-SF or alternate history . . . battle scenes depicted with power . . . distinguishes Flint as an SF author of particular note, one who can entertain and edify in equal, and major, measure.” —Publishers Weekly (in a starred review)
“[This] alternate-history saga . . . is certainly a landmark in that subgenre. . . . A splendid example of character-centered alternate-history, this is a must read for its series' growing fandom.” —Booklist (Starred Review)
“. . . takes historic speculation to a new level in a tale that combines accurate historical research with bold leaps of the imagination. Fans of alternate history and military sf should enjoy this rousing tale of adventure and intrigue.” —Library Journal
“This alternate history series is already one of the best around and each new entry appears better than the previous one, a seemingly impossible feat . . . terrific. . . .” —The Midwest Book Review
1824: The Arkansas War
Eric Flint
Science Fiction & Fantasy
In the newest volume of this exhilarating series, Eric Flint continues to reshape American history, imagining how a continent and its people might have taken a different path to its future. With 1824: The Arkansas War, he spins an astounding and provocative saga of heroism, battlefield action, racial conflict, and rebellion as a nation recovering from war is plunged into a dangerous era of secession.
Buffered by Spanish possessions to the south and by free states and two rivers to the north, Arkansas has become a country of its own: a hybrid confederation of former slaves, Native American Cherokee and Creek clans, and white abolitionists–including one charismatic warrior who has gone from American hero to bête noire. Irish-born Patrick Driscol is building a fortune and a powerful army in the Arkansas Confederacy, inflaming pro-slavers in Washington and terrifying moderates as well. Caught in the middle is President James Monroe, the gentlemanly Virginian entering his final year in office with a demagogic House Speaker, Henry Clay, nipping at his heels and fanning the fires of war. But Driscol, whose black artillerymen smashed both the Louisiana militia in 1820 and the British in New Orleans, remains a magnet for revolution. And fault lines are erupting throughout the young republic–so that every state, every elected official, and every citizen will soon be forced to choose a side.
For a country whose lifeblood is infected with the slave trade, the war of 1824 will be a bloody crisis of conscience, politics, economics, and military maneuvering that will draw in players from as far away as England. For such men as Secretary of State John Quincy Adams, Commissioner of Indian Affairs Sam Houston, charismatic war hero Andrew Jackson, and the violent abolitionist John Brown, it is a time to change history itself.
Filled with fascinating insights into some of America’s most intriguing historical figures, 1824: The Arkansas War confirms Eric Flint as a true master of alternate history, a novelist who brings to bear exhaustive research, remarkable intuition, and a great storyteller’s natural gifts to chronicle the making of our nation as it might have been.
From the Hardcover edition.
Grantville Gazette VI
Eric Flint
Science Fiction & Fantasy
This edition of the Grantville Gazette Volume 6 is derived directly from the online edition at http://www.grantvillegazette.com.
Stories include:
A Taste of Home by Chris Racciato
Federico and Ginger by Iver P. Cooper
Recycling by Philip Schillawski and John Rigby
Old Folks' Music by Gorg Huff and Paula Goodlett
Mightier than the Sword by Jay Robison
Grantville is Different by Russ Rittgers
The Woman Shall Not Wear That by Virginia DeMarce
Live Free by Karen Bergstralh
The Dalai Lama's Electric Buddha by Victor Klimov
The Doctor Gribbleflotz Chronicles, Part 1: Calling Dr. Phil by Kerryn Offord
Dr. Phil's Amazing Lightning Crystal by Kerryn Offord
Dr. Phil's Aeolian Transformers by Kerryn Offord and Rick Boatright
Exegesis and Interpretation of Up-timer Printed Matter by Francis Turner
Bouncing Back: Bringing Rubber to Grantville by Iver P. Cooper
On the Design, Construction and Maintenance of Wooden Aircraft by Jerry Hollombe
The Jews of 1632 by Douglas W. Jones
Flint Dog
Stephanie Dagg
Cultural / France / Nonfiction
Welcome to the Stone Age! Flint Dog is the story of a ten-year-old boy, Youngest. He has just two dreams — the first is to be a Hunter like his big brother and his father, and his second is to have a dog of his own. He has many adventures on the way to do with caves, a mammoth and a menhir.Flint Dog has been carefully researched. It brings to life a period in history that's often neglected.Welcome to the Stone Age! Flint Dog is the story of a ten-year-old boy, Youngest. He has just two dreams — the first is to be a Hunter like his big brother and his father, and his second is to have a new dog of his own, after his beloved White Tail dies. Both dreams are fulfilled in the form of misshapen lump of flint — the flint dog of the story’s title. On the way Youngest has several adventures concerning baskets, caves, a mammoth and a menhir.Flint Dog, set in France, has been very carefully researched. It brings to life a period in our history that is often neglected. Suitable for 7-13 year olds - young readers who are ready to be stretched.
1632
Eric Flint
Science Fiction & Fantasy
FREEDOM AND JUSTICE -- AMERICAN STYLE 1632 And in northern Germany things couldn't get much worse. Famine. Disease. Religous war laying waste the cities. Only the aristocrats remained relatively unscathed; for the peasants, death was a mercy. 2000 Things are going OK in Grantville, West Virginia, and everybody attending the wedding of Mike Stearn's sister (including the entire local chapter of the United Mine Workers of America, which Mike leads) is having a good time. THEN, EVERYTHING CHANGED.... When the dust settles, Mike leads a group of armed miners to find out what happened and finds the road into town is cut, as with a sword. On the other side, a scene out of Hell: a man nailed to a farmhouse door, his wife and daughter attacked by men in steel vests. Faced with this, Mike and his friends don't have to ask who to shoot. At that moment Freedom and Justice, American style, are introduced to the middle of the Thirty Years' War.
The Alexander Inheritance
Eric Flint
Science Fiction & Fantasy
NEW TIME TRAVEL ALT. HISTORY FROM A MASTER: Flint's Ring of Fire and Boundary series have proved him to be a master of time travel alternate history. Here then, a new tale of persons displaced in time, fighting for their lives.
Twice before, mysterious cosmic catastrophes have sent portions of the Earth across space and back in time first, with the Grantville Disaster in West Virginia, and then again with a maximum security prison in southern Illinois.
Now, the planet is struck with yet another such cataclysm, whose direct impact falls upon the Queen of the Sea, a cruise ship in the Caribbean. When the convulsions subside, the crew and passengers of the ship discover that they have arrived in a new and frightening world.
They are in the Mediterranean now, not the Caribbean. Still worse, they discover that the disaster has sent them more than two thousand years back in time. Following the advice of an historian among the passengers, Marie Easley, they sail to Egypt or, at least, where they hope Egypt will be.
Sure enough, Egypt is there ruled over by Ptolemy, the founder of the Ptolemaic dynasty and one of Alexander the Great s chief generals.
Alexander the Great, it turns outs, died just two years ago. The western world has just entered what would become known as the Hellenistic Period of history, during which time Greek civilization would spread around the Mediterranean and beyond. But the first fifty years of the Hellenistic Period was the Age of Diadochi the Time of the Successors when Alexander s empire would collapse into chaos. By the time the Successors finished their strife, every single member of Alexander s dynasty would be murdered and only three of the generals who began that civil war would still be alive.
That is the new world in which the Queen of the Sea finds itself. Can Marie Easley and Captain Lars Flodden guide the crew and passengers through this cataclysm? Fortunately, they have some help: a young Norwegian ship s officer who forms an attachment to Alexander s widow; a French officer who is a champion pistol marksman; a canny Congressman from Utah and, most of all, many people of the time who are drawn to a vision of the better world of the future.
About Eric Flint s Ring of Fire series:
This alternate history series is a landmark Booklist
[Eric] Flint's1632universe seems to be inspiring a whole new crop of gifted alternate historians. Booklist
reads like a technothriller set in the age of the Medicis Publishers Weekly"
Diamonds Are Forever
Eric Flint
Science Fiction & Fantasy
This novelette from the anthology “Mountain Magic” features the Slades, whose uneasy coexistence with underground spirits is about to end in an earthquake that'll wipe humanity off the surface of four states.
Grantville Gazette, Volume VIII
Eric Flint
Science Fiction & Fantasy
This edition of the Grantville Gazette Volume 8 is derived directly from the online edition at http://www.grantvillegazette.com.
Stories include:
The Painter's Gambit by Iver P. Cooper
Capacity for Harm by Richard Evans
Into the Very Pit of Hell by Douglas W. Jones
Not a Princess Bride by Terry Howard
Dear Sir by Chris Racciato
The Sons of St. John by Jay Robison
Prince and Abbot by Virginia DeMarce
A Question of Faith by Anette Pedersen Grunwald
Flight 19 to Magdeburg by Jose J. Clavell
Rolling On by Karen Bergstralh
Three Innocuous Words by Russ Rittgers
Doctor Phil's Distraction by Kerryn Offord
Louis de Geer by Kim Mackey
A Russian Noble by Gorg Huff and Paula Goodlett
Refrigeration and the 1632 World: Opportunities and Challenges by Mark H. Huston
New France in 1634 and the Fate of North America by Michael Varhola
Aluminum: Will O' the Wisp?* by Iver P. Cooper
Pirates of the Suara Sea
Eric Flint
Pirates of the Suara Sea is a future SF pirate story originally written by Eric Flint and Dave Freer.
The Devolutionist and The Emancipatrix
Homer Eon Flint
After getting his start as a writer of screenplays for silent movies, Homer Eon Flint turned to the then-nascent genre of science fiction, penning a number of influential short stories and novels in the process. Fans of golden-era sci-fi will delight in the pleasures of Flint's imaginative and tightly plotted The Devolutionist and The Emancipatrix.
Threshold
Eric Flint
Science Fiction & Fantasy
The Sequel to Boundary. Space Adventure by a New York Times Best-Selling Author and a New Star of Science Fiction.
When the strange fossil she'd discovered had ended up giving her a trip to Mars, Helen Sutter thought she'd gone about as far as any paleontologist would ever go in her lifetime. But when you've also married A.J. Baker, overconfident super- sensor expert for the only private agency in space – the Ares Corporation -- and your best friend Madeline Fathom Buckley is a former secret agent who's just signed on as the chief of security for the newly created and already embattled Interplanetary Research Institute of the United Nations, there's always somewhere farther to go.
The newest discoveries will take her, A.J., and their friends Jackie, Joe, and Madeline to the mysterious asteroid Ceres – and beyond, in a desperate race to Jupiter's perilous miniature system of radiation- bombarded moons. The next gold rush is on – for alien technology, hidden in lost bases around the system. And there are people willing to do anything to get it – even plan the first interplanetary war, four hundred million miles from home!
First Hero
Lucas Flint
Young Adult / Fantasy / Science Fiction
In the aftermath of the Storm, Alex Fry (Beams) and Rubberman suffer a huge loss in support from the citizens of Golden City. Their popularity nosedives when the Lions, a team of elite government-sponsored superheroes, arrive in the city and promptly defeat a Zero Knight. Their success threatens Beams and his boss' livelihood as the people start to prefer the Lions over them. But a bigger problem rolls into Golden City in the form of Nightbolt, Beams' mentor from West Texas. Nightbolt is seeking the ghost of a long-dead supervillain, who has made Beams her target for her revenge against Nightbolt for what he did to her thirty years ago. And when it turns out that the Zero Knights still have some tricks up their sleeves, Beams must stop them, because their next attack might be the deadliest of them all.
All the Plagues of Hell
Part #5 of "Heirs of Alexandria" series by Eric Flint
Science Fiction & Fantasy
Orkise is loose. The snake-god of plague has been awakened by Lucia del Maino, the bastard daughter of the recently overthrown duke of Milan, Phillipo Visconti. With the venomous magic of Orkise at her command, Lucia plots to marry and then murder the usurper who now rules Milan, the condottiere Carlo Sforza—known to friend and foe alike as the Wolf the North.
Other trouble is brewing as well. Sforza has his own bastard, Benito Valdosta, who is returning to Venice after having conquered the Byzantine empire. Benito has a score to settle with his father, and he will have the help of his half-brother Marco, who is the embodiment of ancient Etruria’s mighty Winged Lion of St. Mark.
Adding further to Sforza’s predicament, yet another power has entered the fray. The terrifying sorcerer Count Mindaug has decided to settle in Milan. Will he ally with Sforza, or oppose him? Either will bring trouble, for if Mindaug aids the usurper he will arouse the fury of the Holy Roman Empire and the Knights of the Holy Trinity. Both of those great forces have sworn to destroy Mindaug and anyone who shelters him.
On his side, Sforza has only the skill and cunning of his physician, Francisco Turner—who is on good terms with the Valdosta brothers and may be able to neutralize Venetian hostility. But even if he can, will that be enough to save the Wolf of the North? For out there in the countryside of northern Italy, Orkise is uncoiling all the plagues of hell.
Prairie Redemption: Cowboys of the Flint Hills
Part #8 of "Cowboys of the Flint Hills" series by Tessa Layne
Romance / Westerns
**"You won't want to miss this fast-paced, sexy ride."** - *NYT Bestseller, Cora Seton on Prairie Heat
**Be careful... this will have you reaching for your fan, ***and *the tissues.* A sexy standalone novel with HEA from USA Today Bestselling Author, Tessa Layne.
Two broken hearts…
A career-ending injury from a bull named Damnation has stopped Cody Hansen’s life in its tracks and sent him home to Prairie to lick his wounds. Refusing to accept his career is over, he limps into the office of physical therapist Carolina Grace. The sweet girl next door is now all woman, and Cody can’t deny his attraction. But nothing—not even love—will deter him from returning to the arena.
Carolina Grace is unlucky in love. Two times she’s been left at the altar. Once is a mistake. Twice is a pattern. She really doesn’t wanna know what three times would be, so despite the best efforts of Prairie’s well-intentioned matchmakers, she’s locked up her heart and thrown away the key. Until old friend Cody Hansen hobbles into her office. In spite of her good intentions, she can’t help but fall straight into his arms—and his bed.
**Are they brave enough for one last risk?**
*Will the third time be the charm for Carolina? Or will Cody’s stubbornness cost him everything? Even his life?*
1636: The Ottoman Onslaught
Eric Flint
Science Fiction & Fantasy
Book #21 in the multiple New York Times best-selling Ring of Fire series. The uptimers and their allies take on the Ottoman Empire at its height of power.
The modern West Virginia town of Grantville has been displaced in time to continental Europe in 1632. Now four years have passed. The long-feared attack on Austria by the Ottoman Empire has begun. Armed with new weapons inspired by the time-displaced Americans of Grantville, the Turks are determined to do what they were unable to do in the universe the Americans came from: capture Vienna.
The Ottomans have the advantage of being able to study the failings and errors of their own campaigns in a future they can now avoid. They are led by the young, dynamic, and ruthless Murad IV, the most capable emperor the Ottomans have produced in a century. They are equipped with weapons that would have seemed fantastical to the Turks of that other universe: airships, breech-loading rifles, rockets—even primitive tanks.
And this time they won’t have to face massive reinforcements from Austria’s allies. In fact, the only force Emperor Gustav Adolf can think of sending to Austria is the United States of Europe Third Division under the command of Mike Stearns. It’s an army currently engaged in a desperate struggle for Bavaria.
The emperors of the USE and Austria share the same problem. They have one too many enemies, one too few allies, and only one general to cover the gaps. Fortunately, that general is Mike Stearns, also known as the Prince of Germany.
About 1635: A Parcel of Rogues:
"The 20th volume in this popular, fast-paced alternative history series follows close on the heels of the events in The Baltic War, picking up with the protagonists in London, including sharpshooter Julie Sims. This time the 20th-century transplants are determined to prevent the rise of Oliver Cromwell and even have the support of King Charles."—Library Journal
About 1634: The Galileo Affair:
"A rich, complex alternate history with great characters and vivid action. A great read and an excellent book."—David Drake
"Gripping . . . depicted with power!"—Publishers Weekly
About Eric Flint's Ring of Fire series:
“This alternate history series is . . . a landmark…”—Booklist
“[Eric] Flint's 1632 universe seems to be inspiring a whole new crop of gifted alternate historians.”—Booklist
“ . . . reads like a technothriller set in the age of the Medicis . . . ”—Publishers Weekly
Lord Darcy
Randall Garrett; Eric Flint; Guy Gordon
Product DescriptionWelcome to an alternate world where Richard the Lion-Heart did not die in the year 1199...where magic is a science and science is an art...where the great detective Lord Darcy and the sorcerer Sean O'Lochlainn combine occult skills and brilliant deductions to bring criminals to the King's Justice and thwart those who plot against the Realm. Welcome to a world where murder may be committed by magic most foul, but crime still does not pay - as long as Lord Darcy is on the case.
Hot Time
W. H. Flint
For fans of The Knick, The Alienist, and The Last Days of Night, an entertaining, atmospheric crime thriller set in the Gilded Age.New York, August 1896. A "hot wave" has settled on the city with no end in sight, leaving tempers short and the streets littered with dead horses felled by the heat. In this presidential election year, the gulf between rich and poor has political passions flaring, while anti-immigrant sentiment has turned virulent. At Police Headquarters, the gruff, politically ambitious commissioner Theodore Roosevelt has been struggling to reform his notoriously corrupt department. Meanwhile, the yellow press is ready to pounce on the peccadilloes of the Four Hundred, the city's social elite—the better to sell papers with lurid stories and gossip or perhaps profit from a little blackmail on the side. When the body of Town Topics publisher William d'Alton Mann is found at the foot of the Brooklyn Bridge, any number...
The Superhero's Glitch
Part #2 of "Lightning Bolt" series by Lucas Flint
Young Adult / Fantasy / Science Fiction
The second Lightning Bolt book.
Grantville Gazette, Volume 7
Eric Flint
Science Fiction & Fantasy
This edition of the Grantville Gazette Volume 7 is derived directly from the online edition at http://www.grantvillegazette.com.
Stories include:
Canst Thou Send Lightnings by Rick Boatright
Grantville's Greatest Philosopher? by Terry Howard
Mule 'Round The World by Virginia DeMarce
Von Grantville by Russ Rittgers
Burgers, Fries, And Beer by John and Patti Friend
Mama Mia, That's A Good Pizza Pie! by Jon and Linda Sonnenleiter
Seasons by Mark H. Huston
Not At All The Type by Virginia DeMarce
Dr. Phil's Amazing Essence Of Fire Tablets by Kerryn Offord and Rick Boatright
Zinkens A Bundle by Kerryn Offord
Crucibellus by Kim Mackey
The Mechanical Reproduction Of Sound: Developing A Recorded
Music Distribution Industry by Chris Penycate and Rick Boatright
Mass Media In The 1632 Universe by Gorg Huff and Paula Goodlett
Railroading In Germany by Carsten Edelberger
Harnessing The Iron Horse: Railroad Locomotion In The 1632 Universe* by Iver P. Cooper
Crossover
Part #1 of "Dimension Heroes" series by Lucas Flint
Young Adult / Fantasy / Science Fiction
The first book in the Dimension Heroes crossover series.
Midwest Magic Chronicles Boxed Set
Part #1 of "Midwest Magic Chronicles Boxed Set" series by Flint Maxwell
Welcome to the Midwest, America's Heartland, home to a hidden community of witches and wizards.
When Maria Apple receives a strange music box for her nineteenth birthday, everything changes. She begins to showcase odd magical abilities, glowing blue, seeing ghosts, and talking to creatures that shouldn't be able to talk, all while trying to juggle the task of being a typical teenaged girl. Now, not only does Maria learn she is a witch, but her grandfather Ignatius reveals he was once a famous warrior from a planet named Oriceran. Throw in a world in between the two worlds, a ghost bringing Maria an ominous warning, a race of giant spiders determined to claim the music box for their own, and Maria Apple realizes she'll never be a typical teenaged girl again. After all, it's just another day in the Midwest, where magic is real and the stakes never stop rising. The Midwest Magic Chronicles Boxed Set Includes the entire four book series: The Midwest Witch
The Midwest Wanderer
The Midwest Whisperer
The Midwest War
*Welcome to The Revelations of Oriceran. A magical world tied to Earth, and nothing like it.*
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The Macedonian Hazard
Eric Flint
TIME TRAVEL ALTERNATE HISTORY FROM A MASTER. A new tale of time-displaced persons fighting for their lives in the ancient world, from 1632 and Boundary series creator Eric Flint.It’s been more than a year since the cruise ship Queen of the Sea was transported in time and space to the ancient Mediterranean not long after the death of Alexander the Great. Captain Lars Floden and the other “Ship People” are trying to plant the seeds of modern civilization. It’s not an easy task, to put it mildly, even if they have a tacit alliance with the co-regents of Alexander’s empire, his widow Roxane, and Eurydice, the wife of his half-brother. For they have plenty of enemies, too. Cassander is using every foul means available to turn Macedonia and Greece into his own empire. The brutal general Antigonus One-Eye is doing the same in Mesopotamia. And Ptolemy, the cleverest of them all, is expanding his Egyptian realm to the Red Sea. Things aren’t any easier in the colony that passengers from the cruise ship founded on the Caribbean island of Trinidad. President Allen Wiley is trying to build a twenty-first century democratic nation, but the people he has to work with aren’t the most suitable for the task: oldsters from the future, local tribesmen, and third-century BCE immigrants from Europe and Africa. War, religious strife, assassinations, espionage, poisonings and other murders—and a fair amount of love, too—all mix together with the Ship People's knowledge from the 21st century to form a new weaving of the fates. Hopefully, that will lead to a bright new future. If it doesn't kill everyone first. About Eric Flint’s Ring of Fire Series: “This alternate history series is . . . a landmark . . .” —Booklist “[Eric] Flint's 1632 universe seems to be inspiring a whole new crop of gifted alternate historians.” —Booklist “. . . reads like a technothriller set in the age of the Medicis . . .” —Publishers Weekly
1636: The Saxon Uprising
Eric Flint
Science Fiction & Fantasy
The West Virginia town of Grantville, torn from the twentieth century and hurled back into seventeenth century Europe has allied with Gustavus Adolphus, King of Sweden, in the United States of Europe. So, when Gustavus invades Poland, managing to unite all the squabbling Polish factions into repelling the common enemy, the time-lost Americans have to worry about getting dragged into the fight along with the Swedish forces.
But Mike Stearns has another problem. He was Prime Minister of the USE until he lost an election, and now he’s one of Gustavus’s generals; and he has demonstrated that he’s very good at being a general. And he’s about to really need all his military aptitude. Gretchen , who never saw a revolution she didn’t like, has been arrested in Saxony, and is likely to be executed. The revolutionary groups which she has been working with are not about to let that happen, and suddenly there’s rioting in the streets. Saxony’s ruthless General Baner is determined to suppress the uprising by the time-honored “kill them all and let God sort them out” method, which only adds fuel to the fire. So Gustavus orders Mike Stearns to go to Saxony and restore order. But he makes one mistake.
He didn’t tell Mike to take his troops along on the mission. But he didn’t tell him not to, either . . .
The 26th Golden Age of Science Fiction
Homer Eon Flint
Homer Eon Flint was one of the pioneers of science fiction — publishing science fiction stories in pulp magazines before the term "science fiction" had even been coined. Unfortunately, he died violently — and mysteriously — at age 36, leaving behind a grieving widow and three young children. Prior to his shocking end in 1924, Homer's speculative fiction made him a leading contributor to the era's top pulp magazines. Hundreds of thousands of readers thrilled to his tales of life beyond Earth as well as his mysteries, humor, and even horror. Many of the short stories in this volume, plus the short novel "The Planeteer," were unpublished during Homer Eon Flint's lifetime. We are thankful to Vella Munn for allowing us to publish them alongside his more famous pulp novels and stories. Here, then, are 22 classic works plus Vella Munn's biography of her grandfather. For anyone interested in the roots of science fiction, this is a must-have volume!GRANDFATHER LOST:...
The Player Plague
Part #2 of "Capes Online" series by Lucas Flint
Young Adult / Fantasy / Science Fiction
After narrowly surviving an assassination attempt by a ninja, Nyle Maxwell (Winter) learns of a new ninja guild on the block. Its goal is to conquer all of Adventure
City and force player and NPC alike to bow to their master's rule. Such an event threatens to spark a war between the two biggest ninja guilds in the city, a war
that will tear the city itself apart.
Things get worse when Nyle gets infected with a deadly virus that will turn him into a mindless zombie in three days' time. Now Nyle must stop the coming ninja war
and find a cure for his virus before it's too late.
But how do you cure an incurable virus?
Boys with Matches
Part #4 of "Flint and Tinder" series by Gregory Ashe
Romance / M M Romance / Mystery
Love, like fire, is a chain reaction.Boys with Matches is a collection of short stories from Flint and Tinder. It includes the following:"Heat"Jim visits Emmett at the psychiatric hospital. This story is a prequel and takes place before Ember Boys."Sparks"A series of vignettes leading up to Valentine's Day. This story takes place between Ember Boys and Queer Fires."Fuel"Jim and Emmett go to the beach."Oxygen"Jim and Emmett explore new territory in their relationship. This story takes place between Queer Fires and The Whole World Tinder."Boys with Matches"Jim and Emmett go on a road trip to check out prospective colleges. This story is set after The Whole World Tinder. Please note that the first four stories were distributed previously in various formats."Boys with Matches" is exclusively available in this collection.
1636- the China Venture
Part #27 of "Ring of Fire" series by Eric Flint
Science Fiction & Fantasy
The Ring of Fire Series Continues! The United States of Europe finds itself embroiled in international intrigue, as the uptimers attempt to establish an embassy in Ming Dynasty era China.
The newly formed United States of Europe, created by an alliance between the time-displaced Americans from the town of Grantville and the Swedish king Gustavus Adolphus, decides to send an embassy to the Chinese empire. One of the main purposes of the embassy is to establish trade in order to gain access to critical resources. The mission is a gamble—some might say, a long shot. The Ming dynasty is on the verge of collapse and China’s rulers are suspicious of foreigners.
The mission experiences one setback after another, but presses on. And they gain an important ally along the way: Zheng Zhilong, a former pirate now an admiral for the Ming navy and the head of an extremely wealthy Fujian province trading family. He knows through his Jesuit missionary connections that according to Grantville's history books, the Ming dynasty is in danger, from famines, bandit armies and barbarian invaders. And he is determined that, one way or another, he and his family will survive and even prosper.
The embassy is joined as well by a young scholar, who helps them make inroads into China’s complex and often dangerous society. Can the up-timers and their friends persuade the imperial dynasty and its mandarins to establish trade and diplomatic relations with the USE? They have one great asset: their knowledge may be the key to saving China from decades of mass suffering and civil war.
About 1636: Seas of Fortune by Iver Cooper:
". . . expand[s] the Ring of Fire universe into new or previously limited geography and culture. 'Stretching Out' includes seven excellent entries mostly in South America and the Caribbean built on real events but with a nice Grantville twist. 'Rising Sun' contains five terrific tales ... also built on real events enhanced by historical speculation but with a nice Grantville twist."— Alternate Worlds
About 1635: A Parcel of Rogues :
"The 20th volume in this popular, fast-paced alternative history series follows close on the heels of the events in The Baltic War , picking up with the protagonists in London, including sharpshooter Julie Sims. This time the 20th-century transplants are determined to prevent the rise of Oliver Cromwell and even have the support of King Charles."— Library Journal
About 1634: The Galileo Affair :
"A rich, complex alternate history with great characters and vivid action. A great read and an excellent book."— David Drake
"Gripping . . . depicted with power!"— Publishers Weekly
About Eric Flint's Ring of Fire series:
“This alternate history series is . . . a landmark…”— Booklist
“[Eric] Flint's 1632 universe seems to be inspiring a whole new crop of gifted alternate historians.”— Booklist
“ . . . reads like a technothriller set in the age of the Medicis . . . ”— Publishers Weekly
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Grantville Gazette, Volume I
Eric Flint
Science Fiction & Fantasy
Ed Piazza, the Secretary of State of the small United States being forged in war-torn Germany during the Thirty Years War, has a problem on his hands. A religious conference has been called in nearby Rudolstadt which will determine doctrine for all the Lutherans in the nation. The hard-fought principle of religious freedom is at stake, threatened alike by intransigent theologians and students rioting in the streets.
As if that weren't bad enough:
the up-time American Lutherans are themselves divided;
a rambunctious old folk singer is cheerfully pouring gasoline on the flames;
* and a Calvinist "facilitator" from Geneva is maneuvering to get the U.S. involved with the developing revolutionary movement in Naples.
Stories include:
Portraits by Eric Flint
Anna's Story by Loren Jones
Curio and Relic by Tom Van Natta
The Sewing Circle by Gorg Huff
The Rudolstadt Colloquy by Virginia DeMarce
Radio in the 1632 Universe by Rick Boatright
They've Got Bread Mold, So Why Can't They Make Penicillin? by Robert Gottlieb
Horse Power by Karen Bergstralh
Scepter of Flint
N. L. Holmes
During the Great Jubilee of the Aten, a mysterious series of tomb robberies takes place, and witnesses begin to die. With plague ravaging the palace, where Hani's daughter is a physician, and Egypt's ally, Naharin, collapsing into the hands of a usurper, Hani must make sense of what is happening. And who in high places is his real enemy.
The Genie Out of the Vat
Part #2.75 of "Rats, Bats and Vats" series by Eric Flint
The Genie Out of the Vat is a story set in Eric Flint and Dave Freer's Rats, Bats and Vats universe.
The Superhero's Return
Part #1 of "Lightning Bolt" series by Lucas Flint
Young Adult / Fantasy / Science Fiction
The first Lightning Bolt book.
The Superhero's Strike
Part #4 of "Lightning Bolt" series by Lucas Flint
Young Adult / Fantasy / Science Fiction
The fourth Lightning Bolt book.
The Philosophical Strangler
Eric Flint
Science Fiction & Fantasy
When Greyboar, a professional strangler, discovers the Supreme Philosophy of Life, he becomes a new man--but how can a villain in good standing pay the bills with his philosophical exploration getting in the way? Then Greyboar's long-lost sister asks him to help persecuted dwarves escape their human oppressors.
Pyramid Scheme
Eric Flint
Science Fiction & Fantasy
An alien pyramid has appeared on Earth, squatting in the middle of Chicago. It is growing, destroying the city as it does — and nothing seems able to stop it, not even the might of the US military. Somehow, the alien device is snatching people and — for unknown reasons — transporting them into worlds of mythology. Dr Lukacs is one of the victims. Granted, he's an expert on mythology. But myths are not something he'd thought to encounter personally. Or wanted to! Sure, he has a couple of tough paratroopers along with him, as well as a blonde Amazon biologist and a very capable maintenance mechanic. Unfortunately, modern weapons don't work, and the Greek gods are out to kill the heroes.
Well, yes, they've got Medea and Arachne and the Sphinx on their side (both Sphinxes, actually — the Greek version as well as the Egyptian). And at least some of the Egyptian gods seem friendly.
But that can be a very mixed blessing, to say the least. Oh, and whatever you do—don't mention dwarf-tossing.
The Legacy Superhero Omnibus
Part #1 of "The Legacy Superhero" series by Lucas Flint
Young Adult / Fantasy / Science Fiction
The complete series omnibus for The Legacy Superhero. Contains all four books!
The Shaman of Karres
Part #4 of "Witches of Karres" series by Eric Flint
NEW ENTRY IN THE WITCHES OF KARRES SERIES BY NEW YORK TIMES BEST-SELLING AUTHOR ERIC FLINT & DAVE FREER
Captain Pausert just can’t catch a break!
First, he became the mortal enemy of his fiancée, his home planet, the Empire—and even the Worm World, the darkest threat to mankind in all of space. All because he helped rescue three slave children from their masters. Of course, these three young women were the universally feared Witches of Karres—but how was he to know that?!
And after he defeated the Worm World (with the help of the witches, of course), the Empress herself had sent him on a secret mission to stop a nanite plague that was raging across the galaxy. But an enemy had somehow convinced the Imperial Fleet that he was actually a wanted criminal, so after a battle leaving his ship in urgent need of repairs, Puasert and the witches of Karres joined an interstellar traveling circus in order to save the galaxy.
Now Pausert and the witches of Karres roam the spaceways again, this time dealing with a slaver-culture that somehow makes slaves happy to be in servitude, and a quest for a long-lost alien pet, during which the youngest witch, The Leewit, begins to come to her full powers as a healer—and of course generates chaos in her wake.
For Pausert, it’s all in a day’s work. But would it be too much to ask for a vacation?
About the Witches of Karres series:" This sequel [to The Witches of Karres] does honor to the original. . . a rolilicking ride. . . a rousing conclusion. . . "— Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine
Fans of humorous science fiction will enjoy this outing.”— School Library Journal on The Wizard of Karres
" This sequel does honor to the original. . . a rolilicking ride. . . matches Schmitz's narrative style and high standard of humor, imagination, and absurdity. . . .
About All the Plagues of Hell by Eric Flint & Dave Freer:“. . . a compelling tale of political, military, and magical conflict . . .” —Booklist
About Eric Flint:“A master of the genre.”— Booklist
“An SF author of particular note . . . one who can entertain and edify in equal, and major, measure.” — Publishers Weekly
About Dave Freer: “Dave Freer always delivers compelling, fast-moving and addictive fantasy adventures.”—Garth Nix **
Team Up
Part #2 of "Dimension Heroes" series by Lucas Flint
Young Adult / Fantasy / Science Fiction
The second book in the Dimension Heroes trilogy.
1634 The Baltic War
Eric Flint
Science Fiction & Fantasy
Collectible First Printing Hardcover with dust jacket
