Eric Flint Books in Order
Browse Eric Flint’s books in order, with series overviews, summaries, and notes on where his alternate history and collaborations intersect with projects involving John Ringo.
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Eric Flint books in publication order
60 books
Mother of Demons
by Eric Flint
1997
After a human spacecraft crashes on an alien world, its surviving children and adults must make a life among the Gukuy. Their knowledge becomes both an advantage and a moral burden as local conflicts threaten their new community.
An Oblique Approach
by Eric Flint
1998
Byzantine general Belisarius receives a mysterious crystal that reveals a future threatened by the Malwa Empire. Guided by its intelligence, he must prepare for enemies whose advanced weapons and ambitions could transform the ancient world into a tyranny.
In the Heart of Darkness
by Eric Flint
1998
Belisarius travels into the heart of the Malwa Empire, where a powerful enemy is reshaping history with knowledge from the future. Intrigue, deception, and dangerous alliances become essential weapons as he searches for a way to resist its expansion.
Destiny's Shield
by Eric Flint
1999
As Malwa armies threaten Persia, Belisarius must preserve an alliance essential to resisting their conquest. Political upheaval and overwhelming enemy numbers complicate a campaign in which rival intelligences from the future are supplying both sides with extraordinary advantages.
1632
by Eric Flint
2000
The West Virginia town of Grantville is suddenly transported to Germany during the Thirty Years' War. Led by Mike Stearns, its residents must defend themselves while their technology and democratic ideals challenge the violence and hierarchies of seventeenth-century Europe.
Fortune's Stroke
by Eric Flint
2000
Belisarius and Antonina confront the Malwa Empire's vast armies as the struggle spreads across Mesopotamia. Their alliance must turn superior knowledge into practical military advantages while facing an enemy whose own guidance from the future makes every campaign dangerous.
The Philosophical Strangler
by Eric Flint
2001
Greyboar, a professional strangler, begins questioning the meaning of his work and embraces a philosophy that complicates his lucrative career. His manager Ignace struggles to keep business going as ethical dilemmas and improbable adventures disrupt their lives.
The Tide of Victory
by Eric Flint
2001
Belisarius leads an international alliance toward the Malwa Empire's heartland, using new weapons and vessels to challenge its dominance. Military progress brings fresh dangers as betrayal, assassination, and the enemy's intelligence from the future threaten the campaign.
Forward the Mage
by Eric Flint
2002
Artist Benvenuti arrives in Grotum seeking patronage, only to encounter a mad king and a missing wizard. Joined by unlikely companions, he becomes caught in a comic quest involving royal troubles, revolutionaries, and the threat of invasion.
The Course of Empire
by Eric Flint
2003
Two decades after the Jao conquered Earth, humanity faces a potentially exterminating attack by the Ekhat. A young Jao leader and a human woman seek cooperation between former enemies, confronting an occupying regime and resistance that could undermine their defense.
1634: The Galileo Affair
by Eric Flint
2004
An American mission to Venice brings modern medical knowledge and political ideas into a Europe transformed by Grantville's arrival. Efforts to combat disease become entangled with religious authority, radical activism, and the controversy surrounding Galileo and his discoveries.
Grantville Gazette
by Eric Flint
2004
These stories explore how Grantville's displaced Americans and their seventeenth-century neighbors adapt to a shared world. Accompanying nonfiction examines practical problems behind the series, including medicines, communications, and the technologies a modern town might realistically introduce into the past.
Grantville Gazette II
by Eric Flint
2004
This collection expands Grantville's altered Europe through adventures involving espionage, diplomacy, education, and cultural change. Alongside stories about Americans and their new neighbors, technical essays investigate subjects such as geology, telecommunications, and the practical limits of transplanted knowledge.
The Rats, the Bats and the Ugly
by Eric Flint
2004
Genetically enhanced rats and bats join a human soldier in uncovering a dangerous secret about humanity's supposed alien allies. Surviving combat is only part of their problem: they must persuade military authorities to recognize a threat hidden behind the war.
1812: The Rivers of War
by Eric Flint
2005
A different turn in Sam Houston's experience at the Battle of Horseshoe Bend begins reshaping the War of 1812 era. Soldiers, Native Americans, and political leaders navigate an altered history in which frontier conflicts may produce a different American future.
1634: The Ram Rebellion
by Eric Flint
2006
Modern ideas from Grantville unsettle the farmers and ordinary people of Franconia, where older social arrangements begin to buckle. These linked stories follow the practical disputes, political tensions, and unexpected consequences that accompany the spread of democratic reform.
1635: The Cannon Law
by Eric Flint
2006
In Rome, Cardinal Borja plots to strengthen Spanish power and remove Pope Urban VIII amid upheaval caused by Grantville's arrival. Americans and local allies must navigate conspiracy and religious politics as their opponents prepare a violent challenge to the papacy.
1824: The Arkansas War
by Eric Flint
2006
A new Arkansas nation built by Native Americans and free Black people challenges the interests of American slaveholders. As the 1824 presidential contest sharpens political tensions, its defenders face a war that could determine their independence and future.
Grantville Gazette III
by Eric Flint
2006
Grantville's influence reaches university students, clergy, entrepreneurs, and ordinary Europeans in this collection of alternate-history stories. New ideas about finance, religion, culture, and medicine create opportunities and conflicts as seventeenth-century communities encounter knowledge brought from the modern world.
The Dance of Time
by Eric Flint
2006
Belisarius and his allies prepare a decisive campaign against the Malwa Empire and the intelligence from the future directing it. Their coalition spans continents, but mistrust, assassins, and the demands of warfare threaten the effort to break its power.
1634: The Bavarian Crisis
by Eric Flint
2007
Grantville's industrial knowledge offers opportunities to revive the Palatinate's mines while war and dynastic politics continue across Europe. Information about future events complicates the ambitions of rulers and diplomats, creating crises that extend far beyond the Americans' immediate surroundings.
Pyramid Power
by Eric Flint
2007
An alien pyramid sends a military team into the dangerous world of Norse mythology. Mythologist Jerry Lukacs must help navigate gods, treachery, and supernatural rules, with Loki's fate and the prospect of Ragnarok making escape increasingly complicated.
1635: The Dreeson Incident
by Eric Flint
2008
Grantville's ordinary routines become vulnerable when French agents discover the value of its discarded technical information. Meanwhile, an enemy from earlier conspiracies turns his attention toward Mike Stearns and Rebecca, bringing international intrigue into the displaced town's daily life.
Grantville Gazette IV
by Eric Flint
2008
Teenage investors, printers, soldiers, and musicians find new possibilities in the Europe transformed by Grantville. This anthology follows people adapting familiar skills to unfamiliar circumstances, from financial ventures and military traditions to modern music's encounter with older cultural expectations.
Slow Train to Arcturus
by Eric Flint
2008
An alien explorer survives a disastrous encounter with a human generation ship divided into many isolated habitats. With a human companion, he must cross societies that have developed radically different customs and dangers while trying to return to his own vessel.
Time Spike
by Eric Flint
2008
An Illinois prison abruptly lands in a prehistoric environment, leaving Captain Andrew Blacklock responsible for guards and inmates far from civilization. Dinosaurs and displaced groups from other historical periods complicate the struggle to establish order and survive an unfamiliar world.
When Diplomacy Fails
by Eric Flint
2008
This anthology gathers military science fiction and fantasy about soldiers confronting enemies, difficult commands, and the costs of conflict. Across battles involving alien forces, altered bodies, and fantastic creatures, the stories examine what happens when negotiation gives way to violence.
Grantville Gazette V
by Eric Flint
2009
Richelieu seeks the historical figures behind a future novel while other stories explore radio, research, and encounters with distant cultures. This collection follows Grantville's knowledge spreading through seventeenth-century society, where seemingly small discoveries can disrupt politics and everyday assumptions.
Worlds
by Eric Flint
2009
This collection brings together Eric Flint's shorter fiction across alternate history, fantasy, and military science fiction. Stories connected to established fictional universes sit alongside other work, offering conflicts shaped by unfamiliar societies, political pressures, and encounters beyond ordinary experience.
1635: The Eastern Front
by Eric Flint
2010
Gustavus Adolphus launches a campaign against Brandenburg, Saxony, and Poland, drawing the United States of Europe into a dangerous war. Former prime minister Mike Stearns now commands troops, confronting military responsibility while political tensions and family concerns complicate his position.
The Crucible of Empire
by Eric Flint
2010
The alliance between humans and the Jao faces another test as the genocidal Ekhat remain a threat. Cooperation forged after Earth's occupation must withstand new pressures, with the partners' different histories and outlooks complicating their efforts to confront a common enemy.
The Sorceress of Karres
by Eric Flint
2010
Captain Pausert travels with young witches whose powers repeatedly draw him into trouble across the galaxy. A new threat sends them toward the pirate planet of Chaladoor and a mission through time, where protecting galactic peace requires extraordinary risks.
1636: The Saxon Uprising
by Eric Flint
2011
An injured emperor leaves the United States of Europe vulnerable to a struggle between aristocratic power and democratic reform. As unrest grows in Saxony, Mike Stearns must confront military orders and political repression that threaten Gretchen Richter and her allies.
Grantville Gazette VI
by Eric Flint
2011
These stories return to the people living through Grantville's upheaval of seventeenth-century Europe, giving supporting characters adventures of their own. Political change, cultural encounters, and everyday social tensions shape their efforts to build lives amid war and unfamiliar possibilities.
Grantville Gazette VII
by Eric Flint
2011
Modern Americans and seventeenth-century Europeans navigate friendships, ambitions, and political change in this Ring of Fire anthology. The stories follow lives beyond the central novels, exploring how ideas about freedom and democracy affect people caught in Grantville's altered world.
1636: The Kremlin Games
by Eric Flint
2012
Grantville mechanic Bernie Zeppi goes to Russia, where practical American knowledge could transform an agrarian society. Industrial experiments and modern medicine offer possibilities, but introducing them means confronting entrenched interests, court politics, and the resistance that accompanies rapid change.
Grantville Gazette VIII
by Eric Flint
2012
This anthology follows Americans and Europeans adapting to the technological, political, and cultural upheavals caused by Grantville's arrival. Its varied stories explore lives across the Ring of Fire world, where new opportunities develop alongside the dangers of seventeenth-century warfare.
1636: The Viennese Waltz
by Eric Flint
2014
American mechanics and young financial innovators arrive in Vienna as a Habsburg emperor seeks peace with the United States of Europe. Their plans encounter economic instability, suspicious elites, and cultural conflict, with modern machines creating both excitement and political trouble.
The Aethers of Mars
by Eric Flint
2014
Two steampunk tales explore a Mars shaped by imperial ambitions and dangerous missions. Eric Flint follows an assassin and the agents pursuing him, while Charles E. Gannon sends a poisoned veteran searching for the antidote that could save his life.
1636: The Cardinal Virtues
by Eric Flint
2015
France's royal succession becomes a source of conspiracy when Queen Anne's pregnancy threatens the expectations of rival claimants. Cardinal Richelieu must navigate enemies around Louis XIII's court, where protecting the queen means safeguarding a future others are determined to prevent.
1635: A Parcel of Rogues
by Eric Flint
2016
After escaping the Tower of London, Oliver Cromwell and his companions remain in Britain while royal agents hunt them. Their flight into Scotland entangles sharpshooter Julie Sims and her allies in ruthless politics and conflicts over Cromwell's historical reputation.
Black Tide Rising
by Eric Flint
2016
This anthology set in John Ringo’s Black Tide Rising universe gathers tales of survival and resistance from multiple authors. From rooftop communities to desperate emergency teams, each story shows new angles on how ordinary people adapt when the zombie plague upends the world.
1636: Mission to the Mughals
by Eric Flint
2017
A mission from the United States of Europe travels to Mughal India seeking medicine supplies and trade. Court rivalries, a grieving emperor, and alliances with ambitious royals complicate negotiations as knowledge of future history begins changing their destinies.
1636: The Ottoman Onslaught
by Eric Flint
2017
An Ottoman army equipped with weapons inspired by Grantville advances on Vienna, determined to avoid its historical failures. Mike Stearns must balance a campaign in Bavaria with Austria's desperate need for help against an enemy using knowledge of the future.
Iron Angels
by Eric Flint
2017
FBI agent Jasper Wilde investigates a kidnapping, a disturbing apparition, and a mutilated body near Chicago's steel industry. Working with Temple Black's anomalies unit, he uncovers rival cults whose conflict suggests an ancient evil has entered the modern world.
1637: The Volga Rules
by Eric Flint
2018
Russian serfs inspired by Grantville's ideals flee toward freedom while Czar Mikhail establishes a government in exile at Ufa. Their journeys converge amid bandit attacks and aristocratic resistance determined to destroy both the czar and the prospect of reform.
The Demons of Paris
by Eric Flint
2018
A demonic rift brings a modern van, a teacher, and students into fourteenth-century Paris, where supernatural murders already threaten the city. Spirits possess their electronic devices, drawing the newcomers into royal intrigues and a struggle to contain dangerous forces.
Worlds 2
by Eric Flint
2018
This collection gathers Eric Flint's shorter science fiction, fantasy, and alternate history, including stories set in the Ring of Fire and Honor Harrington universes. Introductions explain their origins, alongside Martian steampunk, humorous religious tales, and collaborations from other shared worlds.
1636: The China Venture
by Eric Flint
2019
The United States of Europe sends an embassy to Ming China seeking trade and essential resources. Suspicious officials and a dynasty nearing collapse endanger the mission, while a powerful admiral and former pirate offers an unexpected avenue toward success.
1637: The Polish Maelstrom
by Eric Flint
2019
As Ottoman forces pressure Austria, Mike Stearns proposes opening another front while revolution spreads through Polish territories. Gretchen Richter's forces and competing allies become entangled in a struggle where liberation, imperial expansion, and military necessity threaten to collide.
Council of Fire
by Eric Flint
2019
Halley's Comet transforms the world in 1759, cutting America off from Europe and unleashing poorly controlled magic. Rival colonial powers and divided Indigenous nations face monstrous threats, forcing former enemies to consider alliances that once seemed impossible.
Venus, Mars and Hell
by Eric Flint
2019
Three adventures combine interplanetary travel with supernatural intrigue: pilot Sarah Brown undertakes dangerous naval missions in Hell and on Venus, while young Charlotte Luff's Martian visit draws her into a violent struggle involving imperial police, revolutionaries, and alien interests.
1636: The Atlantic Encounter
by Eric Flint
2020
An expedition from the United States of Europe crosses the Atlantic to investigate a New World increasingly claimed by France. Equipped with modern technology and knowledge of slavery and Indigenous devastation, its members hope to shape a different colonial future.
The Demons of Constantinople
by Eric Flint
2020
Demon Pucorl and modern teenagers travel to fourteenth-century Constantinople seeking a way to close a supernatural rift. Imperial and religious intrigues obstruct them, while an Ottoman ruler plans conquest with an enslaved ancient creature powerful enough to threaten the city.
The Shaman of Karres
by Eric Flint
2020
Captain Pausert and the witches of Karres encounter a society whose slaves seem content with servitude and begin searching for a lost alien pet. The Leewit's emerging healing powers add another unpredictable complication to their travels through a dangerous galaxy.
1637: Dr. Gribbleflotz and the Soul of Stoner
by Eric Flint
2021
Alchemist Phillip Gribbleflotz confronts Tom Stone over fake treatments that threaten the reputation of modern medicine. Their dispute brings them onto a collision course with showman Bernardo Ponzi, whose fraudulent healing enterprise is beginning to cause real harm.
1637: The Peacock Throne
by Eric Flint
2021
After Shah Jahan's assassination, his heirs battle for the Mughal throne while the American trade mission supports Princess Jahanara and Dara Shikoh. A search for medical supplies becomes entangled with recruiting military allies and surviving an expanding civil war.
A 1632 Christmas
by Eric Flint
2021
Twenty-one holiday stories explore how displaced Americans and seventeenth-century communities celebrate Christmas and other seasonal traditions. Across the altered world of Grantville, familiar customs meet unfamiliar beliefs, creating cultural misunderstandings, new connections, and opportunities to rethink what the holidays mean.
Grantville Gazette IX
by Eric Flint
2021
This anthology follows Grantville's displaced Americans and seventeenth-century people adapting to the town's arrival during the Thirty Years' War. Stories explore how modern technology and political ideas transform individual lives and communities struggling to survive a radically changing historical world.
The Macedonian Hazard
by Eric Flint
2021
More than a year after their cruise ship reaches the ancient Mediterranean, Captain Lars Floden and the Ship People try to establish modern civilization. Alliances with Alexander's successors face ruthless rivals seeking to turn his fractured empire into their own domains.
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