Finally, over the summer, I’ll be writing the sequel to The Rivers of War and I believe that’ll come out sometime by the end of next year.
CO: Where can we find more information on you and your works?
EF: My own web site: www.ericflint.net. Fair warning, though: I haven’t updated the site in over half a year and won’t be able to for another few weeks, until I get The Dance of Time finished.
CO: Anything you’d like to say to your readers?
EF: Yes. I want to urge anyone, especially anyone who has been following the Heirs of Alexandria series I’ve been doing with Misty Lackey and Dave Freer – the first two books of which are The Shadow of the Lion and This Rough Magic – to buy Dave Freer’s A Mankind Witch when it comes out this July. A Mankind Witch is an integral part of the whole series, not a “spin-off.” (Chronologically, it takes place between The Shadow of the Lion and This Rough Magic, and follows the adventures of several main characters – Prince Manfred, Erik and Francesca – during the one-year interval between the two books.) Dave Freer is much less well known than either Misty or I, and has mostly gotten published as a co-author for one or both of us, but he’s an excellent writer in his own right. Hopefully, A Mankind Witch will get him solidly established as an independent writer. He well deserves it, and the book is a very good one.
Eric Flint resides in Chicago and can always be relied upon to make any conversation interesting. Beware though, when you talk to him even if you vehemently disagree with him he as a way about him that will have you nodding your head in time to what he says and he’ll have changed your mind before you even knew he had tried. It’s very disconcerting, but an amazing thing to watch. In addition to his own works Eric is working with Baen to re-release a large amount of classic science fiction. For information on upcoming interviews see my blog www.iwt.blogspot.com.
Article comments
1 - Dave Nalle
Great interview. I've already got my copy of Rivers of War on order. Flint is really doing some interesting and creative stuff, especially in the alternate history genre.
Dave
2 - Victor Plenty
Flint's gotta be good to get Dave and me agreeing, especially on any subject remotely related to politics or economics.
In recent months I've been reading everything by Flint I can legally read without having any money to spend, ever since I happened across 1632.
So definitely count me as another who's glad to see this interview here.
3 - SFC SKI
Baen.com has a lot of free books, including a few by Eric Flint. IIRC, he is the overseer of the site.
4 - Dave Nalle
They also do some cool things, like putting books on CD in the backs of other books. Usually something I've already read, but still interesting to see.
Dave
5 - theco
Eric can be found running rampant on the Baen message boards over at www.bar.baen.com:8080 although tRoW is a Del-Rey piece, Glad y'all enjoyed. Something else that he did with Dave Freer that is gut busting hilarious is "Pyramaid Scheme".
6 - Victor Plenty
Yes, Pyramid Scheme is excellent. Funny-hilarious, with a good cast of vivid sympathetic characters, roller-coaster action and battle scenes, and marvelous use of history and mythology. I especially loved their surprising but well-justified portrayal of Odysseus and his men.
Plus, peeking out from under all that entertainment, some profound political and philosophical messages aptly suited to the questions of our day. The authors don't belabor their points, but they're there for any readers who enjoy finding a more substantial meal tucked into all the popcorn.
7 - flintfan
trail-of-glory.com has the rivers of war snippets s-s-m-w-f
8 - Theco
I'll be working on a few more interviews this summer, and probably another one with Eric, the man simply knows to much for me not to want to pump his brain. My blog has a couple names listed, and i'll also be starting blogspectrum.blogspot.com back up next week.