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Eric Flint
Eric Flint's writing career began with the science fiction novel Mother of Demons. with David Drake, he has collaborated on the six-volume Belisarius series, as well as a novel entitled The Tyrant. His alternate history novel 1632 was published in 2000, and has led to a long-running series with many novels and anthologies in print. He recently began a new alternate history series set in North America with 1812: The Rivers of War and 1824: The Arkansas War. In addition, he’s written a number of science fiction and fantasy novels.
Flint graduated from the University of California at Los Angeles in 1968, majoring in history (with honors), and later received a masters degree in African history from the same university. Despite his academic credentials, Flint has spent most of his adult life as an activist in the American trade union movement, working as a longshoreman, truck driver, auto worker, steel worker, oil worker, meatpacker, glassblower and machinist. He has lived at various times in California, Michigan, West Virginia, Alabama, Ohio, and Illinois. He currently resides in northwest Indiana with his wife Lucille.
Programming for Eric Flint
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| Thu | 17:00 | (A04) | 1 hr |
The Alternate Alternate History Panel
Panelists provide examples of historical events in which time travelers clearly intervened to produce what we know as the historical outcome. For example, Archduke Ferdinand is assassinated in Sarajevo when his driver makes a wrong turn at the exact corner where an assassin who had earlier failed to attack the Archduke happened to be standing, and World War One breaks out. |
| Thu | 19:00 | (A04) | 1 hr |
1632 and Beyond
What happens when a West Virginia town is transported through time and space to 1632 and finds itself in the midst of the Thirty Years War? The panel discusses the challenges of writing such an alternate history and how they collaborate to bring the universe to life. |
| Fri | 12:00 | (KK1) | 1 hr |
KaffeeKlatsch: Fri 12:00
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| Fri | 17:00 | (A05) | 1 hr |
Why Does the Left Still Love Military Science Fiction?
It's not surprising for the Right to love military SF, but people of all political stripes buy, read, write and publish military SF. |
| Sat | 12:00 | (C01) | 1 hr |
The Importance of Continuity
In long running series -- whether TV, written series, or comic series -- how important is continuity? Does getting all the details right matter, or does it hinder creativity and paint the author into a corner? Are there some bits that you can’t worry about? Does it matter if it's your own series vs. writing in a shared universe? |
| Sat | 15:00 | (Hall 2 Autographs) | 1 hr |
Autographing: Sat 15:00
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| Sat | 16:00 | (D04) | 1 hr |
Publishing in the Age of e-Books
The publishing industry is changing rapidly as digital books and magazines start to take a noticeable share of the market. This will have important effects on SF/F/H people. How will customers find, buy, read their books and how will publishers provide them? How will writers make money? What role is played by digital rights management? |
Home Page: http://www.ericflint.net