On July 17, 2022, our beloved friend and Superstars co-founder Eric Flint passed away. Eric Flint’s writing career began with the novel Mother of Demons, published in 1997. With David Drake, he collaborated on the six novels in the Belisarius series (An Oblique Approach, In the Heart of Darkness, Destiny’s Shield, Fortune’s Stroke, The Tide of  Victory, and The Dance of Time), as well as a novel entitled The Tyrant. His alternate history novel 1632 was published in 2000, followed by many sequels, several of which made the New York Times bestseller list. In addition to the twenty-three novels he wrote in the 1632 series, he edited twelve anthologies of short fiction set in that universe. He was the founder and publisher of Ring of Fire Press, which published over fifty books, as well as the electronic magazine The Grantville Gazette. The Gazette, which produced about ninety issues, focused mostly on the 1632 series but also published general science fiction and fantasy stories.

His Joe’s World fantasy novels include The Philosophical Strangler and Forward the Mage. He wrote alternate history novels that took place in Jacksonian America, including 1812: The Rivers of War and 1824: The Arkansas War. Flint, a frequent co-author, wrote SF adventure novels with Dave Freer, including Rats, Bats & Vats, The Rats, the Bats, and the Ugly, and Pyramid Scheme. With Mercedes Lackey and Dave Freer, he worked on a fantasy series, including The Shadow of the Lion, This Rough Magic, Much Fall of Blood, Burdens of the Dead, and All the Plagues of Hell. With David Weber, he wrote a series of novels set in Weber’s Honor Harrington universe: Crown of Slaves, Torch of Freedom, Cauldron of Ghosts, and To End in Fire. With Ryk Spoor, he wrote hard SF novels, which include Boundary, Threshold, Portal, Castaway Planet, Castaway Odyssey, and Castaway Resolution.
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Two SF adventure novels in the Jao Empire trilogy with K.D. Wentworth, The Course of Empire and The Crucible of Empire. He wrote the third volume in the series, The Span of Empire, with David Carrico. In addition to his own writing, Flint reissued the works of past SF authors, which included James H. Schmitz, Keith Laumer, Christopher Anvil, Murray Leinster, Randall Garrett, Tom Godwin and Howard L. Myers. He also served as the editor of the online science fiction and fantasy magazine, Jim Baen’s Universe.

‍Flint graduated summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from the University of California at Los Angeles in 1968 and later received a master's degree in history from the same university. Despite his academic credentials, Flint spent the next quarter of a century 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 lived at various times in California, Michigan, West Virginia, Alabama, Ohio, and Illinois, and with his wife Lucille, in northwest Indiana.