Eric Flint - Author

CONvergence is pleased to welcome author Eric Flint as a Guest of Honor at CONvergence 2003.

Born in southern California in 1947, Eric spent five years living in France before returning to finish high school in Los Angeles and eventually graduating summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from UCLA.

Eric Flint had been writing science fiction and fantasy stories for years, but didn't really "buckle down and start writing seriously" until 1992 at age 45. That year he wrote a short story entitled Entropy, and the Strangler won first place in the Winter 1992 Writers of the Future contest, which was founded by L. Ron Hubbard. Eric followed that success with a variety of short stories, many of which were in collaboration with long-time writing partner Richard Roach.

Eric's first published novel was Mother of Demons for Baen Books in 1993, and was shortly thereafter asked by Jim Baen to collaborate with David Drake on a series of alternate history/military SF novels based on the historical figure of Belisarius. Eric spent most of 1997-1999 writing the first four books in the Belisarius series (An Oblique Approach, In the Heart of Darkness, Destiny's Shield and Fortune's Stroke). Other collaborations have included Rats, Bats, & Vats and Pyramid Scheme with Dave Freer, and Heirs of Alexandria with Freer and Mercedes Lackey.

Eric went solo again in 1999 with the novel 1632, which spawned sequels to form the ASSITI SHARDS series. Eric also works as an editor, working on reissues of works by James H. Schmitz and Keith Laumer.

For more on Eric Flint and a complete listing of his works (including forthcoming releases) visit www.ericflint.net.