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Flint Lights the Way to Adventure!

New York Times best-seller, master-class alternate historian, and creator of the "Ring of Fire" saga Eric Flint delivers an explosion of tales filled with well-turned action, wit and wonder.  First: a heart-wrenching saga of love, guts and daring as a husband and wife, forced into an arranged marriage, fall in love for the first time while fighting their way toward one another in the midst of an alternate Roman war.  Flint follows with stories set in David Weber's legendary "Honorverse" and Flint's own "1632" series.  It's all topped with the gem of a tongue-in-cheek sword and sorcery novella (and Writer's of the Future grand prize winner) that first announced Eric Flint's arrival on the SF scene like a cannon-shot a dawn!

Cover Art by Tom Kidd

Hardcover
This is a work of fiction. All the characters and events portrayed in this book are fictional, and any resemblance to real people or incidents is purely coincidental.

First printing, February 2009

Distributed by Simon & Schuster
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New York, NY 10020

Pages by Joy Freeman (www.pagesbyjoy.com)
Printed in the United States of America

ISBN-13: 978-1-4165-9142-9
ISBN-10: 1-4165-9142-7

Copyright© 2009 by Eric Flint

All rights reserved, including the right to reproduce this book or portions thereof in any form.

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BAEN BOOKS by ERIC FLINT

The Ring of Fire series:

1632 by Eric Flint
1633 by Eric Flint & David Weber
1634: The Baltic War by Eric Flint & David Weber
Ring of Fire ed. by Eric Flint
1634: The Galileo Affair by Eric Flint & Andrew Dennis
Grantville Gazette ed. by Eric Flint
Grantville Gazette II ed. by Eric Flint
1634: The Ram Rebellion by Eric Flint with Virginia DeMarce et al.
1634: The Bavarian Crisis by Eric Flint with Virginia DeMarce
1635: The Cannon Law with Andrew Dennis
Grantville Gazette III ed. by Eric Flint
Ring of Fire II ed. by Eric Flint
Grantville Gazette IV ed. by Eric Flint
1635: The Dreeson Incident by Eric Flint & Virginia DeMarce

With Dave Freer:

Rats, Bats & Vats • The Rats, The Bats & the Ugly

Pyramid Scheme • Pyramid Power

Slow Train to Arcturus

With Mercedes Lackey & Dave Freer:

The Shadow of the Lion • This Rough Magic

With David Drake:

The Tyrant

The Belisarius Series

An Oblique Approach • In the Heart of Darkness
Belisarius: Thunder at Dawn • Destiny's Shield • Fortune's Stroke
Belisarius II: Storm at Noontide • The Tide of Victory
The Dance of Time • Belisarius III: The Flames at Sunset

Joe's World series:

The Philosophical Strangler • Forward the Mage (with Richard Roach)

Standalone Titles

Mother of Demons

Crown of Slaves (with David Weber)

The Course of Empire (with K.D. Wentworth)

Boundary (with Ryk E. Spoor)

Mountain Magic (with Ryk E. Spoor, David Drake & Henry Kuttner)