{"title":"Eric Flint","description":"Eric Flint was the creator of the New York Times best-selling Ring of Fire series, the best-selling alternate history series of all time. Beginning with 1632, Flint--along with dozens of cowriters--chronicled what happened when the 20th-century town of Grantville, West Virginia, was transported through time and space to 17th-century Europe. In addition, Flint was the author, with New York Times best seller David Weber, of the Crown of Slaves Saga, as well as the Belisarius series with best-selling author David Drake. Flint was the editor of Jim Baen's Universe, as well as numerous short story anthologies. Before becoming a writer, Flint worked as a trade union organizer, longshoreman, truck driver, auto worker, steel worker, oil worker, meatpacker, glassblower, and machinist. Eric Flint passed away in 2022.","products":[{"product_id":"1637-the-french-correction-mass-market-paperbound","title":"1637: The French Correction - Mass Market Paperbound","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003eRING OF FIRE SERIES ENTRY FROM THE LATE ERIC FLINT AND BEST-SELLING AUTHOR WALTER HUNT: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe King is dead: Long Live the King. But which one? Gaston sits on the throne in Paris, but the dead king's infant son has powerful forces on his side, ready to place him where he belongs. Who will prevail?\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTensions build in France following the ascension of Gaston to the throne of his murdered brother, but there are factions supporting the claim of King Louis' surviving infant son. As France moves toward civil war, other parties, both visible and invisible, maneuver to take advantage of the increased tension. Who will survive to reign over France--King Gaston, the exiled child and his regents, or the King of Spain?","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50101847720159,"sku":"9781668073261","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/tK1aLhipwL9781668073261.webp?v=1781075754"},{"product_id":"1635-the-weavers-code-mass-market-paperbound","title":"1635: The Weaver's Code - Mass Market Paperbound","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNEW RING OF FIRE SERIES ENTRY FROM THE LATE ERIC FLINT AND BEST-SELLING AUTHOR JODY LYNN NYE\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWith her family's finances in a downward spiral and taxes threatening, Margaret de Beauchamp is in London as her family's emissary to the Earl of Cork, the king's chancellor. While waiting for an audience, she decides to indulge her curiosity and visit the new \"up-timers,\" ambassadors originally from somewhere called West Virginia, and reportedly \"the future.\" They are imprisoned in the Tower of London, but are able to entertain visitors, becoming the latest curiosity of the fashionable set. An escape plan is in place, but vital parts are missing. Margaret might be able to make Harry Lefferts's wild scheme possible. Agreeing to assist the charming rogue, she finds herself ever more involved with the up-timers, visiting Magdeburg and bringing back technology that could save her family and the entire wool trade from the chancellor's greed. But all of England is in chaos with mercenaries everywhere and the crown stealing estates all over the North. By introducing aqualator computers to save the wool trade and weavers, the young gentlewoman and her new up-timer allies find themselves threatened by spies, raiders, and even pirates.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50102549283039,"sku":"9781668072943","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/Oh0Hp5Kqy29781668072943.webp?v=1781083469"},{"product_id":"fenrir-hardcover","title":"Fenrir - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWhen astronomer Stephanie Bronson uncovers a massive alien vessel named \u003ci\u003eFenrir\u003c\/i\u003e racing toward the Sun, she must lead a desperate mission to rescue its crew before a catastrophic failure dooms them both to fiery destruction.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIt was just a dot of light . . . \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e. . . a dot of light that appeared out of nowhere. Stephanie Bronson thought she might have found a distant supernova. Instead, what she'd found was something more than a thousand miles across, moving towards the Sun at almost a third the speed of light from the constellation of Lupus, the Wolf. Even more frightening, the object--called Fenrir, after the Norse Wolf of the World's End--was slowing down. It was not a comet or even a rogue planet. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIt was an alien vessel. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAnd despite the increasingly detailed and insistent messages of greeting from Earth, it showed no sign of responding. As the world braced itself for the arrival of the immense, frighteningly silent alien visitor, Stephanie held hope that they still might communicate with \u003ci\u003eFenrir\u003c\/i\u003e--until something happened that no one had imagined: \u003ci\u003eFenrir\u003c\/i\u003e flared and its drive died, leaving the huge ship careening out of control to a fiery death inside the orbit of Venus. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThere was--just possibly--a chance for Earth to act--to rescue the now-shipwrecked \"Fens.\" But even Stephanie--or those trying to stop her and the rescue ship \u003ci\u003eCarpathia\u003c\/i\u003e--could not imagine that not merely the fate of the aliens, but that of Earth itself, would be decided by \u003ci\u003eFenrir\u003c\/i\u003e.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50103160340703,"sku":"9781668072660","price":28.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/Qk11aQgGHL9781668072660.webp?v=1781090403"},{"product_id":"eric-flints-1632-beyond-special-issue-2-paperback","title":"Eric Flint's 1632 \u0026 Beyond Special Issue #2 - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis is a reissue of the second half of A 1632 Christmas, . The first half is Special Issue 1 from November 2024. Jackie Britton Lopatin's \"Grantville's Secret Santa\" tells how Grantville changed one woman's once-bleak future to fulfillment. In Chuck Thompson's \"The Gift,\" Inez Wiley convinces her down-time friends not to leave her. Mark Huston's \"At Christmas Time\" follows a simple letter and its impact. Sarah Hay's \"No Proper Carol\" follows a search for hard to find up-time music. Edith Wild's \"A Christmas Stollen\" tells more of Amalia's story. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Leaving Grantville, John Deakin's tale \"At the Schickelmans'\" follows their first Christmas celebration in the New World. 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