title: Grantville Gazette IV
author:  Eric Flint 
description: Eric Flint is the author/creator of the <i>New York Times</i> best-selling Ring of Fire series. His impressive first novel, <i>Mother of Demons</i> (Baen), was selected by <i>SF Chronicle</i> as one of the best novels of 1997. With David Drake he has written six popular novels in the Belisarius series, including the new novel <i>The Dance of Time</i>, and with David Weber collaborated on <i>1633</i>, and <i>1634: The Baltic War</i>, two novels in the Ring of Fire series, and on <i>Crown of Slaves</i>, a best of the year pick by <i>Publishers Weekly</i>. Flint received his masters degree in history from UCLA and was for many years a labor union activist. He lives in East Chicago, IL, with his wife and is working on more books in the best-selling Ring of Fire series.
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  ## Grantville Gazette .Volume XXIII
  
  
    
  
  
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  ## Eric Flint
  
  
  
  
  
  ## Grantville Gazette .Volume XXIII
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  What is this? About the Grantville Gazette
  
  
  Written by Grantville Gazette Staff
  
  
  The Grantville Gazette originated as a by-product of the ongoing and very
  active discussions which take place concerning the 1632 universe Eric Flint
  created in the novels 1632, 1633 and 1634: The Galileo Affair (the latter two
  books co-authored by David Weber and Andrew Dennis, respectively). This
  discussion is centered in three of the conferences in Baen's Bar, the
  discussion area of Baen Books' web site. The conferences are entitled "1632
  Slush," "1632 Slush Comments" and "1632 Tech Manual." They have been in
  operation for almost seven years now, during which time nearly two hundred
  thousand posts have been made by hundreds of participants.
  
  
  Soon enough, the discussion began generating so-called "fanfic," stories
  written in the se