Eric Flint Quotes

United States, Novelist
February 6, 1947

Eric Flint (born February 6, 1947) is an American author, editor, and e-publisher. The majority of his main works are alternate history science fiction, but he also writes humorous fantasy adventures. His works have been listed on the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, and Locus Magazine best seller lists.

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My first published novel was 'Mother of Demons,' which is simply 'The High Crusade' standing on its head. Poul Anderson placed his medieval human heroes in a futuristic alien setting; I placed my futuristic human heroes in a bronze age alien setting.

Eric Flint
- Mother
- High
- Age
The 'Heirs of Alexandria' series mixes the Renaissance with magic and demons, based on a changed theological history.

Eric Flint
- History
- Magic

The plans and schemes of tyrants are broken by many things. They shatter against cliffs of heroic struggle. They rupture on reefs of open resistance. And they are slowly eroded, bit by little bit, on the very beaches where they measure triumph, by countless grains of sand. By the stubborn little decencies of humble little men.

Eric Flint
- Men
- Struggle
- Broken
By the time I was twenty-three, I'd given up any thought of becoming a fiction writer, and I didn't return to the craft for over two decades. But, at the age of forty-five, return I did.

Eric Flint
- Up
- Time
- Age
Poul Anderson's 'The High Crusade' may have had a greater impact on my development as a writer than any other book I ever read.

Eric Flint
- May
- Book
- High