It’s with the deepest sadness and a heavy heart we inform you of Eric Flint’s death at the age of 75. The heartbreaking news was shared on social media on July 18, 2022.

John Scalzi shared the devastating news of Eric Flint’s death on Twitter, writing, “Hearing from sources I consider reliable that author Eric Flint has passed away.”

He continued: “What a loss for science fiction and fantasy, and especially for alternate history, where he wrote the book on the genre with his 1632 series. He was always kind and decent, and I admired him. RIP.”

Eric Flint was born on February 6, 1947, in Burbank, California. He was an author, editor, and e-publisher. The majority of Eric’s main works are alternate history science fiction, but he also wrote humorous fantasy adventures.

His works have been listed on The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The New York Times, and Locus magazine best-seller lists. Eric was co-founder and editor of the Baen Free Library.

He worked on a Ph.D. in history specializing in southern African history. Flint left his doctoral program to become a political activist in the labor movement.

A long-time leftist political activist, Eric also worked as a member of the Socialist Workers Party. In 1999, Eric published his first novel in 1997 and moved to full-time writing after winning the 1993 Writers of the Future contest.

Shortly afterwards, Flint became the 1st librarian of the Baen Free Library and a prominent anti-copy protection activist. Flint edited the works of several classic SF authors, repackaging their short stories into collections and fix-up novels.

After the passing of Jim Baen because of a stroke and after completing the contract for the tenth Grantville Gazette, Eric founded a new website “grantvillegazette.com.”

Eric Flint’s death was announced by several sources, but his cause of death has not been announced at this time.

In 2008, Eric donated his great archive to the department of Rare Books and Special Collections at Northern Illinois University. Eric was also the author guest of honor for the 2010 NASFiC, ReConStruction.

Flint was participating in The Stellar Guild series published by Phoenix Pick. Eric was noted as a co-founder and editor of the Baen Free Library.

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