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At The End Of The World – Snippet 05

At The End Of The World – Snippet 05 June 15 I spent a lot of time in the pilot house today, charting a new course. Originally, we were supposed to stop at Valparaiso for fresh water, which would have been pretty tight by the time we got to South Georgia Island. But the captain […]

Dark Day, Bright Hour – Snippet 13

Dark Day, Bright Hour – Snippet 13 # We continued walking in awkward silence for a bit, each sunk in our own particular brand of misery. The atmosphere did nothing to lighten our spirits. Ambient red light shrouded Hell in oppressive shadows, and the screams of the damned were nothing to happily march by, not […]

1636 The Atlantic Encounter – Snippet 02

1636 The Atlantic Encounter – Snippet 02 PART I April 1636 The ever-hooded, tragic-gestured sea Wallace Stevens, “The Idea of Order at Key West” Chapter 1 Hamburg United States of Europe The first look Gordon Chehab ever had of the ship that would take him across the ocean was on a blustery day from across […]

Battle Luna – Snippet 05

Battle Luna – Snippet 05 “What, and have them delivered with sabotage and booby traps already in place?” Pappy shook his head. “They’re not that stupid.” “At least they picked a wheeled rover instead of a tracked one,” KC said. “That could have been awkward. But you see up there on the sail? Those are […]

Days of Burning, Days of Wrath – Snippet 05

Days of Burning, Days of Wrath – Snippet 05 But with those two, you never really know.  These things could have come from Sumer, or from any of two dozen other places that make Volgan-designed arms.  Be funny if they came from the Zhong, though, all things considered.  And that’s not impossible; the Zhong will […]

Where we’re going with Ring of Fire Press

As many of you already know, I have a publishing house of my own called Ring of Fire Press. I launched the house back in 2013 as a way to publish stories in the Ring of Fire series that were too long to include in one of the anthologies published by Baen Books. For the […]

1636 The Atlantic Encounter – Snippet 01

1636 The Atlantic Encounter – Snippet 01 1636: The Atlantic Encounter Eric Flint & Walter H. Hunt PROLOGUE October 1635 Bamberg, capital of the State of Thuringia-Franconia United States of Europe “Come in,” Ed Piazza said, in response to a knock on his office door. His secretary stuck her head into the room. “Leopold Cavriani […]

Dark Day, Bright Hour – Snippet 12

Dark Day, Bright Hour – Snippet 12 We trailed after him. It wasn’t like we knew our way around, and the geography of Hell was, rumor had it, ever-changing. Even if I flew aloft to spy out the way, avenues shifted and the path would be altogether unreliable once I returned to the ground–assuming our […]

Battle Luna – Snippet 04

Battle Luna – Snippet 04 Mentally, Pappy shook his head. Body armor was all well and good; but with a helmet faceplate the size of a serving platter as an alternative target, all a torso vest really accomplished was to add weight, throw off balance, and encourage headshots. Which could be a serious problem for […]

Days of Burning, Days of Wrath – Snippet 04

Days of Burning, Days of Wrath – Snippet 04 Chapter Two “But when Islam emerged it put slavery into order, by limiting it to legitimate wars between Muslims and their enemies…the female prisoners of wars are ‘those whom you own’…in order to humiliate them they become the property of the army commander, or of a […]