The time-twisting Assiti Shards are the distressing consequences of a highly advanced and completely insane alien race's idea of art. One of the shards has struck in southern Illinois region, thrusting peoples from different historical eras into the middle of one of the most dangerous periods ever known: The Cretaceous! Lost in a nightmare world, a conquistador from the year 1541 finds a U.S. Cavalry Scout from 1838 hanging helplessly from a snare. The Spaniard frees him, an act of mercy leading to an uneasy alliance. After battling a 'dragon' we know as the Tyrannosaurus Rex, they find themselves in the shadows of the Cyclopean pyramids of Cahokia, the greatest city of the forgotten Mississippian civilization. The Rattlesnake Priests prepare a grisly celebration for their reptilian god, but thanks to the intervention of the Raven Priestess, they escape the city with a pair of Pre-Mound tribesmen who invite the castaways from the future to join them in their beleaguered village. They find the villagers trying to defend themselves from the giant creatures roaming this primeval land. Thankfully, a new hope can be seen across the vast, dry flats of the Drained Sea—a mysterious mesa rising more than a thousand feet into the sky, another bizarre result of the unnatural disaster Could this be a haven? To find out, the four newfound friends set out on a journey that will prove to be more dangerous than anything they have faced yet!

Time Spike: The Mysterious Mesa

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Vance, Garrett W.

Science Fiction

Eric Flint's Ring of Fire Press

Saving The Dodo (Ring of Fire)

1632. Inc.

The unlikely foursome of an AWOL US cavalry scout, a repentant conquistador, and two young chiefs of a neolithic pre-mounds tribe have formed a friendship and alliance that breaks the bonds of centuries and cultures. They are now the 'dragon'-slaying four Great Chiefs of the young Mesa Peoples and Allied Tribes, a human civilization growing against steep odds in the Earth's Cretaceous Period (introduced in Time Spike: The Mysterious Mesa).These bold heroes now face a formidable foe, not the enormous dinosaurs that roam this ancient world, but other humans! The rapacious Rattlesnake Cult from the City of the Pyramids has laid siege to Stone Wall Village. Only the newly-minted First Cavalry of the Cretaceous, brave pre-mounds warriors astride a prehistoric equine species native to Pleistocene North America have a chance of saving their kinfolk and restoring peace and prosperity in the lush and deadly New New World. Here comes the cavalry!

Time Spike: The First Cavalry of the Cretaceous

Eric Flint's 1632 & Beyond Issue #1

Literature & Fiction

Grant, George

Nye, Jody Lynn

Thompson, Chuck

Stirling, S.M.

Cooper, Iver P.

DeMarce, Virginia

Beyond, 1632 and

Short Stories & Anthologies

Flint's Shards

Eric Flint's 1632 & Beyond Issue #3

Waters, Robert E.

Kim, Bethanne

Cooper, Iver

Tyrrell, Marc

History & Criticism

The dodo is extinct and every American knows it. Caroline Platzer certainly does when she explains it to a very upset Princess Kristina. But, that was then and this is the seventeenth century! The last recorded sighting of the dodo was in 1662 and now it is only the year of our lord 1635. Is 1635 too late to save the dodo? Even if it's not, is it humanly possible? Princess Kristina is determined to find out! But how? Enter Pam Miller, Grantville's resident birdwatcher and nature lover. When asked by the Princess to lead a mission to the distant Indian Ocean Isle of Mauritius to prevent the hapless dodo's inevitable extinction, Pam balks at first, but finds herself drawn to the challenge as inexorably as a moth to the flame, for wasn't saving the dodo one of her own childhood dreams? She and Princess Kristina hatch a plan, bonded by their mutual love for the natural world. The whole thing will be terribly risky, a long journey in a sailing ship around the Horn of Africa and out into the still mostly unexplored vastness of the Southern Indian Ocean, Can Pam Miller save the dodo? Can she save herself and her companions from the multitude of threats they will face along the way? The only thing Pam knows for sure is that second chances are hard to come by.

Second Chance Bird (Ring of Fire Press Fiction)

Independently published

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