Mark Huston

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About Mark Huston

Mark H Huston is a Chicago area-based author of alternate history and science fiction. He has multiple short stories and novellas published in Eric Flint's Ring of Fire Series and is a contributor to the Grantville Gazette. His most recent novel is "Up-time Pride and Down-time Prejudice", a romantic adventure set in the same universe. Mark is and has been – well, many things, ranging from expert on steam systems, to race car driver and instructor, to actor, to engineer, salesman, columnist, and theater producer and director. And more stuff in between. He is married with three remarkably competent children, and lives in a legendary place, once called "The Land Beyond O'Hare".

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A 1632 Christmas (Ring of Fire) Dec 16, 2021

by Eric Flint, Joy Ward, Walt Boyes, Bjorn Hasseler

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Welcome to the Holidays in the 1630s! Sit down, pull up some hot tea and . . . spend some time with friends!

The holidays are in full swing all over. . . . Some people are falling in love, some people are learning new ways to celebrate, and others are even having babies. Did you know Santa must be a Lapp because he has reindeer? Did you know that Krampus really doesn’t like bullies? Some people are learning new ways to look at Christmas. And up-time action videos are really important to Christmas. Then there is Christmas in Japanese California and the Indian Ocean. A young Jewish boy learns about traditions not yet invented. And we must not forget the union activity in Nuremberg.

So join us as we welcome in a few new babies and puppies, say goodbye to a grandfather and spend the holidays with us.

Below a full list of the contributing authors
Christmas in the Wonderland Isles by Garrett Vance
It’s Tradition by Anne Keener
The Gift of the Puppet by Tracy Morris
A Weimaraner Christmas by Walt Boyes
A Christmas For Kjell by George Haberberger
The Glad Game by Bethanne Kim
A Christmas Letter by Bjorn Hasseler
Nobody’s Going Home by Virginia DeMarce
A Krampus Christmas by Joy Ward
Grantville’s Secret Santa by Jackie Britton Lopatin
The Gift by Chuck Thompson
At Christmas Time by Mark Huston
Christmas at the Schickelmans by John Deakins
No Proper Carol by Sarah Hays
Santa’s Lapp by George Haberberger
Natala by Iver P. Cooper
Canticle de Noel by © David Carrico
A Christmas Stollen by Edith Wild
One Night Only by Michael Lockwood
Sad Spectacles of Deceitful Iniquity at Christmastime by Eric Flint and Lucille Robbins
The View from Nakatomi Tower by Walt Boyes and Bjorn Hasseler

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Up-time Pride and Down-time Prejudice (Ring of Fire) Aug 15, 2019

by Mark Huston

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In the Year of our Lord 1633, Mary Margret Russo graduates from Grantville High School at the top of her class. The beautiful and strong willed up-timer, as the people from the future are called, is mysteriously hired by a branch of the wealthiest family in the world. Mary finds herself far from her family, living in a beautiful castle in the Inn Valley of Tyrol. There she meets Counts, Countesses, the handsome and distant Count Johann Franz, and works hard as a teacher and consultant among the one-percenters of the day.
But all is not what it seems in this gilded world, where religion, undercurrents of witchcraft, and vast sums of money create high-stakes contests, and where treachery and death await the unwary or the unprepared.
Can a resolute and intelligent girl find love, happiness, and purpose in this world where she is the ultimate outsider, out of her time, alone, and in dangers she cannot comprehend?
Using archetypes, occasional dialog, and story beats from Jane Austen, Up-time Pride and Down-time Prejudice tells the story of Mary Russo, Count Johann Franz Fugger, and Mary's journey of maturation, knowledge, and love in this 1632 adventure.

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Grantville Gazette IX Jul 6, 2021

by Eric Flint, Walt Boyes, Joy Ward

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NEW YORK TIMES BEST-SELLING SERIES. The ninth anthology of tales set in Eric Flint’s phenomenal Ring of Fire universe—all selected and edited by Flint.

WHERE WERE YOU IN 1632?

The most popular alternate history series of all continues. When a cosmic disturbance hurls your town from twentieth-century West Virginia back to seventeenth-century Europe—and into the middle of the Thirty Years War—you have to adapt to survive. And the natives of that time period, faced with American technology and politics, need to be equally adaptable. Here’s a generous helping of more stories of Grantville, the American town lost in time, and its impact on the people and societies of a tumultuous age.

Featuring stories by Eric Flint, Tim Sayeau, Robert Noxon, Griffin Barber, Bjorn Hasseler, Clair Kiernan, Margo Ryor, Mark Huston, Robert Waters, Phillip Riviezzo, Jack Carroll, Terry Howard, Tim Roesch, Sarah Hays, Mike Watson, Iver P. Cooper, Kerryn Offord, Rick Boatright, Brad Banner, Anne Keener, Jackie Britton Lopatin, Bjorn Hasseler, and David Carrico.

At the publisher's request, this title is sold without DRM (Digital Rights Management).

About Eric Flint’s Ring of Fire series:

“[Eric] Flint's 1632 universe seems to be inspiring a whole new crop of gifted alternate historians.”—Booklist

“[Eric Flint] can entertain and edify in equal, and major, measure.”—Publishers Weekly

Eric Flint is a modern master of alternate history fiction, with three million books in print. He’s the author/creator of the multiple New York Times best-selling Ring of Fire series, starting with first novel 1632. With David Drake he has written six popular novels in the “Belisarius” alternate Roman history series, and with David Weber he has collaborated on 1633 and 1634: The Baltic War, as well as four novels in Weber's Honorverse series. Flint was for many years a labor union activist. He lives near Chicago, Illinois.

Walt Boyes is the editor of the Industrial Automation INSIDER magazine, the editor of The Grantville Gazette, a member of the 1632 universe editorial board, formerly editor of Control magazine and associate editor of Jim Baen's Universe. Along with Joy Ward, Walt is Co-Editor of Eric Flint's Ring of Fire Press. Walt is an active member of SFWA.

Joy Ward is the author of one novel. She has several stories in print, in magazines, and in anthologies, and has also conducted interviews, both written and video, for other publications. Her credits include Mother Jones, On the Issues, Commerce, and Governmental Review.

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Ring of Fire III (Ring of Fire anthologies Book 3) Dec 10, 2013

by Eric Flint

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Let's do the "Time Warp" again! Another anthology of rollicking, thought- provoking collection of tales by a star-studded array of top writers such as bestseller Mercedes Lackey and Eric Flint himself all set in Eric Flint's phenomenal Ring of Fire series. After a cosmic accident sets the modern-day West Virginia town of Grantville down in war-torn seventeenth century Europe, these everyday, resourceful Americans must adapt or be trod into the dust of the past.

Rock on, Renaissance! A cosmic accident sets the modern West Virginia town of Grantville down in war-torn seventeenth century Europe. It will take all the gumption of the resourceful, freedom-loving up-timers to find a way to flourish in mad and bloody end of medieval times. Are they up for it? You bet they are. The third rollicking and idea-packed collection of Grantville tales edited by Eric Flint, and inspired by his now-legendary 1632.

At the publisher's request, this title is sold without DRM (Digital Rights Management).

Eric Flint is the author of the New York Times best seller 1634: The Galileo Affair (with Andrew Dennis)—a novel in his top-selling "Ring of Fire" alternate history series. His first novel for Baen, Mother of Demons, was picked by Science Fiction Chronicle as a best novel of the year. His 1632, which launched the Ring of Fire series, won widespread critical praise, as from Publishers Weekly, which called him "an SF author of particular note, one who can entertain and edify in equal, and major measure." A longtime labor union activist with a master's degree in history, he currently resides in northwest Indiana with his wife Lucille.

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Grantville Gazette, Volume V (Ring of Fire - Gazette editions Book 5) Dec 10, 2013

by Eric Flint

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The most popular alternate history series of all continues. When an inexplicable cosmic disturbance hurls your town from twentieth century West Virginia back to seventeenth century Europe—and into the middle of the Thirty Years War—you'd better be adaptable to survive. And the natives of that time period, faced with American technology and politics, need to be equally adaptable. Here's a generous helping of more stories of Grantville, the American town lost in time, and its impact on the people and societies of a tumultuous age.

Cardinal Richelieu, France's insidious master plotter and power behind the throne, learns of his prominent role in Dumas' not-yet-written novel The Three Musketeers (not to mention the several movie versions), and starts a search for the "real" D'Artagnan.
Grantville is selling crystal radio sets so that Europeans can tune in to the Voice of America broadcasts, but the technicians from the future are at wit's end, trying to reproduce "primitive" early twentieth century broadcasting equipment by trial and error—until a trained library researcher shows up in town.
Wilhelm Krieger, one of Germany's greatest philosophers, comes to Grantville to learn the philosophy of the future—and meets a contrarian cracker-barrel philosopher.
The Dalai Lama of the seventeenth century receives a strange gift: an image of the Buddha which glows by a strange mystical force called "electricity."

And much more, including stories by the New York Times best-selling writers Eric Flint and Virginia DeMarce, in the latest installment of this best-selling alternate history series.

At the publisher's request, this title is sold without DRM (Digital Rights Management).

Eric Flint is the author of the New York Times best seller 1634: The Galileo Affair (with Andrew Dennis)—a novel in his top-selling "Ring of Fire" alternate history series. His first novel for Baen, Mother of Demons, was picked by Science Fiction Chronicle as a best novel of the year. His 1632, which launched the Ring of Fire series, won widespread critical praise, as from Publishers Weekly, which called him "an SF author of particular note, one who can entertain and edify in equal, and major measure." A longtime labor union activist with a master's degree in history, he currently resides in northwest Indiana with his wife Lucille.

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