Summary
It's springtime in the Eternal City, 1635. But it's no Romanholiday for uptimer Frank Stone and his pregnant downtime wife, Giovanna.They're in the clutches of would-be Pope Cardinal Borgia, with the realPope -- Urban VII -- on the run with the renegade embassy of uptimeAmbassador Sharon Nichols and her swashbuckling downtime husband, Ruy Sanchez deCasador y Ortiz. Up to their necks in papal assassins, power politics, murder,and mayhem, the uptimers and their spouses need help and they need itquickly!
Eric Flint was born in southern California in 1947. He received a bachelor's degree from UCLA in 1968 and did some work toward a Ph.D. in history, with a specialization in history of southern Africa in the 18th and early 19th centuries, also at UCLA. After leaving the doctoral program over political issues, he supported himself from that time until age 50 as a laborer, machinist and labor organizer.
In 1993, his short story entitled Entropy and the Strangler won first place in the Winter 1992 Writers of the Future contest. His first novel, Mother of Demons, was published in 1997 and was picked by the Science Fiction Chronicle as a best novel of the year. He became a full-time writer in 1999. He writes science fiction and fantasy works including The Philosophical Strangler and the Belisarius series.
(Bowker Author Biography)
