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Mother of Demons

Rats, Bats, and Vats (with Dave Freer)

Pyramid Scheme (with Dave Freer)

The Shadow of the Lion (with Mercedes Lackey & Dave Freer)

The Belisarius series, with David Drake:
An Oblique Approach
In the Heart of Darkness
DestinyтАЩs Shield
FortuneтАЩs Stroke
The Tide of Victory

By James H. Schmitz, edited by Eric Flint:
Telzey Amberdon
T тАЩn T: Telzey & Trigger
Trigger & Friends
The Hub: Dangerous Territory
Agent of Vega & Other Stories

By Keith Laumer, edited by Eric Flint:
Retief!
Odyssey
 Wisely hath it been written that those great upheavals which so enflame the passions of
society that they excite the masses to rebellion and enmity against all lawful custom and
sovereignty, wherefore the common herd is led to commit many profane mischiefs against
the peace, including both mad foreign adventures and rude civil revolts, may not be
comprehended as mere brutish conflicts between vast opposed powers, each bent on
conquering for itself the Helm of State. Rather, we say that they are compounded of many
societal atoms, indeed, of a multitude of small dramas, mere chance encounters, perhaps,
тАЩtwixt private persons of divers degrees and sorts.
Vulgar history will, of course, take no heed of these events, for they will appear to those
witless sycophants of ClioтАЩs muse to be so contemptible, prosaic and inglorious, compared to
the deeds of kings, ministers, generals, revolutionists and agitators, to the discordant flux of
the classes and the masses, that they will be blinded to their import and, forsooth, will
roundly and churlishly despise them. Yet these small episodes, we say, are the true stuff of
History. For, though men go their way quietly in tranquil times, yet, in such epochs when
storm clouds gather oтАЩer the State and insurrectionary thoughts steal into the minds of the
pauper classes, then may the separate lives of men be severally fused as if by a lightning bolt
of social hatred, wherein all of society is transformed, and, like the wounded Leviathan,
vents its unleashed fury at mute and fear-filled Nature.
Of course, we find in the literature other theories, chiefly opposed to our own. These,
however, we may dismiss, for they are all of them perniciously false and utterly repugnant to
the human intellect in every respect.

The College of Historians