David Carrico Books In Order
Book links take you to Amazon. As an Amazon Associate I earn money from qualifying purchases.Publication Order of Dragon Wizard Books
The Dragon's Boy | (2020) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Dragon’s Apprentice | (2020) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Jao Books
The Course of Empire | (2003) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Crucible of Empire | (2010) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Span of Empire | (2016) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Ring of Fire Books
1632 | (2000) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
1633 | (2002) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
1634: The Galileo Affair | (2004) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
1634: The Ram Rebellion | (2006) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
1635: The Cannon Law | (2006) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
1634: The Baltic War | (2007) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
1634: The Bavarian Crisis | (2007) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
1635: The Dreeson Incident | (2008) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
1635: The Eastern Front | (2010) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
1636: The Saxon Uprising | (2011) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
1636: The Kremlin Games | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
1635: Papal Stakes | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
1636: The Devil's Opera | (2013) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
1636: Commander Cantrell in the West Indies | (2014) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
1636: The Viennese Waltz | (2014) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
1636: The Cardinal Virtues | (2015) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
1635: A Parcel of Rogues | (2016) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
1636: The Ottoman Onslaught | (2017) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
1636: Mission to the Mughals | (2017) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
1636: The Vatican Sanction | (2017) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
1637: The Volga Rules | (2018) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
1637: The Polish Maelstrom | (2019) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
1636: The China Venture | (2019) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
1636: The Atlantic Encounter | (2020) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
1637: No Peace Beyond the Line | (2020) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
1636: Calabar's War | (2021) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
1637: The Peacock Throne | (2021) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
1637: Dr. Gribbleflotz and the Soul of Stoner | (2021) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
A 1632 Christmas | (2021) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Chronological Order of Ring of Fire Books
1632 | (2000) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
A 1632 Christmas | (2021) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
1633 | (2002) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
1634: The Galileo Affair | (2004) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
1634: The Ram Rebellion | (2006) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
1634: The Baltic War | (2007) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
1634: The Bavarian Crisis | (2007) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
1635: The Cannon Law | (2006) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
1635: The Dreeson Incident | (2008) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
1635: Papal Stakes | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
1635: The Eastern Front | (2010) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
1636: The Saxon Uprising | (2011) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
1636: The Kremlin Games | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
1636: The Devil's Opera | (2013) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
1636: Commander Cantrell in the West Indies | (2014) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
1636: The Viennese Waltz | (2014) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
1635: A Parcel of Rogues | (2016) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
1636: The Cardinal Virtues | (2015) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
1636: The Ottoman Onslaught | (2017) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
1636: Mission to the Mughals | (2017) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
1636: The Vatican Sanction | (2017) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
1637: The Volga Rules | (2018) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
1637: The Polish Maelstrom | (2019) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
1636: The China Venture | (2019) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
1636: The Atlantic Encounter | (2020) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
1637: No Peace Beyond the Line | (2020) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
1637: The Peacock Throne | (2021) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
1636: Calabar's War | (2021) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
1637: Dr. Gribbleflotz and the Soul of Stoner | (2021) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Standalone Novels
A Song of Passing | (2020) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Blood’s Call | (2020) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Blood Is the Life | (2022) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Short Stories/Novellas
Publication Order of Ring of Fire Press Books
Essen Steel | (2013) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Danish Scheme | (2013) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Joseph Hanauer | (2013) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
No Ship for Tranquebar | (2013) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Turn Your Radio On | (2013) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Second Chance Bird | (2013) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Medicine and Disease after the Ring of Fire | (2013) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Bartley's Man | (2016) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Muse of Music | (2017) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Love and Chemistry | (2017) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Battle for Newfoundland | (2018) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Essen Defiant | (2018) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Monster Society | (2018) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Persistence of Dreams | (2018) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Letters From Gronow | (2018) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Hunt for The Red Cardinal | (2018) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Chrysanthemum, the Cross, and the Dragon | (2018) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Legions of Pestilence | (2019) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Legend of Jimmy Dick | (2019) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Up-time Pride and Down-time Prejudice | (2019) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
A Red Son Rises in the West | (2019) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Trouble with Huguenots | (2019) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Magdeburg Noir | (2020) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
A Holmes for the Czar | (2020) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Fire on the Rio Grande | (2020) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
A Red Son: Not Without Honor | (2020) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Tales From the Mermaid and Tiger: Engines of Change | (2020) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Things Could Be Worse: The Pastor Kastenmayer Stories | (2020) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Two Cases for the Czar | (2020) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Designed to Fail | (2020) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Grantville Inquisitor | (2021) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
A Matter of Security | (2021) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
A Mission for the Czar | (2021) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Missions of Security | (2021) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Saving The Dodo | (2021) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Horsewoman | (2021) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Mrs. Flannery's Flowers | (2021) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Security Threats | (2021) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Gourmets of Grantville | (2021) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Marshals | (2022) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Unexpected Sales Reps | (2022) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
I Want to Be Your Hero | (2022) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Ring of Fire Anthology Books
Ring of Fire I | (2004) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
1634: The Ram Rebellion | (2006) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Ring of Fire II | (2008) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
1635: The Tangled Web | (2009) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Ring of Fire III | (2011) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
1635: Music and Murder | (2013) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
1636: Seas of Fortune | (2013) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
1636: The Barbie Consortium | (2014) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Ring of Fire IV | (2016) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
1636: The Chronicles of Dr. Gribbleflotz | (2016) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
1635: The Wars for the Rhine | (2016) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
1636: Flight of the Nightingale | (2019) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
1637: The Coast of Chaos | (2021) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of The Fallen World Books
Broken City | (2016) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
This Fallen World | (2018) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Don't Call Me Ishmael | (2019) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
From the Ashes | (2019) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Price of Freedom | (2019) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Farmer's Creed | (2019) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Call Me Mr. Smith | (2019) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Blue Crucible | (2020) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
They Call Me Princess | (2020) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Island of Dr. Laroue | (2020) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Relations | (2020) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Pacific Shogun | (2020) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Wildcat | (2020) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Blue Salvation | (2020) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Kade | (2021) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Revenant | (2022) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Among the Embers | (2022) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Cause and Effect | (2022) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Guilted Cage | (2022) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Children of the Fall | (2023) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Anthologies
A David Carrico novel is speculative fiction at its best. It introduces you to how life would have changed- if history had.
David’s novels have much to offer. We introduce you to the man, review his SF books and tell you why they are so difficult to put down.
Biography: Who is David Carrico?
Think of speculative fiction, and David Carrico’s name comes to mind immediately. The genre has become a part of him, and you cannot pry him from it.
So how did he get started?
David’s love for speculative fiction began in the sixth grade. He discovered his love for writing after he picked up a particularly bad novel and realized that he could write better than its author.
He has André Norton to thank for fueling his passion; he became enraptured with the possibilities of aliens and other worlds when he started reading books by the speculative fiction guru.
David began to dabble in speculative fiction himself. The SF enthusiast wrote many novels and articles over the years. He, too, began to toy with the ideas of outer worlds and life on other planets. He reached his first writing milestone in 2004 when he sold his first book.
His talent has not gone unnoticed. The Grantville Gazette e-magazine has featured his stories regularly since his first book sale. He has also contributed to the Ring of Fire anthologies, volumes of stories that are popular to this day.
David went on to publish a story in the e-magazine, Jim Baen’s Universe. The talented author reached another milestone in 2013 when Baen published two more of his books. The first, 1635: Music and Murder was a set of his earlier works. The other, 1635: The Devil’s Opera, was co-written with prolific SF author Eric Flint.
David and Eric have become a dynamic SF duo. The two have co-written The Span of Empire, the novel in the Jao Series by Eric.
The Author’s Works
1. 1635: Music and Murder
If you’re a science, history, and music lover, you need to pour through 1635: Music and Murder.
The novel surrounds a group of musicians from 1635 who, like other artists, want to start the newest trend. Each seeks to develop the sound of the moment.
This novel is a riveting read because it arouses curiosity. People wonder what would happen if their ancestors hear the music they play or see how far technology has come. David answers this in this novel; he discusses what happens if musicians from 1635 were to hear music by the Beatles or the grunge rock group, Nirvana.
Throw in murder and the novel becomes even harder to put down. David mixes history, crime, and intrigue – an explosive combination.
He brings readers through the Thirty Years War, one of the bloodiest religious battles in European history. It was a fight between Protestant and Catholic states.
For those who believe that David has penned another boring historical novel, think again.
He introduces futuristic Grantville and its people to the war front. The city has ideologies and technology that have the Europeans enraptured. David makes readers imagine how it is like to enforce law and order at a time when there would not have been much support for it. The streets and roads are lonely and of course, mean.
Naturally, there are offbeat characters, which never fail to please. Detective Byron Chieske and down-timing boxing champion Gothiff Hoch try their best to fix the chaos.
1635: Music and Murder is a novel in which art meets science, an idea which fascinates. Crime and murder make it more gripping than it already is.
2. 1636: The Devil’s Opera
His other breakthrough was 1636: The Devil’s Opera, co-written with fellow SF enthusiast, Eric Flint.
Besides being speculative fiction, this novel is a political discussion. The Devil’s Opera explores what happens when Sweden, under the leadership of King Gustavus Adolphus and the euro-centric West Virginians in the United States combine to form a new nation, The United States of Europe. The country is on the brink of Civil War, with the people seeking to overthrow the ruling class.
David introduces complex political intrigue, which never fails to grip. Oxenstierna, a chancellor in King Gustav’s court, leads the fight against the revolutionaries. He seeks to assemble the ruling class in Berlin and crush the revolution.
At the same time, Rebecca Abrabanel, the wife of West Virginian revolutionary Mike Steams, is building resistance to Oxenstierna. She connects with American musician Maria Linder and her band of artists, who plan to stage an opera as part of the resistance movement.
The political intrigue becomes denser when Princess Kristina, heir to the USE throne, comes into the picture and lends support to the campaign. The thrilling political infighting makes it difficult to stop reading this book.
If politics isn’t enough, David throws crime into the mix. Once again, the novel’s beloved protagonists, Byron Chieske and former boxing champion Gotthilf Hoch try their best to stop the plotting and counter-plotting before it’s too late.
This novel is a gripping exploration of history, politics, and crime. David touches on all three with linguistic skill and finesse. He speculates rationally and never fails to enthrall the reader.
3. Jao
Jao, also co-written with Flint, is a New York Times bestseller.
If you have a passionate belief that other beings exist throughout the galaxy, this novel is a must-read. David and Eric consider what happens when other-world beings, the Jao, join with humans and the Leix people to defeat the Ekhat, who are terrorizing the universe.
David introduces a magnetic character, Preceptor Ronz, who serves as Earth’s guardian. He appoints Caitlin Kralik as the commander of an expedition that scours the galaxy in search of allies who wish to fight the Ekhat.
This novel brings to mind other SF classics like Star Trek or the Game of Thrones.Like these works, it explores what happens when nations are at war. They, too, seek political connections.
David is a master of suspense. Read this if you love discovery.
4. The Evening of the Day: A Novella
The Evening of The Day was a novella published in the Grantville Gazette in 2013.
David comes up with another formula that always works on readers. In this novel, he plays with the fates of timeless, favorite historical characters like D’Artagnan, Galileo, Oliver Cromwell, and Gustav Adolph.
When raucous, tough West Virginia coal miners and the 17th Century nobility come together, the tension is explosive. The bloodiest civil war in Western history breaks out.
If you’re a history buff, you’ll find David’s exploration of 17th-century Western Civilization fascinating. What makes it enthralling is that famous historical figures come together. Their ideologies, which people recognize them for, fuse in an exciting, pulsating way.
You’ve not read the best speculative fiction until you’ve touched a David Carrico novel. His knowledge of history and culture is unsurpassable, as is his ability to create exciting possibilities.
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