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David Carrico is an author of science fiction, fantasy, mystery, and alternate history.

Author of Fantasy, Science Fiction, Mystery, & Alternate History

David Carrico is best known for the novels 1636: The Devil’s Opera and The Span of Empire (both written in collaboration with Eric Flint). His most recent book, Letters From Gronow, was released in June 2018 by Eric Flint’s Ring of Fire Press. David began his writing career publishing stories in The Grantville Gazette emagazine in 2004, and to date his stories have appeared in The Grantville Gazette, the Ring of Fire anthologies from Baen Books, in Jim Baen’s Universe emagazine, and in Baen.com’s monthly free story offerings.

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Front cover panel for The Blood is the Life by David Carrico. Published by Baen Books, 2022.

The Blood is the Life

A COMING-OF-AGE STORY LIKE NO OTHER: CHAIM CAAN, AN OBSERVANT ORTHODOX JEW, FINDS HE MUST MAKE SENSE OF HIS PLACE IN THE WORLD WHEN HE DISCOVERS HE HAS BEEN TURNED INTO A VAMPIRE.

Chaim Caan was just out for a night of fun, blowing off some steam the way a young man will. After the better part of a year spent in COVID lockdowns, he was ready to let his hair down at a night club. But the young woman he encountered that night left him with something to remember her by: she turned Chaim into a vampire.

Soon, Chaim finds himself thrust into a weird underground world of mysticism and enchantment as he navigates life as the newly undead, trying to reconcile his beliefs as an Orthodox Jew with the new reality that has been thrust upon him.

He is forced to deal with a lot of change: to his body, to his mind, to his perceptions, to his relationships, and even to his world. He finds himself in parts of the world he had never dreamed of being in, and he finds himself doing things that he had never envisioned being a part of his life.

And if he can come to terms with these changes, this mild-mannered young man might just find himself a hero.

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Cover of the alternate history novel 1636: The Devil's Opera by Eric Flint and David Carrico. Published 2013 by Baen Books.
Cover of the alternate history novel 1636: The Flight of the Nightingale by David Carrico. Published 2019 by Eric Flint's Ring of Fire Press..
Cover image for the science fiction anthology The Chronicles of Davids, edited by David Afsharirad. Published 2019 by Baen Books.
Front cover for the anthology book From the Ashes: Stories from The Fallen World, edited by Chris Kennedy and Christopher Woods. Published 2019.
Cover of the science fiction novel The Span of Empire by Eric Flint and David Carrico, published 2016 by Baen Books.

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