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* At least one [[Romance Arc|romance]] per book. Some of his co-writers has mentioned Flint [[Shipping]] the characters the co-writer developed. He has even unabashedly shipped [[Historical Domain Character|Historical Domain Characters]] that he thinks should have gotten together.
* A notable bantering style of dialogue between most of the major cast.
* A distinct tendency towards being able to make workable, interesting and entertaining [[Author Avatar|Author Avatars]] and [[God Mode Sue|God Mode Sues]] (examples: see [[Belisarius Series|Flavius Belisarius]], [[1632|Michael Stearns]] and [[Honor Harrington (Literature)|Victor Cachat]]).
 
If not the creator of the Assiti Shards time travel idea (also known as ISOT events, after the [[Island in The Sea of Time]]), then the writer of the best example. Assiti being an anagram of As It Is, and the idea is simple: a location is picked up whole and dropped in another time, with only the resources they would have on hand--As It Is--to survive.
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* ''[[Mother of Demons (Literature)|Mother of Demons]]'', his first published novel. Human ship crash lands on an alien world and we get to see how the two societies interact.
* ''[[1632]]'', the most successful and well known of the Assati Shards concept; in 2000 AD, a West Virginia coal mining town is dropped into Germany, in the year 1632. In the middle of one of the worst wars of the past millennium.
* ''Wages of Sin'' subseries in the larger [[David Weber]]'s ''[[HonorverseHonor (Literature)Harrington|Honorverse]]'', where one of his favorite characters, superspy [[God Mode Sue|Victor Cachat]], comes into play.
* ''[[Trail of Glory (Literature)|Trail of Glory]]'', an [[Alternate History]] in which the Cherokee, in collaboration with freed blacks and other Native American tribes, head west decades early and found a small nation in Arkansas.
* ''[[JoesJoe's World (Literature)|Joes World]]'', a class-warfare satirical fantasy series.
* The [[Belisarius Series]], written by Flint from an outline by [[David Drake]], in which two rival intelligences from the unimaginably distant future attempt to influence human history in sixth-century Rome and India.
* ''[[Rats, Bats, and Vats (Literature)|Rats Bats and Vats]]'' series, written with [[Dave Freer]].
* ''[[The Pyramid Series]]'', also with Dave Freer.
* The ''[[Boundary (Literature)|Boundary]]'' series, written with [[Ryk Spoor]].
* The ''[[The Course of Empire|Jao Empire]]'' series, written with [[KDK. D. Wentworth]].
* The ''[[Heirs of Alexandria]]'' series, written with Dave Freer and [[Mercedes Lackey]].
* The ''[[The Witches of Karres|Karres]]'' series, sequels to ''[[The Witches of Karres]]'' by [[James H. Schmitz]].
 
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