Eric Flint–Dave Freer–Andrew Dennis collaboration

The Eric Flint–Dave Freer–Andrew Dennis collaboration is a multi-author partnership documented through the fifteen-part Fish Story sequence. Across the guide, the series appears as a sustained creative unit rather than a one-off co-authored title: its installments recur from Fish Story 1 through Fish Story 15, carry changing genre classifications and star ratings, and include both paid and FREE entries. The record therefore presents the collaboration through continuity, variation, and repeated return.

The Collaboration in the Guide

The partnership is named consistently as Eric Flint, Dave Freer, and Andrew Dennis. The guide gives the collaboration a recognizable collective identity through the repeated attribution of every Fish Story installment to all three writers, preserving the same author grouping across the sequence rather than separating the contributions into individual entries. Its listed aliases, Flint–Freer–Dennis and Fish Story collaboration, likewise treat the partnership as an artistic and bibliographic entity in its own right.

The surrounding guide identifies several genre codes, including SU for Supernatural Fantasy, SF for Science Fiction, and SP for Superhero. Within the collaboration’s own sequence, most entries are marked SU-R, while Fish Story 3 is marked SF-R. That difference is important: the sequence is predominantly presented as supernatural fantasy, but its classification is not wholly fixed. At least one installment crosses into science fiction, suggesting a body of work whose identity can persist across a change in genre designation.

The Fish Story Sequence

The collaboration is represented by fifteen separately listed installments: Fish Story 1, Fish Story 2, Fish Story 3, Fish Story 4, Fish Story 5, Fish Story 6, Fish Story 7, Fish Story 8, Fish Story 9, Fish Story 10, Fish Story 11, Fish Story 12, Fish Story 13, Fish Story 14, and Fish Story 15. The numbering establishes a long sequence with an evident cumulative structure, even though the supplied guide does not provide individual plot descriptions or distinguish the narrative content of one installment from another.

The sequence’s internal pattern is not mechanically uniform. Fish Story 1 is rated SU-R-4.0, Fish Story 2 SU-R-3.5, Fish Story 3 SF-R-3.0, Fish Story 4 SU-R-3.5, and Fish Story 5 SU-R-3.0. Fish Story 6, Fish Story 7, and Fish Story 8 each receive SU-R-3.5, while Fish Story 9 rises to SU-R-4.5. Fish Story 10, Fish Story 11, Fish Story 12, and Fish Story 13 are each rated SU-R-3.5; Fish Story 14 is SU-R-3.5; and Fish Story 15 is SU-R-3.0. These variations show that the guide evaluates the installments individually even while grouping them under one collaborative identity.

Genre and Rating Pattern

The dominant classification is SU-R, combining Supernatural Fantasy with the guide’s R position. Fourteen of the fifteen listed installments carry that classification. Fish Story 3 is the exception, appearing as SF-R-3.0 rather than SU-R. The exception gives the sequence its clearest formal contrast: the collaboration’s principal mode is supernatural fantasy, but the catalog leaves room for a science-fiction entry within the same numbered body of work.

The ratings also create a modest arc of critical reception. The sequence begins with a relatively strong 4.0 for Fish Story 1, moves through 3.5 and 3.0 ratings, reaches its highest listed point with Fish Story 9 at 4.5, and then settles mostly at 3.5 before ending with Fish Story 15 at 3.0. The guide does not explain the reasons for these judgments, so the figures cannot establish a plot development or a change in authorial quality; they do, however, document a fluctuating reception rather than a uniform assessment.

Availability and Bibliographic Significance

The guide marks Fish Story 1, Fish Story 2, Fish Story 3, and Fish Story 4 as FREE. Fish Story 5 through Fish Story 15 are listed without the FREE marker in the supplied entries. This distribution makes the beginning of the sequence especially accessible in the guide’s cataloging system, while the later installments are recorded without the same availability designation.

The collaboration’s significance in this evidence lies in its scale and persistence. Fifteen numbered entries, a stable three-writer attribution, a predominantly supernatural-fantasy profile, a science-fiction departure at Fish Story 3, ratings ranging from 3.0 to 4.5, and four explicitly free installments together define a substantial collaborative record. The evidence does not supply plot events, character biographies, or the division of labor among the writers, so the partnership is best understood here through its recurring sequence, formal variation, and sustained presence in the guide rather than through claims about narrative content beyond those bibliographic facts.