Charles E. Gannon
Charles E. Gannon is an American novelist and game designer who has worked primarily on hard science fiction and role-playing games.
Career
Charles Gannon wrote Hard Times, a supplement for MegaTraveller which moved the background metaplot forward by six years. Gannon wrote many articles in Challenge magazine about "The Hinterworlds", a sector of space which is part of the Imperium from the Traveller universe.Gannon has also co-written novels in the 1632 series with Eric Flint, including 1635: The Papal Stakes, 1636: Commander Cantrell in the West Indies, and 1636: The Vatican Sanction. His novels Fire with Fire and Trial by Fire were both nominated for the Nebula Award for Best Novel. He was nominated again in 2016 for Raising Caine, and in 2020 for Marque of Caine.
In October 2025, Baen Books named Gannon as the series "showrunner" for the late Eric Flint's 1632 series.
Tales of the Terran Republic
This progression of books is also known as the "Caine Riordan series" or the "22nd Century series"*