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71 reviews
S. M. Stirling

Roc, 2000

A Great Finish to A Great Series (With a Few Bobbles)
This novel, the third novel in Stirling's Nantucket trilogy, depicts the climatic conflict between the Republic of Nantucket, the free, democratic (in the literal sense of the term) society created by the Nantucket Islanders after being sent three thousand years into the past by a mysterious Event, and the despotic empire founded by the renegade Coast Guard officer and warlord William Walker. ...

In the Courts of the Crimson Kings

19 reviews
S.M. Stirling

Tor Books, 2008

Super Reader
Great title, excellent book. Stirling's updated take on the planetary romance has become wonderfully inventive. The second book is more interesting than the first - probably because the Martian civilisation is ancient, and more politically and technologically advanced--as compared to the literal Neanderthal types, in 'The Sky People'. While the title of the first book could have been Jean J. ...

The Scourge of God: A Novel of the Change

4 reviews
S.M. Stirling

Roc Hardcover, 2008

his second tale in the second saga switches from the post apocalyptic thriller to a "Greek" Tragedy
It has been twenty-three years since the Change when earth plunged into a pre-electric era. Mankind scrambled to survive as over ninety percent of the population died. Clan Mackenzie led by High Priestess Juniper and the Bearkillers thrived on the land while the dictator who wanted to rule perished (see THE SUNSET LAND). However a new danger has arisen; the prophet Sethaz and his flock slowly ...

Jimmy the Hand: Legends of the Riftwar, Book III (Legends of the Riftwar)

3 reviews
Raymond E. Feist, S.m. Stirling

Eos, 2008

entertaining Legends of the Riftwar tale
The Mockers enable the royals Arutha and Anita to flee Krondor and the assault of Duke Guy du Bas-Ytra. The irate city ruler demands his thugs bring him the head of teen thief Jimmy the Hand and the other Mockers who abetted the Prince in his and Princess Anita's escape. Not caring to delineate, the ducal's assassins go after all Mockers demanding they turn over the head of Jimmy the Hand to ...

Island in the Sea of Time (Island)

118 reviews
S. M. Stirling

Roc, 1998

A Fantastic, Exciting Read!!
This book was the first - but not the last - that I ever read by S.M. Stirling. After the first twenty or so pages, I was hooked. Forever. The premise of the novel is simple: an unexplained electrical storm, of some unknown nature, sends the island of Nantucket back in time more than 3,000 years - to 1,250 B.C., the late Bronze Age. This strands seven thousand or so late 20th-century ...

The Protector's War: A Novel of the Change (Protector)

106 reviews
S.M. Stirling

Roc, 2006

A Worthy Sequel
Despite it's title, S.M. Stirling's The Protector's War, the second volume in a trilogy that started with Dies The Fire isn't about war in the Post-Change Williamette Valley so much as it's about the precursors to a war between survivors in a new world that seems all but inevitable. This second volume starts eight years after an event, as yet unexplained, that renders in operable all modern ...

The Sunrise Lands: A Novel of the Change

50 reviews
S.M. Stirling

Roc, 2008

East meets West
As THE SUNRISE LANDS opens it is twenty two years after the Change, the events described in DIES THE FIRE, when the whole world changed in a literal flash. Gunpowder does not fire, electricity and internal combustion engines do not work, throwing the post industrial world back to the pre industrial. The events described in A MEETING AT CORVALLIS have brought peace to the Willamette Valley and ...

Against the Tide of Years

69 reviews
S. M. Stirling

Roc, 1999

Alternative History for History Buffs
A fun read for those who are interested in History of Civilization. It reminded me of the old Saturday Night Live skit, "What if Sparticus had an airplane". The writer obviously did his research, especially into indo-earopean languages.

A Meeting at Corvallis: A Novel of the Change (Dies the Fire)

73 reviews
S.M. Stirling

Roc, 2007

Excellent sequel to an inspired idea.
As with the original Dies the Fire, this entry carries on an excellent vision of a post-modern world where physical laws have been altered by an unknown source. Great characters, great fun!

Dies the Fire: A Novel of the Change

174 reviews
S.M. Stirling

Roc, 2005

If Only
Like all major shifts in environment those that can't adapt die horribly. This strong first novel really sets you cheering the survivors. The second novel is also a worthy read, but the third is full of fluff. Too many pages decribing the pretty flowers. Hang all page number requirements by their entrails!

The Peshawar Lancers

66 reviews
S. M. Stirling

Roc, 2003

Two-fisted Tales of the Once and Future Raj
This is the sort of story that a Brit (or Canadian) writes when he throws off the yoke of political correctness and unabashedly wallows in the glory of his mythic imperial heritage. It is also great fun. In this very detailed and believably crafted alternate history the British Empire never faded away. Instead it was forced to fight for survival in a post-apocalyptic world (multiple comet strikes ...

The Domination

39 reviews
S.M. Stirling

Baen, 1999

the tip of an amazing iceberg of VERY Smart Spartans
Stirling has the rare intellectual courage to ask "what if?" and You don't need many people who think this way, at all, particularly when that tremendous Cultural shift is compounded over a CENTURY. use the answer to change history. I believe that those who dismiss his thinking haven't thought it through. The Janissaries were controlled in the Ottoman Empire by, among other factors, the ...

Conquistador: A Novel of Alternate History

71 reviews
S.M. Stirling

Roc, 2004

My first Stirling book, but definitely not my last!
"There is a technical, literary term for those who mistake the opinions and beliefs of characters in a novel for those of the author. The term is 'idiot.'" This quotation from speculative fiction writer Larry Niven is part of S.M. Stirling's dedication for Conquistador: A Novel of Alternate History, and its appropriateness cracked me up because I am only too familiar with readers (and heaven help ...

Ice, Iron And Gold

3 reviews
S.M. Stirling

Night Shade Books, 2007

spanning 20 years of writing
Steve Stirling has now been writing science fiction and fantasy for over 20 years. In one easily accessible book, he has drawn together short stories originally written for various magazines. Fans of his may well have read most of these, over the years. The earliest stories in this collection show that even 20 years ago, his writing abilities were formidable. Including a specialisation in ...

The Sky People

38 reviews
S.M. Stirling

Tor Science Fiction, 2007

Bringing Back the Golden Age
Venus and Mars are habitable, that's the basis for S. M. Stirling's Lords of Creation series. And they're exactly like what the pulp fiction and Golden Age Writers wrote. The Sky People starts off in a Soviet bunker in Kazakhstan as their probe lands on Venus and the US probe lands on Mars. What the Soviets see is a group of ?humans? being attacked by Neanderthals. Skip ahead to 1992 and ...

The Chosen (The Raj Whitehall Series, Book 6)

12 reviews
S.M. Stirling, David Drake

Baen, 1996

A fine read...
I'm a fan of Stirling's for the chief reason he, like a handful of other military sci fi writers(Pournelle and Turtledove chiefly) write convincingly. I was disappointed by the Draka series not because of the eventual outcome but by the one sidedness of the conflict. The Draka were so much more advanced ALWAYS that it became a joke. The Chosen however set a stage between two opponents that ...

T2: The Future War (T2)

18 reviews
S.m. Stirling

HarperEntertainment, 2004

Finally the book that ties it all together!!
I have read every Terminator book written and all of them are pretty but this book connects all the movies and all the other books together. I don't want to give away anything in this review, but if you were ever wondering what happened just before Judgement day, during, and after, this is the book for you. It does NOT just jump around and leave alot for you to guess at. It goes into all ...

The Ship Avenged (Brainship)

14 reviews
S.M. Stirling

Baen, 1998

The Jack of All Trades grows up
In this authorized sequel to McCaffrey & Stirling's "The City Who Fought," it's 10 years since the barbarian spacegoing raiders the Kolnari captured Space Station SSS-900-C and were sent scurrying with tails between legs by Simeon, the Brain that runs it, and Joat, the 11-year-old technodemon who lurked in its conduits. In gratitude, Simeon and his Brawn, Stationmaster Channa Hap, adopted Joat ...

Drakon

20 reviews
S.M. Stirling

Baen, 1996

A+, best of the Draka books
______________________________________________ Reread, and it's as good as ever: A+, best of the Draka books, and makes my personal Top 20 Ever list. Still Stirling's best book, imo. Compulsively readable, and highly recommended. Gwen Ingolffson, the titular Drakon, is dumped alone into (almost, [1]) OTL in a failed wormhole experiment. A good Drakon superwoman, she makes First Contact with ...

The Forge (The Raj Whitehall Series: The General, Book 1)

12 reviews
S.M. Stirling, David Drake

Baen, 1991

Excellent 5 Book Series
This is the standard by which I judge all military fiction. I have never found another that was it's equal. Even when the same authors got together again for books 6 and 7 (which I have reviewed separately) they couldn't recreate the magic of this series. THE GENERAL series is about a fallen interstellar society which has climbed it's way back up to the technological level of the American ...

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