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Looking for something to read? (SM Stirling)
(Today’s writer: S.M. Stirling) A lot of people love to hate this particular author – and, given his remarkable lack of suffer-fools-gladly, even by the standards of a genre where it’s practically a...
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Ooh. Pretty new site, with pretty, old ships.
It’s called Age of Sail, and it looks like a historical blog discussing precisely that. I came into Age of Sail fiction from the science fiction end of it, actually: reading S.M. Stirling and David...
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Book of the Week: The Sword of the Lady.
It being Sunday, we remove Harry Turtledove’s Hitler’s War – which I will figure out how to acquire in a week or so; and bring in S.M. Stirling’s The Sword of the Lady, which I have an entire month to...
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So, Chapter Six of ‘A Taint in the Blood’ is up.
S.M. Stirling puts up the first chapters of whatever book he’s working on at the moment at his website, in the fully-justified belief that this will keep me sufficiently interested to buy the book as...
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Book of the Week: The High King of Montival.
And it’s about time, too. Unfair, no doubt: The High King of Montival is part of a series (the Emberverse*), which means delays. Still: out in a week. And so Dungeons & Dragons Fantasy Roleplaying...
View Article#rsrh QotD, Avoid The Luxury of Self-Righteousness Edition.
From SM Stirling’s alternate history The Tears of the Sun. Background: …too long to explain; suffice it to say that the heroes are being a bit standoffish towards someone who was until-quite-recently...
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…The SM Stirling it is, then.
View ArticleSM Stirling, check with your attorney?
…I mean, I’m pretty sure that I’ve seen this “Revolution" thing before - only it was called Dies the Fire and was the start of a fairly involved, fairly well-known book series. One hopes that NBC...
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Book of the Week: “The Peshawar Lancers.”
S.M. Stirling’s standalone book The Peshawar Lancers (there is a short story set in the same universe, mind) is an alternate history novel that asks What would happen if you dropped a comet or an...
View ArticleBook of the Week: ‘The Sky People.’
The Sky People is the first book of a two-book series (plus novella) that asks the question, Hey! Wouldn’t it have been great if Mars and Venus was actually as inhabitable as the Golden Age of SF...
View ArticleBook of the Week: “Conquistador.”
Conquistador by S.M. Stirling is an… interesting book. The premise is classic Golden Age science fiction: a H. Beam Piper*-esque hero creates a stable dimensional portal to an alternate California that...
View ArticleIn the Mail: The Desert and the Blade.
The Change series is lots of fun, if you like post-apocalyptic fiction where technology above a certain level abruptly no longer works and the return of magic really doesn’t make up for it at all....
View ArticleIn the Mail: S.M. Stirling’s Prince of Outcasts.
Prince of Outcasts is part of S.M. Stirling’s Emberverse low-fantasy series; it’s partially about the South Seas, partially about the looming trans-Pacific war that’s about to erupt there (in a world...
View ArticleIn the Mail: The Sea Peoples.
SM Stirling’s The Sea Peoples is a day early, because Amazon works when the Post Office doesn’t. I can’t help but think that the Post Office should worry about that more. Or that I think that Amazon’s...
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Looking for something to read? (SM Stirling)
(Today’s writer: S.M. Stirling) A lot of people love to hate this particular author – and, given his remarkable lack of suffer-fools-gladly, even by the standards of a genre where it’s practically a...
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Ooh. Pretty new site, with pretty, old ships.
It’s called Age of Sail, and it looks like a historical blog discussing precisely that. I came into Age of Sail fiction from the science fiction end of it, actually: reading S.M. Stirling and David...
View ArticleBook of the Week: The Black Chamber.
SM Stirling’s The Black Chamber is coming out in a couple of weeks: it’s an alternate history where President Taft suffered a fatal heart attack at just the right moment in 1912 to ensure that Woodrow...
View ArticleBook of the Week: The Black Chamber.
It is difficult to write anything about the background to SM Stirling’s The Black Chamber without casually breaking my own rules about not discussing certain topics. Suffice it to say that, as an...
View ArticleIn the Mail: The Sky-Blue Wolves.
The Sky-Blue Wolves is SM Stirling’s last book in the Change series. …Wow. I’ve been reading these books for twenty years, if you include the Nantucket trilogy as part of the series. Can’t quite...
View ArticleBook of the Week: Theater of Spies.
SM Stirling’s Theater of Spies is coming out in May: it’s the second book in a what is rapidly becoming dieselpunk alternate history series with Teddy Roosevelt running a rather larger USA in World War...
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