An excellent author, he has several well-researched and brilliant titles. My favourites:
The Peshawar Lancers (steampunk in an alternative future earth)
Dies the Fire (electricity & gunpowder go bye-bye; SCA takes over the world)
The Protector's War (sequel to 'Dies the Fire')
Yes, I just read "The Protector's War" and it's excellent. I've enjoyed many of S.M. Stirling's books, but the "Protector's War" is my favorite so far. Can't wait for the sequel, which is supposed to come out in August, I think.
I just read Conquistador, the ending makes me really want a sequel.
I liked Peshawar Lancers ok, there is a short story set in the same world in Worlds That Weren't that I liked a whole lot more.
I just finished "Island in the Sea of Time." Very good, very entertaining--Nantucket Island and all of its inhabitants, plus the U.S. Coast guard training cutter 'Eagle' get teleported back in time to the year 1250 BC.
I'm going to read the rest of the series now. My only hope is that Mr. Stirling finally reveals what the heck caused Nantucket to go back in time and subsequently cause the "change" that resulted in the "Dies The Fire" series events.
You saying they are *connected*??
"Dies The Fire" and its followups detail what happened to the Earth that Nantucket left behind when it was teleported back in time to 1250 BC.....so, connected, yes...but so far, two totally seperate stories. The same "event" that caused combustion to stop working on Earth caused Nantucket to time travel.
I'm on the third book of the "island" series and I found something disturbing and surprising--S.M. Stirling copies scenes from the movie "Zulu" and puts them into the book virtually the same way they are in the movie. The book is called "On the Oceans of Eternity."
For example, the scene where Private Hook has his boil lanced by the company surgeon (Stirling even names the Private "Hook"). The scene where the two privates are on lookout on top of the hill and sampling the earth and wishing they were back on the farm...the noise of the Zulu hordes banging their spears on their shields and attacking a position where bags of barley were used to make an impromptu rampart....
The book is entertaining and I liked the author for a time, but this sort of plagiarism is very disappointing. I have read my last S.M. Stirling book, as I will not support someone who has to resort to plagiarism--how did he think he wouldn't get caught? I read this book's reviews on Amazon and I'm not the only one that caught the plagiarism.
Oh, I'm very disappointed by one of my formerly favorite authors.
I've forgiven Stirling apparently, since I ordered his last book "The Sunrise Lands" from the Science Fiction Book Club. I thought I could hold the "Zulu" plagiarism grudge forever, but I've moved on.
I've forgiven Stirling apparently, since I ordered his last book "The Sunrise Lands" from the Science Fiction Book Club. I thought I could hold the "Zulu" plagiarism grudge forever, but I've moved on.
Sunrise Lands is a good book. But have you read the other trilogy it follows? (Dies the Fire, Protector's War & Meeting at Corvallis)
*Edit. I should have scrolled up to see your other posts.