SM Stirling’s ISLAND IN THE SEA OF TIME trilogy gets optioned for television.

As Steve notes here, that doesn’t always mean that the show gets made. But it does mean that the author gets paid. I’m very much in favor of authors getting paid.

Moe Lane

PS: The Island series, for those who haven’t read it, is a time-travel/alternate history romp where the island of Nantucket (and the Coast Guard cutter Eagle) get permanently sent back to the Bronze Age. Wars, cultural uplift, and associated hijinks ensue. The books are a lot of fun, and sparked any number of imitators. Read them, if you haven’t yet.

PPS: Oh, I’m sure Hollywood will screw it all up. However, now that I am a writer of books myself I must admit that Charged all that the traffic would bear covers a multitude of sins, or at least literary outrages. Cash on the barrel-head, as Robert Anton Wilson used to say. Make ’em pay through the nose for the privilege, says I.

#commissionearned

Chapter 1 of SM Stirling’s TO TURN THE TIDE is up!

TO TURN THE TIDE is Steve Stirling’s new Roman time travel novel, and he put the first chapter up on his website. I’m looking forward to reading it – and I don’t know what’s going on with his Black Chamber novel THE WARLORD OF THE STEPPES, sorry. I think there’s a problem with the publisher, but I haven’t really asked around. Still, this should be cool.

In the Mail: CONAN: BLOOD OF THE SERPENT.

Been looking forward to this one: CONAN: BLOOD OF THE SERPENT is Steve Stirling’s latest, and it’s finally out. Obviously, it’s a Conan story: it has Valeria in it, and the publisher included “Red Nails” in the book so you can read it next. I’ve read far enough into it already that I figure I’m going to highly enjoy the rest.

Books of the Week: The Nantucket trilogy.

Although S.M. Stirling’s apparently calling these books (Island in the Sea of Time, Against the Tide of Years, and On the Oceans of Eternity) the Island series. Basic concept: something sends the island of Nantucket back to the Bronze Age. Adventures ensue.

Anyway: I recently replaced my copies of the last two books in the series (they somehow managed to fall into a washing machine), so now I’m rereading them. Good, alt-history/time travel fun.

CONAN: BLOOD OF THE SERPENT on pre-order tomorrow.

CONAN: BLOOD OF THE SERPENT was written by SM Stirling, so naturally I’ll be pre-ordering it on March 25th. It seems like a reasonable response, given that I buy Stirling* in hardback and have a fondness for Conan novels**. Details on the book itself are light, but I assume there’ll be Conan, at least one serpent, and blood. That seems like… a reasonable foundation to build upon, yes?

CONAN: BLOOD OF THE SERPENT will be published in October.

Moe Lane

*His Conan homage.

**My Conan homage.

S.M. Stirling’s DAGGERS IN DARKNESS now available!

Go here for the e-book, here for the paperback. I have already read SM Stirling’s DAGGERS IN DARKNESS – in fact, I was one of the first readers for the book, and that was one of the top ten things that I got to do last year* – and if you like the ‘Is this whole thing gonna slide into an Orwellian nightmare?’ alt-history that is the Black Chamber series you will find this latest tale quite diverting. I look forward to future books, even if I don’t get to be a first reader again.

Moe Lane

*It was a tougher contest than normal. I mean, I also self-published four books last year. That’s gonna skew the results.

SM Stirling’s first two chapters of DAGGERS IN DARKNESS are up at his site.

Found here. DAGGERS IN DARKNESS is part of Steve’s THE BLACK CHAMBER alt-history spy-adventure series, and I shall not lie; every time I pick up the latest one part of the thrill for me is seeing whether this is going to be the book that sends the whole thing spiraling right into full-bore dystopia. It doesn’t have to, mind you. The references could just be in-jokes. But I never know.

But, hey, they’re also fun adventure fiction books so no worries, right?

(ahem) Moe Lane