It’s also called LORDS OF CREATION, and it’s a sequel to his previous novels THE SKY PEOPLE and IN THE COURTS OF THE CRIMSON KING. These books start with the premise What if the Golden Age SF novels were right about Mars and Venus being habitable? …and then thinking of what would have to happen to make that work. End result? A very cool alternate-history scenario — and a book I’ve been waiting years for.
Preordered.
This is seriously awesome news. The short version is, SM Stirling wrote two books (THE SKY PEOPLE and IN THE HALLS OF THE CRIMSON KINGS) which took as their concept, What if Golden Age science fiction had been right about Mars and Venus? The books are filled with dinosaurs and lost tribes and weird technological relics and dueling Martians and scheming and a lot of traipsing through various almost-Terran wilderness, and they were a lot of fun. And next year we get the next book in the series, which will be nice. I’m hoping for some torchships, myself. And maybe a hidden paradise on one of the moons of Jupiter or Saturn.
#commissionearned
