THE WINDS OF FATE (sequel to Steve Stirling’s time-travel novel TO TURN THE TIDE) is coming out in a few months, but the first two chapters are up on his main site. Fair warning: this is not going to be a sentimentalized version of the Roman Empire. These folks have yet to have their version of the Enlightenment. You Have Been Warned.
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This was not a great week for reading. However, Steve Stirling’s upcoming novel LORDS OF CREATION finally has a cover! …That’s just gonna have to do.
Oh, and read the first two in the series, too. They’re excellent.
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“The Rivals” is from the (future) sequel to upcoming SM Stirling’s Roman time travel novel TO TURN THE TIDE. It wasn’t what I was expecting, but that’s fine. I was wondering what the long-term conflict was going to be in that series, given that the good guys from TTTT had [oops, spoilers]. This new wrinkle will definitely complicate their lives interestingly, in the long run…
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Steve Stirling’s latest: time travel back to Roman Empire, just before things went really, really bad for it. Read it quickly once already, am now savoring it a second time. Note: it is good, fast-paced, and utterly unsentimental over how bad the Roman Empire can be, once you got on its bad side. Mind you, the German tribes in the Marcomannic Wars were a good deal worse.
You can grab TO TURN THE TIDE over at Baen, or wait for it to come out on Amazon. Dealer’s choice.
The first book of S.M. Stirling’s new time travel series isn’t going to be out until August, but I’m looking forward to TO TURN THE TIDE anyway. Aside from everything else, it promises to be highly unsentimental. I tend to be a bit more optimistic about human beings than Steve is, which makes his works oddly bracing.
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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.
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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.
S.M. Stirling wrote a Conan novel! Blood of the Serpent, and it’s a page-turner. Stirling takes the world seriously without slavishly worshipping it, which is sometimes a problem for people trying to work in the style of the pulp classics. I heartily recommend it.
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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.
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.
