And the literal mail, no less.
TO TURN THE TIDE (time-travelling to Imperial Rome) came in the mail today, but I’ve read the e-ARC about three, four times. I buy SM Stirling in hardcover or paperback, these days. Whichever is available, really. Anyway, it is a rollicking read and I look forward to future books in the series.
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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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…this makes me just a little less suspicious of GLADIATOR 2. Although they still should have gotten that insane script about Maximus being immortal and linked up with Jesus somehow? That would have been amazing. And, again, insane.
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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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.
