I found this book lying around, and thought I'd try something new. S.M. Sterling's The Sword of the Lady is in some ways, something very new. And rare.Usually when you pick up an epic fantasy six books into the series, you really have no idea what's going on. I didn't feel lost here, which was ni...
I read this (and will read the next and last for the same reason) due to momentum, I tend to have trouble letting go of stories I've gotten into. And while Stirlings first books, and the companion Nantucket books are engrossing. This one was decidedly not. Containing mostly descriptions and a bit...
First successful battle of new Montival Kingdom against CUT/Boise alliance, not really anything surprising. Other reviews have mentioned how it felt padded and it does. Way too much on the clothing, etc. and little plot development. The magic sword and underlying mysticism is pretty lame and f...
Better than the previous...but not really all that compelling. The plot advanced some. I'm not sure I like that almost everyone has accepted the "woo-woo" by now; it was more interesting when there were some hard-core skeptics.More practically, a lot of the novel is back-fill- more detailed accou...
This is a book in S.M. Stirling's "Emberverse" series. I really enjoyed the first three books in this series - a vision of a future Earth in which an unexplained event has removed all modern technology from the world; electricity, the combustion engine, even steam power no longer work in this alt...
This was my first acquaintaince with The Change series, but the series' tenth book, so my review has that giant caveat. Stirling was pretty good about cluing me into the past histories, enough that I know a Big Change occurred which destroyed all computers, possibly all machinery. The US broke in...
Title: A Taint in the BloodAuthor: S.M. StirlingYear of Publication: 2010Publisher: ROCPage count: 432The story opens with Ellen crying in her car because she’d just broken up with Adrian due to his lack of communication in the relationship. Almost immediately she’s kidnapped by the guy’s twin si...
Jimmy the Hand is the third Rift war collaboration book (outside the Janny Wurts Empire series) that Feist wrote with different authors. This time the author is S. M. Sterling. Sterling is the author of Dies the Fire, the only other book I’ve read penned by him.Overall, Jimmy the Hand is an OK re...
This is an anthology of three short stories and a host of technical information (non-story, but about the story universe). The first story is a precursor to one of the David Weber spin-off series about Stephanie Harrington, Honor semi-famous ancestor who was first to befriend a tree cat. I foun...
This seems to be the final volume of the Nantucket trilogy, although Stirling left himself the opportunity to continue it, should he ever feel the urge.To recap, the trilogy tells the story of the island of Nantucket after it finds itself suddenly transported from 1998 AD to 1250 BC.It's another ...
In the tenth year of The Change, the survivors in western Oregon have learned how to live in a world without technology-but there are those who would exploit the new world order. On one side stands Michael Havel's Bearkillers and their allies, Clan MacKenzie under the leadership of Juniper MacKen...
About the Book: Dies The Fire: A Novel Of The Change The Change occurred when an electrical storm centered over the island of Nantucket produced a blinding white flash that rendered all electronic devices and fuels inoperable. What follows is the most terrible global catastrophe in the history of...
This is a story with a great scenario and Stirling's usual very thorough research and above-average writing, with plenty of detailed scenic descriptions.It's the story of two worlds: one very close to our own (though not exactly the same), and an alternative world in which Alexander the Great did...
I think it's largely a case of middle book syndrome because while I enjoyed the book I didn't really care about it. It was mostly just setting the stage for A Meeting at Corvallis. As a medievalist who is getting more and more into the re-enactment side of things I think I enjoy these books so mu...
Against the Tide of Years continues the adventures of the Nantucket residents who have been transported through time to the Bronze Age. In the years since their arrival, the fledging Republic of Nantucket has striven to better the primitive world in which they now exist. Their prime concerns are ...
Since the late 20th century, the Soviet-American CoDominium had kept the peace, both on Earth and among the stars. But now the CoDominium is dying, and its death-throes will be terrible; already the nations arm for their final battle. With Earth doomed, mankind's sole hope for a future worth havi...
It's spring on Nantucket and everything is perfectly normal, until a sudden storm blankets the entire island. When the weather clears, the island's inhabitants find that they are no longer in the late twentieth century...but have been transported instead to the Bronze Age! Now they must learn to ...
The Stone Dogs is the third of four books of S.M. Stirling's alternate history series, The Domination. During the cold war between the Alliance and the Domination, Frederic and Marya work for the OSS as spies and assassins.During the Draka conquest of India, Marya Lefarge is taken prisoner. She b...
The first book of the Draka series. 1942: The Eurasian War.The fleets of Imperial Japan raid the coasts of a United States that stretches from Panama to the Arctic. The Nazi war machine takes Moscow and sweeps east to the Urals. To the south the Domination of the Draka is a giant forge with serf-...
1/18/2013Why is it so easy to put down (for three months) a book I'm nearly halfway through? Because it's not on the Kindle.10/2013A bit after starting this book, I thought to me olde self, I thought: Well, only in the '70s would it be acceptable for your badass young (anti-?)heroine to rape a 13...
A Journey in Other Worlds is a science fiction book published in 1894 and available these days in Kindle format, and describes a space journey taking place in the year 2000. I came across it through a Google+ post by a friend.It is definitely of the old science fiction school in which the appeal ...
General Gerard said with melancholy pride.Many of the soldiers trudging along the sides of the dusty road cheered as the car carrying Gerard and Jeffrey went by. They were almost all Unionaise on this front, not Freedom Brigades, so they were probably cheering the local officer—although Jeffrey w...
Janeen Amier had been a notable actress in her day, and something of a celebrity in radical circles in the 1960s. Later she'd made a fortune of her own in exercise videos, and then married a much larger one. Now she was just plain lean and stringy, and the effects of too many facelifts were showi...
Left and right the line of the escarpment stretched into black shadow, streaked with touches of blue and ochre as the rock began to catch the light; the high steppe was behind them, the low desert of erg in front. Sand leaked over the caprock of the basin; the water came from the edge below, wher...
The setting sun glittered red on the lancepoints of a regiment of Brigaderos cuirassiers moving at the edge of sight. "Something fairly substantial." Once more they were gathered on one of the north gate towers; Suzette looking a little pale from the lingering aftermath of influenza and some w...