S. M. Stirling

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S. M. Stirling
Topic Started: Dec 4 2005, 10:19 PM (92 Views)
Specialist290	Dec 4 2005, 10:19 PM Post #1
Admin-type Guy Posts: 8,750 Group: Admin Member #2 Joined: October 1, 2005	Anyone here read any of his stuff? His big books were the Draka series (an alternative history where the Americans conquered Canada during the Revolutionary War and the Loyalists instead fled to South Africa and created the nation of Drakia--which, by the 1930s, had conquered all of Africa and the Middle East; actually, the Draka were a very early inspiration for my concept of the Specialists in the PW) and Island in the Sea of Time (the island of Nantucket gets transported back in time from the 1980s to around 1000 BC). My dad owns two of his Draka books (Marching through Georgia and Under the Yoke) and I've read part of the second one.
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Chukchi Husky	Dec 5 2005, 08:28 AM Post #2
Lone Wolf Posts: 8,237 Group: Members Member #11 Joined: October 11, 2005 Zodiac Sign Pisces	I never heard of him.
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Hlfranklin	Dec 5 2005, 02:57 PM Post #3
Tainted Soul Posts: 15,106 Group: Admin Member #1 Joined: August 30, 2005 Gender Male Innate Color Red Zodiac Sign Cancer	I havent.



Fremskritt	Dec 5 2005, 04:36 PM Post #4
The poster formerly known as TP Posts: 11,047 Group: Members Member #22 Joined: October 30, 2005 Gender Male	I haven't heard of him either. You certainly are good at digging up obscure authors nobody has heard about, S290.



Specialist290	Dec 5 2005, 09:04 PM Post #5
Admin-type Guy Posts: 8,750 Group: Admin Member #2 Joined: October 1, 2005	Well, S. M. Stirling isn't exactly "obscure" by most standards, but your unfamiliarity with him is probably excusable (TP by the fact that there apparently isn't a very big selection of Sci-Fi beyond the "big names" of Asimov, Clarke, and Heinlein; CH by the fact that he doesn't engage in the active pursuit of literature; and Hl by the fact that... well, he wouldn't know better anyway ). Seriously, though, he isn't quite what you might call a Sci-Fi "giant" (like the above-mentioned three), but he has been quite a prolific Sci-Fi writer and has even collaborated with David Drake (if you've never heard of David Drake and you are an active Sci-Fi reader, then... nevermind). In fact, he's still actively writing novels even now. You may want to check out this convenient Wiki link for more info.
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