Raymond E. Feist, Author, S. M. Stirling, Author Eos $13.95 (368p) ISBN 978-0-06-079294-7
Feist and Stirling bring humor and pathos to 13-year-old Jimmy the Hand's third escapade (after 2002's Murder in La Mut). Krondor's ever-resourceful boy thief, not content with helping Princess Anita and Prince Arutha make a seaward escape from the...
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Anne McCaffrey, Author, S. M. Stirling, Author, S. M. Stirling, Joint Author Baen Books $21 (384p) ISBN 978-0-671-87766-8
Writing solo in this sequel to The City Who Fought (which he coauthored with Anne McCaffrey), Stirling (the Draka series) proves that the space-opera appeal of the Ship books continues even though the series' original concepts have long been...
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Jerry Pournelle, Author, S. M. Stirling, Author, S. M. Stirling, Joint Author Baen Books $28 (1168p) ISBN 978-0-7434-3556-7
Military SF fans of the Falkenberg legion saga will need to be in fighting trim to lug home The Prince, by Jerry Pournelle and S.M. Sterling. This hefty compendium includes the four novels Falkenberg's Legion, Prince of Mercenaries, Go Tell...
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S. M. Stirling, Author . Roc $25.95 (450p) ISBN 978-0-451-46228-2
This vivid sequel to 2007's The Sunrise Lands
opens in 2021, a generation after the Change that brought magic back into the world and made electric and explosive power inoperative. New post-industrial societies have risen, some seeking to...
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S. M. Stirling, Author Baen Books $3.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-671-69843-0
In Stirling's alternate world of Marching Through Georgia , the Tories of the American Revolution left the colonies for South Africa and founded a slave-based society that evolved into the Domination of Draka, ruling all of Africa and siding with...
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S. M. Stirling, Author Roc $24.95 (486p) ISBN 978-0-451-46046-2
Stirling's Dies the Fire began an alternative history trilogy with a stunning premise: in 1998, the laws of nature suffered a mysterious change: gunpowder can't explode, electrical devices don't work-in short, the last 250 years of high-tech...
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S. M. Stirling, Author . Roc $25.95 (432p) ISBN 978-0-451-46341-8
Stirling (The Sword of the Lady
) launches a new series with a messy and unappetizing mix of well-worn monster tropes and excessive sexual violence. The ancient, powerful, and sociopathic Shadowspawn have always lived among (and interbred with)...
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Based on the world created in the motion picture written by James Cameron and William Wisher, this superior franchise fiction is the next best thing to Terminator 3. Stirling (Against the Tide of Years, etc.) is a skillful writer of action SF who...
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S. M. Stirling, Author . Tor $24.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-7653-1489-5
Stirling’s charming second pastiche of 1930s planetary romances (after 2006’s The Sky People
) moves from Venus to Mars, where different Terran factions vie to pick up the pieces of the Tollamune emperor’s shattered realm....
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S. M. Stirling, Author . Night Shade $26.95 (279p) ISBN 978-1-59780-115-7
Stirling (The Sunrise Lands)
shows off his prowess in both alternate history and military SF with his first short story collection. Noteworthy selections include the original Holmesian mystery “Something for Yew,” set in Stirling's
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S. M. Stirling, Author . Roc $24.95 (450p) ISBN 978-0-451-46170-4
Set 12 years after A Meeting at Corvallis
(2006), Stirling's latest novel of a chaotic near-future U.S., crippled when the mysterious Change rendered most technology nonfunctional, combines vigorous military adventure with cleverly packaged...
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S. M. Stirling, Author . Tor $24.95 (301p) ISBN 978-0-765-31488-8
For this rollicking first of an alternate history series, Stirling (Island in the Sea of Time
) uses the terrific premise that Mars and Venus are exactly as depicted in pulp-era SF, eerily Earth-like and populated by prehistoric people and creatures.
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S. M. Stirling, Author . Roc $25.95 (497p) ISBN 978-0-451-46111-7
Stirling concludes his alternative history trilogy that began with Dies the Fire
(2004) in high style. Some U.S. survivors of "the Change" that destroyed all modern technology just want to enjoy balanced, wholesome lives in tune with nature,
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S. M. Stirling, Author . Roc $23.95 (496p) ISBN 978-0-451-45979-4
What is the foundation of our civilization? asks Stirling (Conquistador
) in this rousing tale of the aftermath of an uncanny event, "the Change," that renders electronics and explosives (including firearms) inoperative. As American society...
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S. M. Stirling, Author . Roc $23.95 (438p) ISBN 978-0-451-45908-4
One adjustment to his radio sends John Rolfe VI, a descendant of the Virginia colonist, from 1946 into a California New World never touched by white men in Stirling's (The Peshawar Lancers) mesmerizing new novel. Having discovered the Oakland...
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S. M. Stirling, Author . HarperEntertainment $24.95 (384p) ISBN 978-0-380-97792-5
Military SF author Stirling provides fast-moving combat between well-matched, smart opponents in this excellent sequel to last year's T2: Infiltrator, in which Sarah Connor, her teenaged son, John, and their new ally, Dieter von Rossbach,...
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S. M. Stirling, Author . Roc $23.95 (420p) ISBN 978-0-451-45848-3
Aimed at readers who thrill to King, Empire and the fluttering Union Jack, as well as to brave white heroes, their faithful dusky-skinned servants and sneering villains, this alternative history from the bestselling author of the Islander novels...
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S. M. Stirling, Author, Todd McLaren, Read by , read by Todd McLaren. Tantor Audio $39.95 (0p) ISBN 978-1-4001-0345-4
Undeterred by modern science’s discoveries of the true nature of Venus and Mars, Stirling posits an alternate history/reality where the pulp-era visions of those two planets were actually correct. In this first volume of the series, the...
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S. M. Stirling, Author, James Cameron, Created by, William Wisher, Created by . HarperEntertainment $23.95 (368p) ISBN 978-0-380-97793-2
Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they're not out to get you, as shown in this above-average movie tie-in, the conclusion to Stirling's T2 trilogy (after Rising Storm
and Infiltrator). Judgment Day, when the sentient...
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