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Against the Tide of Years by S. M. Stirling
Stirling Is Great
In Stirlings bestselling Island in the Sea of Time, modern Nantucket found
itself trapped in the Bronze Age. In the sequel, Against the Tide of Years,
the renegade William Walker forges a dangerous alliance with the ancient
Greek kings Agamemnon and Odysseus; Commodore Marian Alston
faces terrible sea storms and cannon-armed Phoenician ships in an
anachronistic Age of Sail; and the outnumbered Nantucketers race Walker
to make contact with the Babylonian Empire. Of course this ambitious,
action-packed series is perfect for time-travel, alternate-history, and military-SF fans. But epic-fantasy readers, Burroughs and Haggard fans
desiring a modern update of the lost-civilization adventure novel, and
anyone who ever read Patrick OBrian for the terrific sea-battles will enjoy
it as well. --Cynthia Ward
Personal Review: Against the Tide of Years by S. M. Stirling
Eight years after the Event, the Nantucketers finally decide that William
Walker must be brought to justice. (What took them so long?) This is the
first (not quite) half of that story, and I found it even more enjoyable than
the first book, Island in the Sea of Time (Island), which you should read
first because it provides the background.
Most of the action in ATTOY takes place in the (then) fertile crescent
where Western civilization began, and some history of which is known, which I think is part of why I enjoyed it more than ISLAND, much of which
took place in the British Isles before any recorded history thereof.
(Stonehenge was already there, but all we know about it is what was
learned from the artifact itself.) ATTOY has to (and does) accord with the
known history of the region, except for the changes caused by the
Nantucketers.
One jarring note: near the bottom of page 294 (paperback) is the sentence
"That was where the Chamberlain was under repair in the spanking-new
dry dock, and a second being was constructed." We never learn the
nature of the being that was constructed, and it doesn't figure in the plot,
so why even mention it?
Three things I wish were included in these books: (1) maps of the
region(s), (2) Cast of characters, both such as are provided in Eric Flint's
1632 (The Assiti Shards) and 1633; and (3) historical notes, such as
Miriam Grace Monfredo includes in Seneca Falls Inheritance and its
sequels.
Even without those, I greatly enjoyed IITSOT and ATTOY, and am
currently enjoying the third book, On the Oceans of Eternity, and I heartily
recommend them. Enjoy!
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