I read this series recently. There's three of them:
- Island in the Sea of Time
- Against the Tide of Years
- On the Oceans of Eternity.
The plot goes something like this - A Coast Guard training sail ship (which apparently really exists), captained by lesbian action girl of colour Marion Alston* is sailing past Nantucket Island when a mysterious event sends the island, its inhabitants, and her boat and everyone on it back in time to 1250 BC.
While most of the islanders work to rebuild society as best they can with the resources and knowledge available to them in the Bronze Age, a rebel faction led by William Walker, a disaffected underling of Alston's, and Dr Alice Hong, a physician with a liking for BDSM* defect and attempt to set up their own empire where they can be Emperor and Empress and have hordes of cringing native slaves to rule over.
It's pretty tasty actually. The first two novels, which deal with the Event, Walker's desertion, and his first attempt at building an industrial slave empire out of Celtic Britain and his subsequent flight to Ancient Greece where he usurps the throne from Agamemnon and becomes God Emperor of Mycenae are both top notch. The third one, unfortunately, drags a bit what with the whole political manoeuvring and trying to manipulate the Babylonians and suchlike into attacking Walkeropolis.
Being S. M. Stirling it contains a number of tropes that he likes, such as feisty action girls (on both sides), villains into BDSM (Alice Hong masquerades as Hecate in the second one and trains a squadron of bondage ninjas to perform assassinations), autistically detailed research into the real life Bronze Age, and similar.
* = This is why he's nicknamed S&M Stirling by some.
Anyone else read it? Because I really liked it.
- Island in the Sea of Time
- Against the Tide of Years
- On the Oceans of Eternity.
The plot goes something like this - A Coast Guard training sail ship (which apparently really exists), captained by lesbian action girl of colour Marion Alston* is sailing past Nantucket Island when a mysterious event sends the island, its inhabitants, and her boat and everyone on it back in time to 1250 BC.
While most of the islanders work to rebuild society as best they can with the resources and knowledge available to them in the Bronze Age, a rebel faction led by William Walker, a disaffected underling of Alston's, and Dr Alice Hong, a physician with a liking for BDSM* defect and attempt to set up their own empire where they can be Emperor and Empress and have hordes of cringing native slaves to rule over.
It's pretty tasty actually. The first two novels, which deal with the Event, Walker's desertion, and his first attempt at building an industrial slave empire out of Celtic Britain and his subsequent flight to Ancient Greece where he usurps the throne from Agamemnon and becomes God Emperor of Mycenae are both top notch. The third one, unfortunately, drags a bit what with the whole political manoeuvring and trying to manipulate the Babylonians and suchlike into attacking Walkeropolis.
Being S. M. Stirling it contains a number of tropes that he likes, such as feisty action girls (on both sides), villains into BDSM (Alice Hong masquerades as Hecate in the second one and trains a squadron of bondage ninjas to perform assassinations), autistically detailed research into the real life Bronze Age, and similar.
* = This is why he's nicknamed S&M Stirling by some.
Anyone else read it? Because I really liked it.
