To Turn the Tides
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4.7 • 62개의 평가
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New time travel military adventure from New York Times best-selling novelist S.M. Stirling
IT’S THE END OF THE WORLD AS WE KNOW IT
Everyone could see it coming. But one man could do something about it. Oh, he couldn’t avert the nuclear holocaust, but a scientist in Austria, ruthlessly using billions of research dollars for his own purposes, set himself up an out: he created a time machine, and filled a warehouse with low-tech survival gear. Too bad he didn’t get to use it himself.
Instead, a team of American grad students, led by their professor, is sent back to the late Roman Empire. Even though they are experts in this time and place, they are about to realize that books and actual experience are very different things.
If they can survive, they hope to remake the world into a better place. But that’s a big “if."
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Praise for S.M. Stirling:
“A powerful, convincing adventure with a large cast of ordinary and extraordinary people. Don’t miss it.” —Harry Turtledove
“A stunning speculative vision of a near-future bereft of modern conveniences but filled with human hope and determination. Highly recommended.” —Library Journal
“Post-apocalypse novels often veer either too heavily into romantic Robinsonades or nihilistic dead ends. But Stirling has struck the perfect balance between grit and glory.” —Science Fiction Weekly
“Stirling shows that while our technology influences the means by which we live, it is the myths we believe in that determine how we live. The novel’s dual themes—myth and technology—should appeal to both fantasy and hard SF readers as well as to techno-thriller fans.” —Publishers Weekly
“Fans of apocalyptical thrillers like Stephen King’s The Stand will find Dies the Fire absolutely riveting . . . a fantastic epic work.” —Midwest Book Review
“This volume delivers an engaging and approachable new adventure along with one of the very best of the classic stories.” —GrimDark Magazine
“Absolute fanboy’s dream . . . S.M. Stirling, along with illustrator Robert De La Torre, do a bang-up job with Blood of the Serpent. Cheers to Titan Books as well! The only other thing this fanboy can ask for is: More, please!” —Fantasy Literature
S.M. Stirling is the New York Times best-selling author of the Draka series, the Lords of Creation series, and the Emberverse series, among others. With David Drake, he is the author of several novels in the General series. He cowrote novels in the Falkenberg's Legion series with Jerry Pournelle. A former lawyer and amateur historian, he lives in New Mexico with his wife, Jan.
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Superb. Head and shoulders above his other works.
S. M. Stirling is one of the very few authors whose I buy on availability. In the case of this book, the purchase is fully and completely justified.
Steve Stirling writes GOOD books. They catch my eye, and then they catch my *mind*. This one is better.
Here we travel back in time from the explosive and utterly catastrophic demise of our world to roughly 163 CE. Our adventurers must cope with living in the Roman Empire, just before it begins to come unstuck. New language, new customs, new clothes, new EVERYTHING.
They live now in interesting times, and they come to the attention of powerful people. Stirling makes it all work, with wonderful details of *everything*.
Just buy the book. It’s the best I’ve read in literally years — maybe twenty or thirty years.