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I especially loved reading about the Crusaders in action. It's a vivid look at how a group that "are not a numerous people" could go toe-to-toe with galactic powers without getting too many of their few people killed! Real force-multipliers.

Checked Stars of Iron for the first time in six months, and noticed you'd been updating again. Read it again in one sitting. Thank you for continuing one of my favorite stories I had long assumed was dead.

To be fair, there aren't many non-"foreigners" (I assume by this you mean white?) in the stories living on the coasts. Being some of the most densely populated areas, they mostly collapsed during the Change. The one exception is the PPA/Willamette area, but they are focused inland for obvious...

The flipside is actually Island in the Sea of Time, which is where we get "ISOT." It's pretty good, the trilogy is probably about as good as the first Emberverse trilogy. Conquistador, on the other hand, is IMO up there with Peshawar Lancers and the Lords of Creation (his pulp Venus and Mars...

The implication is that they seized the best farmland and just killed any Malays who resisted/were there, leaving those that didn't resist to starve. Genocide, basically. That in and of itself isn't totally out of the realm of possibility, if they were organized--Portland showed that an...

Just reread that part, and sorry, the Irish initially only outnumber the British by... three to one. He also has a condescending one-off line about how the Irish would have gotten their day in the sun, had they not "gotten back to their old national pasttime of whacking each other over the...

The reason is obvious: Stirling is trying to find a way to have his British dominion over Western Europe. That takes an act of God to uphold, when you consider that after the initial die-off and before the Icelanders joined them, the Irish outnumbered the Brits 5:1. You would think that if one...

Sometime in The Protector's War Nigel Loring recalls that when they were recolonizing Britain, guess who survived the 99.9% die off on the island? Wiccans. It gets to be a bit much.

I am a big Stirling fan, but I got fed up with the super-awesomeness of Rudi and how everyone seems to go out fo their way to agree with him. This is why I gave up a few books into the second series, after the one that ended with them getting the Sword on Nantucket. I was furious that he killed...