====== Island in the Sea of Time ======

The first in a trilogy of novels by [[S. M. Stirling]], //Island in the Sea of Time// deals with the 1998 island of Nantucket being dispatched by a mysterious Event back to 1250 B.C. during the late Bronze Age. The series, continued in //Against the Tide of Years// and //On the Oceans of Eternity//, focuses on the struggles waged by the people of Nantucket first to survive, and then to defeat the threat of renegade Coast Guard officer William Walker, who seeks to build a huge empire in Europe and the Middle East. The trilogy is also known as "The Nantucket series".

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==== In AH fandom and AH.com culture ====

The name of the first novel in the series single-handedly popularized the term **[[ISOT]]** in the jargon/slang of fans and writers of the alternate history genre. 

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==== See Also ====

**[[http://www.uchronia.net/bib.cgi/label.html?id=stirnantuc|The series' entry on Uchronia.net]]**

**[[http://smstirling.wikia.com/wiki/Nantucket_Series|Series overview on the S. M. Stirling Wikia]]**

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