Against the Tide of Years (Island in the Sea of Time Series #2)

by S. M. Stirling

Overview

 “STIRLING HAS SURPASSED HIS PREVIOUS WORK,” raved Science Fiction Chronicle of his bestselling novel Island in the Sea of Time, and George R. R. Martin hailed it as “an utterly engaging account of what happens when the isle of Nantucket is whisked back into the Bronze Age.” Now, the adventure continues...

In the years since the Event, the Republic of Nantucket has done its best to recreate the better ideas of the modern age. But the evils of its time resurface in the person of William Walker, renegade Coast Guard officer, who is busy building an empire for himself based on conquest by technology. When Walker reaches Greece and recruits several of their greater kinglets to his cause, the people of Nantucket have no choice. If they are to save the primitive world from being plunged into bloodshed on a twentieth-century scale, they must defeat Walker at his own game: war.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780451457431
Publisher:	Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date:	05/01/1999
Series:	Island , #2
Edition description:	Reissue
Pages:	464
Sales rank:	258,912
Product dimensions:	4.25(w) x 6.70(h) x 1.25(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

S. M. Stirling is the author of many science fiction and fantasy novels, including the Novels of the Change (including Prince of Outcasts, The Desert and the Blade, The Golden Princess, The Given Sacrifice, Lord of Mountains) and the Shadowspawn series (A Taint in the Blood, The Council of Shadows, Shadows of Falling Night).

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What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

"Another exciting and explosive tale of ambition, ingenuity, intrigue, and discovery." —-Jane Lindskold, author of When the Gods Are Silent

Editorial Reviews

Another exciting and explosive tale of ambition, ingenuity, intrigue, and discovery. Against the Tide of Years is even more compelling than Island in the Sea of Time—but just as much fun.” – Jane Lindskold, author of When the Gods Are Silent

“Amazingly real. The research is impeccable, the writing excellent.” – Harry Turtledove

From the Publisher

Walker is not content merely to create a comfortable lifestyle among the primitive locals. Driven by the desire for revenge on the Islanders, he introduces modern military technology and tactics...[and] sets Agamemnon on a course of conquest...[T]his book doesn't attempt to stand on its own feet; it's aimed almost exclusively at readers who know the first volume.
— Asimov's Science Fiction

Peter Heck