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I enjoyed the first book in the series though at this point I think it should’ve been a single longer novel. This series is becoming pure fantasy, in the space of a dozen years barbarian civilizations have figured out how to make bazookas, anti aircraft guns etc. and the Nantucket people are like the Swiss Family Robinson on steroids. A couple thousand average modern Americans could barely figure out how to survive much less start a worldwide military empire from scratch in a decade.
Good idea but a little out there, I wouldn’t waste my money buying it again and am not sure if I’ll even finish this book much less the series.


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Against the Tide of Years S M Stirling 9780451457431 Books Reviews

Here is a scify story that is believable. Once again S.M.Sterling has done a great job of story telling; and the problems faced by 20 Century sent back to the Bronze Age. There is nothing magical or super natural the time travelers have other then history and a willingness to survive. The only things negative about the story, for me, was it ended - I really enjoyed the story and I would think you would as well.
As a scifi writer (Chronicles of Aria Prime, Episode One), I'm a sucker for alternate reality novels. The second in the Nantucket series, Against the Tide of years is set eight years after "the event", as the time displacement has come to be called. In that time, the Islanders have fought wars, stabilized the island as an industrial and political powerhouse, and are now living at a much more subsistence level than in the twentieth century. They have met with many of the cultures of the day, and are working to form an alliance that will put an end the renegade William Walker.

Early on, it's apparent that the Islanders are masters at adapting nineteenth and twentieth century technology to 1250 BC. For example, near the beginning of the story, we see a steam powered semi-truck. They've also progressed in what they can build, as the crossbows of book one have been replaced with muzzleloaders. Stirling goes into a lot of detail on many of these inventions, how they were built, and how they were adapted. For some people, this may bog the story down. However, I love the techno-stuff (and I tend to believe most of Stirling's fans do as well), so for me, this added to the story rather than take away.

Much of the plot hangs on the Islanders' formation of an alliance with the Mesopotamian king Shiumash. They hope that by aiding him and increasing stability in the region, he will provide them with the man-power they need to defeat William Walker in Greece. This proves move difficult than originally thought due to Tartessian pirates, working loosely under the command of Isketerol, the native whose power is based on early ties to both the Islanders and the renegade Walker.

Throughout the book, we see a stark difference between the Islanders and Walker. Walker has embraced brutality and slavery to get him what he wants. The Islanders, however, have brought the ideas of late twentieth century to 1250 BC. Freedom, liberty, gender and racial equality are embraced by the people of the island. This is not to say, however, that there are not conflicts. Certain individuals don't mind giving Indians whiskey before a trade, there are disagreements over how to deal with Walker, and so on.

While Island in the Sea of Time is my favorite in the series, this is still a good read. I highly recommend picking it up.
Against the Tide of Years is a step down from Island in the Sea of Time, the first book in the series, but it's still entertaining.

The flaws in the first book are still there everything is just a bit too easy for the good guys. I said in my review of the first book that it's like watching someone else play a computer game. I'll amend that it's like watching someone else play a computer game on a difficulty setting that's too easy for them.

In addition, while this book introduces several younger Islander characters to supplement the returning characters from the first book, they're much less interesting than their elders--perhaps that's in part because they all grew up in a similar environment. Fortunately, there are a host of new "local" characters who are quite varied and well-drawn.

Unlike the first book, this one spreads itself too thin. There's a Lewis and Clark type expedition, for example, which is an unnecessary addition. Maybe it's setting up something for the third book, but as it is it needed either more pages devoted to it or fewer. Likewise, Odysseus makes an appearance, and it seems as if he's going to be a major character, but then he fades from the action.

At one point, this even rises to the point of what I'd consider a continuity error. There is a flotilla of Islander ships that get separated by a storm. For a time, we follow the fate of one of them. But then we never find out what happened to the other ships. Given the concern the Islanders usually show for their people, there should be at least a mention somewhere of those ships having made it through safely, or getting destroyed, or being missing--I kept waiting for it, but if it was in there, I missed it.

Finally, a warning this book ends at a point that seems almost arbitrary. There is no particular final climax or resolution.

Still, it was enjoyable enough that I'm now going to buy the third book in the series.
I enjoyed the first book in the series though at this point I think it should’ve been a single longer novel. This series is becoming pure fantasy, in the space of a dozen years barbarian civilizations have figured out how to make bazookas, anti aircraft guns etc. and the Nantucket people are like the Swiss Family Robinson on steroids. A couple thousand average modern Americans could barely figure out how to survive much less start a worldwide military empire from scratch in a decade.
Good idea but a little out there, I wouldn’t waste my money buying it again and am not sure if I’ll even finish this book much less the series.