Against the tide of years

Format:

Book

Title:

Against the tide of years

Author:

Stirling, S. M., 1954-

ISBN:

9780451457431

9780739403167

Publication Information:

New York : ROC, 1999.

Physical Description:

454 p. ; 18 cm.

Series title(s):

Novels of the Change.

General Note:

"ROC science fiction"--Cover.

Summary:

The island of Nantucket was swept by a cosmic disaster into the year 1250 B.C. The new Republic of Nantucket is now threatened by renegade Coast Guard officer William Walker, who is making alliances with the Trojan War heroes Agamemnon and Odysseus. The Republic and Walker deal with Bronze Age Greece, Phoenicia, and Babylonia, ancient regimes changed by the modern technology the time travelers introduced.

Subject(s):

Time travel -- Fiction.

Nantucket Island (Mass.) -- Fiction.

Geographic Term:

Nantucket Island (Mass.) -- Fiction.

Massachusetts -- Nantucket Island

Genre:

Science fiction

Adventure stories

Action and adventure fiction

Holds:

Available:*

Library	Call Number	Status
Searching... Salem Main Library	SCI-FI Stirling, S.	Searching... Unknown
Searching... Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde Library	FIC STI	Searching... Unknown

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Summary

"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.

Author Notes

Stephen Michael Stirling is a French-born Canadian-American science fiction and fantasy author. His Birthday is September 30, 1953. He has lived in several countries and currently resides in the United States in New Mexico with his wife. He is probably best known for his Draka series of novels and his more recent time travel/alternate history Nantucket series and Emberverse series. In 2014 his title The Golden Princess made The New York Times Best Seller List.

(Bowker Author Biography)