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'''S. M. Stirling''' is a Canadian-American author of [[Alternate History]] and [[Military Science Fiction]].
Themes in his work include the effect of culture on individual morality, the effect of technology on culture, and ... well, let's just say there's a reason one of his [[Fan Nickname
Was once a member of the [[AlternateHistory.com]] forum.
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* [[The Draka]] series, describing an [[Alternate History]] in which a melting-pot society of the losers from several wars forms itself into an [[Evil Empire]] and conquers the entire world.
* ''[[Island in The Sea of Time]]'' trilogy, in which a mysterious phenomenon transports the island of Nantucket from modern times into the Bronze Age.
* ''[[Emberverse]]'' series, in which a mysterious phenomenon<ref>explicitly stated to be the same mysterious phenomenon as in ''Island in the Sea of Time'', from the outside</ref> renders inoperable all technology on Earth, leaving humanity to survive (or not) without it.
* ''[[The Lords of Creation]]'' series, in which the space probes of the 1960s discovered that the [[Planetary Romance|Planetary Romances]] were right all along: Mars and Venus are habitable, and inhabited by [[Humanoid Aliens]]. And [[Everything's Better with Dinosaurs|dinosaurs]].
* ''[[The Peshawar Lancers]]'', stand-alone novel in which a series of comet strikes in the 19th century destroyed much of Europe and North America, and what's left of the British Empire is ruled from India.
* ''[[The General]]'' series, co-written with [[David Drake]], a future history inspired the actual history of 5th-century Byzantium.
* Two novels in ''[[The Ship Who...]]'' series
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