Comments on: Against the Tide of Years, by S.M. Stirling

by: Will Duquette

Sat, 18 Nov 2006 14:41:10 +0000

This is true. Without Walker’s protection, Alice Hong wouldn’t last three days–she’s scary, but she has no real power base of her own. She can attract hangers on, I’m sure, but I can’t imagine she can command real loyalty.

by: S.M. Stirling

Sat, 18 Nov 2006 05:04:52 +0000

Nice review, btw. Very fair and perceptive.

As to Walker… as he points out to Alice at one point, he’s actually much more wicked on the large industrial scale than she is, with her one-off, hand-crafted atrocities.

But to be effectively evil, a bad man must have some real virtues.

by: Will Duquette

Tue, 14 Nov 2006 23:09:08 +0000

Whoops! I meant, of course, Island in the Sea of Time. (I had a cold when I wrote the review. Oh, well.)

by: Galen

Tue, 14 Nov 2006 11:26:10 +0000

“Against the Tide of Years, by S.M. Stirling

This is the immediate sequel to Against the Tide of Years.”

I haven’t recently come across too many books which are their own sequel/prequel.

;-)