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Stirling is probably best-known for his Draka series of alternate history novels and the more recent Island in the Sea of Time time travel/alternate history trilogy. His novels Go Tell The Spartans and Price of Sparta are cult novels of antiguerilla warfare among military officers.
The Draka novels postulate a slave-holding militaristic (white) African empire (founded by American Loyalists escaped to South Africa after the American Revolution) and follows its historical development through the 19th and 20th century. The Draka culture is remarkable for combining a strictly race- and class based hierarchical society with complete gender-equality (including female soldiers in integrated military units in combat roles) and a natural acceptance of nudity and (homo-)sexuality.
In Island in the Sea of Time the island of Nantucket is transported by an unknown physical process back in time into the Bronze Age (corresponding to the early Heroic Age of Greek mythology). The novels describe the conflict between two different factions of the island's population trying to dominate the world.
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His initials allegedly stand for "Stephen Michael", and he sometimes uses the short form "Steve Stirling".External Links