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Conquistador: A Novel of Alternate History (Hardcover)
by S. M. Stirling (Author) "I joined the Department of Fish and Game because I couldn't be a soldier anymore and I hate cities, Tom Christiansen thought, the Berretta cold..." (more)
Key Phrases: gate complex, tule reeds, harvest supper, New Virginia, Gate Security, John Rolfe (more...)
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From Publishers Weekly
One adjustment to his radio sends John Rolfe VI, a descendant of the Virginia colonist, from 1946 into a California New World never touched by white men in Stirling's (The Peshawar Lancers) mesmerizing new novel. Having discovered the Oakland Gate that allows one to switch secretly between worlds, Rolfe and a passel of army buddies found New Virginia, a Southern Agrarian "pirate kingdom," and proceed to build wealth and power on both sides. Stirling cleverly switches between vignettes of New Virginian history since 1946 and the "present" of 2009, when a neo-Mafioso is plotting to take over Rolfe's "theme park of perverted romanticism run amok." In this luscious alternative universe, sidekicks quote the Lone Ranger and Right inevitably triumphs with panache. What more could adventure-loving readers ask for?
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From Booklist
Stirling's endlessly and sometimes perversely fertile imagination now realizes a world in which Alexander the Great lived to old age. Moreover, the East doesn't discover the West until 1946, when John Rolfe finds a gate from his time line to another and sets about discreetly, profitably colonizing the alternate Earth he discovers on the gate's other side. In 2009, Rolfe's granddaughter, investigating a threat to her family's benign feudal despotism, encounters a California fish and game officer tracking down the source of certain mysterious birds and beasts. He becomes her lover, ally, confidant, and spouse, and with odd, assorted allies from both time lines, they defeat a plot to overthrow the Rolfes and viciously conquer the new New World. This is even more of a romp than Stirling's Peshawar Lancers (2002), but while its action scenes are state-of-the-art and its femmes wonderfully formidables, it is the sort of romp that has four appendixes of historical backgrounding, not to mention a blatant opening for a sequel. Roland Green
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Product Details
  • Hardcover: 448 pages
  • Publisher: Roc Hardcover (February 4, 2003)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0451459083
  • ISBN-13: 978-0451459084
  • Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 6.3 x 1.5 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds
  • Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars 68 customer reviews (68 customer reviews)
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S. M Stirling "Steve" sent the following posts to customers who purchased Conquistador: A Novel of Alternate History
  

A Writer's Life:

2:22 PM PDT, September 9, 2007
Well, THE SUNRISE LANDS is out, and I'm hard at work on the sequel -- THE SCOURGE OF GOD.  It's a writer's life; finish a book, start a book.

But I do get to wake up in the morning and think:  Oh, goodie, I can write today... since my hobby is also the way I earn my living.  Which is something not many people can say; I'm very fortunate.

Unusually for me, this trilogy (the third will be THE SWORD OF THE LADY) has a unified story arc, so that all the books are part of a single plot and take place directly one after the other. 

All the trilogies I've written before had one stand-alone book and then two closely related sequels taking place well after the action of the first.

I'm also working on a longish short story for a new anthology that will feature George R.R. Martin, Robin Hobb, Joe Haldeman, Lawrence Block, Peter S. Beagle, Tony Hillerman, Neil Gaiman, Steven Saylor, Cecelia Holland, Tad Williams, Howard Waldrop and some others. 

It's to be called WARRIORS and I'm doing an alternate-history mystery set in post-Change England; the same universe as the "Dies the Fire" books, but fifty years after the Change and very far away from Oregon!

And I'm developing a contemporary secret-history-quasi-fantasy concept which may or may not see the light of day. 

Ideas are easy.  It's the execution and getting an editor to buy it that's hard.
 
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Works in Progress

7:57 PM PST, December 14, 2006
I've just turned in The Sunrise Lands, the first volume in a new trilogy set in the same universe -- the Emberverse -- as Dies the Fire, The Protector's War, and A Meeting At Corvallis.

It's Change Year 22, a generation after high-energy technology died in a catastrophe most of the human race didn't survive.  The children born after the Change are now starting to take center stage -- and Whoever or Whatever was behind the Change itself may be taking a hand in their rivalries.  An expedition must travel to Nantucket across a strange and hostile continent to find some answers.

I'm also working on In the Courts of the Crimson Kings, the "Mars" sequel to The Sky People, which was set on Venus... but the Venus of an alternate universe where there are three inhabited planets in our solar system rather than one. 

The Sky People gave some hint of the beings responsible for the terraforming of Venus and Mars two hundred million years ago.  Mars may hold the final key.

But while the men and women from Earth are gods from the sky on primitive Venus, on Mars humans -- or near-humans