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In the last 20 years, former lawyer Stephen Michael Stirling, writing as S. M. Stirling, has brought an impressive quantity of gripping adventure fiction to the world of science fiction. Stirling has created several outstanding series of his own, as well as working in collaboration with Anne McCaffrey, David Drake, Raymond E. Feist, Jerry Pournelle, and others.

An amateur historian, Stirling has made alternate history a specialty. The "Nantucket" series begins with Island in the Sea of Time (1998), in which the island of Nantucket is cataclysmically propelled thousands of years into the past, where the Nantucket folks use their Yankee ingenuity to create a better world. In parallel with this series is the "Change" series, beginning with Dies the Fire, which depicts the chaotic world left behind after the mysterious vanishing of Nantucket and the concomitant loss of electricity, engines, and guns. Standalone novels Conquistador and The Peshawar Lancer also mine the vein of alternate history or parallel universes, as does his "Draka" series, beginning with Marching through Georgia, which falls into both the alternate history and military science fiction categories.

Stirling has also written media tie-in books set in the Terminator 2 universe and in the Babylon 5 universe.

Although his skilled storytelling has brought him a huge fan following, Stirling has flown under the radar of the major awards in the field. He has been nominated three times for the Sidewise Award for Alternate History, as well as for the Aurora Award and Prometheus Award.

Convention Appearances

• 2005 FenCon Guest of Honor

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