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1Stephen Michael Stirling (born September 30, 1953) is a Canadian-American author of AlternateHistory and MilitaryScienceFiction.
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3Themes 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}}s is "S&M Stirling".
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5Was once a member of the Website/AlternateHistoryDotCom forum ([[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/filling-stirlings-pockets.63477/page-6#post-1095103 he was banned]]), and its predecessor on UsefulNotes/{{Usenet}}, soc.history.what-if.
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8!!Works by S. M. Stirling include:
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11* ''Literature/ConanTheBarbarian'': staring in 2022 Stirling has been commissioned to write new adventures of the character.
12** ''Literature/ConanBloodOfTheSerpent.''
13* ''Literature/TheDraka'' series, describing an AlternateHistory in which a melting-pot society of the losers from several wars forms itself into an EvilEmpire and conquers the entire world.
14* ''Literature/{{Emberverse}}'' series, in which a mysterious phenomenon[[note]]explicitly stated to be the same mysterious phenomenon as in ''Island in the Sea of Time'', from the outside[[/note]] renders inoperable all technology on Earth, leaving humanity to survive (or not) without it.
15* ''Literature/TheFlightEngineer'' trilogy, co-written with Creator/JamesDoohan, a ''Franchise/StarTrek''-influenced MilitaryScienceFiction series.
16* ''Literature/TheGeneralSeries'', co-written with Creator/DavidDrake, a future history inspired the actual history of 5th-century Byzantium.
17* ''Literature/IslandInTheSeaOfTimeSeries'', in which a mysterious phenomenon transports the island of Nantucket from modern times into the Bronze Age.
18* ''Literature/TheLordsOfCreation'' series, in which the space probes of the 1960s discovered that the {{Planetary Romance}}s were right all along: Mars and Venus are habitable, and inhabited by HumanoidAliens. And dinosaurs.
19* ''Literature/ThePeshawarLancers'', 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.
20* Two novels in ''Literature/TheShipWho'' series
21* ''Literature/TheShadowspawn'', about an AlwaysChaoticEvil evolutionary offshoot of humanity that is the source of both the vampire and werewolf, and more generally every monster legend.
22* ''Literature/TheBlackChamber'' series, an AlternateHistory spy thriller with a re-elected Theodore Roosevelt led progressive America facing off against Imperial Germany and Japan.
23* The ''Literature/T2Trilogy'', a tie-in series of sequel novels to ''Film/Terminator2JudgmentDay'', exploring the ongoing struggles of the Connors after the film.
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26!!His writing provides examples of the following tropes:
27* AuthorFilibuster: Averted, at least according to him. His standalone novel ''Literature/{{Conquistador}}'' contains a response to criticism of ''Literature/TheDraka'' that reads, "There is a technical term for someone who confuses the opinions of a character in a book with those of the author. That term is idiot." (He has variously attributed the line to Creator/LarryNiven and Creator/RobertAHeinlein.)
28** He tends to repeat pieces of trivia he's picked up over the years in multiple works. At least three separate novels of his contain directions for shooting an elephant that involve counting the wrinkles on it's trunk.

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