Stephen Michael Stirling is a French-born Canadian-American science fiction and fantasy author.
Stirling is probably best-known for his Draka series of alternate history novels and the more recent time travel/alternate history Nantucket series and Emberverse series. His novels Go Tell The Spartans and Prince of Sparta are set in Jerry Pournelle's "CoDominium" future history.
Stirling was born on September 30, 1953, in Metz, France -- then the sit...
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Stephen Michael Stirling is a French-born Canadian-American science fiction and fantasy author.
Stirling is probably best-known for his Draka series of alternate history novels and the more recent time travel/alternate history Nantucket series and Emberverse series. His novels Go Tell The Spartans and Prince of Sparta are set in Jerry Pournelle's "CoDominium" future history.
Stirling was born on September 30, 1953, in Metz, France -- then the site of a Royal Canadian Air Force base -- to an English mother and Canadian father. He has lived in several countries and currently resides in the United States in New Mexico with his wife Jan.
Stirling, along with Eric Flint, was tuckerized as a Secret Service agent in John Birmingham's alternate history WWII novel Weapons of Choice (2004).
Stirling often posts to Usenet, message boards and blogs, often with the handle "joatsimeon". (One of his books, The City Who Fought, has characters named Joat and Simeon.)
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