S.M. Stirling

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  • Bibliography:
    67 Books (10 Series)
  • First Book:
    January 1986
  • Latest Book:
    March 2025
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Full Series List in Order

Black Chamber

1 - Black Chamber (Jul-2018)
2 - Theater of Spies (May-2019)
3 - Shadows of Annihilation (Mar-2020)

Dies the Fire

1 - Dies the Fire (Aug-2004)
2 - The Protector's War (Sep-2005)
3 - A Meeting at Corvallis (Sep-2006)
4 - The Sunrise Lands (Sep-2007)

The Draka

1 - Marching Through Georgia (May-1988)
2 - Under the Yoke (Oct-1989)
3 - The Stone Dogs (Jul-1990)
4 - Drakon (Jan-1996)
5 - Drakas! (Nov-2000)

Emberverse

1 - Dies the Fire (Aug-2004)
2 - The Protector's War (Sep-2005)
3 - A Meeting at Corvallis (Sep-2006)
4 - The Sunrise Lands (Sep-2007)
5 - The Scourge of God (Sep-2008)
6 - The Sword of the Lady (Sep-2009)
7 - The High King of Montival (Sep-2010)
8 - The Tears of the Sun (Sep-2011)

Fifth Millennium

1 - Snow Brother (May-1992)

Island in the Sea of Time

1 - Island in the Sea of Time (Mar-1998)
2 - Against the Tide of Years (May-1999)
3 - On the Oceans of Eternity (Apr-2000)

A Novel of the Change

1 - The Scourge of God (Sep-2008)
2 - The Sword of the Lady (Sep-2009)
3 - The High King of Montival (Sep-2010)
4 - The Tears of the Sun (Sep-2011)
5 - Lord of Mountains (Sep-2012)
6 - The Given Sacrifice (Sep-2013)
7 - The Golden Princess (Sep-2014)
8 - The Change: Tales of Downfall and Rebirth (Jun-2015)
9 - The Desert and the Blade (Sep-2015)
10 - Prince of Outcasts (Sep-2016)
11 - The Sea Peoples (Oct-2017)
12 - The Sky-Blue Wolves (Nov-2018)

A Novel of the Shadowspawn

1 - A Taint in the Blood (May-2010)
2 - The Council of Shadows (May-2011)
3 - Shadows of Falling Night (May-2013)

Sky People

1 - The Sky People (Nov-2006)
2 - In the Courts of the Crimson Kings (Mar-2008)

T2

Infiltrator (Apr-2001)
Rising Storm (Jul-2002)
The Future War (Jul-2003)

Multi-Author Series List

Babylon 5

6 - Betrayals (Jun-1996)

The Ship Who

7 - The Ship Avenged (Feb-1997)

Book List in Order: 67 titles

  • Cops and Robbers

    in Ice, Iron and Gold
    • / Science Fiction
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    Egyptian chariots carry shotgunners and haul heavy cannon into battle, Roman centurions fight at the whims of bug-eyed monsters, vigilant National Guardsmen hold the line against cannibalistic illegal aliens, and American soldiers wander savage lands...

  • Marching Through Georgia

    The Draka - 1

    Six generations of his family had made war for the Domination of the Draka. Eric von Shrakenberg wanted to make peace -- but to succeed he would have to be a better killer than any of them....

  • Roachstompers

    in Ice, Iron and Gold
    • / Science Fiction
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    Egyptian chariots carry shotgunners and haul heavy cannon into battle, Roman centurions fight at the whims of bug-eyed monsters, vigilant National Guardsmen hold the line against cannibalistic illegal aliens, and American soldiers wander savage lands...

  • Under the Yoke

    The Draka - 2

    In under the Yooke Steve Stirling has created a world in which the losers in the American Revolution did not have a Canada to flee to; instead they had South Africa. Strangely enough, this seemingly minor reality shift made the future history of that...

  • The Stone Dogs

    The Draka - 3

  • Power

  • Snow Brother

    Fifth Millennium - 1

    Ordered to cross the steppes and enslave a Mintzan city or die in disgrace, nineteen-year-old Shkai'ra leaves her warring tribe to complete the task, never planning to find a village so resistant to enslavement. Reprint....

  • Lost Legion

    in Ice, Iron and Gold
    • / Science Fiction
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    Egyptian chariots carry shotgunners and haul heavy cannon into battle, Roman centurions fight at the whims of bug-eyed monsters, vigilant National Guardsmen hold the line against cannibalistic illegal aliens, and American soldiers wander savage lands...

  • Ancestral Voices

    in Ice, Iron and Gold
    • / Science Fiction
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    Egyptian chariots carry shotgunners and haul heavy cannon into battle, Roman centurions fight at the whims of bug-eyed monsters, vigilant National Guardsmen hold the line against cannibalistic illegal aliens, and American soldiers wander savage lands...



  • Constant Never

    in Ice, Iron and Gold
    • / Science Fiction
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    Egyptian chariots carry shotgunners and haul heavy cannon into battle, Roman centurions fight at the whims of bug-eyed monsters, vigilant National Guardsmen hold the line against cannibalistic illegal aliens, and American soldiers wander savage lands...

  • Were-Wench

    in Chicks in Chainmail

    Here they come, and they're out for blood. For too long, they say, have hot blooded babes in brass bras and chain-link bikinis been held up to scorn as the embodiment of male fantasy wish-fulfillment and non-functionality. You think their swords won'...

  • Drakon

    The Draka - 4

    NOW IT'S OUT TURN... THE COP: Detective-Lieutenant Henry Carmaggio had seen plenty of blood, both in Cambodia, and in twenty years of police work. He'd never seen anything like the Warehouse Massacre. That was just the beginning. Something was ...

  • Betrayals

    Babylon 5 - 6

    BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY.. When diplomats from the universe's two warring superpowers come to Babylon 5 for a peace summit, Captain Sheridan and the Earthforce personnel know that security is paramount. But a brilliant con woman is making plans of her...

  • The Sixth Sun

    in Ice, Iron and Gold
    • / Science Fiction
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    Egyptian chariots carry shotgunners and haul heavy cannon into battle, Roman centurions fight at the whims of bug-eyed monsters, vigilant National Guardsmen hold the line against cannibalistic illegal aliens, and American soldiers wander savage lands...

  • The Ship Avenged

    The Ship Who - 7

    And now, the sequel... It's ten years later, and Joat, the eleven year old techno-demon from "The Ship Avenged," is an adult herself, and by hook, crook, and blackmail (with an assist from Rand, her very own Artificial Intelligence), she's become on...

  • Riding Shotgun to Armageddon

    in Ice, Iron and Gold
    • / Science Fiction
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    Egyptian chariots carry shotgunners and haul heavy cannon into battle, Roman centurions fight at the whims of bug-eyed monsters, vigilant National Guardsmen hold the line against cannibalistic illegal aliens, and American soldiers wander savage lands...

  • Armor Propre

    in Did You Say Chicks?!

    Those Chicks in Chainmail are baaaack -- and They Are Not Amused! A Brief Word from the Characters: We seem to have a Failure to Communicate here. Hey, it's okay with us that Chicks in Chainmail was so popular, and reached #3 on the Locus bestsell...

  • Island in the Sea of Time

    Island in the Sea of Time - 1

    During a perfect spring evening on Nantucket a violent storm erupts and a dome of crawling, colored fire blankets the island. When the howling winds subside and the night skies clear, the stars appear to have shifted. The mainland has become a wilder...

  • The Charge of Lee's Brigade

    in Alternate Generals

    LEADERSHIP MAKES ALL THE DIFFERENCE At Gaugemela the Macedonians had Alexander and the Persians had--Darius. Result: world conquest. But what if the Persians had--Erwin Rommel. Or what if George S. Patton had commanded Southern forces at Bull Run,...



  • Taking Freedom

    in Ice, Iron and Gold
    • / Science Fiction
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    Egyptian chariots carry shotgunners and haul heavy cannon into battle, Roman centurions fight at the whims of bug-eyed monsters, vigilant National Guardsmen hold the line against cannibalistic illegal aliens, and American soldiers wander savage lands...

  • Against the Tide of Years

    Island in the Sea of Time - 2

    In the years since the Event, the Republic of Nantucket has done its best to recreate the better ideas of the person of William Walker, renegade Coast Guard officer, who is busy building an empire for himself based on conquest by technology. When Wal...

  • On the Oceans of Eternity

    Island in the Sea of Time - 3

    Ten years ago, the twentieth century and the Bronze Age were tossed together by a mysterious Event. In the decade since, the Republic of Nantucket has worked hard to create a new future for itself, using the technological know-how retained from moder...

  • Drakas!

    The Draka - 5

    THINK ABOUT HISTORY. NOW MAKE IT WORSE... The Domination of the Draka begins as a British possession in Africa, but soon becomes far more. Absorbing refugees after the American Revolution, and later the Civil War, the Draka become a people bred to...

  • Three Walls-32nd Campaign

    in Ice, Iron and Gold
    • / Science Fiction
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    Egyptian chariots carry shotgunners and haul heavy cannon into battle, Roman centurions fight at the whims of bug-eyed monsters, vigilant National Guardsmen hold the line against cannibalistic illegal aliens, and American soldiers wander savage lands...

  • Infiltrator

    T2

    Both Sarah and John Connor have survived repeated attempts on their lives by advanced Terminator killing machines sent from a grim tomorrow to ensure the total destruction of humankind. Now, hiding out from the U.S. Government in Paraguay, Sarah and ...

  • The Peshawar Lancers

    In the mid-1870s, a violent spray of comets hit Earth, decimating cities, erasing shorelines, and changing the world's climate forever. And just as Earth's temperature dropped, so was civilization frozen in time. Instead of advancing technologically,...

  • Compadres (with Richard Foss)

    in Ice, Iron and Gold
    • / Science Fiction
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    Egyptian chariots carry shotgunners and haul heavy cannon into battle, Roman centurions fight at the whims of bug-eyed monsters, vigilant National Guardsmen hold the line against cannibalistic illegal aliens, and American soldiers wander savage lands...

  • Rising Storm

    T2

    THE WAR IS FAR FROM OVER... THOSE WHO FIGHT FOR THE FUTURE FACE THE ULTIMATE CHALLENGE. THE ELECTRONIC BRAIN BEHIND HUMANITY'S DESTRUCTION COMES ALIVE....

  • Shikari in Gakveston

    Four award-winning authors.

    Four amazing alternate histories.

    In this collection of novellas, four masters of alternate history turn back time, twisting the facts with four excursions into what might have been.

    Bestselling auth...



  • The Crystal Method

    in Live Without a Net
    • / Science Fiction
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    Imagine a future without cyberspace... without the Web or virtual reality.... What would happen in an alternate Information Age? What would you do? What would you fear? What wouldn't you know? You can't imagine. Today's top masters of specula...

  • Conquistador

    Oakland, 1946. Ex-soldier John Rolfe, newly back from the Pacific, has made a fabulous discovery: a portal to an alternate America where Europeans have never set foot--and the only other humans in sight are a band of very curious Indians. Able to ret...

  • The Future War

    T2

    THE NIGHTMARE THAT MAN HAS WROUGHT . . . Sarah and John Connor and ex-counterterrorism operative Dieter von Rossbach are hiding out in Alaska--ever watchful of the Cyberdyne Corporation that is destined to destroy the world as we , know it--when t...

  • Dies the Fire

    Dies the Fire - 1
    Emberverse - 1

    The Change occurred when an electrical storm centered over the island of Nantucket produced a blinding white flash that rendered all electronic devices and firearms inoperable--and plunged the world into a dark age humanity was unprepared to face.......

  • The Apotheosis of Martin Padway

    in The Enchanter Completed

    For seven decades, L. Sprague de Camp was a giant in both science fiction and fantasy, renowned for his fast-moving action-adventure tales with a strong humorous element. Now, Hugo-winner and best-selling author Harry Turtledove has gathered together...

  • The Protector's War

    Dies the Fire - 2
    Emberverse - 2

    It's been eight years since the Change rendered technology inoperable across the globe. Rising from the ashes of the computer and industrial ages is a brave new world. Survivors have banded together in tribal communities, committed to rebuilding soci...

  • A Meeting at Corvallis

    Dies the Fire - 3
    Emberverse - 3

    In the tenth year of The Change, the survivors in western Oregon have learned how to live in a world without technology-but there are those who would exploit the new world order. On one side stands Michael Havel's Bearkillers and their allies, Clan M...

  • The Sky People

    Sky People - 1

    In the 1960s, the United States and the Soviet Union sent unmanned probes to Mars and Venus -- and discovered worlds teeming with life. At that point, the "Space Race" was on in earnest. Now, in 1988, Marc Vitrak has been assigned to Jamestown, the ...

  • Something for Yew

    in Ice, Iron and Gold
    • / Science Fiction
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    Egyptian chariots carry shotgunners and haul heavy cannon into battle, Roman centurions fight at the whims of bug-eyed monsters, vigilant National Guardsmen hold the line against cannibalistic illegal aliens, and American soldiers wander savage lands...

  • The Sunrise Lands

    Dies the Fire - 4
    Emberverse - 4

    Young Rudi Mackenzie has grown up knowing that he will one day assume leadership over the Western Oregon survivors of the technological disaster called the Change. But a prophecy made at his birth spoke of an even greater destiny--a destiny that is a...



  • Ice, Iron, and Gold

    New York Times best-selling Author S. M. Stirling’s first collection gathers his most interesting and evocative short stories, drawn from the length of his professional career. More than 100,000 words of fiction, including an original story, make t...

  • In the Courts of the Crimson Kings

    Sky People - 2

    In A.D. 2000, Jeremy Wainman is an archaeologist who has achieved his lifelong dream: to travel to Mars and explore the dead cities of the Deep Beyond, searching for the secrets of the Kings Beneath the Mountain and the fallen empire they ruled. T...

  • The Scourge of God

    A Novel of the Change - 1
    Emberverse - 5

    Rudi MacKenzie continues his journey toward Nantucket, where he hopes to learn the truth behind The Change that rendered technology across the globe inoperable. But one fanatical officer in the Sword of The Prophet has been dispatched on a mission?to...

  • The Sword of the Lady

    A Novel of the Change - 2
    Emberverse - 6

    Rudi Mackenzie has journeyed long and far across the land that was once the United States of America, seeking the shore where the sun rises, hoping to find the source of the world-altering event that has come to be known as the Change. His quest end...

  • A Taint in the Blood

    A Novel of the Shadowspawn - 1

    Eons ago, Homo Lupens ruled the earth. Possessing extraordinary powers, they were the source of all of the myths and legends of the uncanny. And though their numbers have been greatly reduced, they exist still -- though not as purebreds. Adrian ...

  • The High King of Montival

    A Novel of the Change - 3
    Emberverse - 7

    With The Sword of the Lady, Rudi Mackenzie's destiny was determined. Now he returns to Montival in the Pacific Northwest, where he will face the legions of the Prophet. To achieve victory, Rudi must assemble a coalition of those who had been his enem...

  • The Council of Shadows

    A Novel of the Shadowspawn - 2

    S. ML. Stirling. New York Times bestselling author of the Novels of the Change, continues his exciting new urban Fantasy trilogy, in which the fate of humanity rests in the bloody hands of those who are far from human. For as long as he can remember...

  • Exiled

    From Book 1: First entry in a new series with three big all new linked novellas from multiple best-sellers S.M. Stirling, John Ringo & Jody Lynn Nye, and Harry Turtledove! After the extinction asteroid DOESN'T strike Earth, the dinosaurs keep evolvin...

  • The Tears of the Sun

    A Novel of the Change - 4
    Emberverse - 8

    Rudi McKenzie-now Artos, the High King of Montival-must fulfill his destiny. He wields the sword crafted for him before he was born. He has made friends of his enemies. He has won the heart of the woman he loves. And now he must defeat the forces ...

  • Pain and Suffering

    in Down These Strange Streets

    All new strange cases of death and magic in the city by some of the biggest names in urban fantasy.

    In this all-new collection of urban fantasy stories, editors George R.R. Martin and Gardner Dozois explore the places where mystery waits at the en...



  • Lord of Mountains

    A Novel of the Change - 5

    Rudi Mackenize, now Artos the First, High King of Montival, and his allies have won several key battles against the Church Universal and Triumphant. But still the war rages on, taking countless lives, ravaging the land once known as the United States...

  • Shadows of Falling Night

    A Novel of the Shadowspawn - 3

    At last, S. M. Stirling, the New York Times bestselling author of the Novels of the Change, presents the stunning climax to his Shadowspawn trilogy -- the ultimate confrontation, in which the fate of all humanity hangs in the balance.... She’s b...

  • The Given Sacrifice

    A Novel of the Change - 6

    S. M. Stirling’s Novels of the Change depict a future without technology, where people must master skills from ages past in order to survive. Now, to ensure that survival for all he cares for, a king faces his greatest challenge in the latest chapt...

  • The Golden Princess

    A Novel of the Change - 7

    The New York Times bestselling author of "The Given Sacrifice" begins a new saga -- with a new generation of heroes -- set in the universe of the Change.... Princess Orlaith, heir to Rudi Mackenzie, High King of Montival, now wields the Sword of t...

  • The Change: Tales of Downfall and Rebirth

    A Novel of the Change - 8

    S. M. Stirling’s New York Times bestselling Novels of the Change have depicted a vivid, utterly persuasive, and absorbingly unpredictable postapocalyptic wasteland in which all modern technology has been left in ashes, forcing humankind to rebuild ...

  • The Desert and the Blade

    A Novel of the Change - 9

    Continuing their quest that began in The Golden Princess, two future rulers of a world without technology risk their lives seeking a fabled blade…  Reiko, Empress of Japan, has allied herself with Princess Orlaith, heir to the High Kingdom of M...

  • Prince of Outcasts

    A Novel of the Change - 10

    The Novels of the Change by New York Times bestselling author S. M. Stirling chronicle a postapocalyptic landscape of medieval and mystical monarchies ruling and warring across a world where mysterious Powers removed advanced technology. A new allian...

  • Mitch

    Mitch, the good-looking, sports hero, returns from his mission to a future full of opportunities. He’s everything you ever wanted to be. Life gives him everything he wants, and he’s been blessed in every way imaginable. Nothing can go wrong. Unti...

  • The Sea Peoples

    A Novel of the Change - 11

    S. M. Stirling’s Novels of the Change are about a future where mysterious Powers removed advanced technology, and humanity rebuilds society. However, this new world is not always a peaceful one.... The spirit of troubadour Prince John, the broth...

  • Black Chamber

    Black Chamber - 1

    The first novel in a brand-new alternate history series where Teddy Roosevelt is president for a second time right before WWI breaks out, and on his side is the Black Chamber, a secret spy network watching America's back. 1916. The Great War rages...

  • The Sky-Blue Wolves

    A Novel of the Change - 12

    S. M. Stirling presents the stunning and epic conclusion to the New York Times bestselling Change series. Many years ago, when advanced technology failed and humanity found itself in a turbulent, postapocalyptic world, extraordinary men and women...

  • Theater of Spies

    Black Chamber - 2

    The second novel in an alternate history series where Teddy Roosevelt is president once more right before WWI breaks out, and on his side is the Black Chamber, a secret spy network watching America's back. After foiling a German plot to devast...

  • Shadows of Annihilation

    Black Chamber - 3

    The third novel in a World War I alternate history series where America's greatest weapon against Germany is Black Chamber secret agent Luz O'Malley and technical genius Ciara Whelan. Only they can protect America's best hope of winning t...

  • Conan - Blood of the Serpent

    The pulse-pounding return of Conan, the most iconic fantasy hero in popular culture, with a brand-new standalone novel by New York Times bestselling author S.M. Stirling, tied directly to the famous tales written by the legendary Robert E. Howard.Con...

  • Conan

    The pulse-pounding return of Conan, the most iconic fantasy hero in popular culture, with brand-new novels tied directly to the sword and sorcery tales written by the legendary Robert E. Howard.Conan the Barbarian, the world’s most famous fanta...

  • To Turn the Tide

    New time travel military adventure from New York Times best-selling novelist S.M. StirlingIT’S THE END OF THE WORLD AS WE KNOW IT Many could see it coming. But one man could do something about it. Oh, he couldn’t avert the nuclear holoca...

  • Lords of Creation

    Lords of Creation, the eagerly anticipated finale in S.M. Stirling's acclaimed Lords of Creation series, promises to be a masterful conclusion to a saga that has captivated readers worldwide. Following the remarkable adventures in "The Sky People...

  • Eric Flint's 1632 & Beyond Issue #1

    • / Fantasy
    • Buy Buy

    It's great to be back! After a one-year hiatus, Eric Flint's 1632 Universe has a new short-fiction venue (aka magazine). In this world, the small West Virginia town of Grantville is thrown back in time to 1631, landing in war-torn Thuringia, Germany....

Award-Winning Books by S.M. Stirling

Black Chamber
2019 Dragon Award -- Alternate History Novel


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

S.M. Stirling has published 67 books.

The next book by S.M. Stirling, Lords of Creation, will be published in March 2025.

The first book by S.M. Stirling, Cops and Robbers, was published in January 1986.

Yes. S.M. Stirling has 10 series.
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