Against the Tide of Years A Novel of the Change

In the years since their arrival, the fledging Republic of Nantucket has striven to better the primitive world in which they now exist. Their prime concerns are establishing a constitution and handling the waves of immigrants from the British Isles. But a renegade time traveler plans his own future by forging an empire for himself based on conquest by modern technology. The Republic has no alternative but to face the inevitable war brought on by one of their own.

S. M. Stirling was born in Metz, France; his father was a Newfoundlander of Scots descent, and his mother an Englishwoman who grew up in Peru. Raised in Europe, Africa, and North America, his interests include history, travel, anthropology, and the martial arts. He currently lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico; but vacations every year in Nantucket.