Re: Anyone read Stirling's latest?

On Apr 7, 11:44 pm, Ahasuerus <ahasue...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> To be fair to Steve Stirling, not all of his subsequent books have
> swordfights, e.g. the heroes (for some values of the term) of
> _Conquistador_ favored firearms when they were available, or even Hot
> Lesbian S&M ***, e.g. the Hot Female Scientist in _The Peshawar
> Lancers_ tells us that she is *not* a lesbian up front, presumably
> just in case.

You know, if Stirling were to write a novel where the characters know
they are in a Stirling novel, and are taking pains to avoid his most
obvious cliches, I'd buy it in a heartbeat. But that would be
postmodern, and might make the author's head explode.

Johan Larson