Re: Anyone read Stirling's latest?

"Mike stone" <mwstone@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> "Rick" <rikwriter@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> Well, that's your opinion.  I thought that especially the 1250BC
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>> in ISOT were very well written, particularly Odikweos and Isketerol.
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> And I loved the way Walker tripped himself up by failing to get into the
> heads of the "wogs" he was exploiting. He didn't realise that by robbing
> Odikweos of the future fame Homer gave him, he had given him motive for
> murder.
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> For my money, Steve has flagged a bit since then. _Conquistador_ and
_The
> Peshawar Lancers_ weren't too bad, but I don't go back to them the way I

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> the Draka and ISOT ones.
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Conquistador was all right, nothing special.  I do enjoy the Dies the Fire

series, although it too isn't as good as ISOT...and, to be honest, I can't

quite shake the feeling he stole the idea from Stephen R Boyett.