This is the best time travel book I have ever read. Stirling does an excellent job showing as much as would fit of the shock, culture clash, and confusion of the modern people set against the history (what little is written and found in the archeological record) of that era. He then extrapolates in a way that brought me into the world of 1200 BCE. The multiple-POV writing style works well as the important part isn't what one hero does, but rather how a community copes with and adapts to such a m...

This is not a book that I would have sought out on my own, it was part of a list which I decided to read my way through. It is a twist on time travel, where usually one or a few people travel to the past, sometimes as a planned operation. In this instance, the entire island of Nantucket is transported by an unexplained Event to 3000 years in the past. This makes it kind of a cross between a time travel book and a post-apocalyptic tale. The community must figure out how to grow their own food, ma...

This is an alternate history in which the island of Nantucket is unexpectedly and inexplicably thrown back in time from 1998 to 1250 B.C. Nantucket is a real island, part of Massachusetts in the U.S. The story focuses on how they survive, considering Nantucket had relied mostly on outside food sources. They also needed raw materials that were limited in supply in order to make various goods, tools, and weapons, and politics are involved as they decide how to rule their island and how to handle t...

Gee, I thought I'd written up something on this wonderfully-entertaining novel. Start of a first-class series. Read 2x, both with pleasure, and I'll be back for a third someday. Doesn't happen often! Do I have a copy? I think so....Here's a good review: http://www.fantasyliterature.com/revi...By Kat Hooper, a (then) new-to-me reviewer. PS: she's active here at GR also, I think? https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/2...Sadly, my attempted 2022 reread didn't work. Suck fairy has come to call, and I...

This book puzzles me. The pacing is excellent, the action is quite frequent, the characters get into every conceivable terrible situation that could happen if you landed in 1250 BC, and yet I can only say that "I liked it" and not that "I really liked it". I feel like this should be a four star book. I would chalk it up to a bad mood but there's that little problem that I'm not in a bad mood... Also, I read this maybe five years ago and I ditched it around 75%. So apparently it's not the here an...

In a word, terrible.In several words, racist, sexist, and just problematic in more ways than one. The ones concerned about having supremely negative effects on the current civilizations are the ones that are delusional, incompetent, and lead to failure.The sole mentioned Asian-American character is a woman who gets her rocks off by torturing people. The black woman who is in charge of the coast guard people stranded with the island and is part of the closest thing they have to a military is a le...

This is probably a pretty good book within the subgenre of time-travel/alternate-history, but that is damning with faint praise. There are so many pitfalls that have to be avoided that it usually isn't worth bothering to open the book.(The only one I can recommend: Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus. If you'll settle for just alternate-history, try the incredible The Man in the High Castle, or for just time-travel, maybe the almost-incredible Doomsday Book.)The biggest problem her...

Wow. I had this book on my to-read shelf for some time as I'd heard it was a good alt history book but I never got around to reading it til one of my book clubs picked it as a series read. And I'm glad I finally read it.A fascinating, thrilling story of an incident which send the island of Nantucket, MA, USA (plus a sailing vessel of the Coast Guard) back in time to around 1250 BC. The affected having to come to terms with the loss of everyone and everything they once knew and learn to live in t...

ORIGINALLY POSTED AT Fantasy Literature.After a strange electrical storm, the residents of Nantucket discover that their entire island and its surrounding waters have been sent back to 1300 B.C. Now this society, which is mostly based on a tourist economy, must figure out how to establish a new identity in prehistory. This includes clearing and farming land, building ships, finding new sources of fuel, salt, and other necessities, and most difficult of all, developing a constitution and befriend...

This book is technically fairly well executed, but politically leaves me cross-eyed. Warning for sexual violence, weird race issues, and general ookiness. In order to discuss it, first, an overview of the plot:One spring night, the island of Nantucket (with several miles of coastal waters) is inexplicably transported into the bronze age. Luckily for the islanders, the coastal waters include a Coast Guard ship, the Eagle, and her captain, Black lesbian Marian Alston, who is plenty competent to or...