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Stephen Michael Stirling (born 30 September 1953) is a Canadian-American science fiction and fantasy author. His novels often describe military situations and militaristic cultures.
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βBad writers have influences. Good writers steal.β
βHe'd been fighting in the cause of civilization, and his stomach reminded him that he deserved some of its fruits.β
βThey rode armed for war, curved swords at their side and the thick horn-and-sinew bows of mounted archers in cases at their knees.β
βOne of the pieces of advice his father had given him when he got his commission was that excitable women were wearing, but often worth the trouble.β
β[H]alf-animal they might be, but the savages were survivors of generation upon generation of survivors in a game where losers went into the stewpot.β
β"And Sita, isn't it about time you grew up?"
"You mean it's adult behavior to let ambassadors get ripped up by boars on the family's hunting grounds, brother?"β
"You mean it's adult behavior to let ambassadors get ripped up by boars on the family's hunting grounds, brother?"β
β"Keep your own counselβand use your head for something besides a battering ram, that is my advice to you. Keep up your chess; it stretches the mind and makes it supple.β
βA libertarian is someone who can believe that the police are no more than a gang of thugs without realizing that in the absence of police, thugs will gather into gangs.β
βThe waxen line of the bowstrings struck their leather bracers with a light whapping sound ... A man dropped from each end of the attackers' rough formation, with the flat punching smack of arrowheads striking flesh loud enough to hear.β
β....another vision, where water still curled on the sandy beach beneath a clear blue sky where birds flew, but their patterns were mathematics precise beyond his comprehension. A man walked between buildings that were perfect, and empty. He turned to look at Rudi for an instant and where his eyes should have been were silvery tendrils that waved and sought.β
βThe Mackenzie had never met folk so poor in story and song and legends, and it moved him to a pity that pricked at his eyes. Without that tapestry of colour and words and ritual, what was life but eating and mating, sleeping and moving your bowels? All of them good and necessary, but not enough; and they themselves needed that framework too, to give them meaning.β
β[...] Anyone who might think of attacking them would also probably recognize that they were armed. She smiled slightly; all three of them actually had valid concealed-carry permits for the Belgian FiveseveN specials under their jackets.
Although not for the P90 machine pistols in the attachΓ© cases, and some of the stuff in the vehicle would be right out of it. Semtex, timers, detonators, cans of gasoline and thermite bombs, for example. Even if the invoice reads "Cleaning supplies" back at HQ.β
Although not for the P90 machine pistols in the attachΓ© cases, and some of the stuff in the vehicle would be right out of it. Semtex, timers, detonators, cans of gasoline and thermite bombs, for example. Even if the invoice reads "Cleaning supplies" back at HQ.β
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S. M. Stirling on Archery
βThey rode armed for war, curved swords at their side and the thick horn-and-sinew bows of mounted archers in cases at their knees.β
S. M. Stirling on Future
β....another vision, where water still curled on the sandy beach beneath a clear blue sky where birds flew, but their patterns were mathematics precise beyond his comprehension. A man walked between buildings that were perfect, and empty. He turned to look at Rudi for an instant and where his eyes should have been were silvery tendrils that waved and sought.β
S. M. Stirling on FN P90
β[...] Anyone who might think of attacking them would also probably recognize that they were armed. She smiled slightly; all three of them actually had valid concealed-carry permits for the Belgian FiveseveN specials under their jackets. Although not for the P90 machine pistols in the attachΓ© cases, and some of the stuff in the vehicle would be right out of it. Semtex, timers, detonators, cans of gasoline and thermite bombs, for example. Even if the invoice reads "Cleaning supplies" back at HQ.β
About S. M. Stirling
Stephen Michael Stirling (born 30 September 1953) is a Canadian-American science fiction and fantasy author. His novels often describe military situations and militaristic cultures.