S.M. Stirling Quotes

Stephen Michael Stirling is a French-born Canadian-American science-fiction and fantasy author. Stirling is probably best known for his Draka series of alternate history novels and his later time travel/alternate history Nantucket series and Emberverse series.

✵ 30. September 1953   •   Other names SM Stirling
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Conquistador
Conquistador
S.M. Stirling
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Famous S.M. Stirling Quotes

“They rode armed for war, curved swords at their side and the thick horn-and-sinew bows of mounted archers in cases at their knees.”

The Scourge of God https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Scourge_of_God_(novel)

“Bad writers have influences. Good writers steal.”

Dragon Page Cover to Cover interview, Episode 372A (8 September 2009)

“A 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.”

Usenet group rec.arts.sf.written (7 July 2000) http://groups.google.com/group/rec.arts.sf.written/msg/19970c9f41512518

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