Path: ...!Xl.tags.giganews.com!local-1.nntp.ord.giganews.com!nntp.supernews.com!news.supernews.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 01 Jun 2024 22:49:40 +0000 Date: Sat, 01 Jun 2024 18:49:41 -0400 From: WolfFan Organization: the pack Mime-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Hogwasher/5.24 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-ID: <0001HW.2C0BDD05000713EB7000090E038F@news.supernews.com> Subject: Re: "Drakon" by S. M. Stirling Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written Reply-To: akwolffan@zoho.com References: Lines: 60 X-Trace: sv3-8Seu4Z57nCIbL+8Emct34U3VlqjPGNm6m5cr59ZaoWFChA86VTSGxja5xA3WsKrlyRQtfOIQZefqYl+!MpwPdH/5zU33/PJPtnos73wGpv3wyf4NbcWjNJZ/coI1nwna8Y59TsLrTvHga/MCfOY40doKFKBO!0WFXIEBcB4LLOnSeHAryHdr7 X-Complaints-To: www.supernews.com/docs/abuse.html X-DMCA-Complaints-To: www.supernews.com/docs/dmca.html X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 Bytes: 4186 On Jun 1, 2024, ted@loft.tnolan.com (Ted Nolan wrote (in article ): > In article, > Lynn McGuire wrote: > > "Drakon" by S. M. Stirling > > https://www.amazon.com/Drakon-S-M-Stirling/dp/0671877119/ > > > > Book number four of a five book science fiction series. I reread the > > well printed and well bound MMPB published by Baen in 1996 that I bought > > used on Amazon since I could not get a new copy, being out of print. I > > have read all five books in the series. The series is probably finished > > as the author has moved onto several new series. > > > > On a parallel universe Earth, it is the year 2442 AD. On this Earth, > > Europe lost WWII to the Drakons who used atomic weapons on all of the > > capitols. Then World War III occurred in 1999 between the massively > > bioengineered Homo Drakonsis and the Homo Sapiens. The Homo Drakonsis > > won and carefully bioengineered the Homo Sapiens into Homo Servus. > > Earth has less than a half billion population now with most industries > > in space scattered around the Solar System. > > > > In an FTL (faster than light) gateway experiment gone wrong, a 400 year > > old female Drakon is transported to our universe and Earth in the year > > 1995 AD. She lands in New York City, takes her bearings, and sets out > > to build a gateway back to her Earth so that the Drakon can invade and > > convert our Earth to look like her Earth with the Domination. After > > all, her 200+ IQ and warrior skills enable her to find scientists and > > lead them also. But, a colony of Homo Sapiens from Alpha Centauri > > detect the interuniverse wormhole and send an agent to follow her. > > > > The author has a website at: > > https://smstirling.com/ > > > > My rating: 5 out of 5 stars > > Amazon rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars (197 reviews) > > > > Lynn > > It was kind of a frustrating place to "end" the series. It *was* nice to > see the Draka get their comeuppance in one of the Raj Whitehall spinoffs. Drakon was the last book in the series ()other than a collection of shorter fiction) because: 1. Stirling is terrible at ending a series; see further the Sea of Time books and the Emberverse books (I suspect that he’s still stringing the Emberverse along; I stopped paying attention years ago.) 2. Stirling and Baen had an argument. Baen really hated the Sea of Time books. Stirling insisted. The two parted ways. There were supposed to be at least three more Draka books, two set before the main events of Marching Through Georgia (one was to be titled “The Laughter of the Guns”, after the sounds made by pneumatic Gatling guns mounted on steam-powered armored cars) and one set after Drakon (“Unto Us A Child”). Possibly there might have been a fourth, set between The Stone Dogs and Drakon. All were abandoned due to the catfight between Stirling and Baen. See https://leighkimmel.com/reading/essays/drakasequels.shtml for some info.