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Anything written by Steve Stirling is worth reading! His collaborations with David Drake are Superb.

THE STONE DOGS
(1990)
• This is the third book in S.M. STIRLING’S Draka series. This is the one which just might have cooked the author’s goose with Jim Baen (from what I have read). Baen had an unwritten rule on how novels published by him were supposed to end; the author must have decided to write his Draka series like he wanted to write it. When it comes down to an issue between an author and the publisher, publisher wins! This is still a very good book, be sure to begin with Marching through Georgia and Under the Yoke
Under the Yoke (1989, ISBN 0-671-69843-5 ( the book Under the Yoke is also the title of another book that has nothing to do with this series.
All in all I really enjoyed the trilogy and this book. The author has probably moved on in his writings to other things and I doubt that he’d return to this series, even though Jim Baen has passed on to the other side.

I highly recommend this series to fans of alternative history with a little science fiction thrown into the pot.

THE GUNNER JULY, 2015


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Stone Dogs Draka #3 SM Stirling 9780671720094 Books Reviews

The Stone Dogs is the final installment of S.M. Stirling’s original Draka Trilogy.

This harrowing tale of war and remembrance is multi-layered, nuanced, and complex, with diverse elements effectively combined in a way to make the story quite powerful.

It is very good at a number of levels

-There is a great deal of plausible hard science fiction writing offered here which does a credible job fleshing out the technical , engineering, and scientific parameters of the story, which occurs between the years 1964 and 1999 in an alternate version of Earth, where twentieth century scientific progress went much further than in our own timeline.

-The Stone Dogs is also about ruthless global power politics and war, all the way up to and including a devastating thermonuclear and biological conflagration, vividly described.

-But it is also about family. Specifically, the Von Shrakenberg family, which counts among its members not only the first echelon of Draka statesmen and military leaders, but also two of their leading enemy protagonists - Yankee descendants of an escaped slave and the Von Shrakenberg who raped her.

-...and a twisted love story. There is a old Welsh folk song titled ‘Myfanwy’ (beloved) which tells a tale of longing and love gone wrong which just has to be the genesis of Yolande Ingolfsson’s unhappy saga.

This book can be tough going at times - the bad guys are REALLY BAD, and in the end they WIN THE WAR.

For some of you, that could be just too darn hard to take, and if you don’t think you can handle it, you are excused from this reading assignment.

For the rest of you, however, there is a silver lining if you persevere to the end which may give you some hope A critical remnant of the GOOD GUYS are glimpsed escaping past Pluto in a colony ship headed for Alpha Centauri…(hint There is a sequel!).

Highly Recommended, but only for the brave.
I allready have Stirling's 3 volume work 'The Domination' so I bought Stone Dogs and the other two novels primarily for their appendices and the small vignette's that start each chapter. These really add to the story and their ommission was a serious mistake IMHO.
My son requested this book for Christmas. He said the entire series was a very good read and would recommend.
this is one of the few time,s I have found myself saying like hell the bad\good guy,s are going to win the problem being witch choice is the right one ????
The Stone Dogs is one of the better science fiction books written in the early 1990s. Indeed, it's so good it should have received either a Nebula or Hugo award. However, the book is about a group of human being that want to enslave all "non race" human, is full of lesbian sex, and is so brutal that the Hugo committee may have put up other nominees just to avoid the controversy.

Stone Dogs picks up where "Under the Yoke" left off. Yolanda Ingolffson is the daughter of rich landowners in the Dracon Empire. Basically, the book can be broken down into two point of views. There is the point of view of Yolanda, the daughter of heros from that worlds WWII. Then there is the point of view of the LeFarges, children of a woman who escaped from Dracon rule in the book "Under the Yoke". The two points of view intertwine, with some violence in parts, and conclude with the final point of view of Gwen Ingolffson, the subject of SM Sterling's next book "Drakon".

Yolanda's life experiences follows the three time frames. First we are introduced to both the Draka land owner life and the school system. Imagine a school system where a child was both pampered and driven by people with the physical stamina of Olympic athletes. The tough physical training of the Draka is shown later on in the book when a Draka defecter is training the LeFarges for covert operations. The defecter comments that hard training in early Draka childhood makes for very tough children and adults later in life. One reason I enjoy the Draka world is you know there will not be some parent saying that "competition would be harmful to the kids". The second part of Yolanda's life is her as a carefree fighter pilot for the Empire. Note, this book was written before Stealth became well known. In the Draka time line most of their fighters look like a permutation of the old SR-71 spy plane. However, Yolanda shows her talent in dog fights and after the fall of India, Yolanda's lover is killed, and her burning hate for the Yankees turns her into the ultimate Draka leader.

Now, the USA in this book is known as the Alliance. All of the Americas are in the USA, not just a fraction of present day North America as in our time line. Both the Alliance and the Draka are in a show down of economic and government styles. The Alliance is the last Republic system in the planet. The Draka is dictatorship of the rich. To combat the Draka the Alliance plans to use a self replicating computer virus to wreck the Draka weapons of war. Some reviewers do not thing such a system is possible. Note, on 24 March 2006 there was a write up on Reuters that said hard coded computer ID tags were open to hacking from computer viruses. Since the Draka time line is 50 years ahead of our own the self replicating virus is very possible in our time line.

In some ways I admire the Draka. The Draka earth would be an ecologist's dream, if he was not slaving in a field. Of over 1 billion residents of the Draka empire there are only 50 million Draka citizens. The rest are slaves. The slaves are used to make a Janissary army. However, SM Sterling is sketchy on the details of how that army works. But SM Sterling does go into great detail on the Draka economic system and their plantation system. The reason the Draka economic system works is it's illegal to use any heavy equipment in farming. The plantations are run exclusively through human labor with some animal help. SM Sterling makes it clear that from a Draka point of view the only thing that matters in their economic system are the rulers. The plantation owners are less than 10% of the Draka populace. That means there are less than there are less than 2 million plantations for the land areas of Africa, Asia, and Europe.

The Draka run their lands to the envy of our present day ecologists. The diversity of animal and plant life would be a dream. However, this is perverted into a night mare. The Draka merely want beautiful hunting preserves.

SM Sterling does a masterful job of intertwining the details of Draka life with the story of Yolanda. The lesbian sex is merely a side effect of Draka life. "Citizen" girls are put into single sex boarding schools. They do not have the opportunity to meet their peers of the opposite sex. Conversely, a female Citizen who has relations with a slave (called serf) male will meet capital punishment. The "Citizen" males have their own boarding schools and all the families give the sons a concubine slave. The world of Draka is nothing like earth.

The whole plot of this book is to show the reader the world of the Draka and the build up to the final conflict. Neither the Draka nor the Alliance uses many of the old intercontinental Ballistic Missiles that both America and Russia had in the Cold War. Even in this time of 2006 the old ICBMs are increasing vulnerable to Laser and anti-missile systems. In the fifty-year more advanced time of the Draka the missiles would sitting ducks.

Yolanda and her allies in the Drakon empire force the final conflict by using genetic engineering. SM Sterling writes the Draka would have no problems finding people to test these pathogens on; this time line would have no problems with stem cell research.

SM Sterling ends the book with two appendences. The first is on the economic system of the Draka. It would seem that the Draka empire is less an empire than a system of uber feudal cooperation. Since the objective of the Draka is control of the slaves and pursuit of their own hedonism it works quite well.

The second appendences in on Draka weapons of their empire. I will grant that on this planet their could have been better weapons development in the 1770 to 1870 period of time. The Draka go into WWI with their version of a M-14 rifle. It works. However, the Draka then go into WWII with a rifle that is basically a clone of the Israeli army Galli rifle (an AK-47 action with an M-16 bullet). History has not proven SM Sterling right on this speculation. The 5.56mm bullets have been found wanting in Iraq and Afghanistan. There is a very good chance the 5.56 will be replaced by the 6.5 mm bullet. The lighter M-16 bullet was found wanting in range and could be stopped by a mere rock. A hypervelocity 6.5 mm round can duplicate the lethality of the heavy 7.62 caliber bullets.

And all of these words prove why I have liked "The Stone Dogs". It's an alien world inhabited by people who are brutal slavers with no sense of right or wrong. They are armed to the teeth and rich as possible.

All new readers will enjoy this pure scientific fantasy. All previous readers will enjoy reading about a dysfunctional time line.

Five Stars.
Anything written by Steve Stirling is worth reading! His collaborations with David Drake are Superb.

THE STONE DOGS
(1990)
• This is the third book in S.M. STIRLING’S Draka series. This is the one which just might have cooked the author’s goose with Jim Baen (from what I have read). Baen had an unwritten rule on how novels published by him were supposed to end; the author must have decided to write his Draka series like he wanted to write it. When it comes down to an issue between an author and the publisher, publisher wins! This is still a very good book, be sure to begin with Marching through Georgia and Under the Yoke
Under the Yoke (1989, ISBN 0-671-69843-5 ( the book Under the Yoke is also the title of another book that has nothing to do with this series.
All in all I really enjoyed the trilogy and this book. The author has probably moved on in his writings to other things and I doubt that he’d return to this series, even though Jim Baen has passed on to the other side.

I highly recommend this series to fans of alternative history with a little science fiction thrown into the pot.

THE GUNNER JULY, 2015