page_title: S. M. Stirling bibliography
section_title: Fifth Millennium series
hierarchical_section_title: S. M. Stirling bibliography / Bibliography / Fifth Millennium series
caption_attribution_description: English: American science fiction author S. M. Stirling. Photo taken at GAFilk 2007.
context_page_description: This is compete list of works by American science fiction author S.M. Stirling.
context_section_description: These are a collection of post-holocaust fantasy novels, in which civilization was destroyed (probably by a nuclear war) in something near our present time and new civilizations have grown to take their place. The novels are set in about the year AD 5000. There are elements of magic or psionics present, but they are fairly low powered, while technology is approximately at the level of the historical Middle Ages. Two additional novels in this series (Lion's Heart and Lion's Soul both by Karen Wehrstein) overlap these novels but were not authored or co-authored by Stirling. Shadow's Daughter by Shirley Meier is also part of the series.  Snowbrother is also Stirling's first published novel.  Saber and Shadow is a revised edition of The Sharpest Edge with a few new pages of story at the beginning and tweaks to the rest of the story to assure continuity with that new beginning.  The end of the story remains the same.  It also adds an Appendix with explanation of the cultures and languages in the 5th Millennium, and a description of how the authors got together to write this series.
  Snowbrother (1985, ISBN 0-671-72119-4)
  The Sharpest Edge (1986, ISBN 0-451-14171-7) (with Shirley Meier) (Later re-written and expanded as Saber and Shadow)
  The Cage (1989, ISBN 0-671-72047-3) (with Shirley Meier)
  Shadow's Son (1991, ISBN 0-671-72091-0) (with Shirley Meier and Karen Wehrstein)
  Saber and Shadow (1992, ISBN 0-671-72143-7) (with Shirley Meier)
  Shadows Daughter related novel (by Shirley Meier, 1991, ISBN 0-671-72096-1)
  Lion's Heart related novel (by Karen Wehrstein, 1991, ISBN 0-671-72044-9)
  Lion's Soul related novel (by Karen Wehrstein, 1991, ISBN 0-671-72071-6)
caption: Stirling at GAFilk, January 2007. Photo by Brenda Sutton.
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