Talk:S. M. Stirling

message: Given the amount of text devoted here to S.M. Stirling's alleged Islamophobia and its influence on his work, can someone give me an example of a 'bad' Islamic character? I have not read the full canon of Stirling's work, only the General and Draka series, and The City Who Fought and the Peshawar Lancers.
The only example I can think of is the psychotic ruler of the Colonists Ali in the 'The Sword'; his Brother Twefik is highly honorable, as are his officers; the colonial rank and file are portrayed as no better but no worse than the Civil Government troops; and the spies Abdulla and Ndella are portrayed as moral products of liberal Islamic societies. The Afghan in the Peshawar Lancers (the only Islamic character in close contact with the other characters) is honorable and furthermore is assumed to be honorable by the other characters.Jmackaerospace (talk) 15:06, 21 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Islamic Characters in S.M. Stirling

message: Could something be added to the article about Stirling's recurrent fantasies about cannibalism?
It's a pretty odd personal fantasy of his reflected in novel after novel
:Why is it odd? He continually writes novels about the violent downfall of society after some catastrophe. To be realistic, he can't avoid the topic. - Merzbow 18:30, 24 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I can't comment on history of collapsing society (the societies that I know of having collapsed tended to do so without reliable commentators around) but canabalism is/was very common in shipwrecks and comparable disasters. Canabalism was so common in these situations that rescued mariners tended to affirm VERY fervently if they had been luckiy enough not too have to resort to the last extreme.Jmackaerospace (talk) 22:49, 8 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Obsession with Cannibalism

message: I am surprised we didn't have French-Canadian-American :). Anyways, does he hold duel citizenship? What nationality did he hold when he did his most significant/noteworthy work? Just trying to standardize, thanks--Tom 17:51, 29 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I just took a quick look at the author bios in the books by Stirling listed at Baen.com and found nothing useful. All that http://www.smstirling.com/ has is "I'm a writer by trade, born in France but Canadian by origin and American by naturalization, living in New Mexico at present." So the change Tom just made looks pretty good to me. Cheers, CWC 03:26, 30 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Nationality in the LEAD sentence per [[wp:mosbio]]

message: Is there enough info to give the Emberverse series its very own article dedicated to it?  With 9 novels (5 yet to be published), 2 short stories, and information available on internet by Stirling, I think there is enough, but I was wondering if anyone thinks thats a good or bad idea.  Zombie Hunter Smurf (talk) 15:36, 17 June 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: such an article should be a combined Nantucket-Emberverse article. 76.66.200.21 (talk) 07:01, 2 September 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Such articles exists: The Emberverse series and Nantucket series.  Also I don't think the two universes should be combined into one article.  They are certainly connected, but they both follow different characters, and plots.  Also no character from either universe has ever crossovered into the other.  I realize that with the recent release of The Sword of the Lady that seems like a strange thing to say, but the appearence of Marian and Swindapa at the end were not the actual characters but powerful beings who took their image to communicate with Rudi.  Zombie Hunter Smurf (talk) 13:49, 2 September 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Emberverse article?

message: Has this definitely been cancelled? If so, should we at least refer to a book that was planned and  then cancelled?
Saralleine (talk) 23:35, 4 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Third ''Lords of Creation'' Novel

message: Stirling's books in this series are popular with many Western soldiers for their portrayal of the mechanics of an ideologically driven insurgency.
This is an interesting claim, but I would very much like to see an actual source for it. It sounds more like an assumption of what the editor believes, based on his own opinions. --Michael K SmithTalk  13:34, 20 June 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Inflammatory how?Jim in Georgia Contribs Talk 14:51, 31 October 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Source needed 

message: There's a page I help maintain that's about the traits of various fictional vampires.  The question has been raised (a while back) about whether to include the Shadowspawn, who are not "officially" vampires, but the list has both the Wraith from Stargate: Atlantis, and the Twilight sparklepires.
So, could someone who feels qualified to comment please wander by https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:List_of_vampire_traits_in_folklore_and_fiction#Should_we_add_the_Shadowspawn and weigh in?  And, of course, if you think they should be added, feel free to do so...Tamtrible (talk) 09:27, 14 October 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: They drink blood from living people. That's pretty much the definition of vampire. Tarl.Neustaedter (talk) 18:55, 14 October 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: I am inclined to agree.  If anyone feels competent to populate the table, I'd appreciate it...Tamtrible (talk) 20:06, 14 October 2013 (UTC)

text: I put entries in, but if someone who's read the books less than a year ago, or has read more than the first one, or has it t'hand for reference, or simply has a better memory than I do, could fact-check, I'd appreciate it.  Given the length of the table, it helps to have the original page open in another tab/window so you can keep the headers straight...Tamtrible (talk) 20:53, 14 October 2013 (UTC)

text: Or, if any kind soul knows the data, but is daunted by the tables, put the relevant information in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:List_of_vampire_traits_in_folklore_and_fiction#Should_we_add_the_Shadowspawn and I'll add it to the table proper.  Tamtrible (talk) 09:04, 30 October 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Are the Shadowspawn officially vampires or not? 

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message: Fans and others, get some good WP:RS in there. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 08:15, 25 July 2019 (UTC)
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