Stirling

o a very interesting novel by S.M. Stirling, and part of a series (I think, possibly The Sky Kings). This novel, In the Courts of the Crimson Kings, we seem to be in the middle of things. This novel assumes (as its plot twist) that we’ve long observed life on Venus and Mars. In fact, it opens at a science fiction convention (with cameo by famous authors) in 1962. It’s known that Russian probes to Venus has found scifi staples of dinosaurs, cave men and (of course) beautiful cave gals. And on Mars, we’ve observed cities and canals on this arid, […]