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Any other fans of this trilogy? My uncle introduced them to me and basically got me back into reading as an adult. The basic premise is an entire island home to a few thousand Americans gets inexplicably transported back in time to the Bronze Age and they have to learn to fend for themselves and deal with various cultures of the time. While most of the islanders are focusing on survival and maintaining peaceful relations, one power-hungry character decides to take a group of unscrupulous folks and go create their own empire using their contemporary knowledge as an advantage. They become the main antagonists of the series. There’s not really any sci-fi outside the initial “event” which never gets explained because it’s merely a setup for the premise of the series. It’s more of a historical adventure novel that uses a “what if” time-travel scenario to set up an entertaining ancient world survival story.

Will Stirling ever produce kino like this again, or has he permanently shifted over into mass-produced post-apocalyptic cloakshit?