{"id":3215,"date":"2007-09-28T08:14:07","date_gmt":"2007-09-28T12:14:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloggie.org\/books2\/?p=3215"},"modified":"2014-07-19T08:15:34","modified_gmt":"2014-07-19T12:15:34","slug":"the-peshawar-lancers-s-m-stirling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/books2\/2007\/09\/the-peshawar-lancers-s-m-stirling\/","title":{"rendered":"The Peshawar Lancers &#8212; S. M. Stirling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/pictures\/books\/peshawar-lancers.jpg\" width=\"159\" height=\"238\" alt=\"Cover of The Peshawar Lancers\" class=\"alignleft\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"small\"><strong><br \/>\nThe Peshawar Lancers<br \/>\nS. M. Stirling<br \/>\n420 pages<br \/>\npublished in 2002<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\nS. M. Stirling is not one of my favourite science fiction writers; I can&#8217;t abide his politics and he made a less than favourable impression when he was posting at <cite>rec.arts.sf.written<\/cite>. And in his case you can&#8217;t really divorce the writer from his work, as his politics and personality does permeate his work. There&#8217;s the <cite>Draka<\/cite> series for example, where a race of Super South Africans take over a degenerate free world only for their daughters to lez up. It&#8217;s not so much that the Draka are evil and sadistic, but that you get the distinct impression Stirling is on their side.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nNevertheless there&#8217;s no denying that Stirling can tell a roaring good story, if he can keep the reactionary elements in the background and you don&#8217;t think too much about the politics of it all. Such is the case with <cite>The Peshawar Lancers<\/cite>, a standalone alternate history novel, set in an alternate British India.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<a href=\"books\/peshawar-lancers.html\">The Peshawar Lancers<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Peshawar Lancers S. M. Stirling 420 pages published in 2002 S. M. Stirling is not one of my favourite science fiction writers; I can&#8217;t abide his politics and he made a less than favourable impression when he was posting at rec.arts.sf.written. And in his case you can&#8217;t really divorce the writer from his work, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[599,598],"class_list":["post-3215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-fiction","tag-s-m-stirling","tag-the-peshawar-lancers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/books2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/books2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/books2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/books2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/books2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3215"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/books2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3216,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/books2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3215\/revisions\/3216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/books2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/books2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/books2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}