On the Oceans of Eternity
Written by S. M. Stirling
Narrated by Todd McLaren
4/5
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About this audiobook
Some of these peoples have become allies. Some have turned instead to the renegade Coast Guard officer William Walker. And for ten years, the two sides have tested each other, feinting and parrying, to decide who will be the ones to lead this brave new world into the future.
The final battle lines have now been drawn. And only one side can emerge the victor.
S. M. Stirling
Steven “S.M.” Stirling is a writer by trade, born in France but Canadian by origin and American by naturalization, living in New Mexico. His hobbies are mostly related to the craft of writing. He loves history, anthropology, and archaeology, as well as interest in the sciences. Steven has published over 40 novels, at least 5 of which are New York Times bestsellers and he has won awards including the Dragon Award for his novel, Black Chamber. Steven has been a Writers of the Future Judge since 2021.
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Reviews for On the Oceans of Eternity
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5More of Stirling’s exciting swashbuckling excitement…high marks for that. BUT!The first 2 books in the trilogy restricted the date jumps to the chapter beginnings; but this book, the last one, jumps the dates AND locations multiple times within each chapter. And, instead of labelling each subsection-within-the-chapter with the appropriate date/location Stirling (or the publisher?) congregates all of the dates/locations at the front of the chapter, leaving us to figure out where/when we are from the context. I admit to having difficulty placing the strange names in context—when you couple that with where-the-hell-are-we?: California, Patagonia, Spain, Greece, Connecticut it becomes very confusing and not at all fun anymore. I found myself leaving a bookmark at the start of each chapter for appropriate reference to when/where we are.With that out of the way…we come to Stirling’s real writing weakness: he doesn’t know how to end the series. The battles are going bad-to-good based upon our modern ability to think-out-of-the-box (i.e. in novel ways) and were quite enjoyable. And then the entire series ends when the “all powerful bad guy” is conveniently/fortuitously poisoned by a side-character—who is only rarely mentioned in the books, and doesn’t even belong there in the first place. Who is Helmut Mitler? I have no memory of him from the first book, and only one or two brief sentences mentioning him in book 2. At no point do I recall any mention of how a left-over Nazi a) survived WW2; b) was drafted into Walker’s retinue AND was still young enough to function. What did I miss? Is his existence in the story solely to provide a convenient death, at the right time, to end the story? Talk about cop-out! Stirling has the same problem with the succeeding Emberverse series… “we’ll just take a quick jaunt into never-never land, kill the evil there and return home lickedy-split to live happily ever after”. In both series the dénouements take place so quickly that it took me a while to realize that the stories had ended. There was no catharsis for me. Between this, and the “German”, I have to lower my rating for this book.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5I felt like this was a good story but in the last third when I saw the setup for how it was going to end I was not happy. The ending is contrived and weak, with a character added in this book that had only a brief one line mention in book 2 before becoming the major antagonist of the end game in the final book.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Nothing surprising in this one, as it is the continuation of the Nantucket event series. The Republic is still battling for control of the ancient Earth with William Walker and his allies. Will the goodness, cleverness and strategy of the Republic win versus Walker's dictatorship? I bet you can guess the answer, but even so, these books are fascinating.