The Lords of Creation
Just finished reading "The Lords of Creation" by S.M. Stirling, published by ARC Manor under their CAEZIK SF & FANTASY line/label published in 2025.
Stirling's "The Lords of Creation" series originally was a duo of two books - "The Sky People" and "in The Court of Crimson Kings" that was published by TOR Books in 2007 and 2008 respectively, and I had thought, as I suspect most readers assumed at the time, that the series came to a conclusion with final pages of "The Court of Crimson Kings" where world gates open on Venus, Earth, and Mars into what seemed to be a new universe.
There are times when I miss reading the science fiction and fantasy publishing news briefs in Locus Magazine. It always kept me up to date on when Andre Norton's new books were sold and due to be released along with my favorite other authors.
So I don't know if TOR Books had originally signed a three-book deal with Stirling's "The Lords of Creation" series, yet TOR Books did let "The Sky People" and "in The Court of Crimson Kings" go out of print, which CAEZIK SF & FANTASY have released in new editions along with realizing what is being "hailed" as the concluding volume of the series - which in the tradition of good old fashioned classic science fiction, raises far more questions than answers.
The word gates which opened to an amazed humanity at the end of "The Court of Crimson Kings" actually lead to a suspected Dyson Sphere and deep space telescopes have also discovered similar types of artificial structures in other star systems.
Yet the "Lords of Creation" are still as mysterious and unknown as they were in the first two volumes and it seems that these mysterious aliens are still active in humanity's history since the Dyson Sphere have humans from more modern era time periods from Earth's history.
Nothing is really answered about "The Lords of Creation" and while Stirling does build a rather convincing alternative world history, I don't know if the third volume in this series adds anything to the overall story or the mystery of who "The Lords of Creation" really are. Sometimes its best not to give readers an ultimate answer to a mystery in science fiction and let their imagination take the story to a conclusion they like.
Recommended.
Three-and-a-half Stars.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DTTF2MMT/...
Stirling's "The Lords of Creation" series originally was a duo of two books - "The Sky People" and "in The Court of Crimson Kings" that was published by TOR Books in 2007 and 2008 respectively, and I had thought, as I suspect most readers assumed at the time, that the series came to a conclusion with final pages of "The Court of Crimson Kings" where world gates open on Venus, Earth, and Mars into what seemed to be a new universe.
There are times when I miss reading the science fiction and fantasy publishing news briefs in Locus Magazine. It always kept me up to date on when Andre Norton's new books were sold and due to be released along with my favorite other authors.
So I don't know if TOR Books had originally signed a three-book deal with Stirling's "The Lords of Creation" series, yet TOR Books did let "The Sky People" and "in The Court of Crimson Kings" go out of print, which CAEZIK SF & FANTASY have released in new editions along with realizing what is being "hailed" as the concluding volume of the series - which in the tradition of good old fashioned classic science fiction, raises far more questions than answers.
The word gates which opened to an amazed humanity at the end of "The Court of Crimson Kings" actually lead to a suspected Dyson Sphere and deep space telescopes have also discovered similar types of artificial structures in other star systems.
Yet the "Lords of Creation" are still as mysterious and unknown as they were in the first two volumes and it seems that these mysterious aliens are still active in humanity's history since the Dyson Sphere have humans from more modern era time periods from Earth's history.
Nothing is really answered about "The Lords of Creation" and while Stirling does build a rather convincing alternative world history, I don't know if the third volume in this series adds anything to the overall story or the mystery of who "The Lords of Creation" really are. Sometimes its best not to give readers an ultimate answer to a mystery in science fiction and let their imagination take the story to a conclusion they like.
Recommended.
Three-and-a-half Stars.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DTTF2MMT/...
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