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* DaddysLittleVillain: Walker's daughter Althea, with aspirations to become a [[NinjaBrat Claw of Hekate]] as well.
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* DaddysLittleVillain: Walker's daughter Althea, with aspirations to become a [[NinjaBrat Claw of Hekate]] as well. [[Spoiler: She escapes the toppling of his regime and travels into eastern europe along with one of Walker's first Alban allies. Her only goal in life is revenge on those who killed her father, starting by creating a great empire as far from the sea as possible. ]]
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* TheEmpire: One of the two likely end states for The Republic. [[spoiler: By the end of the third book they have either allied with or decisively defeated every great empire of the age. In addition, both Argentina and South Africa have both been settled directly by Nantucketers - both of which are extremely fertile and rich lands. The small size of the island itself and extremely rich lands of eastern North America and continual population booms from significant immigration and no birth control means native americans will likely again be pushed off their land further and further west (or, at best, integrated directly into the blast furnace of Nantucket society). Depending on how far the Republic decides to push its anti-slavery attitudes, it may end up controlling as much more more land directly or indirectly as our timelines British Empire.]]
* The Federation: On the other hand, most of the Republics citizens have no interest in conquering the world and just want to live in peace. A significant amount of the islands population would probably have been fine living in almost complete isolation had Walker not escaped to Alba and then Greece to create his own empire with the old worlds much higher population. The Republics anti-slavery pro-democracy feelings do give it a strong moral high ground and its intentions are always shown to be either benevolent or at least not obfuscated.
* The Federation: On the other hand, most of the Republics citizens have no interest in conquering the world and just want to live in peace. A significant amount of the islands population would probably have been fine living in almost complete isolation had Walker not escaped to Alba and then Greece to create his own empire with the old worlds much higher population. The Republics anti-slavery pro-democracy feelings do give it a strong moral high ground and its intentions are always shown to be either benevolent or at least not obfuscated.
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*The Federation: TheFederation: On the other hand, most of the Republics citizens of Nantucket have no interest in conquering the world and just want to live in peace. A significant amount of the islands population would probably have been fine living in almost complete isolation from the bronze age outside world had Walker not escaped to Alba and then Greece to create his own empire with the old worlds much higher population. empire. The Republics anti-slavery pro-democracy feelings do give it a strong moral high ground and its intentions are always shown to be either benevolent or at least not obfuscated. straightforward.
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* KatanasAreJustBetter: [[spoiler: Marian Alston, and later Swindapa. Still later, these seem to become standard-issue for Nantucket officers.]]
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* KatanasAreJustBetter: [[spoiler: Marian Alston, and later Swindapa. Still later, these seem to become standard-issue for Nantucket officers. Some of the later books also suggest that even Walker has adopted them for officers and the elite generally.]]
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* SchizoTech: Bronze axes, ultralights with napalm, katanas, breech-loading rifles, wooden frigates, bicycles, an [[ZeppelinsFromAnotherWorld airship]]... the list goes on.
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* SchizoTech: Bronze axes, ultralights with napalm, katanas, breech-loading rifles, wooden frigates, bicycles, an [[ZeppelinsFromAnotherWorld airship]]... the list goes on. [[spoiler:The absolute peak of this comes in the third book, with three person chariot teams (driver, loader, gunner) using breech loading rifles]]
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* TheEmpire: One of the two likely end states for The Republic. [[spoiler: By the end of the third book they have either allied with or decisively defeated every great empire of the age. In addition, both Argentina and South Africa have both been settled directly by Nantucketers - both of which are extremely fertile and rich lands. The small size of the island itself and extremely rich lands of eastern North America and continual population booms from significant immigration and no birth control means native americans will likely again be pushed off their land further and further west (or, at best, integrated directly into the blast furnace of Nantucket society). Depending on how far the Republic decides to push its anti-slavery attitudes, it may end up controlling as much more more land directly or indirectly as our timelines British Empire.]]
* The Federation: On the other hand, most of the Republics citizens have no interest in conquering the world and just want to live in peace. A significant amount of the islands population would probably have been fine living in almost complete isolation had Walker not escaped to Alba and then Greece to create his own empire with the old worlds much higher population. The Republics anti-slavery pro-democracy feelings do give it a strong moral high ground and its intentions are always shown to be either benevolent or at least not obfuscated.
* TheEmpire: One of the two likely end states for The Republic. [[spoiler: By the end of the third book they have either allied with or decisively defeated every great empire of the age. In addition, both Argentina and South Africa have both been settled directly by Nantucketers - both of which are extremely fertile and rich lands. The small size of the island itself and extremely rich lands of eastern North America and continual population booms from significant immigration and no birth control means native americans will likely again be pushed off their land further and further west (or, at best, integrated directly into the blast furnace of Nantucket society). Depending on how far the Republic decides to push its anti-slavery attitudes, it may end up controlling as much more more land directly or indirectly as our timelines British Empire.]]
* The Federation: On the other hand, most of the Republics citizens have no interest in conquering the world and just want to live in peace. A significant amount of the islands population would probably have been fine living in almost complete isolation had Walker not escaped to Alba and then Greece to create his own empire with the old worlds much higher population. The Republics anti-slavery pro-democracy feelings do give it a strong moral high ground and its intentions are always shown to be either benevolent or at least not obfuscated.
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* MalcolmXerox: Sam [=McAndrews=]. He betrays Nantucket in the hopes that Walker will let him prop up the nearest African civilization. [[spoiler:This turns out to be Ancient Egypt, whose people are more closely related to the Arabs than anyone that might be called "black". [=McAndrews=] isn't exactly thrilled.]]
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* MalcolmXerox: Sam [=McAndrews=]. He betrays Nantucket in the hopes that Walker will let him prop up the nearest African civilization. [[spoiler:This turns out to be Ancient Egypt, whose people are more closely related to the Arabs than anyone that might be called "black". [=McAndrews=] isn't exactly thrilled.]] He makes the best of it and by the end of the third book has contacted and began covertly helping the Nubians south of Egypt proper. Since there's no extant African civilization for him to help, he plans to help build one instead]]
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** Although for Walker personally, it's more of a means to an end than because he specifically likes it. As he notes to Alice Hong in ''Against the Tide of Years'';
--> "Slavery's ''your'' thing, Alice. Me, I just want to get the work done the way I want it done, as cheap and fast as possible. If I could, I'd hire them - less trouble if they find their own rations and flophouses. Thing is, there's no proletariat here. [...] The only way to get big groups of people doing unfamiliar things under supervision in this setup is slavery - only way to get them working regularly to clock-time, too; they just purely hate that. Not that I have anything ''against'' slavery, but mainly it's a management tool."
--> "Slavery's ''your'' thing, Alice. Me, I just want to get the work done the way I want it done, as cheap and fast as possible. If I could, I'd hire them - less trouble if they find their own rations and flophouses. Thing is, there's no proletariat here. [...] The only way to get big groups of people doing unfamiliar things under supervision in this setup is slavery - only way to get them working regularly to clock-time, too; they just purely hate that. Not that I have anything ''against'' slavery, but mainly it's a management tool."
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* ImAHumanitarian: [[spoiler:Some of the Lisketter group meet their ends this way at the hands of the Mesoamericans, one almost immediately after capture since the Jaguar God followers apparently have a thing for [[BloodLust freshly-drained blood]].]]
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**[[spoiler:Some of the Lisketter group meet their ends this way at the hands of the Mesoamericans, one almost immediately after capture since the Jaguar God followers apparently have a thing for [[BloodLust freshly-drained blood]].]]
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*** Though technically the USCGC ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USCGC_Eagle_(WIX-327) Eagle]]'' ''is'' an iron-hulled barque, Nantucket goes back to its roots and revives the time-honored shipbuilding arts as a response to its relocation.
*** Though technically the USCGC ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USCGC_Eagle_(WIX-327) Eagle]]'' ''is'' an iron-hulled barque, Nantucket goes back to its roots and revives the time-honored shipbuilding arts as a response to its relocation.
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***SchizoTech. Though technically the USCGC ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USCGC_Eagle_(WIX-327) Eagle]]'' ''is'' an iron-hulled barque, Nantucket goes back to its roots and revives the time-honored shipbuilding arts as a response to its relocation.
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* EnemyMine: Despite the antagonisom antagonism between all sides, Nantucket, Walker's faction, and the Tartessians all exchange information and work together to contain a potential epidemic that could have wiped all of them out.
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The series is tenuously connected to the {{Emberverse}}, which covers what happened in the world Nantucket left behind.
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* AgeGapRomance: Marian Alston is a captain in the Coast Guard and she is in her late thirties. Her love interest Swindapa is around 19 when they meet. They eventually get married [[MarriedAtSea according to their own rules]] since neither of their countries allows gay marriage.
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* FollowTheLeader: various places swapping time with each other are known as [=ISOT=] scenarios. ''1632'' is the best known copycat.
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* InstantAwesomeJustAddNinja: [[spoiler: Alice Hong's "Claws of Hekate" followers.]]
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* StartingNewLife: Swindapa leaves Alba behind when it is taken over by the Iraiina, and heads to Nantucket, where she becomes Marian Alston's assistant (and later, her lover.) She's later able to return to her people, but she's changed quite a bit by that point.
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* SeductionProofMarriage: Played with in ''Against the Tide of Years''. Marian Alston and Swindapa, a married lesbian couple, visit a war chief and are offered a woman as part of the SacredHospitality. Alston, who takes marriage very seriously, has absolutely no interest in the girl, but Swindapa, who comes from a culture in which polygamy is the norm, is intrigued, even though she doesn't take advantage. This is somewhat par for the course in their relationship; throughout the book, Swindapa is rather shameless about her wandering eye, even though she never does anything more than look and occasionally enthuse.
-->"I promised to be monogamous, not blind."
-->"I promised to be monogamous, not blind."
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* ChekhovsSkill: Quite a few, but among the prominent ones, Doreen Rosenthal being an astronomer comes in very handy when [[spoiler:convincing the elders of Swindapa's tribe, who are basically the caretakers of [[LandmarkOfLore Stonehenge]], that the Nantucketers are friendly.]]
* DaddysLittleVillain: Walker's daughter Althea, with aspirations to become a [[spoiler:[[NinjaBrat Claw of Hekate]]]] as well.
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* CriticalStaffingShortage: The island of Nantucket suddenly finds itself short-staffed in every single aspect of infrastructure after the island is thrown back in time to the Bronze Age.
* DaddysLittleVillain: Walker's daughter Althea, with aspirations to become a[[spoiler:[[NinjaBrat [[NinjaBrat Claw of Hekate]]]] Hekate]] as well.
* CriticalStaffingShortage: The island of Nantucket suddenly finds itself short-staffed in every single aspect of infrastructure after the island is thrown back in time to the Bronze Age.
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* SlaveryIsASpecialKindOfEvil: The Republic of Nantucket takes a very dim view of slavery, as shown by the fact that almost all of its major warships are named after Civil War heroes or abolitionists. Given that one of its most prominent citizens is a former slave, this probably shouldn't be surprising. Naturally, the BigBad, of the series, William Walker, heavily employs slavery in his empire.
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* AerithAndBob: As Nantucket grows more racially integrated, with lots of Iraiina and Fiernan immigrants, as well as the odd Native American, names like "Llandaurth Witharaxsson" become increasingly common.
* AmbiguouslyBi: Sin-ina-mati ''really'' appreciates Kathryn Hollard's friendship...
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* HumanSacrifice: [[spoiler: The followers of the Jaguar God have this in mind for their captives.]]
* ImAHumanitarian: [[spoiler: Some of the Lisketter group meet their ends this way at the hands of the Mesoamericans, one almost immediately after capture since the Jaguar God followers apparently have a thing for [[BloodLust freshly-drained blood]].]]
** And at one point Alice Hong mentions that she enjoys the taste of "long pig" [[spoiler: and "long veal steak" - the implication being that she has killed and eaten]] ''[[spoiler: children.]]''
* ImAHumanitarian: [[spoiler: Some of the Lisketter group meet their ends this way at the hands of the Mesoamericans, one almost immediately after capture since the Jaguar God followers apparently have a thing for [[BloodLust freshly-drained blood]].]]
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* StrangeSyntaxSpeaker: The second book features a scene where Swindapa and her Fiernan peers converse in their own language. Their conversation is presented in English, but even ''that'' requires a further translation, because the Fiernan language is loaded with metaphors and figurative language.
* StrawmanPolitical: Pamela Lisketter and her group. AlsoTooDumbToLive--it TooDumbToLive -- it turns out the Followers of the Jaguar God are were not interested in your their help.
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A trilogy by Creator/SMStirling, in which the entire island of Nantucket is [[MassTeleportation sent back in time]] to the late Bronze Age by a mysterious dome of light. "The Event" also brings along the Eagle, a Coast Guard training vessel--a mixed blessing for Nantucket, for while the ship and its crew prove invaluable in saving the island from starvation, one of the officers, [[MeaningfulName William Walker]] gathers a band of followers and hijacks a ship for England, where he sets himself up as a warlord among the Indo-European tribes of the area. For obvious reasons, the people of Nantucket are not pleased with this, and the Town Meeting, under the leadership of former police chief Jared Cofflin and Marian Alston, captain of the Eagle, sends a force after him.
The first book, ''Island in the Sea of Time'', covers the first couple of years, from the Event up to the Battle of the Downs, where Walker and his local allies meet the expeditionary force from Nantucket and their local allies.
The second book, ''Against the Tide of Years'', sees Nantucket facing a threat from Tartessos, a kingdom in Spain that has been rapidly "modernizing" under the rule of one of Walker's friends. Contact is made with the kingdoms of Mycenae and Babylon, and an expedition prepares to follow in the footsteps of Lewis and Clark.
The third book, ''On the Oceans of Eternity'', brings with it the end of the war.
There is also a short story, "Blood Wolf", set in the same milieu, but about a generation later.
The series is tenuously connected to the {{Emberverse}}, which covers what happened in the world Nantucket left behind.
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* AlternateHistory
* AMillionIsAStatistic: Walker makes a remark along this line when discussing his conquest of Sicily.
* AntiVillain: Isketerol, merchant adventurer-turned-king of Tartessos. [[spoiler:When the Nantucketers invade Tartessos in the third book, they were undoubtedly expecting to find a totalitarian hellhole like the society Walker has established in Greece; what they find instead is a society which is a perfect example of FairForItsDay, as Isketerol has made literally revolutionary improvements in all areas of Tartessian society, not just the military, and has put huge outlays of time, effort and money into making life better for the ordinary people.]]
* ArtisticLicenseLinguistics: Sun People language. Although words themselves are mostly fine, what little grammar we see is more like English than Lithuanian (or PIE reconstructions.) "Diasas," for example, is used to mean both male and female slaves, even though it most probably would've been two distinct words (to match grammatical gender) in an early Indo-European language.
* BattleCouple: [[spoiler: Marian Alston and Swindapa.]]
* BilingualBonus: If you squint really, really hard, the names of Swindapa's tribe and her enemies look a little like "Fir Bolg" and "Aryan."
* BookEnds: The first book in the series begins and ends with Ian Arnstein arriving on Nantucket and musing about its history, his personal life and seafood dinners.
* BreakTheCutie: Swindapa
* ChekhovsSkill: Quite a few, but among the prominent ones, Doreen Rosenthal being an astronomer comes in very handy when [[spoiler: convincing the elders of Swindapa's tribe, who are basically the caretakers of [[LandmarkOfLore Stonehenge]], that the Nantucketers are friendly.]]
* DaddysLittleVillain: Walker's daughter Althea, with aspirations to become a [[spoiler:[[NinjaBrat Claw of Hekate]]]] as well.
* DepravedBisexual[=/=]BondageIsBad: Dr. Alice Hong, [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin the Lady of Pain]].
* {{Egopolis}}: Walker's Alban base is called "Walkerburg."
* EnemyMine: Despite the antagonisom between all sides, Nantucket, Walker's faction, and the Tartessians all exchange information and work together to contain a potential epidemic that could have wiped all of them out.
* EyepatchOfPower:[[spoiler: William Walker, after the Battle of the Downs.]]
* FightingIrish: Patrick O'Rourke of the Nantucket Marines.
* FollowTheLeader: various places swapping time with each other are known as [=ISOT=] scenarios. ''1632'' is the best known copycat.
* [[GranolaGirl Granola Guy]]: John Martins, oh so much.
* HeroicBSOD: While not precisely a hero, Isketerol undergoes one of these when he realizes that in the future where Nantucket came from, experts aren't sure his nation even ''existed.''
* HistoricalDomainCharacter: A few--the king of Babylon, the Pharaoh, and maybe some of the Achaean and Trojan characters, depending on what you think of Homer's accuracy...
* HotScientist: Doreen Rosenthal.
* HotSpringsEpisode: In the third book, oddly enough.
* HumanSacrifice: [[spoiler: The followers of the Jaguar God have this in mind for their captives.]]
* ImAHumanitarian: [[spoiler: Some of the Lisketter group meet their ends this way at the hands of the Mesoamericans, one almost immediately after capture since the Jaguar God followers apparently have a thing for [[BloodLust freshly-drained blood]].]]
** And at one point Alice Hong mentions that she enjoys the taste of "long pig" [[spoiler: and "long veal steak" - the implication being that she has killed and eaten]] ''[[spoiler: children.]]''
* InstantAwesomeJustAddNinja: [[spoiler: Alice Hong's "Claws of Hekate" followers.]]
* KatanasAreJustBetter: [[spoiler: Marian Alston, and later Swindapa. Still later, these seem to become standard-issue for Nantucket officers.]]
* JewishAndNerdy: Played very straight with Doreen Rosenthal, but [[AmbiguouslyJewish averted]] in the case of her post-Event husband Ian Arnstein -- though she jokingly mention he's the only [[NiceJewishBoy eligible prospect]] around.
* LadyOfWar: Raupasha of the Mitanni.
* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters
* MassTeleportation: One of the Ur-Examples.
* MayDecemberRomance: Marian Alston is about twice Swindapa's age when they first meet, and then there is Professor Ian Arnstein and grad student Doreen Rosenthal.
* MightyWhitey: Gleefuly and consciously inverted by Marian Alston at every opportunity. [[KnightTemplar McAndrews]] tries to do this too, with far less success.
* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: Students of history might want to keep an eye on any compatriots named [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Walker_%28filibuster%29 William Walker]] when dealing with less technologically advanced groups of people.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Pamela Lisketter's group aren't heroes except in their own minds, but [[spoiler: their attempt to prepare the Mesoamericans against Nantucket/European encroachment winds up infecting the Mesoamericans with mumps and wiping out their civilization.]]
* NoBisexuals: Averted by the Earth Folk in general and Swindapa in particular. Plus [[DepravedBisexual Alice Hong.]]
* PerfectPoison: Averted in the somewhat prolonged deaths of [[spoiler:Walker, Hong and their entourage at the end of the third book]]. Not that they didn't have it coming.
* PragmaticVillainy: Walker, very much
* ProudWarriorRaceGuy: Most of the Sun People fall into this category.
* PublicDomainCharacter: Odysseus ([[SpellMyNameWithAnS spelled Odikweos]] in the books) and a few other characters from the same source.
* RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething: Several. William Walker is his own top general, and Kashtiliash and Raupasha take a direct hand in fighting for their respective countries.
* StarbucksSkinScale: A mixed race child is literally referred to as having "café-au-lait skin."
* SchizoTech: Bronze axes, ultralights with napalm, katanas, breech-loading rifles, wooden frigates, bicycles, an [[ZeppelinsFromAnotherWorld airship]]... the list goes on.
* ShoutOut: Involving William Walker and Ian Arnstein in particular. Prior to [[spoiler:the Siege of Troy]] they exchange some lines from Film/MontyPythonAndTheHolyGrail.
* ShownTheirWork: Bronze Age archaeology has enough competing theories that it would be impossible to be accurate to all of them, but the series is nonetheless impressive in this regard.
* StrawmanPolitical: Pamela Lisketter and her group. Also TooDumbToLive--it turns out the Followers of the Jaguar God are not interested in your help.
* ThemeNaming: Walker's horses are named Bastard and Son of a Bitch. Nantucket's ships are mostly named after abolitionists or related personages.
* TortureTechnician: Alice Hong
* TwoferTokenMinority: Marian Alston is a Threefer Token Minority, although she might not take kindly to that description.
* TheWisePrince: Kashtiliash qualifies.
* WoodenShipsAndIronMen ''and'' Women. Part of the SchizoTech.
*** Though technically the USCGC ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USCGC_Eagle_(WIX-327) Eagle]]'' ''is'' an iron-hulled barque, Nantucket goes back to its roots and revives the time-honored shipbuilding arts as a response to its relocation.
* ZergRush: The primary tactic of the Ringapi against O'Rourke's supply base.
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A trilogy by Creator/SMStirling, in which the entire island of Nantucket is [[MassTeleportation sent back in time]] to the late Bronze Age by a mysterious dome of light. "The Event" also brings along the Eagle, a Coast Guard training vessel--a mixed blessing for Nantucket, for while the ship and its crew prove invaluable in saving the island from starvation, one of the officers, [[MeaningfulName William Walker]] gathers a band of followers and hijacks a ship for England, where he sets himself up as a warlord among the Indo-European tribes of the area. For obvious reasons, the people of Nantucket are not pleased with this, and the Town Meeting, under the leadership of former police chief Jared Cofflin and Marian Alston, captain of the Eagle, sends a force after him.
The first book, ''Island in the Sea of Time'', covers the first couple of years, from the Event up to the Battle of the Downs, where Walker and his local allies meet the expeditionary force from Nantucket and their local allies.
The second book, ''Against the Tide of Years'', sees Nantucket facing a threat from Tartessos, a kingdom in Spain that has been rapidly "modernizing" under the rule of one of Walker's friends. Contact is made with the kingdoms of Mycenae and Babylon, and an expedition prepares to follow in the footsteps of Lewis and Clark.
The third book, ''On the Oceans of Eternity'', brings with it the end of the war.
There is also a short story, "Blood Wolf", set in the same milieu, but about a generation later.
The series is tenuously connected to the {{Emberverse}}, which covers what happened in the world Nantucket left behind.
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!!Tropes include:
* AlternateHistory
* AMillionIsAStatistic: Walker makes a remark along this line when discussing his conquest of Sicily.
* AntiVillain: Isketerol, merchant adventurer-turned-king of Tartessos. [[spoiler:When the Nantucketers invade Tartessos in the third book, they were undoubtedly expecting to find a totalitarian hellhole like the society Walker has established in Greece; what they find instead is a society which is a perfect example of FairForItsDay, as Isketerol has made literally revolutionary improvements in all areas of Tartessian society, not just the military, and has put huge outlays of time, effort and money into making life better for the ordinary people.]]
* ArtisticLicenseLinguistics: Sun People language. Although words themselves are mostly fine, what little grammar we see is more like English than Lithuanian (or PIE reconstructions.) "Diasas," for example, is used to mean both male and female slaves, even though it most probably would've been two distinct words (to match grammatical gender) in an early Indo-European language.
* BattleCouple: [[spoiler: Marian Alston and Swindapa.]]
* BilingualBonus: If you squint really, really hard, the names of Swindapa's tribe and her enemies look a little like "Fir Bolg" and "Aryan."
* BookEnds: The first book in the series begins and ends with Ian Arnstein arriving on Nantucket and musing about its history, his personal life and seafood dinners.
* BreakTheCutie: Swindapa
* ChekhovsSkill: Quite a few, but among the prominent ones, Doreen Rosenthal being an astronomer comes in very handy when [[spoiler: convincing the elders of Swindapa's tribe, who are basically the caretakers of [[LandmarkOfLore Stonehenge]], that the Nantucketers are friendly.]]
* DaddysLittleVillain: Walker's daughter Althea, with aspirations to become a [[spoiler:[[NinjaBrat Claw of Hekate]]]] as well.
* DepravedBisexual[=/=]BondageIsBad: Dr. Alice Hong, [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin the Lady of Pain]].
* {{Egopolis}}: Walker's Alban base is called "Walkerburg."
* EnemyMine: Despite the antagonisom between all sides, Nantucket, Walker's faction, and the Tartessians all exchange information and work together to contain a potential epidemic that could have wiped all of them out.
* EyepatchOfPower:[[spoiler: William Walker, after the Battle of the Downs.]]
* FightingIrish: Patrick O'Rourke of the Nantucket Marines.
* FollowTheLeader: various places swapping time with each other are known as [=ISOT=] scenarios. ''1632'' is the best known copycat.
* [[GranolaGirl Granola Guy]]: John Martins, oh so much.
* HeroicBSOD: While not precisely a hero, Isketerol undergoes one of these when he realizes that in the future where Nantucket came from, experts aren't sure his nation even ''existed.''
* HistoricalDomainCharacter: A few--the king of Babylon, the Pharaoh, and maybe some of the Achaean and Trojan characters, depending on what you think of Homer's accuracy...
* HotScientist: Doreen Rosenthal.
* HotSpringsEpisode: In the third book, oddly enough.
* HumanSacrifice: [[spoiler: The followers of the Jaguar God have this in mind for their captives.]]
* ImAHumanitarian: [[spoiler: Some of the Lisketter group meet their ends this way at the hands of the Mesoamericans, one almost immediately after capture since the Jaguar God followers apparently have a thing for [[BloodLust freshly-drained blood]].]]
** And at one point Alice Hong mentions that she enjoys the taste of "long pig" [[spoiler: and "long veal steak" - the implication being that she has killed and eaten]] ''[[spoiler: children.]]''
* InstantAwesomeJustAddNinja: [[spoiler: Alice Hong's "Claws of Hekate" followers.]]
* KatanasAreJustBetter: [[spoiler: Marian Alston, and later Swindapa. Still later, these seem to become standard-issue for Nantucket officers.]]
* JewishAndNerdy: Played very straight with Doreen Rosenthal, but [[AmbiguouslyJewish averted]] in the case of her post-Event husband Ian Arnstein -- though she jokingly mention he's the only [[NiceJewishBoy eligible prospect]] around.
* LadyOfWar: Raupasha of the Mitanni.
* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters
* MassTeleportation: One of the Ur-Examples.
* MayDecemberRomance: Marian Alston is about twice Swindapa's age when they first meet, and then there is Professor Ian Arnstein and grad student Doreen Rosenthal.
* MightyWhitey: Gleefuly and consciously inverted by Marian Alston at every opportunity. [[KnightTemplar McAndrews]] tries to do this too, with far less success.
* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: Students of history might want to keep an eye on any compatriots named [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Walker_%28filibuster%29 William Walker]] when dealing with less technologically advanced groups of people.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Pamela Lisketter's group aren't heroes except in their own minds, but [[spoiler: their attempt to prepare the Mesoamericans against Nantucket/European encroachment winds up infecting the Mesoamericans with mumps and wiping out their civilization.]]
* NoBisexuals: Averted by the Earth Folk in general and Swindapa in particular. Plus [[DepravedBisexual Alice Hong.]]
* PerfectPoison: Averted in the somewhat prolonged deaths of [[spoiler:Walker, Hong and their entourage at the end of the third book]]. Not that they didn't have it coming.
* PragmaticVillainy: Walker, very much
* ProudWarriorRaceGuy: Most of the Sun People fall into this category.
* PublicDomainCharacter: Odysseus ([[SpellMyNameWithAnS spelled Odikweos]] in the books) and a few other characters from the same source.
* RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething: Several. William Walker is his own top general, and Kashtiliash and Raupasha take a direct hand in fighting for their respective countries.
* StarbucksSkinScale: A mixed race child is literally referred to as having "café-au-lait skin."
* SchizoTech: Bronze axes, ultralights with napalm, katanas, breech-loading rifles, wooden frigates, bicycles, an [[ZeppelinsFromAnotherWorld airship]]... the list goes on.
* ShoutOut: Involving William Walker and Ian Arnstein in particular. Prior to [[spoiler:the Siege of Troy]] they exchange some lines from Film/MontyPythonAndTheHolyGrail.
* ShownTheirWork: Bronze Age archaeology has enough competing theories that it would be impossible to be accurate to all of them, but the series is nonetheless impressive in this regard.
* StrawmanPolitical: Pamela Lisketter and her group. Also TooDumbToLive--it turns out the Followers of the Jaguar God are not interested in your help.
* ThemeNaming: Walker's horses are named Bastard and Son of a Bitch. Nantucket's ships are mostly named after abolitionists or related personages.
* TortureTechnician: Alice Hong
* TwoferTokenMinority: Marian Alston is a Threefer Token Minority, although she might not take kindly to that description.
* TheWisePrince: Kashtiliash qualifies.
* WoodenShipsAndIronMen ''and'' Women. Part of the SchizoTech.
*** Though technically the USCGC ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USCGC_Eagle_(WIX-327) Eagle]]'' ''is'' an iron-hulled barque, Nantucket goes back to its roots and revives the time-honored shipbuilding arts as a response to its relocation.
* ZergRush: The primary tactic of the Ringapi against O'Rourke's supply base.
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