The Stone Dogs

1990 science fiction novel by S. M. Stirling
0-671-72009-0OCLC22293165Preceded byUnder the Yoke Followed byDrakon 

The Stone Dogs is a science fiction novel by Canadian-American writer S. M. Stirling,[1][2] the third book in the alternate history series, The Domination. It was first published in paperback by Baen Books in August 1990. It was a preliminary nominee for the 1996 Prometheus Hall of Fame Award.[3]

The novel details the life of Eric von Shrakenberg's niece, Yolande Ingolfsson, and Chantal Lefarge's children, Frederick and Marya. Eric later becomes the Archon during the "Final War".

Plot summary

During the Cold War between the Alliance and the Domination, Frederic and Marya work for the OSS as spies and assassins.

During the Draka conquest of India, Marya Lefarge is taken prisoner. She becomes a serf to Yolande Ingolfsson, who after torturing her repeatedly with a neural weapon, forces her to become a "brooder" (i.e. a surrogate mother) for her offspring, Gwendolyn. Yolande also swears vengeance on Fred Lefarge after he kills her lover, Myfanwy Venders, during the Indian Incident.

As both superpowers expand into space, they prepare different doomsday weapons. The Alliance's weapon is a computer virus ("comp plague") secretly planted in Draka military computers by spies; the Draka's is a biological virus called the Stone Dogs that causes infected personnel to go insane. Yolande discovers Marya, who has contacted the OSS, planting the comp-plague and allows her to escape with knowledge of the Stone Dogs. This forces her uncle, Archon Eric von Shrakenberg, to use the weapon prematurely. The Draka win the resulting conflict; however, their incomplete victory leads to Eric negotiating an arrangement whereupon the Alliance is allowed to launch its generation ship "The New America" and the remaining Alliance survivors in space are granted limited Draka citizenship.

References

  1. ^ "Uchronia: Draka Series". Uchronia: The Alternate History List.
  2. ^ "The Stone Dogs (Draka, book 3) by S M Stirling". Fantastic Fiction.
  3. ^ The Stone Dogs title listing at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
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Works by S. M. Stirling
Novels of "The Change"
Nantucket series
The Emberverse series
The Lords of Creation seriesShadowspawn series
  • A Taint in the Blood
  • The Council of Shadows
  • Shadows of Falling Night
The Domination series
  • Marching Through Georgia
  • Under the Yoke
  • The Stone Dogs
  • Drakon
  • Drakas!
The Flight Engineer series
  • The Rising
  • The Privateer
  • The Independent Command
Tales from the Black Chamber series
  • Black Chamber
  • Theater of Spies
  • Shadows of Annihilation
Treasures of Tartary series
  • Daggers in Darkness
Make the Darkness Light series
  • To Turn the Tide
The General series (with David Drake)
  • The Forge
  • The Hammer
  • The Anvil
  • The Steel
  • The Sword
  • The Chosen
  • The Reformer
Other novels
Short stories
  • Shikari in Galveston
  • The Charge of Lee's Brigade
  • Compadres
  • "A Murder in Eddsford"
  • "Something for Yew"
  • "Ancient Ways"
  • "Pronouncing Doom"
  • "Hot Night at the Hopping Toad"
  • "Pain and Suffering"
  • "Swords of Zar-Tu-Kan"
  • "To the Rescue"
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