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Review title: Strong Women, Weak Men
Product review: Why, oh why, does S. M. Stirling hate men? I asked myself that question over and over again in reading this novel and it's predecessor. With two exceptions that I can think of, the women are portrayed as strong/positive, while the men are portrayed as weak/negative. Can not women be evil and men be good? I would like to think that both genders are capable of roughly equal amounts of positive and negative character traits, but the author does not seem to think so.The biggest problem with both of these books, however, is that the author does not seem to understand that Bronze Age warfare relied on far more brute strength than modern warfare. The reason that women did not regularly participate in warfare until the second half of the 20th Century had little to due with sexism and much to due with physical strength. I would suggest that the author should read more about the ancient Greek and Roman styles of warfare before he ventures down this path again.
