"A Connecticut Yankee in the Archon's Court"
Foreword
This is a "fanfic" novel (incomplete at present) set in the Draka universe of S.M. Stirling, who has not specifically approved it yet. Some personal information provided has been altered from that of real people. Prior knowledge of "The Stone Dogs" story and the entire Domination of the Draka timeline will vastly increase your enjoyment of the following.
The story here is speculation on shifting an American from a world close to ours into the world of the "Alliance for Democracy" and "Domination of the Draka" just before the Final War in 1998 as portrayed in Stirling's novel "The Stone Dogs." I deliberately modified some details from our world, although it's not a very sturdy alternate history, and made up a bunch about the Domination/Alliance world; for example, that the Alliance uses a Canadian/British postal code system of alternating numbers and letters. Some details that I created about the Alliance/Domination timeline and Frank's world are discussed in footnotes to each chapter. As author of this fanfic, I made decisions about how some things happened in the world of the Domination of the Draka and Alliance for Democracy, without consulting S.M. Stirling. If there's heartburn with them, you know who to complain to – me! Should S.M. Stirling disagree with me, I'll be happy to change things to conform to The Author's vision, so don't get too attached to what I say below. And I'll endeavor to fit this story within "The Stone Dogs," so don't go reading this looking for the Draka to lose the Final War.
Writing this text over 16 years after the rest, I vaguely recall getting something like "sure, why not" from S.M. Stirling regarding my extension to Lefarge and Stoddard's meeting in the book. Similarly, I got tacit permission – I submitted it for review by a security office, asked several weeks later and was told that it wasn't disallowed – for what's in the first few chapters referring to American military operations while I was still employed by the Air Force at AFOTEC.
You can easily guess who Frank Carson and his family are based on. But Lucia Garcia is a composite of a real USAF Master Sergeant and a civilian, using part of a third person's name. "Mechanic's Union" is based on a real school in New York City that charges no tuition to the few students that it accepts. In general, lots of details are deliberately altered from our reality. So yes, this is a "Mary Sue," but I hope to avoid the worst aspects of that.
All the chapter titles so far are references to Shawn Colvin songs. Quotes in the introductions of chapters are believed to be in the public domain or were created for this work.
Disclaimer: The Domination of the Draka, Alliance for Democracy, Marching Through Georgia, Under the Yoke, The Stone Dogs, Drakon, and associated characters, alternate history, technology, organizations and situations are copyright © S.M. Stirling and may not be used or reproduced commercially without permission. The use of these characters, organizations, history, situations and places are not to be construed as challenge to said copyright. The author of this "fanfic" is obtaining no profit or monetary income from providing it to you.