If the comet strike and the Raj’s desperate pivot to survival in The Peshawar Lancers hooked you, you’ll love how The Calculating Stars opens with a meteorite catastrophe that forces an accelerated, all-hands-on-deck space program. Where Athelstane King rides out frontier crises and Cassandra dodges assassins amid a re-made world order, Elma York battles politics and prejudice to get humanity off-world—delivering that same mix of urgency, competence, and world-on-the-brink problem-solving.

If you were enthralled by Stirling’s Anglo‑Indian Raj—the Urdu slang in officers’ messes, bazaars humming under the shadow of empire, and those airship-flecked horizons—River of Gods dives even deeper into an India bursting with linguistic, religious, and technological diversity. Like following Athelstane and Cassandra through court intrigue and frontier towns, you’ll thread intersecting lives across Varanasi’s ghats, political backrooms, and high-tech underworlds in a setting so vivid you can smell the monsoon.

Loved the cloak‑and‑dagger maneuvering in The Peshawar Lancers—the secret couriers, coded messages, and shadowy agents stalking Athelstane and Cassandra while a northern cabal plots? The Traitor Baru Cormorant gives you a masterclass in political knives-out strategy. Baru infiltrates a conquering empire from within, orchestrating fiscal coups and betrayals with the same cold precision as the spymasters and palace schemers dogging the Raj.

If the cavalry charges, dirigible skirmishes, and chase‑across‑continents momentum of The Peshawar Lancers kept you flipping pages, The Warlord of the Air delivers that same headlong rush. Where Athelstane duels assassins and races to outfox an occult northern threat, Moorcock’s time‑tossed adventurer hijacks airships, dogfights across empires, and careens through an alt‑modernity that interrogates the very imperial order the Raj takes for granted.

If the globe‑spanning feel of The Peshawar Lancers—from Delhi durbars to steppe outposts and perilous mountain passes—captivated you, The Lions of Al‑Rassan offers a similarly grand canvas. As with Athelstane and Cassandra navigating duty and desire amid the Raj and a predatory northern power, Kay’s soldier, courtier, and physician are swept up in love, war, and realpolitik across a continent where alliances and faiths collide.