[1] Shikari in Galveston takes place in Texas a century after a meteor shower devastated North America and Europe in 1878.

The British Empire, or the Angrezi Raj, has been expanding its influence into coastal North America, including Galveston, which is being used as a base.

[3] Steven H Silver said that the story reads like H. Rider Haggard set in an unexplored African continent, but complained that Stirling focuses on the world and the technology rather than the characters.

[4] Shikari in Galveston was originally published in 2003 in the alternate history anthology Worlds That Weren't which included stories by Harry Turtledove, Mary Gentle, and Walter John Williams.

[5] The story was accompanied by an afterword by Stirling entitled Why Then, There, in which he states he uses alternate history to write adventure fiction in the tradition of Edgar Rice Burroughs and H. Rider Haggard without resorting to colonialist stereotypes.