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Ingolf Vogeler slapped his horse affectionately on the neck,· he felt a little better now that the rain had stopped, even though it was the tag end of a chilly October day with a ragged sky the color of damp raw wool rolling in from the west. Read the first page Browse Sample Pages
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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Format:Mass Market Paperback
Stirling's first trilogy on "the Change", starting with "Dies the Fire" was excellent. and if you haven't read it, start there first as this book will give away a lot of things from the first trilogy.
If you have read the first trilogy, I strongly recommend this one. It is set 20 years after the Change (so 12 years after "a Meeting at Corvallis") and delivers excellent action/adventure plus interesting ideas on how things would continue to develop, post-Change. Stirling has a great ability to sketch out plausible settings and characters while still keeping the action moving along. His battle scenes are top rate and remind me of Bernard Cornwell.
The book centres around Rudi Mackenzie, who was a realistic 8 year old in the last 2 books of the first trilogy (avoiding the over-sentimental approach to children that many authors suffer from) and now he is a confident young man, very plausibly drawn as the charismatic not-quite-heir to the "Clan Mackenzie". Naturally there's evil for Rudi to fight, and he's forced to travel away from Oregon to do it - giving Stirling the chance to show us more of post-Change America, and I for one relished the journey with him.
And we have some hints about what caused the Change, which I'm hoping will be filled out in later books.
His writing is powerful and not for everyone, as you can see from the negative reviews of some of the books in the first trilogy, but if you enjoyed it, don't be put off by the negative review of this one (which frankly I think is mischievous - if you detest the first 3 books, as that reviewer plainly did, why would you bother to read this one ?) this is well up to the same high standard and with lots of interesting new developments.
Stirling's ability to describe the Change and developments afterwards remind me of Max Brooks outstanding World War Z, and it had the same effect of getting inside my head, so I'd find myself thinking about what I'd do if it actually happened...
I have already read the next in the series (Scourge of God) and am now waiting impatiently for the finale (Sword of the Lady) to be published in the autumn of this year !
If you have read the first trilogy, I strongly recommend this one. It is set 20 years after the Change (so 12 years after "a Meeting at Corvallis") and delivers excellent action/adventure plus interesting ideas on how things would continue to develop, post-Change. Stirling has a great ability to sketch out plausible settings and characters while still keeping the action moving along. His battle scenes are top rate and remind me of Bernard Cornwell.
The book centres around Rudi Mackenzie, who was a realistic 8 year old in the last 2 books of the first trilogy (avoiding the over-sentimental approach to children that many authors suffer from) and now he is a confident young man, very plausibly drawn as the charismatic not-quite-heir to the "Clan Mackenzie". Naturally there's evil for Rudi to fight, and he's forced to travel away from Oregon to do it - giving Stirling the chance to show us more of post-Change America, and I for one relished the journey with him.
And we have some hints about what caused the Change, which I'm hoping will be filled out in later books.
His writing is powerful and not for everyone, as you can see from the negative reviews of some of the books in the first trilogy, but if you enjoyed it, don't be put off by the negative review of this one (which frankly I think is mischievous - if you detest the first 3 books, as that reviewer plainly did, why would you bother to read this one ?) this is well up to the same high standard and with lots of interesting new developments.
Stirling's ability to describe the Change and developments afterwards remind me of Max Brooks outstanding World War Z, and it had the same effect of getting inside my head, so I'd find myself thinking about what I'd do if it actually happened...
I have already read the next in the series (Scourge of God) and am now waiting impatiently for the finale (Sword of the Lady) to be published in the autumn of this year !
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Mass Market Paperback
The Sunrise Lands begins the conclusion of the story started in Nantucket series (Island in the Sea of Time) and continued in The Emberverse series (Dies the Fire).
The world created by Striling still contains the mix of new and familiar things jumbled with new and familiar characters
If you liked the Nantucket series & The Emberverse series then this is a must read for you.
The world created by Striling still contains the mix of new and familiar things jumbled with new and familiar characters
If you liked the Nantucket series & The Emberverse series then this is a must read for you.
8 of 12 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
I love S M Stirlings books, they just get better and better and this is a superb addition to his stories (and my library.)
The story carries on 12 years after the Meeting at Corvallis and the war and includes lots of familiar characters from those books. The story follows a man who arrives from the East, the Sunrise lands, persued by Religious fanatics. He seeks out Rudi, and they then trek across post change USA to visit Nantucket, the source of the mysterious change.
Its a great story and a great filler. ie. we learn more about the people we met in the frist trilogy. I would recommend it to anyone who has enjoyed the previous books.
The story carries on 12 years after the Meeting at Corvallis and the war and includes lots of familiar characters from those books. The story follows a man who arrives from the East, the Sunrise lands, persued by Religious fanatics. He seeks out Rudi, and they then trek across post change USA to visit Nantucket, the source of the mysterious change.
Its a great story and a great filler. ie. we learn more about the people we met in the frist trilogy. I would recommend it to anyone who has enjoyed the previous books.
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stirling does it again
i grabbed this book off the shelve as quick as i could, this writer just gets better the more i read of his work, as with the dies the fire triolgy i could get to grips with... Read more
Published on 7 Jun 2009 by P. barton
poor and getting poorer
Very , very flat characters, no story in this book but if you bought the previous 3 you'll buy the next one just out of habit. Read more
Published on 31 July 2008 by Douglas C. Hepburn
Oh Boy... SM Stirling does it again!
Man, words cannot describe how much I loved this book!
I was a bit worried that I might miss the main players from the first trilogy but I can definitely say that after their... Read more
I was a bit worried that I might miss the main players from the first trilogy but I can definitely say that after their... Read more
Published on 12 Oct 2007 by Karen Spruyt
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