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In the US Pacific Northwest, we meet again some of those surviving enclaves whose establishment in the first desperate months after the Change we followed in Dies the Fire. The semi-feudal Bearkillers, led by tough, competent former US Marine Mike Havel, the Wiccan Clan Mackenzie, under the chieftainship of former folk singer and neopagan priestess Juniper Mackenzie, Corvallis, organised around its University, the traditional Catholic monks of Mt. Angel and the ruthless faux-mediaeval feudal despotism of ex-history professor and medieval combat re-enactor, now Lord Protector, Norman Arminger and his ex-crime-gang and SCA henchpeople, based in the ruins of Portland, Oregon.
Meanwhile, in England swift, decisive action when the Change struck by a group of senior military officers,whilst the politicians dithered and then died, saved some of the Royal family and a nucleus of a few hundred thousand survivors based on the Isle of Wight. But now matters have come to a head between King Charles III and one of his top Army commanders as the King sinks into increasingly autocratic eccentricity. Whilst another surviving enclave of civilization, Tasmania, has recovered sufficiently to despatch a three-masted schooner on a survey voyage around the Changed world.
S.M. Stirling weaves these disparate threads into a gripping tale of action, adventure, flashes of humour and webs of intrigue. Buttressed by solid research and sustained, logical and intelligent extrapolation of the likely technological, social, cultural and other consequences of taking our species' technological toys away. Consequences for ordinary and not so ordinary people dropped into a suddenly extraordinary world. You don't have to have read the first volume of this trilogy to enjoy this one. Although after reading it you will probably want to. And you'll certainly be waiting eagerly for the final volume, due out next year. But you'll still enjoy The Protector's War for itself.
British readers will especially enjoy the substantial scenes set in the bizarre and yet eerily familiar land that is England eight years after the Change. Woburn Abbey turned into a prison guarded by axe-wielding Icelanders, Milton Keynes sinking in a sea of bramble and scrub, whilst knights joust beside Junction 14 of the M1 and former SAS troops battle cannibal bands with bow and sword in the ruins of Newport Pagnell. Tigers, wolves and hippos escaped from safari parks and zoos prowl the limits of a cultivated zone slowly being hacked from the scrub, thorn and returning wilderness of the Home Counties by English survivors augmented by refugees shipped in on surviving sailing ships from Iceland, the Faeroes and the isles off Scotland.
Readers everywhere will enjoy a well-told, intelligently thought-out tale by a writer who is increasingly being compared by critics with the late Poul Anderson (than which, in my view, there is no higher praise!) The whole scenario takes on a sinister contemporary relevance in the light of recent TV footage from the ruins of New Orleans. It is a pity this book and its predecessor in the trilogy are hard to get hold of in British bookshops - which is another reason to be thankful for Amazon!
I first came across S.M.Stirling via a boring day surfing Amazon. Amazon recommened me "Dies The Fire" the first book in this series and if you are considering starting with this book, I would strongly recommend starting at the beginning so you know the Characters and the start of this original story.
Im 17 and do most of my reading when I "hit the sack" I finished this book in a week a bleary eyed madness, literaly reading till I could no longer keep my eyes open.
I loved it and would honestely (and have) recommend this book to all friends and family. S.M. Stirling has impressed me so much that ive bought another series, linked to this and just as good, and also bought the next book in the seris in hardback which for a member of the "troubled binge drinking youth of today" surely shows how much I liked this book. The fact that some of it centres around England meant I was even more interested.
If you want more S.M. Stirling or just want to have a peak before you buy the book. Google Mr Stirling and go on HIS official site which contains long extracts from most of his works.
In his latest and best series, "The Protectors War" continues where "Dies the Fire" left off and I cannot recommend this man's books too highly - They are well written and carefully plotted and I feel a sharp pang of pain when I finish one! In my opinion he is the best in the field at the moment (though I love the stories of David Weber almost as much)I have ordered the third in the series in advance - something I have never done before - and I eagerly await it. John Ringo should take lessons from this guy in how to avoid the pitfalls of change of direction when a topic has more or less played out. If you have not started this series or tasted Stirling's work in another book, get them today - you will thank me for the recomendation !
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