The Scourge of God (Emberverse Series #5) by S. M. Stirling
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(Mass Market Paperback - Reprint)
- Pub. Date: September 2009
- 528pp
- Sales Rank: 6,518
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Product Details
- Pub. Date: September 2009
- Publisher: Penguin Group (USA)
- Format: Mass Market Paperback, 528pp
- Sales Rank: 6,518
- Series: Emberverse Series, #5
- ISBN-13: 9780451462664
- ISBN: 0451462661
- Edition Description: Reprint
Synopsis
"A stunning continuation," says Ravens of Avalon author Diana L. Paxson of the New York Times bestselling author S. M. Stirling's fifth title in the Emberverse series, a stunning chronicle of an alternate world without technology.
Publishers Weekly
This vivid sequel to 2007's The Sunrise Lands opens in 2021, a generation after the Change that brought magic back into the world and made electric and explosive power inoperative. New post-industrial societies have risen, some seeking to restore technology and some celebrating its demise. One of the latter is the Church Universal and Triumphant, a group of genocidal Luddites with a prophetic theology that is more Dark Ages than New Age. Clan leader Rudi MacKenzie frequently butts heads with the "Cutters" and their Prophet as he struggles to cross the devastated Eastern "Death Zones" and reach Nantucket Island, birthplace of the Change, where he hopes to understand and perhaps reverse the replacement of technology with myth and magic. Stirling (The Sunrise Lands) eloquently describes a devastated, mystical world that will appeal to fans of traditional fantasy as well as post-apocalyptic SF. (Sept.)
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S. M. Stirling is the author of many SF and fantasy novels, including "Island in the Sea of Time," "Dies the Fire," and "Protector,"
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We all wish we could rise from the ashes...by wajata
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October 17, 2009: Stirling has created a world that becomes more and more alien to the reader in subsequent books. Stirling has also done an amazing job of developing main characters -twice! The pace of this book can be frustratingly slow. By that I mean you know the group is going to Nantucket, but they just seem to be unable to get there. I found this surprising, but I love how the story has turned into an adventure. You never know who will live and who will die in Stirling's books. It seems to me to be a totally dynamic reading experience.
AFTERNOON MATINAEby LN_Adcox
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August 21, 2009: This is actually the fifth book of a long series, but I'm not anxious for it to end. Stirling keeps it fresh by highlighting different characters and introducing new ones. He also highlights new cultures. The emphasis on the Celtic or Wicca culture of Clan Mackenzie was beginning to get a bit old so I was pleased that part of the book was devoted to the evolving culture of the Sioux and a culture that sprang from Buddhist monks at a conference when the "Change" occurred. The book bounces back and forth between Rudi Mackenzie's party on their quest to reach "the Sword" in Nantucket and the forces of Eric Larsson, Signe, and Astrid and Sandra Arminger and Tiphaine d' Ath as they try to stop the advance of the combined forces of The Church Universal and Triumphant (Cutters) and the United States of Boise. The Seekers are introduced - malevolent, telepathic arch villains representing the Cutter Prophet and capable of taking physical control of any of their followers making the possessed nearly invincible. This book ends like an old time movie matinee with the hero and heroines in deep trouble requiring the viewer to see the next movie to discover how death is cheated. Nevertheless, this series still has me hooked, and I will hate to see it end. My fear at this point is that the ending will be a cheap let down similar to the ending of Philip Jose Farmer's Riverworld series nearly forty years ago.
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