SM Stirling - Emberverse series

Patrick MacFarlane

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Has anyone in here ever heard if or looked into or even read the Stirling series that starts with Dies the Fire? It is often called The Change series, Novels of the Change, or the Emberverse series. I have read the first trilogy and have the next one. They are phenomenal! 

Crash course into the change novels:

a large electrical storm erupts over he entire world and the very laws of physics and technology change instantly.  All electronics stop, steam will no longer drive an engine, gun powder will not explode. So the modern world over night is thrown into an Era of dark ages technology. 

Out of this, in Western Oregon,  four major groups surface. These are the "Bearkillers" which are lead by a former marine and pilot who slays a bear to save a member of his group early on. They are a loose democratic society. Next is the Clan MacKenzie started by a Wiccan folks singer and her coven. They adopt a neo - Celtics clan style government. Then there is the university of Corvallis. The faculty there organized people during the initial dying times after the Change and sadly are stuck in a  stagnant representative democracy that requires unanimous voting to do anything. Lastly is the antagonist of the series. In Portland is a history professor who seizes his chance to be a ruthless king and wrangle bikers and gangs in northern Oregon to do his dirty work.  He then sets them up as dukes in castles built by the refugee slave labour of his neo - feudal society. He seeks the fertile farmland the other nations sit throughout and wages war to get it. 

The first trilogy follows the leaders and several other characters throughout the adventures in the post - Change world as they fight for what they want and want to defend. 

Tl;Dr ----》the Change novels take place in an alternative present where a freak electrical storm set man back to dark age technology. The series follows the leaders of the rising nations through establishment and war. 

 
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If anyone has seen the cancelled show "Revolution" you have a basic understanding of the series. It completely ripped off the idea and just dumbed it down a lot. In this show as far as I could tell it was mostly just electronics that changed. hydraulics and steam power and explosives still worked. So you lost that New Dark Ages feel but still see a world in total collapse where most of the techno-dependents in the world die out.  Personally, I preferred the Stirling take on it and the diversity he gave the groups. there aren't just city-states, there are vastly differing cultures. Not the best writing, I will admit. some of the more complex scenes get a little fuzzy but I loved the concept 

 
I've seen Revolution, it was a decent show, sad to see it get cancelled so early. Might give the books a read to supplement the loss.

 
Sounds like an interesting read. I enjoyed Revolution, so might check this out. I just finished Words of Radiance and decided to read "The Name of the Wind" in the Kingkiller chronicle.

 
I've read them all myself (including the Nantucket trilogy), fun stuff though the original three are the best imo before the magic and gods stuff got more blatant.

(assuming anyone cares about this thread any longer :P )

 
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