The characters are great and I like how this renewed post-apocalyptic culture combines the practical, social and spiritual.
A similar book on a major metropolitan area like New York or Boston would be about twenty pages long, with no survivors. Alibris has millions of books at amazingly low prices. Buy Dies the Fire by S M Stirling online at Alibris. Through the Advanced Search Page, you can find items by searching specific terms such as Title, Author, Subject, ISBN, etc or you can narrow your focus using our amazing set of criteria parameters.
It didn't even bother me much when the coincidences of meeting just the right people started piling up, after all without them the book would probably be boring showing us how they all died without medicine or something ;) The thing that started bothering me the most was the character of Juniper.
A former lawyer and an amateur historian, he lives in the Southwest with his wife, Jan. They decide to go to Juniper's Cabin. Most people won’t even drink it, but I’m glad I don’t have to drill my own well and stoke up a fire if I want to wash dishes. Somehow I get the feeling this came from a late night session of "what if", as in, "What if everything just stopped working." Don't get me wrong I am able to suspend belief for a good story (and this is a good story in the beginning) but I found it difficult to get through these especially towards the end. They decide to head west across Idaho and Oregon to the Willamette valley.
Juniper Mackenzie, Eilir and Dennis Martin arrive at the farm owned by Luther Finney and his wife. Mike detects the infiltration and responds with a tired force.
I read this for two reasons. The series is a spin-off from Stirling's Nantucket series.
Following the lopsided battle against the Portland Protective Association troops by the combined forces of Clan Mackenzie and Sutterdown, the Mackenzies find themselves faced with an application for admittance to the clan by virtually everyone who lives in or near Sutterdown.[9]. Stephen Michael Stirling is a French-born Canadian-American science fiction and fantasy author. Stirling. Take your favorite fandoms with you and never miss a beat. Look forward to the next one! They understand concepts like crop rotation. A third leaves Eugene, stopping along the way to liberate conestoga wagons, draft horses, and heritage farm equipment from an abandoned Oregon Living History exhibit.All the groups collect new people as they go along and begin to recreate functioning societies. Our modern civilization is thrust back to medieval technology, precipitating a catastrophe where most of humanity dies. By ridiculous coincidence the "goodies" manage to get together, form groups without any internal disputes over membership/leadership, manage to have all the necessary resources and skill sets required for living in a world without machinery, manage to only take good people with required skills and no one leaves or tries to take power and they manage to stay away from the general carnage that is all around them. One of the best and most realistic dystopian novels I have read - I can't recommend this book/series enough!!! The first and best of the trilogy. The protagonists are smart, industrious and good. September 6th 2005
Will Hutton, Eric Larsson and an escort from the Bearkillers arrive bringing information that the Portland Protective Association has constructed two castles to block a pass through the mountains. Very detailed nonsense but nonsense all the same. A real man busts his ass to feed his family, fights for them if he has to, dies for them if he has to. Mike Havel prepares to launch a hang-glider borne attack on the castle. After this brief flash, modern technology no longer works. Juniper understands that her people need to be able to defend themselves and authorizes weapons training. Emiliano Gutierrez makes his way to the Portland Central Library, where he sees that the mayor and chief of police of Portland have been hanged from hooks. Save your back and your bank with eBooks!
Mike Havel meets with Robert Woburn and Mother Superior Gertrude to plan the re-taking of St. Hilda's Monastery.
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Mike and Eric pursue the white supremacists back to the ranger cabin. We are experiencing technical difficulties.
The book identifies several groups of survivors, and then chronicles their adventures as they learn to cope with the radically changed circumstances and try to find a place of peace and safety as they are immersed in utter chaos and mass death. For those of us who've wondered the same thing, but don't have the skill to put it on paper it's a treat. Any recommendations? My favorite type of fiction. His readers can learn a lot about survival strategies during a total collapse of civilization. Praise for Dies the Fire “A powerful, convincing adventure with a large cast of ordinary and extraordinary people.
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If you live in the Northwest and like alternate reality or science fiction you will love this book. I could not finish it, I just didn't care about any of it. Fulfilment by Amazon (FBA) is a service we offer sellers that lets them store their products in Amazon's fulfilment centres, and we directly pack, ship, and provide customer service for these products. Mike's party meets with Norman Arminger, a former professor of medieval history, member of the Society for Creative Anachronism and leader of the Portland Protective Association. The moment I realized that 50% of Stirling's characters were frustrated Renaissance Festival "swordswomen" who were finally going to be taken seriously in the post-apocalypse and that he WASN'T doing it for comedy's sake, I had to give up. The event gives the group its name: the Bearkillers. Through the Advanced Search, you can find items by searching specific terms such as Title, Artist, Song Title, Genre, etc or you can narrow your focus using our amazing set of criteria parameters. The Change On March 17, 1998, the world changes. ). Postapocalyptic fiction set in Northwest [s], Diane Cook: What to Read When Dystopia Is the New Normal. So read on and then choose your community wisely. I don't want laughs out of my apocalyptic epics, especially when the author isn't trying to be funny. The story starts basically with a bang as suddenly and inexplicably, the world is changed. Good. 3: A Meeting at Corvallis : Science Fiction / SF: Sep-2006: 4.5. Choose your shipping method in Checkout. Sorry, the massive lesbian population here would have had that dude strung up on a lamp post in nano-seconds... and that before we even consider adding the adding all the feminists and hard core religious zelots into the mix.
In an instant, civilization is propelled backward to the middle ages. Nevertheless, I enjoyed the story immensely, felt it was well developed once I accepted the fantasy lead-in. A readable copy. I gave it half way through, but could take no more. What follows is the most terrible global catastrophe in the history of the human race---and a Dark Age more universal and complete than could possibly be imagined. Roving marauders, power mad despots and desperate groups that have turned to cannibalism now plague the world. Copyright in bibliographic data and cover images is held by Nielsen Book Services Limited, Baker & Taylor, Inc., or by their respective licensors, or by the publishers, or by their respective licensors.
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Very disappointed as his guy has written many many books in the series and I had hoped it would be a world I could immerse myself in.
It took me a month to get over the trauma that this self indulgent arrogant waste paper induced. Well, Stirling has taken that premise and twisted it here. This shopping feature will continue to load items when the Enter key is pressed.
The loss of carrying capacity, as electricity and internal combustion is taken away, is immediately, and catastrophically, and violently, evident. Arminger offers the Bearkillers positions as Protectorate nobles, but Mike asks for time, and proceeds to the Willamette Valley. Good. I found this book to be a really enjoyable read. They stop and secure two big Conestoga wagons with horses to pull them and proceed to the restaurant Andy and his wife own.
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The bear seriously wounds Mike before he and the others kill it. The premise is a little weak, I thought. This is the first of the fifteen Change series of books by S.M. Mike dives onto the wreck of the plane to recover emergency rations and his survival kit.
By the end of the book, Juniper’s Wiccan faith has begun to take root as the dominant religion in Mackenzie territory. I loved the premise of this novel, but had a lot of problems with the execution.
The story is more fantasy than sci-fi with an interesting set up and decent plot. That is, I like post-apocalyptic books that focus on characters that are moral and them struggling to overcome great odds and, to some extent, succeed.
Apparently, judging by the reviews here, Stirling's books have a fanatical following reminiscent of Twilight. One group starts from the crash of a small plane in the mountains en route from Idaho to Montana. And the people who are best-suited for life in this new world order are . Just before they arrive, Astrid luckily kills an elk. Praise for Dies the Fire “A powerful, convincing adventure with a large cast of ordinary and extraordinary people. So I said, what the heck, let's give it a try. The Change occurs when an electrical storm centered over the island of Nantucket produces a blinding white flash that renders all electronic devices and fuels inoperable. Basically all forms of combustion stop working the way they used, even steam power doesn't work. Much less ten times over the mother of his kids. They are intercepted by people recruiting for labor gangs for the Portland Protective Association. Very good.
So our main characters, Juniper Mackenzie, a Wiccan musician and Mike Havel, a pilot with a military background, must find a way to survive. After exchanging greetings and information, the combined group settles in. And I'm glad I did. Yup, nobody a thousand years ago had cities or complex public works. This book is one part nightmare, one part medievalist's fantasy, which makes its villain all the more fitting. In Dies the Fire, it was stated that he has a son serving with the US military in Italy.
After some woolgathering on why, I have decided it is because it makes me appreciate the postmodern world I live in. All pages are intact, and the cover is intact. Millions of books available with some of the lowest prices you will find online. Juniper, Dennis and Eilir gather supplies and head to her cabin by way of Luther Finney's farm to retrieve her horses and wagon.
The Change occurred when an electrical storm centered over the island of Nantucket produced a blinding white flash that rendered all electronic devices and fuels inoperable. Goodreads helps you keep track of books you want to read.
So when Dies the Fire came out I snatched it up hoping for more of the same. Eilir is forced to shoot Sally Quinn with her crossbow; the wounded woman's companions flee, but Juniper and Dennis take pity on her and her young son, allowing them to join the group. It started somewhat slow but I kept going. Mike, the Larssons and the Huttons organize and Mike begins instruction in combat. Burnt to the ground. I was pleasantly surprised.
The idea presented in this book of a world suddenly without electricity and gunfire seemed interesting enough and I've already read the first book of the Island in the Sea of Time trilogy (and liked it a lot) that is somewhat linked with the universe shown in this book so I thought I'd give it a try.
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