Book Description

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Commentary (novels not included). Pages: 30. Chapters: A Meeting at Corvallis, Children of the River, Dead By Sunset, Dies the Fire, Doomsday Plus Twelve, Evening's Empire, Honey in the Horn, Jokerman 8, Last Go Round, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (novel), Pink (novel), Sometimes a Great Notion, So the Wind Won't Blow It All Away, The Emberverse series, The Hawkline Monster: A Gothic Western, The Last Dog on Earth, The Postman, The Protector's War, The River Why, The Shack, The Sisters Brothers, The Way to Life, The Way West, The Wrecker (Clive Cussler), Tucket's Home, Vertical (novel). Excerpt: Emberverse, or Change World, is a series of post-apocalyptic alternate history novels written by S. M. Stirling. The novels depict the events following "The Change," which caused electricity, guns, explosives, internal combustion engines, and steam power to stop working, closely paralleling the initial impetus of Steve Boyett's 1983 novel Ariel. Most of the action in the series takes place in the Willamette Valley of Oregon in the United States. The series primarily focuses on how the characters survive the loss of 600 years of technological progress. The original trilogy, Dies the Fire, concerns the conflicts between a Portland-based neo-feudal dictatorship and the free communities of the Willamette Valley, primarily the Wiccan Clan Mackenzie and the Bearkillers. The later series, The Change, now scheduled to be completed in 2013 after seven novels, focuses on the now-adult children of the original trilogy's major characters. According to SM Stirling website, a third trilogy is to be written in the Emberverse series, that will probably be set a generation later. All the short stories so far are set 50 years after the Change, but the upcoming one will be set in 1999. At the 2009 DragonCon, Stirling said Sony has expressed interest in a...