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The Scourge of God: A Novel of the Change (Change Series)
written by S.M. Stirling
Studio : Roc Hardcover
by Roc Hardcover
Publisher : Roc Hardcover
Released : 2008-09-02
Availability : Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Number of Items : 1
EAN : 9780451462282
Avg. Customer Rating: (based on 12 reviews)
List Price : $25.95
Our Price : $14.00
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Product Description |
“A stunning continuation”(Diana L. Paxson, author of Ravens of Avalon) of the New York Times bestselling author’s “splendid saga” chronicling an alternate world without technology.
Rudi MacKenzie continues his trek across the land that was once the United States of America. His destination: Nantucket, where he hopes to learn the truth behind The Change that rendered technology across the globe inoperable.
During his travels, Rudi forges ties with new allies in the continuing war against The Prophet, who teaches his followers that God has punished humanity by destroying technological civilization. And one fanatical officer in the Sword of The Prophet has been dispatched on a mission—to stop Rudi from reaching his destination by any means necessary. |
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Julie Vaux Does The Scourge of God |
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Woo another awesome instalment of the Change Series. If you love Alternative History and Action and Great World Building visit the Changeverse! |
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a good read |
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SINCE IT IS AN ADVENTURE SCIENCE FICTION BOOK, THE HEROES WILL ALWAYS PERSEVERE AGAINST GREAT ODDS AND AT THE END WILL REACH THEIR GOALS. WHAT MORE CAN A READER WANT ?. MR. STIRLING IS AN EXCELLENT WRITER IN THIS ESCAPIST GENRE. |
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A touch of the George R R Martins? |
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I am a great fan of S M Stirling but he has fallen into the same trap as George R R Martin and Robert Jordan. The Nantucket series ran to three books and was not a page too long. This series is on its FIFTH book and the hero has reached Indiana on his cross country trek. In Martin's case it has become so ridiculous that I have stopped reading him. Stirling is still worth reading, barely, but needs a good editor to rein in some of his purple prose and get the series moving. |
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Stirling embraces the mystic (but doesn't tumble headlong down the rat-hole) |
I've read all of Stirling's Nantucket and Portland story cycle. After Nantucket came to a (temporary?) ending, I was glad to see what happened to the rest of us.
I was kinda wondering where the Portland series was headed, and now it's clear that the story has to embrace the mystic. We have yet to discover what malign influence is driving the Cutters, but it's 'way more than a cult.
Stirling is painting a very plausible picture of de-civilization of North America, and has done well so far, balancing the SF with the spiritual. His characters are well constructed, and they're constantly surprising the reader with new facets.
I can hardly wait for the next, oh, four or five books that should round out the series... |
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A deeper descent into fantasy |
From chapter nine:
"Long tables were set out buffet-style, with chefs in white hats waiting to carve the roasts and hams; whole yearling steers and pigs and lamb roasted over firepits behind them, the attendants slathering them with fiery sauce wielding their long-handled brushes like the forks of devils in the Christian hell."
The writing is flowery, with long, complex sentences hiding much ado about little, as our heroes, who call themselves such, make their way, mostly on horseback, across a vast continent once peopled by a homogeneous citizenry, but now inhabited by cannibals, remnants calling themselves the United States government, local dictators, religious fanatics, devils and gods.
That's enough of that. This series started, years ago in real time, as science fiction. It is now irretrievably fantasy. Or if it's not, the author has me completely fooled. The protagonists are on their way to Nantucket Island (remember that original series?) and, at the rate they are going based on the map in the front of the book, there are at least one or two more travelogs masquerading as novels to go before they get there. And then they have to find their way back.
Sterling's imagination is almost without living peer, I'll give him that, but things used to happen in his novels. |
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