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More copies of this ISBN:The Protector's Warby S M Stirling
Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments:The national bestselling alternate history epic continues... Ten years after The Change rendered technology inoperable throughout the world, two brave leaders built two thriving communities in Oregon's Willamette Valley. But now the armies of the totalitarian Protectorate are preparing to wage war over the priceless farmland. Review:"Stirling's Dies the Fire began an alternative history trilogy with a stunning premise: in 1998, the laws of nature suffered a mysterious change: gunpowder can't explode, electrical devices don't work-in short, the last 250 years of high-tech gadgetry suddenly are useless. This sequel shows what has happened to the world since the collapse of civilization. A group of people in the Pacific Northwest have joined together to rediscover old skills; Mike Havel, leader of the Bearkillers clan, and Wiccan priestess/folksinger Juniper Mackenzie help their followers adjust to new possibilities. Nearby, however, kinky former college professor Norman Arminger is exploiting his knowledge of medieval lore to manage the Protectorate, a brutal and ruthlessly-expanding dictatorship. This middle volume of the trilogy shows skirmishes between the factions, leading up to an inevitable confrontation. Stirling's pictures of ruined cities and towns are grimly convincing, and his loving descriptions of familiar landscapes gone wild are wonderful. If the people were as freshly imagined as their world, the novel would be splendid, but even with cardboard characters, it's still an extremely readable installment in a better than average tale. " Publishers Weekly (Copyright Reed Business Information, Inc.) Review:"Stirling continues the saga begun in Dies the Fire....His ability to imagine a return to quasimedievalism in the modern world provides a glimpse into the inner strength of men and women under fire." Library Journal Review:"Stirling's blending of fiction and history produces a strange, hybrid civilization, in which the confrontation between warlord and mystic is viscerally satisfying." Booklist Synopsis:The sequel to Dies the Fire opens ten years after technology has been rendered inoperable, and two leaders have built two thriving communities in Oregon. Now the armies of the totalitarian Protectorate are preparing to wage war over the priceless farmland.
About the AuthorS. M. Stirling is the author of numerous novels. A former lawyer and an amateur historian, he lives in the Southwest with his wife, Jan. What Our Readers Are SayingAdd a comment for a chance to win!
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