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| The Scourge of God: A Novel of the Change (Change Series) | 
 enlarge | Author: S.m. Stirling
Publisher: Roc Hardcover
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  23 reviews
Sales Rank: 3594
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 464
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.5
Dimensions (in): 9 x 6.1 x 1.7
ISBN: 0451462289
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780451462282
ASIN: 0451462289
Publication Date: September 2, 2008
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Product Description
A stunning continuation(Diana L. Paxson, author of Ravens of Avalon) of the New York Times bestselling authors 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 missionto stop Rudi from reaching his destination by any means necessary.
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 Stirling Could Use an Editor for a Change November 30, 2008
The concept of the Change series is interesting, and it is easy enough to suspend disbelief that in less than a generation after such a cataclysm, the survivors could be building huge castles and nineteenth-century industrial complexes. The social changes are certainly interesting (the Wiccans) and sometimes credible (the Indians). The series has definitely descended from soft Sci fi to pure fantasy (demonic possession has come to the fore) and religious diversions (Odin and the Virgin Mary both make appearances, and a good chunk of the book takes place in a Buddhist monastery). All this absurdity is related with absolute sincerity, and therefore has a certain charm. My big complaints about Stirling, however, are that he does not bother to check his facts at all (I forget if it was this book or a prior one that referred a few times to St. Paul's Cathedral in Rome), and he wastes pages and pages with gushy descriptions of nature and sometimes whole chapters with interminable conversations between and among the characters that tell us nothing we have not heard in the previous books, and do absolutely nothing to advance the story. So wrap it up in the next book, Stirling, and get an editor for the next series.
Get on with it already! November 30, 2008
I enjoy The Sunrise Lands Series. The series is novel and the characters are deep. Having said that this book could have been done in three chapters. I kept waiting for the plot to move. It never did, skip this book you won't notice.
Joe
 Love the Series November 30, 2008
After a while, you live and breathe the characters. And the research! Is there anybody writing today who knows as much about everything as Stirling? (Well, maybe Neal Stephenson.)
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 Please, let this series die quietly. With dignity. November 26, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Y'know, I loved the first 3 books in this series. "Dies the Fire" remains one of my favorite novels. Technology ends -- no electricity, no gunpoweder, no gasoline or diesel engines. How will humanity survive? No magic, just guts and smarts. And, sometimes, ruthlessness. Great stuff.
But this book completes the dissolution begun with "The Sunrise Lands." With this novel, S.M. Stirling leaves science fiction behind and enters pure fantasy. I expect dragons and unicorns to make an appearance in his next novel. Any *hint* of reality has been left FAR behind. I've grown used to the semi-mystical-wiccan-and-Tolkien-nonsense from some of his characters, but we really go off the rails in this one. We have villians catching swords between the palms of their hands, and continuing to fight beyond death, imbued with vitality by some malignant force. Please. If Mr. Stirling wanted to write this Dungeons & Dragons crap he shoulda started a different series; NOT tried to morph an existing sci-fi story into a fantasy.
Spare yourself. Read the first 3. Then stop. It's all downhill after that.
Another Great Book in the series November 26, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
this one is getting a little more of the religious overtones. It is starting to "feel" like the Stand.
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