The Scourge of God
A Novel of the Change

The hype has been pretty steady for S.M. Stirling as he has written eight different books based on one imaginary event: An as-yet unexplained 1998 event/explosion over Nantucket Island that seriously disrupted the planet – to the extent that 90% of the world’s population died when electric power, in......more

Gah I hate saying this because I have been such a fan of this series... I'm getting bored. The author is still good, things are descriptive and the scenery is nice. It is pretty amazing how this author does not live near where he is writing about but he sounds like he is actually there where he is w......more

The Scourge of God by S. M. Stiriling The gods have tasked Rudi Mackenzie with a task. He must claim a sword across the country in Nantucket and return home. He and his companions set out across a hostile countryside, facing wasteland lands and the fanatic cutters. Stirling stirs the soul. I find hi......more

This is the fifth in Stirling's Emberverse series, published in 2008. This series is a postapocalyptic saga with a twist. The apocalypse was not caused by nuclear war or a plague, but by "the Change." In the first book, "Dies the Fire," the Change happened in the 1990s. Whoever or whatever caused i......more

The reasons this tale does not get higher is that the more the author pens, the less consistent his world view seems. Our heroes who are undefeatable and will never die it seems have the laws of the world they know only change to support them. It causes us to lose the drama and conflict that we shoul......more