The Sunrise Lands: A Novel of the Change (Change Series) | S.M. Stirling

The Sunrise Lands: A Novel of the Change (Change Series) | S.M. Stirling | East meets West

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	The Sunrise Lands: A Novel of the Change (Change Series) S.M. Stirling Roc Hardcover, 2007 - 464 pages average customer review:based on 54 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

A generation has passed since The Change that rendered technology inoperable around the world, and western Oregon has finally achieved a degree of peace. But a new threat has risen in Paradise Valley, Wyoming. A man known as The Prophet presides over the Church Universal and Triumphant, teaching his followers to continue God's work by destroying the remnants of technological civilization they encounter-and those who dare use them. Rudi Mackenzie, son and heir of the mystic Juniper, must journey with seven friends across a continent in chaos to the Sunrise Lands to solve the riddle of what destroyed a civilization. And as the friends journey farther into the interior, enemies may be within their own band as well as outside it...

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another stellar outing by stirling

For fans of the change series, Sunrise Lands will open up new doors of discovery and exploration. For fans new to the series, your imagination will be taken on a 5 star cruise through one of the most thrilling, yet human, science fiction series on the market right now.

Sunrise Land works well on many levels, however, where it excels the most is the development of its characters and the evolution of its protagonist. Rudi and his friends and family are carefully brought to life with equal attention and carefully crafted elements where they each have their own moments to shine. Their dangers are made real as well as their problems both human and political.

I can go on and on for my love of this series, however, you owe it to yourself to give it a whirl. If you are just starting out, remember that the unreal is made real and there maybe forces out there that want humanity to be humbled before the face of god.

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East meets West

As THE SUNRISE LANDS opens it is twenty two years after the Change, the events described in DIES THE FIRE, when the whole world changed in a literal flash. Gunpowder does not fire, electricity and internal combustion engines do not work, throwing the post industrial world back to the pre industrial. The events described in A MEETING AT CORVALLIS have brought peace to the Willamette Valley and the Changelings, those born after the Change, are beginning to reach adulthood.

A stranger, has arrived, one who has traveled from the deep woods of Wisconsin, across the country to Nantucket Island, where perhaps the Change began and back across the country to Oregon. His traveler's tales, and those few others that have managed to filter in, that those who had survived were slowly beginning to rebuild this new world. The US has become fragmented into various factions and border wars were beginning to break out making travel extremely dangerous. So just what had driven this stranger, Ingolf Voegler to make this journey? He has been driven by a vision that he received in Nantucket, a vision about a young man in the far West who must be brought to Nantucket. Unknown to Voegler, twenty years earlier a young man had been born in Oregon amid prophecy about his fate to travel east, to the Sunrise Lands.

This is the fourth volume of the series that began with DIES THE FIRE and that occupies the same universe as ISLAND IN THE SEA OF TIME. Those who have read and enjoyed the earlier books will definitely want to read this one to find out what has happened to the characters and storylines from the earlier books. Also it is hinted that some answers about the Change itself will finally be revealed. Those who are new to these works or only familiar with THE ISLAND IN THE SEA OF TIME will want to begin with DIES THE FIRE. I recommend this to fans of alternate history stories, one that will give the reader much to think about long after the last page has been read.

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Solid work with a little too much Wiccan fluff

Once again, great story telling from Stirling. Really only one complaint -- dial it back a bit with all the inserted Wiccan lifestyle, blessings, devotions, and prayers and such. We get it ... these people are devout practitioners. It's not that I've any objection to the sects per se, it's that it detracts from the story. Stirling is SO conscious of all the icons and practices and such that these people practice that he goes into obsessive detail with it - even to the point of becoming boring in otherwise rich background and scene setting passages. This has become something that's picked up speed over time ... the more he explores this post-Change universe, the worse he gets.

Other than that, good stuff and definitely worth picking up a copy...

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Another excellent addition to this series

I came to Stirling, and this series, with the Purchase of "The Protector's War." I was a halfway through that book before I realized that it was part of a series. Every other book in this series has the same stand-alone quality, including this one. New readers will enjoy every page of this story, although I heartily recommend buying the first three books-- not because you need to, but because they are all excellent reads.

Stirling has taken an amazing catalyst ("The Change") and combined it with outstanding characters, who are realistically portrayed and set against a richly detailed backdrop. Stirling writes extremely well, but more important than that, this dude can tell a story, man. Of the four books I have already read, three were read in a single sitting. One thing that I will say, is that I'm glad that I came to the series late, because Stirling is a master of the cliffhanger ending. I've been practically salivating, waiting for "Scourge of God" to come available.

In any event, the first three books could easily be read as a separate series; although many of the characters in the first three books are reprised in "The Sunrise Lands," the storyline here focuses on a new generation of survivors. Just enough detail about the "old" cast is given to illustrate the characters of this new generation.

It is very rare for me to rave over a book, let alone a series, but the story-telling in these books is second-to-none. As rare as good story-telling is, these days, I have to heartily endorse this book, along with the rest of the series.

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