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It's Change Year 25, a generation after high-energy technology died in a catastrophe most of the human race didn't survive. The children born after the Change are now starting to take center stage - and Whoever or Whatever was behind the Change itself may be taking a hand in their rivalries. An expedition has travelled to Nantucked across a strange and hostile continent to find some answers.
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In The Sword of the Lady, Rudi Mackenzie's destiny was determined. Now he returns to Montival in the Pacific Northwest, where he will face the legions of the Prophet. To achieve victory, Rudi must assemble a coalition of those who had been his enemies a few months before and forge them into an army that will rescue his homeland. Only then will Rudi be able to come to terms with how the Sword has changed him, as well as the world, and assume his place as Artos, High King of Montival.
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Problem with part 2!
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Rising from the ashes of the computer and industrial ages is a brave new world. Survivors have banded together in tribal communities, committed to rebuilding society. In Oregon's Willamette Valley, former pilot Michael Havel's Bearkillers are warriors of renown. Their closest ally, the mystical Clan MacKenzie, is led by Wiccan folksinger Juniper MacKenzie.
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Why? Why does Juniper have an Irish accent?
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During a perfect spring evening on Nantucket, a violent storm erupts and a dome of crawling, colored fire blankets the island. When the howling winds subside and the night skies clear, the stars appear to have shifted. The mainland has become a wilderness of unbroken forest, where tools of bronze and stone litter the beaches, and primitive natives scatter in terror.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Listen to this before "Dies the fire"
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In the years since the Event, the Republic of Nantucket has done its best to re-create the better ideas of the modern age. But the evils of its time resurface in the person of William Walker, renegade Coast Guard officer, who is busy building an empire for himself based on conquest by technology.
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5 out of 5 stars
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After foiling a German plot to devastate America's coastal cities from Boston to Galveston, crack Black Chamber agent Luz O'Malley and budding technical genius Ciara Whelan go to California to recuperate. But their well-deserved rest is cut short by the discovery of a diabolical new weapon that could give the German Imperial Navy command of the North Sea. Luz and Ciara must go deep undercover and travel across a world at war, and live under false identities in Berlin itself to ferret out the project's secrets.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Stunning
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Black Chamber
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In 1912, just months before the election, President Taft dies suddenly, and Teddy Roosevelt wastes no time in grabbing power as he wins another term as president. By force of will, he ushers the United States into a new, progressive era with the help of the Black Chamber, the mysterious spy organization watching his back.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Typical pretentious Stirling... still a good read
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Publisher's Summary
The epic conclusion to the New York Times best-selling Change series set in a turbulent post-apocalyptic world in which humans have rebuilt society after the collapse of advanced technology.
Two generations after the Change, Crown Princess Orlaith struggles to preserve the hard-won peace her father brought to Montival - the former Western US. But the Change opened many doors, and through them, powers strong, strange, and terrible walk once more among humankind.
With her fire-forged friend and ally Japanese Empress Reiko, Orlaith must take up her sword to stop the spread of the mad malignancy behind the Yellow Raja that has imprisoned her brother, Prince John.
From the emerging superpower of Mongolia, the Sky-Blue Wolves of the High Steppe ride once more beneath the banners of Genghis Khan - the thunder of their hooves resounding across a world in turmoil.
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- Amazon Customer
- 01-09-19
dissatisfied<br />
for a well to put together and elaborate series the ending felt rushed and vague
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- Christopher J. O'Bryan-Pitcher
- 11-22-18
The finale chapter of a magnificent series.
It's always bittersweet when a story you've been reading for more than a decade can't to a close, but Stirling ends this one with a bang. I left wanting more.
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- john d
- 01-18-20
It was time
Time for. The series to end, seemed a bit rushed over the second half of the book. But still a fitting end to a great series, but I still missed Rudy!
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- Kristal Edwards
- 10-03-19
boring and uninspired
in as few words as possible, I will try to convey my disappointment. this series could have been 7-10 really amazing books, but instead has been watered down to 15 repetitive, repetitive, and dare I say repetitive books. the narrator has done his best but you can't polish a turd. well, technically you can but why...
I needed to know how it ended so I bought them all. I have since returned 2, and am considering trying to return them all.
will NOT be buying SM Sterling ever again if this is how it goes...
signed- too broke to afford bad entertainment
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- Brooks
- 08-20-19
A Disappointing Conclusion
When I read the summary, and found out this was the last novel of the Change series, I had a feeling I would be disappointed, and I was. To not get any glimpse of the far-future of this universe was truly frustrating. More so, even, than the Island in the Sea of Time series conclusion. You could tell that the author was just “done” with this story and just wanted it over with.
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- Doug Phillips
- 08-18-19
A fitting end
This one tied up the series neatly. Very enjoyable. I'm glad it is not a cliffhanger, as this is the last one in the series. What an adventure...
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- darksoldier
- 05-08-19
sm stirling robbed me.
absolutely wish that this story continued on further but i understand that after a while it would get formulaic. still feel robbed that it is over.
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- Michael Campbell
- 03-28-19
not a good finish
he must have gotten tired of writing to end like that. I am still not sure what he happened to all of the characters
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- S. Singleton
- 03-13-19
Good But Rushed
I have loved listening to all of The Change novels but this one felt kind of rushed. The cover of the book says that this is the final novel of The Change so I guess he's ready to move on. There was very little character development of the new characters and not a whole lot reasons why the existing characters acted the way that they do other than it was fated. An enjoyable read but the writer is obviously done and ready to move on .
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- Vincent
- 01-24-19
What is S.M. Stirling thinking?
What is his editor thinking? I have to hand it to Todd McClaren, he gave a great reading of a terrible story. Just as in the Sea People: words words words that if were sold by the pound were worth millions, but it made this book a real labor. So back and forth the story goes as if anybody just picks up one of these books and reads it before all the others. Whatever he was trying to do with this book IT FAILED! and the ending REALLY? This is the last S.M. Stirling book I will ever purchase. And I own the complete series to date.