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The Sunrise Lands by S.M. Stirling
On March 17th, 1998, at 6:15 pm Pacific Time, The Change destroyed human civilization by "turning off" all high-energy-density technologies. The survivors didn't know why; in fact, the smarter ones suspected that they couldn't know why, any more than a dog could understand algebra. The Change was too narrowly tailored to be random, but a power sufficient to alter the laws of nature obviously represented either a technology so advanced as to be godlike... or the literal power of a God or Gods.
What the survivors did know is that they would have to adapt or die. In Dies the Fire, The Protector's War and A Meeting at Corvallis, we saw Mike Havel, Juniper Mackenzie and Norman and Sandra Arminger as they worked out ways for human beings to survive and even after a fashion flourish in the new-old world--or their slice of it in western Oregon. Some were good, some evil; some turned to dreams of the past, others to hard-headed common sense. All were unwilling heroes in a time of the birth of myths and legend; over the years, they stepped into roles bigger than themselves, as the Bear Lord, the High Priestess and the Lord Protector.
By the end of A Meeting at Corvallis, some of them had died. But their children, Rudi and Mathilda, lived on, and by chance or fate— or Someone else? —were thrown together.
Now, a decade or more has passed and in The Sunrise Lands, the folk of Oregon are reminded that far more than their corner of the world was effected by the Change. Refugees and rumors drift westward over the Rockies and down the Columbia telling of a Prophet who has arisen in the continental interior, a Prophet intent on leading his followers in a holy war.
Then a traveler from the east stumbles into the realms of the Willamette. A man named Ingolf Vogeler, who has seen what haunts Nantucket, the epicenter where the Change began. He has had a vision, and has come to tell the son of the Bear Who Rules that a sword waits for him to claim it, in that place of wonders and terrors on the coast of the other distant sea.
Accepting his destiny, Rudi sets out to cross a land dangerously Changed. But the Prophet of the Church Universal and Triumphant, it seems, knows of the vision too. And he will do anything at all to keep Rudi from claiming the Sword...
—S.M. Stirling
What the survivors did know is that they would have to adapt or die. In Dies the Fire, The Protector's War and A Meeting at Corvallis, we saw Mike Havel, Juniper Mackenzie and Norman and Sandra Arminger as they worked out ways for human beings to survive and even after a fashion flourish in the new-old world--or their slice of it in western Oregon. Some were good, some evil; some turned to dreams of the past, others to hard-headed common sense. All were unwilling heroes in a time of the birth of myths and legend; over the years, they stepped into roles bigger than themselves, as the Bear Lord, the High Priestess and the Lord Protector.
By the end of A Meeting at Corvallis, some of them had died. But their children, Rudi and Mathilda, lived on, and by chance or fate— or Someone else? —were thrown together.
Now, a decade or more has passed and in The Sunrise Lands, the folk of Oregon are reminded that far more than their corner of the world was effected by the Change. Refugees and rumors drift westward over the Rockies and down the Columbia telling of a Prophet who has arisen in the continental interior, a Prophet intent on leading his followers in a holy war.
Then a traveler from the east stumbles into the realms of the Willamette. A man named Ingolf Vogeler, who has seen what haunts Nantucket, the epicenter where the Change began. He has had a vision, and has come to tell the son of the Bear Who Rules that a sword waits for him to claim it, in that place of wonders and terrors on the coast of the other distant sea.
Accepting his destiny, Rudi sets out to cross a land dangerously Changed. But the Prophet of the Church Universal and Triumphant, it seems, knows of the vision too. And he will do anything at all to keep Rudi from claiming the Sword...
—S.M. Stirling
