Review:Great series. Excellent character development. Very good protagonists and antagonists. Can't wait for the next book! One of the best post apocalypse series I've read. Stirling at the top of his game. Read more

Review:If you could imagine that Western Europe fell and moved the Raj to India full-time, you then have the idea of what this story is about. Throw in a few better weapons and some story of the end of civilization and you have "Four Feathers" or "The Man Who Would Be King". If you stretch the idea of the "bad" satanic Russians who employ "Hassassin and Thugee" you have the makings of a really good "Indiana Jones" spin-off.

This book is for people who like their "Westerns" as "Easterns" and al... Read more

Review:Myself, vampires or werewolves, let alone zombies, oh my!, do not resonate in the silent, "gee, wow" way that makes sf or fantasy work - think the best Twilight Zone episodes.

Steve Stirling has a gift for identifying with seriously evil villains, then making them characters that scare you to nightmares without losing that strand of understood, shared humanity (there but for grace go I).

I don't know any Twilight fans well enough to ask if Steve hits their chords, but his sorta vam... Read more

Review:Could do without the transparently manipulative gratuitous sex and violence. Also - the layouts in chapters between the protagonists and antagonists were awkward and distracting. Good research was done here. Read more

Review:The previous book was rather disjointed, with a lot of scenes thrown together without clear links. This book does the same, but not quite as bad. I felt like several sections had missing chapters. For example, Montival army is suddenly attacking the outskirts of the central Cutter area, but with very little clue about how they got there. The end of the war was not a climax at all, more like a "ho-hum, another usual day" type of offhand writing. Another thing that annoyed me was the frequent... Read more

Review:It's obvious this author has an active, wonderful imagination. He certainly demonstrates in the volumes of pages of well-researched descriptive writing. However there is a lot of volume here for what ended up being a fairly 'small' scoped tale.

There were no shortage of political complexities and infighting (something the author seems to favour quite a bit) which will be sure to keep your brain wandering away from the story and to things like when you last mowed the lawn. There are lot... Read more

Review:This one seems to come across as "filler", it details some key events but they really didn't require a full book to cover them, in my opinion. The real "meat" remains to come. The book needed to either justify itself better or just be shortened massively and subsumed into the next book. Read more

Review:This book was well researched. I was born in Sweet Home and lived in Lebanon and then moved to Eugene. Real fun to see all the places mentioned in a story. Only a couple of times did the author lose me. I enjoy the characters and of course all the action. The story line does catch the feeling of the valley and the people who live here. Even the ranchers on the east side of the mountains. Cannot wait (even though I have to) for the next book. I will not go into the story because when other review... Read more

Review:S.M. Stirling does an nice job with alternate Earths. Unlike other alternate history sci-fi, this series takes place in the modern day. Also, technology is forced to a lower level because of changes which occurred on Earth when the "Change" occurred.

I don't want to give up the plot line and characters with this review, but if you liked his earlier series based on Nantucket, you will enjoy this even more. In fact, this is an extension of that same Emberverse series. I would suggest yo... Read more

Review:Really good! This a very fun read! Well written, great characters, great story! It's very easy to suspend disbelief and get lost in this world, I look forward to more!

This was my first book by Williamson, I plan on going through the rest of his work while waiting for Part 2. Read more