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  1. Emberverse Omnibus Discussion Thread

    From the Stirling fan FB page.

  2. Emberverse Omnibus Discussion Thread

    Note: I really like the Emberverse series. I buy every single book that comes out, the day it comes out. Stirling is literally the last author I still buy in hardback. I critique the hell out of the books, because I'm interested in the world Stirling has made, and he's never been shy about...

  3. Emberverse Omnibus Discussion Thread

    I think it has quite a bit to do with how Stirling is visualizing this series (and accounts for the serious difference in narrative style and pacing from his previous series). Namely, that he has a vision of a scene/event, and his feel/picture of that scene or event overrides everything...

  4. Emberverse Omnibus Discussion Thread

    What, nothing? AH-ers, you disappoint... I do like the fact that Stirling is slowly walking back the previous concept of "everyone in <massive blank space on the map> died....everyone!" (the first instance of him doing this was when the Norheimers were stumbled across, with them being the...

  5. Emberverse Omnibus Discussion Thread

    Exactly what it says on the tin: Discuss the Emberverse (the series written by S M Stirling). SPOILERS!!! So, having read the entire series (minus the 3 short stories that he's done for someone else's anthologies), up through the most recent sample chapters for Prince of The Outcasts, I'm...

  6. Drakon Question

    There was a fanfic, Domination Centuries, co-written by Stirling himself, that showed the outcome of Ingolfsson winning. Basically, the Domination pushed a bunch of orbital battlestations (that could enter the atmosphere as well) through the portal, made their presence known and stated their...

  7. Emberverse: The Golden Princess

    BTW, as of this point, we now have two characters who are specifically shown to have known the Change was coming. Kalk the Norrheimer. That Mormon girl from the anthology.

  8. Emberverse: The Golden Princess

    That's in company with Stirling's Word of God that most of the troops marched into the cities and died/scattered when things finally collapsed. In some cases, I buy this. In most others...not. If a large unit (usually the top echelon at whatever base, so I Corps at Lewis) survives the first 24...

  9. Emberverse: The Golden Princess

    One item from the new book: I may be taking this the wrong way, but it sounds like Sterling is "movie-fying" the Dunedain. They are now using "long-hilted curved swords"....which sounds suspiciously like how you would describe the elven swords from the LOTR films (either the naginata-like...

  10. Emberverse: The Golden Princess

    I continue to believe that Stirling missed some opportunities when he handwaved away all the military units, especially in places like Washington State. Ft. Lewis is full of engineers, doctors, and quick-thinking killers (3 Brigades of Infantry, a Ranger Battalion, and 2/3rds of a Special...

  11. Emberverse: The Golden Princess

    Basically Exodus-type Hebrews (semi-nomadic, use camels, live by the Halacha, etc) mixed with Zionist Adventurers (everyone is combat-trained, and the various clans/subgroups coordinate defense/security). All founded by a guy (Yaakov) who figured he and his friends should get the hell out of LA...

  12. Emberverse Map

    Who all have similar problems (even in areas with water....you still have to get access to it....same with food), along with overflow from the cities (on bikes, at first, but a fairly sizeable foot column would make it >150km). The Bay Area is generally boned. Too many people from SF. Mist...

  13. Emberverse Map

    Put it this way, if the pumps stop working, 99.9% of the people in the Los Angeles Metro area are going to be dead inside 7 days. There simply isn't enough water (surface or precipitation) in that area to live off of (unless you are prepared for the necessity in a way that nobody in Change Day...

  14. Emberverse Map

    Most of Southern California is wildly overpopulated (even the less-populated rural areas) relative to its potable water resources. That alone is going to cause a massive die off....possibly a clean sweep. Coastal California is generally densely populated (with a skip of very lightly-populated...

  15. Emberverse: The Golden Princess

    It's a pretty well-designed society.

  16. Emberverse: The Golden Princess

    Yeah, it's noted (as early as the Twins saying so, in TSL) that the well-to-do (Bearkillers, in the case of the Twins) generally consider a trip to Portland or Corvallis to qualify as "cosmopolitan". Ironically, (outside of war vets or professional travelers/explorers) the PPA Associates are...

  17. Emberverse: The Golden Princess

    Montival is not a pre-industrial society* (though parts of it are very lightly industrialized). They have as much machine driven industry as the mid-19th Century US....just without the most energy-intensive processes, and much, much more hydraulically-driven (substituting for steam power)...

  18. Emberverse: The Golden Princess

    I do wish Stirling would leave off the "Montivallans visit foreign land, and continually remark about how everyone is a bunch of hicks, easily outdone by their Montivallan counterparts" stuff. Yes, it could be accounted for by the Montivallans only being shown roaming around comparatively less...

  19. Emberverse: The Golden Princess

    SPOILERS The Participatory Democracy of Topanga.* Chatsworth Lancers (low-rent PPA/Bearkiller/CORA setup).* Emyn Muir Dunedain. Kingdom of Esmeraldas (NW Coast of Ecuador). Eretz Bnei Yaakov (Semi-Nomadic Jewish clans in the Mojave Desert). Zanzibar is mentioned. The narrative...

  20. Emberverse: The Golden Princess

    Thinking back over the books.... ...there are some characters who have never actually been given names. Signe & Mike's second set of twins. Signe's bastard son/daughter (via Bjarne....which is awkward, since he was cheating on his wife).
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