Well hopefully this will be the second to last book of the ongoing "Sunrise Lands" series of the Emberverse. Not that I don't like the Emberverse or anything, but I even as a fan like a good conclusion to things and I felt the last book was unnecessary. I also want Galleys off of Tasmania!
Though, note the S.M. Stirling website has had a nice overhaul.
http://smstirling.com/books/
I also recommend to anyone and everyone "The Fire Trilogy" Fanfiction also set in the Emberverse, but in Colorado.
Spoilers Below.
Now the biggest ordeal in this book to me was that foundation of Montival and the true change over of the world to a "Fantasy Setting". Which is in a sense the whole series has slowly been going toward, a blurring of a new fantasy setting amidst the resurgence of past culture and history. No character embodies this more then Rudi, not even Juniper comes close. He pretty is born to be THE Mythic/Legendary King. He is very much a Mary Sue, but that is how most mythic figures in creation myths of OTL and Fantasy settings usually are. He was born to be. He also seems to recognize this especially as he and those people around him keep mentioning he is destined for a death before his old age (which is confirmed and visited). Now all that is left is 'The Sacrifice' as the website refers it. The kicking of the bad guy and a conclusion long awaited.
From there though what? From here Stirling has more then ample room to move in any direction. Either looking at other places in the world or focus on a setting in the future as he has done in short stories. Will more about Nantucket also be revealed in the conclusion? We may very well get a few more glimpses.
For me I am hopeful of a change of setting.
Something from the next book's sample chapter has caught my eye
Though, note the S.M. Stirling website has had a nice overhaul.
http://smstirling.com/books/
I also recommend to anyone and everyone "The Fire Trilogy" Fanfiction also set in the Emberverse, but in Colorado.
Spoilers Below.
Now the biggest ordeal in this book to me was that foundation of Montival and the true change over of the world to a "Fantasy Setting". Which is in a sense the whole series has slowly been going toward, a blurring of a new fantasy setting amidst the resurgence of past culture and history. No character embodies this more then Rudi, not even Juniper comes close. He pretty is born to be THE Mythic/Legendary King. He is very much a Mary Sue, but that is how most mythic figures in creation myths of OTL and Fantasy settings usually are. He was born to be. He also seems to recognize this especially as he and those people around him keep mentioning he is destined for a death before his old age (which is confirmed and visited). Now all that is left is 'The Sacrifice' as the website refers it. The kicking of the bad guy and a conclusion long awaited.
From there though what? From here Stirling has more then ample room to move in any direction. Either looking at other places in the world or focus on a setting in the future as he has done in short stories. Will more about Nantucket also be revealed in the conclusion? We may very well get a few more glimpses.
For me I am hopeful of a change of setting.
Something from the next book's sample chapter has caught my eye
Even if you were fighting the biggest war since the Change. Certainly the biggest in North America since then, if you didn’t count the desperate scrambles in the months after the machines stopped. Not the biggest in the world, probably; Asia still weighed heavily in the nine-tenths-reduced total of human kind. Rumors trickled in now and then across seas pirate-haunted when they weren’t empty. They spoke of warlords fighting each other and invaders from Mongolia and Tibet across the ruins of China, and the bloody rise of Mahendr Shuddhikartaa hai—Mahendra the Purifier—carving out a new empire called Hinduraj on the Bay of Bengal…
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