It goes without saying SPOILERS
Before I comment on the parts of it zi found VERY interesting I want to briefly say while I found the book enjoyable I am a tad confused about the structuring of the plot. Basically it is split I to two parts, the first part mostly from Rudi and company's POV and the second part, The Spring Queen, over a 16 or so year period of the life of Rudi's daughter, Orlaith. The first part clearly finishes the major story arc of the Prophet's War as it ends seconds after the death of the CUT Prophet and main Conduit for the Bad ASBs. The second part is confusing for it takes place over a period well over a decade and while it does primarily come from the POV of Orlaith it does view from Rudi and Ingolf as well and clearly has nothing to do with the events of the Prophet's War that consumed the Sunrise Lands series. Given THAT ENDING is this second part more of a epilogue or is it really a prologue for what series Stirling has next in store? I mean the series has not been exclusively Rudi oriented but it introduces the reoccurring POD of two complete new characters so if they will play a part in the next books I do not know!
Perhaps it ties into the fluidity of time that is a minor theme in the series where I. The Summerlands and Nantucket time has no meaning and the spirits of the dead or ASBs allude to past and present and future.
Anyway. Spoilers.
Haha. The Founder of Mormonism made a cameo.
That is Jack London's House!
The beginning with the air glider crash echoes the beginning of DTF I think.
DAT Ending
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Damnit now more questions are made and not enough answers. So those guys were Japanese but where would they have come from other then Japan? It is heavily alluded in the series and I think Striling said himself that Japan was fairly wiped out I'm the Dieing Times. Who were those guys who allied with the Haida? What language where something that sounds like "Jun-ohe" means Self Reliance?
I mean we have already seen that beyond the CUT the Bad ASBs had influence in other cultures. We have the evil guy who was influencing the Corsairs and whose comrades were hinted as influencing the Emir of Dakar. This leads me to believe that a continuation of the series will go beyond North America and may feature a trip to Asia! Outside of Europe proper and Tasmania we have heard hints of places like "New Singapore" the Mongols and Tibetans invading China and Hinduraj in Bengal. There is the short story Ancient Blood or Ancient Enemy set about a hundred years I think after the change which takes place in Russia east of the Urals but it doesn't give any hint that their was a great battle like in North America so what comes next...
Before I comment on the parts of it zi found VERY interesting I want to briefly say while I found the book enjoyable I am a tad confused about the structuring of the plot. Basically it is split I to two parts, the first part mostly from Rudi and company's POV and the second part, The Spring Queen, over a 16 or so year period of the life of Rudi's daughter, Orlaith. The first part clearly finishes the major story arc of the Prophet's War as it ends seconds after the death of the CUT Prophet and main Conduit for the Bad ASBs. The second part is confusing for it takes place over a period well over a decade and while it does primarily come from the POV of Orlaith it does view from Rudi and Ingolf as well and clearly has nothing to do with the events of the Prophet's War that consumed the Sunrise Lands series. Given THAT ENDING is this second part more of a epilogue or is it really a prologue for what series Stirling has next in store? I mean the series has not been exclusively Rudi oriented but it introduces the reoccurring POD of two complete new characters so if they will play a part in the next books I do not know!
Perhaps it ties into the fluidity of time that is a minor theme in the series where I. The Summerlands and Nantucket time has no meaning and the spirits of the dead or ASBs allude to past and present and future.
Anyway. Spoilers.
Haha. The Founder of Mormonism made a cameo.
That is Jack London's House!
The beginning with the air glider crash echoes the beginning of DTF I think.
DAT Ending
.
.
.
.
.
Damnit now more questions are made and not enough answers. So those guys were Japanese but where would they have come from other then Japan? It is heavily alluded in the series and I think Striling said himself that Japan was fairly wiped out I'm the Dieing Times. Who were those guys who allied with the Haida? What language where something that sounds like "Jun-ohe" means Self Reliance?
I mean we have already seen that beyond the CUT the Bad ASBs had influence in other cultures. We have the evil guy who was influencing the Corsairs and whose comrades were hinted as influencing the Emir of Dakar. This leads me to believe that a continuation of the series will go beyond North America and may feature a trip to Asia! Outside of Europe proper and Tasmania we have heard hints of places like "New Singapore" the Mongols and Tibetans invading China and Hinduraj in Bengal. There is the short story Ancient Blood or Ancient Enemy set about a hundred years I think after the change which takes place in Russia east of the Urals but it doesn't give any hint that their was a great battle like in North America so what comes next...