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Description

The Change occurred when an electrical storm centered over the island of Nantucket produced a blinding white flash that rendered all electronic devices and fuels inoperable. What follows is the most terrible global catastrophe in the history of the human race-and a Dark Age more universal and... read more

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Cast of Characters/Important People

Memorable Quotes

  • “...Biltis the cat, who rode perched on one of the pack loads, curled up on a pile of blankets strapped across the top and looking like a puddle of insufferable aristocratic orange smugness.”

First Sentence

Michael Havel pulled his battered four-by-four into the employees' parking lot, locked up and swung his just-in-case gear out of the back, the strap of the pack over one shoulder and the gun case on the other.

Series

This is book 1 in the Emberverse series.

This is book 4 in the The Change series.

Authors & Contributors

  1. S. M. Stirling (Author)
 

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