I hadn't read any books by S.M. Stirling, and just happened to see this one as I was checking in books (A hearty thanks to whoever read it before me!). I like science fiction and this looked good since it's set in the Pacific Northwest.
There's a flash of light and intense pain. It's the only warning that electricity, combustion engines, and gunpowder no longer work. Cars crash on freeways, planes fall out of the sky, fires burn uncontrolled because fire trucks don't start. Later thousands starve and thousands die in terrible plagues. Government fails. The world enters a new dark age. In Portland, Oregon Norman Arminger, a member of the Society for Creative Anachronism puts his skills in medieval technology and warfare to use as he puts together a feudal society. From Idaho Mike Havel leads a band of survivors to the Willamette Valley. Juniper MacKenzie, a folksinger in Corvallis, leads members of her coven to the hills above Lebanon, and becomes the ruler of a clan modeled on clans in Scotland. This novel belongs to the Emberverse series. A trilogy, the Nantucket Series, details life where the Change originated, when Nantucket is knocked into the Bronze Age. Another series, The Sunrise Lands, follows the son of Juniper MacKenzie, Rudi, from Oregon as he travels toward Nantucket and his destiny.
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