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  <title><![CDATA[The Protector's War]]></title>
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  <default_description>The national bestselling alternate history epic continues... &lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; Ten years after The Change rendered technology inoperable throughout the world, two brave leaders built two thriving communities in Oregon's Willamette Valley. But now the armies of the totalitarian Protectorate are preparing to wage war over the priceless farmland.</default_description>
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  <original_publication_year type="integer">2005</original_publication_year>
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      <name><![CDATA[S.M. Stirling]]></name>
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  <read_at>Tue Sep 23 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[The &quot;Empire Strikes Back&quot; of this series. Our protagonists from &quot;Dies the Fire&quot; are all on Hoth, running the Rebellion...no wait. <br/><br/>Set eight years after the events of the first book, which hinged on the Change, an inexplicable event after which gunpowder, electricity a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/33811532">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="29393432">
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    <name><![CDATA[Matthew]]></name>
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  <read_at>Fri Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Wed Aug 06 02:23:13 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Tue Aug 12 00:36:34 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[The charm of the first book wears off a bit. While the basic story is quite good, I think, this novel suffers the same unfortunate problems of most science fiction. The book is simply flabby: there is a lot of unnecessary stuff, and it would be a tighter, better paced, more exciting story if 1/3 of ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/29393432">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="43913812">
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  <read_at>Fri Mar 07 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Thu Jan 22 06:51:29 -0800 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Jan 22 06:57:44 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Love love love this book. First one I read by this author. Now I have a bunch of his stuff. It takes place several years after the world went to sh*t (see my review of the first book for more details) The people who have survived in the cities are basically warlords who have survived off the hardwor...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/43913812">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="74773932">
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    <location><![CDATA[Dallas, TX]]></location>        
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  <read_at>Fri Oct 09 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Fri Oct 16 17:17:48 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri Oct 16 17:25:26 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Apparently, you have to wait until the next book in the series for the whole war to happen, but honestly, that's fine.  Stirling doesn't write action very well.  What he does write well is detailed accounts of what life is like after (most) technology stops working.  I find that infinitely more inte...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/74773932">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="60204966">
    <user id="1564887">
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  <read_at>Tue Jun 23 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Thu Jun 18 13:34:40 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Wed Jul 01 14:23:40 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[The author starts up the story in England, nine years after the change.  It was lovely to have more characters, but the author's technique of flipping between storylines -- done well in the first book -- was really difficult in this book. Not only did he go between the storylines, but he kept moving...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/60204966">more...</a>]]></body>
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</review>
    <review id="61883056">
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    <name><![CDATA[Chad.haefele]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Chapel Hill, NC]]></location>        
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  <read_at>Thu Jul 23 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Thu Jul 02 07:43:05 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Jul 23 17:38:22 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Stirling's characters are a bit clumsy and often interchangeable, and I still don't buy that so many people would suddenly drop everything and become Wiccans so quickly.  Romance is particularly oddly written - if any one character ever shows remote attraction to another, you can guarantee the attra...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/61883056">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="47779122">
    <user id="1128260">
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  <read_at>Tue Mar 03 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Sat Feb 28 07:13:51 -0800 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Tue Mar 03 07:33:31 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Good, not great.  As many other reviewers mention, there is a lot of extraneous fluff.  We get five or six pages of one of the characters essentially walking from his sheep herd to his house (sure, it was good for showing a different side of the character, but really?), yet not a single page describ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/47779122">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="53192831">
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      <rating>4</rating>
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  <read_at>Wed May 06 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Sat Apr 18 21:17:47 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Wed May 06 08:25:14 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Started it on a Saturday afternoon, finished it on a Tuesday; that alone should tell you that I tore through this book with even greater haste than the first in the series.  Granted, there was five hours on the plane mixed in there, but regardless, I couldn't put this down, sneaking in five minutes ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/53192831">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="28179235">
    <user id="1308130">
    <name><![CDATA[Jason]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Vancouver, Canada]]></location>        
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  <date_added>Thu Jul 24 12:27:46 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Jul 24 12:28:00 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[The second novel in this trilogy begins 8 years after the time of the Change where all forms of power and combustion stopped working across the world and in the Willamette Valley in Oregon. Portland is controlled by a psychotic ex-history professor who has modeled his leadership like an overlord. He...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/28179235">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="27843096">
    <user id="1218098">
    <name><![CDATA[Tom]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Fort Worth, TX]]></location>        
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  <read_at>Fri Jul 25 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Mon Jul 21 07:29:11 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Jul 28 08:38:08 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[It was a decent read as far as progressing the story of the Willamette Valley Oregon. This book is set 8 years from the last and we see how everyone is getting along in their new communities (amazingly well actually, hardly any hardship outside of hostile neighbors). We learn also that everyone is a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/27843096">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="27759266">
    <user id="224951">
    <name><![CDATA[Matt]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Rochester, NH]]></location>        
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      <rating>1</rating>
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  <date_added>Sat Jul 19 22:47:25 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sat Jul 19 23:14:36 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I want badly to like this series, but unfortunately I can't.  It reminds me a lot of <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2723.The_Years_of_Rice_and_Salt" title="The Years of Rice and Salt by Kim Stanley Robinson">The Years of Rice and Salt</a> in a way - a grand epic idea, that could be absolutely terrific but fails miserably in the actual story telling.  It's really too bad.<br/><br/>First, the actual writing is extremely awk...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/27759266">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="24738743">
    <user id="1244032">
    <name><![CDATA[JC]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Salt Lake City, UT]]></location>        
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  <read_at>Wed Aug 06 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Tue Jun 17 14:58:12 -0700 2008</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[It's 8 or 9 years after the change, depending upon which chapter you're reading, and everyone in the Willamette Valley is still surviving. Astrid and Eilir have grown up and we get a few chapters from Eilir's POV, which is fun. Mike and Signe are now parents, as is Sam, and everyone seems to have fo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/24738743">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="11612042">
    <user id="266227">
    <name><![CDATA[Jennifer]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Waukegan, IL]]></location>        
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[those active in SCA]]></recommended_for>
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  <read_at>Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Fri Jan 04 05:24:28 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Jan 10 05:41:17 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[To make a bad analogy (which seems to be my M.O. these days), reading this book was like watching the 3rd season of Veronica Mars.  I like (and care about) many of the characters and the set-up of this series is fascinating, but the storyline . . . hmmm.  <br/><br/>In this alt universe, some myste...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/11612042">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="5497073">
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  <read_at>Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[The second of the series originating with &quot;Dies the Fire&quot; (which has been dubbed the Emberverse setting by some) continues the story of an Earth where the laws of physics have changed irrevocably for some unexplained reason, causing electrical systems, internal combustion, and other high t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5497073">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="50497202">
    <user id="1947348">
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      <rating>4</rating>
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  <read_at>Mon Apr 06 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was a very good continuation of Stirling's trilogy.  I enjoyed the fact that he expanded his fictive universe to include what is happening post-Change is other parts of the world, including the UK, Australia, and Tasmania.  These books are fun reading and I admire the attention to detail and th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/50497202">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="77473088">
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    <name><![CDATA[Eric]]></name>
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  <read_at>Sat Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[There were times I wanted to smack the characters for their short-sightedness and ill-formed skills in communication!  However, I being the reader have more knowledge than they and if the characters were perfect, it would be a boring read.  Loved the book.  It was a good continuation from the first,...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77473088">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="49073694">
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    <name><![CDATA[Tiffanie]]></name>
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  <read_at>Tue Mar 17 21:18:11 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Loved the first book in the series - the end of the technological world as we know it and the discovering of ways long forgotten - but this book just put me to sleep, literally. Maybe I just got into a rut of being too tired to read at night but I tried drudging through this book and I only got abou...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/44816102">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[About 1/3 of the way through the book I already knew I was going to give it 2 stars.  The &quot;English&quot; storyline didn't interest me at all.  When he finally combined the storyline then things got better.  I'm not sure what the thing is with these books: I don't think they are all that great, ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/63279355">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The last 200 pages of this book were very exciting; unfortunately, the first 400 were not. Much of this book was dedicated to the day-to-day activities of those living after The Change, with very little in the way of plot. Stirling seems to have wanted to write a theoretical anthropology textbook, i...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/73870483">more...</a>]]></body>
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