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Blessed be. All the engines stopped working and Wiccans and Ren Faire people have inherited the earth.
OK. Sounds silly and I am poking some fun at it, but I did like it.
First of all, I purchased both the first and second book in this series and read the second one first by accident. Hey. I never claimed to be the sharpest tool in the shed. Not on this site anyway.
The basic concept is that something happened to the planet and now explosions cannot happen. This includes firearms and combustion eng ...more
OK. Sounds silly and I am poking some fun at it, but I did like it.
First of all, I purchased both the first and second book in this series and read the second one first by accident. Hey. I never claimed to be the sharpest tool in the shed. Not on this site anyway.
The basic concept is that something happened to the planet and now explosions cannot happen. This includes firearms and combustion eng ...more
This is the second book by Stirling that looks like it would be perfect for me, and the second book I by Stirling I gave up on.
I am not really sure what I do not like about him, I gave up early on both books- the characters seemed really flat and the worlds (a early science fiction Venus with dinosaurs in one and a post apocalypse England in the other) should be interesting and exciting to read about, but somehow they are not....
Anyway he is off my to read list.
I am not really sure what I do not like about him, I gave up early on both books- the characters seemed really flat and the worlds (a early science fiction Venus with dinosaurs in one and a post apocalypse England in the other) should be interesting and exciting to read about, but somehow they are not....
Anyway he is off my to read list.
First off, lets be honest, this is as much pulp entertainment as anything else, if you need literature, The Road it is not. If you cannot make it through a Jason Bourne paperback you may not fare well here.
That said, I really appreciate that this book, and the series, is not populated by a bunch of prepper types who lack real humanity. There's a lot that's implausible here, especially in the given timeline (8 years after "The Event") but that allows us to stay with most of the characters from th ...more
That said, I really appreciate that this book, and the series, is not populated by a bunch of prepper types who lack real humanity. There's a lot that's implausible here, especially in the given timeline (8 years after "The Event") but that allows us to stay with most of the characters from th ...more
Dec 07, 2007
Stephanie Denison
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Mar 26, 2008
Scarebellum
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really liked it
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post-apocalyptic-sf
Jun 02, 2012
Luzcasa
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really liked it
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dystopian-literature
Aug 13, 2012
Netanella
marked it as to-read
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post-apocalyptic,
science-fiction
Sep 10, 2013
Mandy - Reading in the Happi Bat's Nest
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