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# The Scourge of God: A Novel of the Change

**Brand:** s. m. stirling
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## Customer Reviews

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    A masterful example of the craft of story telling
  

*by D***R on Reviewed in the United States on September 5, 2008*

The literary trend these days is series.  Series are wonderful for the true fans because they enable the reader to get ever deeper into an alternate world and experience it in all its richness.  However they present an entry problem for new readers.  Pick up a random volume to start with and either nothing makes sense or there are so many flashbacks the novel is double the length required to actually tell the story.  Now to multiply the difficulty this is a middle book in a middle series in an extremely complex multitextured world such as this author excels at.  Almost a 'can you top this' trick.  Stirling pulls it off.  The story works on its own as a stand alone novel.  The few flashbacks definitely give the new reader everything they need to follow a complex story with multiple characters all happening near simultaneously.  He gives you a vivid and unlikely post-apocalypse world where electricity, steam and gunpowder no longer function and some magic has returned.  It sounds bizarre but he makes it work in all its picaresque glory.  This book chronicles a pseudo-Ring quest by a party who all know their Tolkein and can argue who is which character.  There is fighting, daring do, romance, intrigue and action enough to satisfy everyone.  However for those who know the series there is a whole deeper level of high politics, fates and clashing cultures.  Enough to make you want to go back and read/reread it all from the beginning.  Many creative try for this double level.  A few series like Buffy the Vampire Slayer succeed.  Add Stirling's Emberverse to that list of successes.

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    Rudi's an idiot, everyone's a caricature, and way too much detailed fighting
  

*by A***A on Reviewed in the United States on February 22, 2013*

I LOVE the first 3 books of this series (I am referring to the "Dies the Fire" trilogy, not the "Island in the Sea of Time" trilogy, which is related but not about the same characters.)  So I was very excited to learn that there were books about the children of the Change.  Well... yeah.  No.Apparently, aside from the changes to technology, the Change also made people insufferably affected and one-dimensional.  Immediately. (Because this book occurs less than 25 years after the Change.)  After so little time, everybody is now a caricature of something - Scots/Irish highlander, medieval feudal stereotype, Tolkein character, cowboy, indian, wild-eyed cult member.  And they are either completely good - meaning utterly without flaw - or completely bad.The main character, Rudi Mackenzie, is so perfect that it's honestly jarring when he alludes to the fact that he actually has bodily functions.  I am dead serious - as I read that part, I actually thought, "Huh?  Oh, yeah, he's supposed to be a normal human."  I mean, please - the buffalo escape?  COME ON.  There's suspending disbelief and then there is farce.This kind of hero quest story only works when you love and care about the hero.  Rudi Mackenzie is impossible to care about because a.) everyone (including him) loves him passionately, b.) he is a cardboard cut-out, and c.) he is a selfish idiot. He gleefully puts everyone around him (friends, strangers, entire civilizations) in danger and lets them die for him (without a qualm by him or them, mind you) rather than use a little forethought (duh - you decide to take a little vacation, you think the people chasing you will take one?) and a little bit of discretion.I struggled through this book hoping it would get better.  I don't see that happening.  I wanted to stay with this out of respect for the greatness of the first 3 books.  But I might very well pretend the Change series ended there.

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    Middle Book in a Great Series
  

*by J***N on Reviewed in the United States on June 7, 2017*

I love S. M. Stirling's Change series.  It's a post-apocalyptic world where electricity, engines, and gunpowder have ceased to function.  The Scourge of God is in the middle of the series, so don't begin with it.  If you haven't read any of the series yet, start with the first one, which is called Dies the Fire.  Then you'll get the background for how dreamy romantic hero Rudi Mackenzie came to be on his quest across the wilds of North America, pursued by a crazy cult whose priests can channel the Devil when you fight them.Warning: after reading the series you will feel very ill-equipped to face the world.  You may feel an urge to play mad catch-up by teaching yourself archery, horsemanship, martial arts, and farming.

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