S. M Stirling

A generation has passed since The Change that rendered technology inoperable around the world, and western Oregon has finally achieved a degree of peace. But a new threat has risen in Paradise Valley, Wyoming. A man known as The Prophet presides over the Church Universal and Triumphant, teaching his followers to continue God's work by destroying the remnants of technological civilization they encounter-and those who dare use them.Rudi Mackenzie, son...

Rudi Mackenzie, having traveled across the land that used to be the U.S., attempts to find the source of The Change, an event that fundamentally altered the world, and when he arrives at a small community in Nantucket, he finds a unique sword that will determine his own destiny.

Ten years after the Change, the survivors in western Oregon have learned to live in a world without technology, but when the future is threatened by the Lord Protector, the leaders of the city-state Corvallis, the Willamette Valley, and the land west of Salem must band together to save their region from further devastation.

A colossal dome of fire and a violent storm shift the universe, reduce the North American continent to wilderness, and sweep the island of Nantucket into the year 1250 B.C., placing its inhabitants in a battle for survival.

The sequel to "Dies the Fire" opens ten years after technology has been rendered inoperable, and two leaders have built two thriving communities in Oregon. Now the armies of the totalitarian Protectorate are preparing to wage war over the priceless farmland.

In this continuation of the story that began in Island in the Sea of Time, the people of Nantucket are fighting for their freedom. William Walker, renegade Coast Guard officer, has recruited several of Greece's greater kinglets to help him build an empire for himself based on conquest by technology. And if the people of Nantucket are going to survive, they must defeat Walker at his own game: war.