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Title details for The Sunrise Lands by S. M. Stirling - Available

The Sunrise Lands

#4 in series

by S. M. Stirling
Todd McLaren
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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 and heir of the mystic Juniper, must journey with seven friends across a continent in chaos to the Sunrise Lands to solve the riddle of what destroyed a civilization. And as the friends journey farther into the interior, enemies may be within their own band as well as outside it.

  • Creators

  • Series

    Emberverse: The Change

  • Publisher

  • Release date

    April 28, 2008

  • Formats

    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9781400126750
      • File size: 523327 KB
      • Duration: 18:10:15

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • Publisher's Weekly

      August 6, 2007
      Set 12 years after A Meeting at Corvallis
      (2006), Stirling's latest novel of a chaotic near-future U.S., crippled when the mysterious Change rendered most technology nonfunctional, combines vigorous military adventure with cleverly packaged political idealism. When assassins pursue a traveler into Oregon's Willamette Valley, the resulting skirmish propels the heirs of three influential local leaders on a risky continent-crossing mission to Nantucket. Stirling's narrative deftly balances sharply contrasting ideologies—the Mackenzies' proto-Celtic clan system in Oregon against Gen. Lawrence Thurston's strict and principled military democracy in Idaho, the zealotry of the Church Universal and Triumphant versus the pagan Powers venerated by the Mackenzies—though the most difficult cosmological questions are never addressed. Meanwhile, there are hints of otherworldly intervention and time travel on Nantucket, echoing the parallel continuity established in Island in the Sea of Time
      and its sequels. Despite these fuzzy underpinnings, the thought-provoking and engaging storytelling should please Stirling's many fans.

    • AudioFile Magazine
      Todd McLaren comes to this narration with the cadre of characters he developed in narrating earlier books of the series. He's comfortable with the Scots accent of the Mackenzies and the regional accents of various other characters. For the feudal lords, he even adds a layer of condescension relating to their self-appointment to their positions of power. The first generation of children born after the Change--the day advanced technology became nonfunctioning--sets out on a trek across the mainland to Nantucket, led by Rudi Mackenzie. McLaren presents the narrative at a steady, even pace. He picks up the pace slightly in the many debates and philosophical discussions, and goes full force when the adventures and battles are at the fore. J.E.M. (c) AudioFile 2009, Portland, Maine

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  • OverDrive Listen audiobook

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  • English

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