Reddit reviews Dies the Fire: A Novel of the Change

My favorite in this vein is Dies the Fire by Stirling. All electronics (along with other combustion-related things like cars and guns) just up and stop, and society collapses.

My favorite book series right now is Dies the Fire by S.M. Stirling. Basic plot is that in 2002, the island of Nantucket disappears in a big glowy white dome of energy, everyone in the world suffers a severe migraine while every advanced piece of technology stops working as the laws of physics on Earth undergo a readjustment. Electricity doesn't work, steam engines won't get hot enough to run, nuclear plants shut down harmlessly. Gunpowder won't explode, gasoline will burn but not combust; basically nothing more complicated than a simple mechanical power will work anymore.

In the ensuing chaos, starvation, disease and violence claim 9/10 of humanity, and the survivors try to rebuild society after having the last century of progress wiped out in an instant. Things go crazy medieval, and begin to take a fantastic turn later on. It's a great story to read and think about how fragile our modern lives are and how quickly it could all be taken away from us.

My recommendations (of what i have watched) would be:

Revolution - All tech dies, small town girl leaves to rescue her brother, conspiracy, this was on NBC to it was i believe TV 14, so not too bad. https://trakt.tv/shows/revolution

Fallen Skies - Aliens take over the world and a father and his sons try to live and fight back against the aliens, i remember this show being pretty tame. https://trakt.tv/shows/falling-skies

Unfortunately; There isn't many shows like Jericho, let alone fitting all those descriptors.

If you dont mind a reality tv.
The Colony - https://trakt.tv/shows/the-colony/seasons/1

If you dont mind a book series.
Dies the Fire by S M Stirling - https://www.amazon.com/Dies-Fire-S-M-Stirling/dp/0451460413/

All those kind of hit the Jericho nostalgia feels, but at least you could read the comic series if you want a season 3+

I just remembered, Dies the Fire by S.M Stirling is pretty good as well.

This has happened in some timelines. ^[4th_wall_broken_by_link]

The individuals with survival training, 'Renn Faire' experience (blacksmithing, etc.), trebuchet hobbyists and anyone with pertinent historically useful skills that don't require internal combustion engines or black powder will do very well, and will be able to provide training to those that lack it (and are lucky enough to survive a Change such as what you've proposed).

Those of us who've come to rely on chemically firing or electrical technology for our survival and warfare will be much worse off against traditional, non-chemical ballistic and close-range weaponry.

Seige weaponry may come into favor again, such as the Ballista or trebuchet. I could very easily see us progressing in such a fashion as we have before, in the middle ages with laying seige to a place.

Crossbows and bows, spears, spearguns (pre-compressed gas cartridges aren't chemical, they're just pressurized), and elastic-powered projectiles will be some of the first stuff to come into play, as sporting goods stores are potentially looted early on.

TL;DR -- Physics-based weaponry will rise. Chemical-propelled and electronic weaponry will be rendered forever inert.

The Never Hero is the first part in a 3 part trilogy (duh). It's more of a Sci-Fi universe-y feel. Has a different take on the standard hero narrative with some peppered in Ethics & Moral decisions. I suggest it because I enjoyed it and I have mutual taste as you. Another series is the Emberverse it's more medieval flavor like the books you enjoy.

We currently pay $1300 for a 1.5 bedroom. We are flexible. We'll definitely consider Prospect Park, especially if you're willing to practice archery and go halves on a boat to escape the city when the change happens.

The entire thing seems to be a horribly twisted rip-off of S.M. Stirling's "Dies the Fire" series.

http://www.amazon.com/Dies-Fire-A-Novel-Change/dp/0451460413

S.M. Stirling's Dies the Fire: A Novel of the Change

>Post Apocalyptic Survival books

Dies the Fire, by SM Stirling

This is a series about what happens if our toys get taken away. Think modern people with medieval levels of technology. It's actually 3 series in one. There's this trilogy, a parallel trilogy, and a follow up series set 15 years from the end of the one I originally recommended.

SM Stirling Dies the Fire

First of a series.

Harry Turtledove - Worldwar series

Michael Chrichton - Timeline

James F. David - Footprints of Thunder

1632 series

S. M Stirling:

Conquistador

Dies the Fire

William Forstchen - Rally Cry

I can't believe new copies of this book are going for as much as $347. I'm going to hold onto my copy of it.

I'm not sure how "from scratch" the civ building needs to be, but I enjoyed the Island in the Sea of Time trilogy. It is about the island of Nantucket getting sent back in time to the Bronze Age. The small population must try and build a civilization from their small pocket of modernity.


Related is the Dies the Fire series, also by Sterling. This is about what would happen if all technology suddenly stopped working. The later books in the series get progressively more "fantasy," but the first few are about the different types of civilizations that crop up and the conflicts between them.

There are some books which sort of deal with this. In Dies The Fire after the apocalypse, one character who ends up helping rebuild the society is obsessed with Tolkien. Many books later, as generations pass, there are whole groups who take the elven stories as people do the bible today.

I think it was Penn Jellet who recently said (paraphrase), "If all religions on the world disappeared right now, and somewhere down the line someone started religion up again, it would be completely different then any of them today. If all science were wiped out and someone down the line started it up again, they would find the exact same things we know now."

Mainly from reading this actually:

http://www.amazon.com/Dies-Fire-S-M-Stirling/dp/0451460413

IF you like revolution you should really read the books that sound similar to it. I don't know if the author is the same but I doubt it.

"Dies the fire" first book of The Change series by SM Stirling

Hey, I actually like this idea - the best one out of the group here. I really doubt they will make it but I could see a mod, but with such a game/mod you can make up different factions and stylize them in different ways.

If you are interested in a book series that has a setup for such a thing, read Dies the Fire - it doesn't start with any World Wars, but the entire Earth essentially hit the reset button and everyone has to deal with it.

Nice.

If you're looking for more inspiration, read the first three books of S.M. Stirling's Emberverse series (Dies the Fire, The Protector's War, and A Meeting in Corvallis.

There are more, but the first three are by far the best. Everything afterwards deals with the next generation and takes a much more fantastical approach.

Not a great deal of bike content, but the "Dies the Fire" series integrates the use of bikes in a post apolcolyptic world. Something that I've always found weird when other stories ignore such an appropriate mode of transportation for that sort of environment.

Dies the Fire

It's starts a series, it an ok read.

Slow River is an interesting story of a woman finding independence from her family: http://www.amazon.com/Slow-River-Nicola-Griffith/dp/0345395379

I recently discovered Tanya Huff. If you enjoy vampires, try her Blood Books, about Vicki Nelson, a private eye who gets turned. http://www.amazon.com/Blood-Books-Vol-Price-Trail/dp/0756403871

And the short stories in Stealing Magic are wonderful, they star Terazin, a thief, and Magdalene, the world's most powerful wizard. http://www.amazon.com/Stealing-Magic-Tanya-Huff/dp/1894063341

I hesitate to recommend them, as I've decided S. M. Stirling is a decidedly 2nd rate writer, but you might get some enjoyment out of his Dies the Fire trilogy (I did, despite the cliches and melodrama and Mary Sueism). One of the two main characters is Juniper Mackenzie, a busker, Wiccan priestess, and single mother who, when all technology suddenly stops working, founds a new community based on her Scottish heritage. http://www.amazon.com/Dies-Fire-Change-S-M-Stirling/dp/0451460413

Linda Nagata's 'Memory' is a bit of a coming of age story for a young woman, and her investigation into what is wrong with her planet. http://www.amazon.com/Memory-Linda-Nagata/dp/0765309009/

Oh, and you must surely already have read Clan of the Cave Bear and Mists of Avalon

Amazon links for reference, but try your local library.

The Postman - David Brin

Dies the Fire- SM Stirling

I just finished reading Patriots, it was alright.

If you are a reader, this is a great series for you:

http://www.amazon.com/Dies-Fire-A-Novel-Change/dp/0451460413/

Guns/gunpowder and all technology rendered useless... I've read the first 3 and they are amazing. Armor/arrows, even trebuchet. And they go into detail about the different types of armor.