A Novel of the Change
Roc Hardcover
September 2013
On Sale: September 3, 2013
Featuring: John; Rudi Mackenzie; Orlaith
400 pages ISBN: 0451417313 EAN: 9780451417312 Kindle: B00C5R84UE Hardcover / e-Book Add to Wish List
Praised as a βtruly original combination of postapocalyptic sci-fi and military-oriented medieval fantasy,β* S. M. Stirlingβs Novels of the Change depict a future without technology, where people must master skills from ages past in order to survive. Now, to ensure that survival for all he cares for, a king faces his greatest challenge in the latest chapter of the New York Times bestselling saga....
Rudi Mackenzie has won the battle that expelled the enemy from the new High Kingdom of Montival. Now he must free the people who live in the state once known as Idaho from occupation by the legions of the Church Universal and Triumphant and pursue them to their lair over the mountains. There he will finally confront the forces behind the Churchβthe Powers of the Void.
Yet even a victory will not end the conflict forever. The Powers of the Void are malevolent and infinitely patient, and the struggle is one that involves the entire world. They threaten Rudi not only in the present, but also in the future represented by his children, Γrlaith and John. Rudi knows this.
And as his heir Princess Γrlaith grows up in the shadow of her famous father, she also realizes that the enemy will do anything to see that she does not live to fulfill her parentsβ dream....