![]() ![]() But, when it became clear that something much more fundamental was happening (they called it "The Change"), people soon understood they would have to adapt to a very different world - no electricity gunpowder had lost its explosive effect internal combustion and steam engines failed to produce any meaningful horsepower technology of all but the most rudimentary mechanical sort simply didn't work according to what we all formerly understood as the physical laws of the universe.Ĭhoosing to leave both his characters and his readers ignorant of the cause of the phenomenon (one might puzzle over thoughts ranging from futuristic extra-terrestrial weaponry to the miraculous intervention of a wrathful God), Stirling has obviously used his befuddled post-apocalyptic universe as a springboard to examine just how thin the veneer we call "civilization" actually is. At first, people thought it was the aftermath of a nuclear blast and the EMP that would temporarily shut down unshielded electrical machinery. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |