Series
Emberverse
S. M. Stirling, A. M. Dellamonica, Diana L. Paxson, Emily Mah, Harry Turtledove, Jane Lindskold, Jody Lynn Nye, John Barnes, John Birmingham, John J. Miller, Kier Salmon, Lauren C. Teffeau, M. T. Reiten, Terry England, Victor Milán & Walter Jon Williams · 15 novels · 1 novella · 3 novelettes · 16 short stories · 2004–2018
S. M. Stirling's Emberverse series begins on March 17, 1998, when a mysterious global event called the Change permanently disables electricity, firearms, and every other form of high-energy technology, forcing surviving humanity back into a low-tech, often neo-feudal world. Centered first on Oregon's Willamette Valley - where factions like the Bearkillers, the Wiccan Clan Mackenzie, and the authoritarian Portland Protective Association carve out new societies - the series expands across three trilogies following, in turn, the first generation of survivors, their adult children, and eventually their grandchildren, alongside new nations forming worldwide. Fifteen novels published from 2004 to 2018 trace this world's slow reintroduction of both feudal politics and, increasingly, real magic.
Summary by Loreful, from public sources
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The order the books came out.
- Emberverse I(4 works)
- Emberverse II(8 works)
- Emberverse III(5 works)
Map
Emberverse at the centre, 3 subseries around it, its books fanned around what holds them. Pick anything for its details, and zoom out for similar series in orbit — the reading order above lists the same books as text.
Stats
By decade
- 2000s8
- 2010s27
Shape
15 novels · 1 novella · 3 novelettes · 16 short stories
16 authors
reads like:post-apocalypticsurvivalnorth americanear futureadventurousadult
Mood
Grim and intense: 59% of this series' placed works, the catalog's 46%.
this series · the catalog · one dot = one book17 of 35 works carry a tone
Edges of the map
- Dies the Firedarkest
- The Golden Princessbrightest
- A Murder in Eddsfordcalmest
- The Given Sacrificemost intense














