Series
The Change / The Event
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 · 18 novels · 1 novella · 5 novelettes · 16 short stories · 1 anthology · 1998–2018
The Change: Tales of Downfall and Rebirth is a shared-world anthology of stories set in the years right after a mysterious global event instantly disables gunpowder, electricity, and combustion engines, the founding premise of S. M. Stirling's Emberverse. Sixteen different authors, coordinated by Stirling, each contribute stories set in various corners of the suddenly de-industrialized world as survivors scramble to rebuild. It's a companion volume to the Change/Emberverse novels rather than a novel itself.
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Reading order
The order the books came out.
- Nantucket(5 works)
- Emberverse(35 works)
Map
The Change / The Event at the centre, 5 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
- 1990s3
- 2000s10
- 2010s28
Shape
18 novels · 1 novella · 5 novelettes · 16 short stories · 1 anthology
16 authors
reads like:post-apocalypticsurvivalnorth americanear futureadventurousadult
Mood
Grim and intense: 52% of this series' placed works, the catalog's 46%.
this series · the catalog · one dot = one book21 of 41 works carry a tone
Edges of the map
- The Change: Tales of Downfall and Rebirthdarkest · calmest
- The Golden Princessbrightest
- The Given Sacrificemost intense