S.M. Stirling - "Dies the Fire"

[Usivius]

Anyone know about this guy and, in particulare, this book (series)?
I picked up the first one on a total whim, but am unsure I am going to like it. It has the 'feel' of Farmer's "Dungeon" series to me .... admittedly that was a loonng time ago...

Any reviews would be nice.

thanks

[Adept Havelock]

I really enjoyed the series, but I've got a weakness for "post-apocalyptic" fiction that's a bit off the beaten path.

I've been assured the original trilogy that began with Island in the Sea of Time is very enjoyable, and the two series begin to combine in his newest book "The Sunrise Lands".

In a nutshell, in the ISOT trilogy Nantucket is tossed back to the Bronze Age.

Dies the Fire starts the "Emberverse" trilogy, which seems to be the story of the world it left behind. No high-energy technologies work, and what happens to a society (our world) built on them gets downright horrific.

For me the payoff was seeing what rises from the ruins.

Stirling isn't a great writer, IMO, but I've found him quite entertaining.