Dies the Fire

Stirling, S. M. Dies the Fire. New York: Penguin-New American Library, 2004.

On-line summary: "S. M. Stirling presents his first Novel of the Change, the start of [... a] postapocalyptic saga set in a world where all technology has been rendered useless."

More specifically, civilization is "on its heals when the Earth for some reason no longer supports electricity in any man-made form and combustion no longer exists, rendering firearms and motors useless, which means the bad guys are raiding farms and the good guys are building communes, all taking lessons from the golden age of feudalism" (Douglass K. Daniel, e-mail, 4 September 2019).

Cf. and contrast Wolf and Iron.

RDE, DKD, 5Sep19