The party hikes across mountains to a ranger cabin. Everyone survives, although Mary is injured. After the plane's engine and electronics are disabled, Mike makes an emergency landing. His passengers are business owners Kenneth and Mary Larsson and their three teenage children, Erik, Signe, and Astrid. On March 17, 1998, at 6:15 pm PST, Havel is flying over the Bitterroot Mountain Range in Idaho during a mysterious event that become known as 'The Change'. Mike Havel is a former United States Marine, a veteran of the Persian Gulf War, and bush pilot. The book follows the Bearkiller Outfit and the Clan Mackenzie as they struggle to survive, while attempting to understand the mystery of 'what made the lights go out?' in this post-apocalyptic world. During this collapse, rural folks form isolated farming communities, while urbanites are enslaved by warlords. Many people starve, while others continue robbing, raping, and pillaging as before the transition. After an unknown phenomenon disables most forms of modern technology such as electricity, high-pressure steam-power, combustion, computers, electronics, guns, car and jet engines, and batteries, people quickly adapt, relying on swords and bows. As a result of this, modern civilization comes crashing down.ĭies the Fire is a fantasy novel set in post-apocalyptic Oregon and Idaho. Stirling chronicles two groups during 'The Change', a mysterious worldwide event suddenly alters physical laws so electricity, gunpowder, and most other forms of high-energy-density technology no longer work. Stirling's Nantucket series in which the Massachusetts island of Nantucket is thrown back in time from Mato the Bronze Age. It is the first installment of the Emberverse series and is a spin-off from S. Dies the Fire is a 2004 alternate history and post-apocalyptic novel written by S.

Dies the Fire by S.M. Stirling