If Nantucket disappeared what would happen to the rest of the world? In Island In The Sea Of Time, Against The Tide Of Years, and On The Oceans Of Eternity SM Stirling traced the adventures of the inhabitants of Nantucket as they are thrust 3,000 years into the past and have to survive without much of the luxury of the present world. In Dies The Fire, Stirling shows what happened to the world they left behind.

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