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title: "Star's Reach: A Novel Of The Deindustrial Future Paperback – April 19, 2014"
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# Star's Reach: A Novel Of The Deindustrial Future Paperback – April 19, 2014

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    Excellent global warming fiction book
  

*by K***Z on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on September 28, 2014*

This is one of the best global warming fiction books I have read.It is set in what is left of the United States a couple of hundred years in the future. All the fossil fuel is burnt, all the ice is gone, sea levels are much higher, and there is not much left of modern technology.People walk long distances to travel, or ride horses if they are rich.The main character Trey is a “ruinman”, which is the profession of going into old buildings and trying to find scraps left over from the collapse of civilization. Mostly metal.And the story is a quest for “Star’s Reach”, which is the most famous ruin yet not found by anybody. Every ruinman’s big dream is to get a piece of this dig.Eventually Trey finds the Star’s Reach. And he finds that humans have successfully communicated with multiple alien races too far away to ever actually visit, or have them visit Earth.One interesting point was that in those communications, some of the aliens mentioned the “usual mistake”, which seems to be burning all the fossil fuel. And some of the alien civilizations are even worse off than humanity as a consequence of that usual mistake.The humans are not off too bad. They disapprove of burning fossil fuel (there is a scene where someone is buried alive for burning some natural gas). But their society is functioning. People can walk the roads without being robbed. The ruinmen are organized in guilds and have excellent relations with each other. People have a great time every year when the rains start falling, with lots of parties.One of the characters wants to make sure that the old errors are not repeated. And much of society is wired against the ways of the old civilization.I am not quite sure that there is a need for that. If all the fossil fuel is burned, it will take millions of years to form again, and it will be impossible to repeat the “usual mistake”, even if there were no objections.All in all, this is a rather optimistic view of the future after the carbon party is over.The story proceeds in a non-linear way. The order of pages and the order of things happening in the story is not the same. It jumps all over the time line. It is as if the author, who holds the title of “archdruid”, was writing the book in the order of the things he wanted most to write, and didn’t bother to change the order back to a linear progression once he was done with that.But that worked rather well for me with this book.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    Epic Tale of the Hero’s Journey
  

*by C***1 on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on September 23, 2022*

Greer shares an epic tale of a future world not too different than our current. We have suffered a departure from our own destiny. There is no escape from the consequence of taking more than we need and there is no solution beyond our cognizant awareness. May we have the wisdom to tell a new story.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    A refreshing and original tale.
  

*by C***E on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 2, 2021*

Star's Reach is set in a  post-disaster world, but unlike any other I have encountered.  Although much has changed over time, the reader is given clues to recognize the original names, places and institutions.  This is no dystopian future, but a portrait, carefully constructed of a world built on the bones of an older world. Even though there are no illustrations, it almost seems that there are photographs accompanying every scene.  I feel that I know this place and I can see it in my mind.  It seems like a glimpse into a true future, strange and beautiful.I find myself making connections with Tolkien's Lord of the Rings.  There is a quest, a band of comrades and a need to deal with power and evil.  But the tale can only work out its meaning against the background of a fully realized world.  As  'Middle Earth' has been described as the main character of Tolkien's trilogy, I would say that the same is true for the world of Star's Reach.

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