New York: Ace Books, (2009) dj. Hardcover first edition - A post-apocalyptic fantasy. "Thirty years ago the lights went out, the airplanes fell, the cars went still, the cities all went dark. The laws humanity had always known were replaced by new laws that could only be called magic. The world has changed forever. Or has it?" Born after the Change, Fred grew up in a fishing village on the California coast playing in abandoned buildings and rusting supertankers, scavenging for their needs from the remnants of the previous generation's civilization. Author's afterword. 375 pp. ISBN: 978-0441017959.