"Fade out" by Patrick Tilley (author of the Amtrak Wars) describes a situation a bit like the magnetar hit (although his story revolves around alien devices emitting some sort of field preventing any electrical fields stronger than an animal (or human) nervous system operating ).
Very scary with planes falling out of the sky, etc and technology beyond steam suddenly becoming so much useless scrap.
http://www.patrick-tilley.com/
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If it moves, shoot it, if not push it, if it still doesn't move, use explosives.
Nothing happens in isolation - it's called "the butterfly effect"
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