I Read Books: The Protector's War
Several years have passed since Dies The Fire and the Change has stopped explosives, firearms, electricity etc. working, giving us a pre-modern world. We see a little of the successor state in England. This introduces some (more) characters from Conan Doyle’s The White Company, transplanted several centuries into the future, but essentially using the same 15th Century technology.
I say 15th Century, but one of the major plotlines is that as former SAS, when they leave England on a Tasmanian ship, they are engaged in a mission to try and make safe chemical and nuclear weapons. Arriving in former Oregon they are made welcome by the Lord Protector who betrays them and tries to take the chemical weapons for himself.
Meanwhile the Lord Protector has been backing bandits and raiders against the communities to the south, (also backing a faction in wars to the east, and so on and so forth). Both the Mackenzies and the Bearkillers decide to try counters to this in the disputed lands, with unexpected results.
More neo-medieval adventure fiction.
If you’re into titles accurately describing the content then The Protector’s War has not really got going, this is the middle novel that sets all the pieces in place for the war proper.
Read This: For neo-medieval adventure fiction
Don’t Read This: If cunning ruses and occasional weird uses of muscles-powered machinery with modern infrastructure does nothing for you
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