Post by The Perilous Dreamer on Mar 7, 2019 22:14:23 GMT -5
This is a link to The Horseclans Page. (The Internet Archive page) Here is the live internet link The Horseclans Page.
This here page is dedicated to the Horseclans novels, a series of 18 novels and two anthology collections by the late author Robert Adams (1932-1990) in the science-fantasy genre. His works are most noted for action, plenty of violence, a meticulous knowledge of things military, and occasional polemics from the right side of the political spectrum. Since his death, all of his works have gone out of print. If you are lucky you can find them at used book stores.The Horseclans novels were published from 1975 until 1988. The novels are set in post-WWIII North America, and involve a number of elements which RA handled in an entertaining way. The novels, with their years of publication, are:
The Coming of the Horseclans, 1975
Swords of the Horseclans, 1976
Revenge of the Horseclans, 1977
A Cat of Silvery Hue, 1979
The Savage Mountains, 1979
The Patrimony, 1980
Horseclans Odyssey, 1981
The Death of a Legend, 1981
The Witch Goddess, 1982
Bili the Axe, 1982
Champion of the Last Battle, 1983
A Woman of the Horseclans, 1983
Horses of the North, 1985
A Man Called Milo Morai, 1986
The Memories of Milo Morai, 1986
Trumpets of War, 1987
Madman's Army, 1987
The Clan of the Cats, 1988
Additionally, Friends of the Horseclans (1987) and Friends of the Horseclans II (1989), collections of short stories by RA and others, are unnumbered parts of the collected work. I would have put scans of the covers here (I have every volume except FotH2), but I don't have the server space for it.
Robert Adams had plans for a whole lot more books; the series is very open-ended with room for tons of stories; in the introduction to Friends of the Horseclans, he said that the number of loose threads left in the series would take him about fifty years to resolve, which was one of the reasons for letting other authors in on the series. I was very disappointed to learn of his death. If anyone has news of any efforts to continue the series, I would be very greatly interested to hear of it. Extending it would not involve a great burden on one individual; one person can flesh out the timeline and enforce continuity, while others work within the the framework thus established.
The Coming of the Horseclans, 1975
Swords of the Horseclans, 1976
Revenge of the Horseclans, 1977
A Cat of Silvery Hue, 1979
The Savage Mountains, 1979
The Patrimony, 1980
Horseclans Odyssey, 1981
The Death of a Legend, 1981
The Witch Goddess, 1982
Bili the Axe, 1982
Champion of the Last Battle, 1983
A Woman of the Horseclans, 1983
Horses of the North, 1985
A Man Called Milo Morai, 1986
The Memories of Milo Morai, 1986
Trumpets of War, 1987
Madman's Army, 1987
The Clan of the Cats, 1988
Additionally, Friends of the Horseclans (1987) and Friends of the Horseclans II (1989), collections of short stories by RA and others, are unnumbered parts of the collected work. I would have put scans of the covers here (I have every volume except FotH2), but I don't have the server space for it.
Robert Adams had plans for a whole lot more books; the series is very open-ended with room for tons of stories; in the introduction to Friends of the Horseclans, he said that the number of loose threads left in the series would take him about fifty years to resolve, which was one of the reasons for letting other authors in on the series. I was very disappointed to learn of his death. If anyone has news of any efforts to continue the series, I would be very greatly interested to hear of it. Extending it would not involve a great burden on one individual; one person can flesh out the timeline and enforce continuity, while others work within the the framework thus established.
