Horseclans

The Horseclans novels are a series of novels by Robert Adams. They take place in a post-apocalyptic world, in North America.


 * After the End: When the stories mostly take place (with a few flashbacks to 20th-century America here and there).
 * Amazon Brigade: The Moon Maidens
 * All Amazons Want Hercules: After losing their valley home, they tend to pick the manly men
 * Alliterative Name: Milo Morai
 * A Threesome Is Hot: Several characters have more than one wife at a time. Not so much the other way.
 * Author Appeal: Addams liked Armenians enough to write them into the book.
 * Author Existence Failure: Robert Adams died before the series could be wrapped up.
 * Bigfoot, Sasquatch, and Yeti: The Kleesahk
 * Blessed with Suck: While being Undying has lots of good things about it---immortality, for one---it does have drawbacks. Like sterility. And being very prone to amnesia after a few centuries.
 * Blind Seer: Blind Hari Krooger
 * Brother-Sister Incest: One of the pairs of Undying.
 * Canon Sue: Milo Morai is treated that way in the first chapter, which is dedicated to showing how awesome he is.
 * Combat by Champion: Featured in the first book between Milo Morai and Lord Demetrios
 * Cool Horse: They are called the Horseclans.
 * Corrupt Church: Several of these---Adams did not like churches, it seems.
 * Depraved Bisexual: Quite a few of the Ehleen nobles.
 * Did Not Do the Research: "New Greece" should be "Nea Ellas," not "Kenooryos Ellas."
 * Eternal English: Averted, though mostly shown in names.
 * Girl-On-Girl Is Hot: Male homosexuality or bisexuality is treated as disgusting, but sex scenes among the "Moon Maidens" are portrayed as awesome -- and in great detail.
 * Ghostapo: Hitler was one of the Undying, with incredible psychic powers.
 * Grand Theft Me: The  do this quite a bit---with mechanical assistance at first, but later on, at will.
 * Hidden Elf Village: Milo Morai spends a couple of centuries looking for one of these.
 * Humans Are Psychic in the Future: Also the cats, horses, and whales.
 * Incest Is Relative: Implied that the Horseclans culture has no such taboo.
 * Implied? The father of the brother-sister Undying couple mentioned above states that he sees nothing wrong with his son and daughter being in love, and adds that one set of his grandparents were also a brother-sister pairing -- who were evidently permitted to marry each other. (At least, Undying being sterile means there's no danger of inbreeding.)
 * Keep Circulating the Tapes: Most of the books have not been reprinted.
 * Magical Negro: The Zartogahn characters are almost always doctors.
 * Martyrdom Culture: The Sword Cult
 * New Age Retro Hippie: The Ganiks.
 * No One Could Survive That: How many of the Undying are revealed.
 * Omniglot: Several of the older Undying, especially Milo Morai.
 * Panthera Awesome: The Prarie Cats especially when garbed for war
 * Really Seven Hundred Years Old: All of the Undying eventually, but in particular Milo Morai and Clarence Bookman
 * Self-Fulfilling Prophecy: Milo Morai wrote his own prophecies.
 * Sequelitis: Some of the books fall into this.
 * The Chosen One: Milo Morai not only wrote the prophecies, he made sure to choose himself to fill it.
 * The Women Are Safe with Us: Averted, captured women are given as slaves. Not Children though.