Horseclans
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"The Horseclans" is a series of novels by Robert Adams. They take place in a post-apocalyptic world, in North America.
Tropes used in Horseclans include:
- 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
- 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.
- The Chosen One: Milo Morai not only wrote the prophecies, he made sure to choose himself to fill it.
- 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 Witchmen 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: The Horseclans culture has no such taboo. 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 two 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.
- A Threesome Is Hot: Several characters have more than one wife at a time. Not so much the other way.
- The Women Are Safe with Us: Averted, captured women are given as slaves. Not Children though.