"The Horseclans" is a series of novels by
Robert Adams. They take place in a post-apocalyptic world, in North America.
The books contain examples of:
- 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
- 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: Implied that the Horseclans culture has no such taboo
- 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 700 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.
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