The Coming of the Horseclans

Fans of military fantasy with Sword & Sorcery traits will enjoy this (David Gemmell and Karl Wagner were better writers, but fans of theirs would enjoy this opener of the Horseclans series). The premise is ostensibly apocalyptic sci-fi, but really it appears as a gritty epic fantasy (i.e. no bullets or lasers or machines, just barbarian hordes, swords and some mutant-telepathy and immortality mixed in).

Cover artist Ken Kelly did a superb job, and arguably was more successful than the author in presenting/creating the world. Truthfully, it is worth tracking these out of print books down just for the cover art.

It is an interesting opening book, and since I am compelled to read the next book (Swords of the Horesclans) I rate it 4/5.

I've reread this a couple of times over the years. The first few books are pretty good. Nothing superb, but a fun, fast read if you like this kind of thing. It's more of a fantasy, but there is a Science Fiction basis - it's a post apocalyptic (nuclear war) world where a nomadic people are the good guys. Some super msart animals, a few immortals & such dropped in.After about book 6 or 7, I got a little worn out with the series. I've been meaning to go back & read it again, since I didn't have the entire series all at once, but read it out of order, in scattered pieces across the years.

Traditional barbarian sword and sorcery fantasy, but with a twist, the barbarians are in the future, not the past!! The civilization of Earth has devolved, and a superman is leading the barbarians of the plains. Both 'The Postman' and Paul O. Williams Pelbar cycle are better.

If you like hack and slash, big military battles (foot and calvary), and immortals, then this is the book for you.

The immortal Milo Morai, returns to the mid-Atlantic eastern U.S. 300 years after a nuclear holocaust. The people here are now dominated by ethnic Greeks who immigrated soon after the fall of civilization.

Milo leads a large group of mid-west clans back to the Appalachians/Carolinas to retake their heritage.

The Horseclans try to make a place for themselves on the Eastern Seaboard of North America, and put together a Confederation to resist the Ehleenoee.

Creepy and vaguely fascistic.

Fantastic series, incredibly engaging.