Another in the post-apocalypse series that I am reading...
This is an odd book. Plot and characters take a back seat to the idea - in a sense this is a polemical - the author has something he wants to say and uses the book to say it.
Imagine a future where nuclear war has knocked civilization back to a dark age where knowledge is being preserved by monasteries, much as it was in the original dark ages. Except the knowledge is incomplete and often misunderstood. The novel is divided into three smaller books that are hundreds of years apart and share no characters, tracing the re-emergence of civilization and the way history repeats itself.
Because of this blocky treatment where character and plot are subservient I don't think this is a very successful book.
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