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===''Presented On High'' (2017)===

''Presented on High'' was published on 1 August [[2017]]. It takes place three years following the events of ''Into Ploughshares''. The Survivors Union has expanded significantly, incorporating other previously unaligned settlements, and it has become a major political entity. The defectors from the previous novel established the Peoples' Alliance, a rival organization which operates similarly to the Union and has established something resembling borders. The majority of the novel focuses on the relationship of the two tribes - the Fellowes and Agreeners - with both the Union and Alliance. Four new main characters are introduced, one for each faction, for a total of eleven. ''Presented on High'' diverges from most of the other novels in the series, as many of the chapters are present-day vignettes depicting life in the different factions. Religion, vice and virtue, and complex economic life in the world of the "factional era" as well as family life are portrayed throughout these vignettes. The novel also follows various individuals handling a trivial incident between the Union and Fellowes tribe that eventually emerges into a major incident and a cause for war due to misunderstandings and mishandling of the incident. The novel concludes with the beginning of the Union-Fellowes war.

''Presented on High'' marks a tonal shift in the series, as exterior threats (zombies, starvation, etc.) are completely overshadowed by conflict with other humans. This conflict ranges from the central plot of the novel to minor disagreements in business, religion, and marriage as depicted in the vignettes. The cybernetic plague zombies are not mentioned in the novel until about three fourths of the way through the book, when a Fellowes tribe member discovers a small elderly pack of plague zombies. The novel presents that most of the zombies have now passed by the time of the novel, which takes place approximately thirty years after the end of the Third Great War.

===''Beast of Seven Heads'' (2020)===

''Beast of Seven Heads'' was published on 19 October [[2020]]. It is a prequel to the rest of the books, and provides an in depth treatment of the events of the Third Great War as well as a survey of different characters and the kinds of people that would ultimately survive the Third Great War. The novel reveals that most of the survivors of the war were largely marginalized people, {{wp|preppers}}, or otherwise extremely remote rural people, none of whom had brain implants in large numbers. The book introduces two of the original six characters of ''Final Great War'' plus additional supporting characters that appear in later books or their ancestors. Controversially, ''Beast of Seven Heads'' included sequences wherein the protagonists of the previous novels, or their ancestors, kill, steal from, and otherwise commit violence against those who had once been their "social betters" (the rich, politicians, etc.) in an act of vengeance rather than of survival.

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 ===''Presented On High'' (2017)===
+''Presented on High'' was published on 1 August [[2017]]. It takes place three years following the events of ''Into Ploughshares''. The Survivors Union has expanded significantly, incorporating other previously unaligned settlements, and it has become a major political entity. The defectors from the previous novel established the Peoples' Alliance, a rival organization which operates similarly to the Union and has established something resembling borders. The majority of the novel focuses on the relationship of the two tribes - the Fellowes and Agreeners - with both the Union and Alliance. Four new main characters are introduced, one for each faction, for a total of eleven. ''Presented on High'' diverges from most of the other novels in the series, as many of the chapters are present-day vignettes depicting life in the different factions. Religion, vice and virtue, and complex economic life in the world of the "factional era" as well as family life are portrayed throughout these vignettes. The novel also follows various individuals handling a trivial incident between the Union and Fellowes tribe that eventually emerges into a major incident and a cause for war due to misunderstandings and mishandling of the incident. The novel concludes with the beginning of the Union-Fellowes war.
+''Presented on High'' marks a tonal shift in the series, as exterior threats (zombies, starvation, etc.) are completely overshadowed by conflict with other humans. This conflict ranges from the central plot of the novel to minor disagreements in business, religion, and marriage as depicted in the vignettes. The cybernetic plague zombies are not mentioned in the novel until about three fourths of the way through the book, when a Fellowes tribe member discovers a small elderly pack of plague zombies. The novel presents that most of the zombies have now passed by the time of the novel, which takes place approximately thirty years after the end of the Third Great War.
 ===''Beast of Seven Heads'' (2020)===
 ''Beast of Seven Heads'' was published on 19 October [[2020]]. It is a prequel to the rest of the books, and provides an in depth treatment of the events of the Third Great War as well as a survey of different characters and the kinds of people that would ultimately survive the Third Great War. The novel reveals that most of the survivors of the war were largely marginalized people, {{wp|preppers}}, or otherwise extremely remote rural people, none of whom had brain implants in large numbers. The book introduces two of the original six characters of ''Final Great War'' plus additional supporting characters that appear in later books or their ancestors. Controversially, ''Beast of Seven Heads'' included sequences wherein the protagonists of the previous novels, or their ancestors, kill, steal from, and otherwise commit violence against those who had once been their "social betters" (the rich, politicians, etc.) in an act of vengeance rather than of survival.

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