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''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'' 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. | ''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. The novel deals with the fleeting relief that the end of the zombie threat has on the survivors of the Third Great War; specifically, it examines the realization of the survivors that they will all continue to live on and that the time of change had largely concluded, and the novel considers what the prospect of a long life means to most of the characters. | ||
===''Beast of Seven Heads'' (2020)=== | ===''Beast of Seven Heads'' (2020)=== | ||