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'''''Final Great War''''' is a series of epic {{wp|post-apocalyptic}} science fiction novels by the Urcean novelist and screenwriter Mychal Geronato. He began writing the first volume, also called ''Final Great War'' in [[2002]], publishing it in [[2007]]. The series depicts a {{wp|post-apocalyptic}} setting brought about by a digital [[Great Wars|great war]] between [[Caphiria]] and [[Levantia]], and deals with themes of loss, personal core values, endurance, and divergent perspectives. The conclusion of the series conveys Geronato's sense of the inevitability of human behavior and a total rejection of {{wp|presentism}} as well as the notion of a man-made apocalypse. Within this setting, survivors of the great war struggle on an individual and societal level at varying scales, ranging from individuals trying to stay alive to groups of survivors attempting to rebuild civilization. | '''''Final Great War''''' is a series of epic {{wp|post-apocalyptic}} science fiction novels by the Urcean novelist and screenwriter Mychal Geronato. He began writing the first volume, also called ''Final Great War'' in [[2002]], publishing it in [[2007]]. The series depicts a {{wp|post-apocalyptic}} setting brought about by a digital [[Great Wars|great war]] between [[Caphiria]] and [[Levantia]], and deals with themes of loss, personal core values, endurance, and divergent perspectives. The conclusion of the series conveys Geronato's sense of the inevitability of human behavior and a total rejection of {{wp|presentism}} as well as the notion of a man-made apocalypse. Within this setting, survivors of the great war struggle on an individual and societal level at varying scales, ranging from individuals trying to stay alive to groups of survivors attempting to rebuild civilization. | ||
The series is comprised of six novels, five of which follow a consistent narrative and one of which is a prequel (2020's ''Beast | The series is comprised of six novels, five of which follow a consistent narrative and one of which is a prequel (2020's ''Beast of Seven Heads''). Geronato subsequently condensed material from ''Beast of Seven Heads'' with material from the first two novels to create ''The Time of War'' (2021, revised 2024) and ''All That Still Remains'' (2027). These condensed books were intended to provide easier entry points into the universe of ''Final Great War'' by new readers of the series, and are not considered to have replaced any of the standalone original texts. | ||
The series is well known for its unique narrative structure, which combines a {{wp|nonlinear narrative}} with {{wp|unreliable narrator}}s to convey an uncertain sense of events within the world it creates. This format, now known as [[Arts_and_literature_of_Urcea#Contemporary_literature|Geronatic literature]] for ''Final Great War's'' author, has become widely emulated throughout Urcean and global literature. | The series is well known for its unique narrative structure, which combines a {{wp|nonlinear narrative}} with {{wp|unreliable narrator}}s to convey an uncertain sense of events within the world it creates. This format, now known as [[Arts_and_literature_of_Urcea#Contemporary_literature|Geronatic literature]] for ''Final Great War's'' author, has become widely emulated throughout Urcean and global literature. | ||
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===''Next Great War'' (2022)=== | ===''Next Great War'' (2022)=== | ||
''Next Great War'', the final novel of the series, was published on 23 March [[2022]]. Another timejump places the novel two years following ''Presented on High'', a total of roughly ten years between the first and final novel of the series. The Survivors Union and Peoples' Alliance have evolved further into fully blown polities, with borders and something resembling political constitutions. The novel also reveals the general location of these entities, with the Union existing in the environs of [[Eastvale]] and the Alliance in northwestern [[Burgundie]]. As was the case at the conclusion of the last book, the Union and Fellowes tribe are at war, and the novel spends considerable amount of time looking at the psychological ramifications the war. Specifically, it examines peoples' general feelings and rationalizations of returning to war between people despite having lived through the apocalyptic aftermath of the Third Great War. The novel also builds a growing enmity between the Union and Alliance, and closes the story of many of the main characters, who have grown old and relatively happy; many of them step out of leadership roles and prepare to hand power to a new generation, while three of the eleven are either assassinated or killed in battle. The novel, like its predecessor, includes many vignettes of what are now "average citizens" of the Survivors Union, but like the main characters it focuses on their evolving worldview and reflections rather than on extensive worldbuilding. ''Next Great War'' also features side plotlines for some of the Union-affiliated main characters traveling to other, similar polities in former [[Fiannria]], the first time the area is covered within the series. The novel concludes with the very first shots of what would become a Union-Alliance war, bringing the series full circle. It is the only novel in the series to not feature any cybernetic plague zombies at all. | ''Next Great War'', the final novel of the series, was published on 23 March [[2022]]. Another timejump places the novel two years following ''Presented on High'', a total of roughly ten years between the first and final novel of the series. The Survivors Union and Peoples' Alliance have evolved further into fully blown polities, with borders and something resembling political constitutions. The novel also reveals the general location of these entities, with the Union existing in the environs of [[Eastvale]] and the Alliance in northwestern [[Burgundie]]. As was the case at the conclusion of the last book, the Union and Fellowes tribe are at war, and the novel spends considerable amount of time looking at the psychological ramifications the war. Specifically, it examines peoples' general feelings and rationalizations of returning to war between people despite having lived through the apocalyptic aftermath of the Third Great War. The novel also builds a growing enmity between the Union and Alliance, and closes the story of many of the main characters, who have grown old and relatively happy; many of them step out of leadership roles and prepare to hand power to a new generation, while three of the eleven are either assassinated or killed in battle. The novel, like its predecessor, includes many vignettes of what are now "average citizens" of the Survivors Union, but like the main characters it focuses on their evolving worldview and reflections rather than on extensive worldbuilding. ''Next Great War'' also features side plotlines for some of the Union-affiliated main characters traveling to other, similar polities in former [[Fiannria]] (Nationalite and Fiannobond), the first time the area is covered within the series. The novel concludes with the very first shots of what would become a Union-Alliance war, bringing the series full circle. It is the only novel in the series to not feature any cybernetic plague zombies at all. | ||
Most critics were very pleased with the intending, believing that Geronato successfully closed the narrative on the characters while giving a sense that the world will always go on, which was one of the main themes of the series. | Most critics were very pleased with the intending, believing that Geronato successfully closed the narrative on the characters while giving a sense that the world will always go on, which was one of the main themes of the series. | ||