The Council Wars
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The Council Wars is an in-progress book series by John Ringo, published by Baen. It is a combination of hard science fiction, military science fiction, and high fantasy.
The series is set several thousand years in the future, in a society with advanced nanotechnology, teleportation, and other technologies which effectively are magical in the sense of Clarke's law made real.
There are elves and dragons. But the elves are the results of long-ago military genetic engineering programs and the dragons are genetically changed humans in dragon form. No explosives or even high-pressure processes are allowed, so the basic allowed technology is pre-gunpowder.
"Mother", the artificial intelligence who controls all the systems on Earth, as well as in near-Earth space, and as far away as the Wolf 359 star system, is controlled by a Council of thirteen Key Holders, who can change system directives, and, if unanimous, change even the kernel-level programming of Mother. The Council has split into two factions, and is in a battle for whose ideas will dominate the future of the human race. That faction split has turned to war: something humans have not had for over a millennium.
In the struggle for power, the Council Members turn off all the power to everyone else. The result: Humanity plunges immediately from utopia to the middle ages. The series follows the resultant chaos and destruction that follows, and the war itself, fought not just with advanced technology, but swords, cavalry, and legions.
Books
- There Will Be Dragons (2003)
- Emerald Sea (2004)
- Against the Tide (2005)
External links
- Series listing (http://www.scifan.com/series/series.asp?SR_seriesid=4529) at SciFan