"There are no manners in the Battle Circle only victory and defeat."

In this highly imaginative and long unavailable trilogy, master science fiction writer Piers Anthony creates a brutal, unsparing vision of a return to savagery in a lawless postnuclear age.. After the holocaust, tribes of barbaric warriors roam Earth's radioactive wasteland where all disputes are settled in the `battle circle,' and a man is known by the weapon he carries.

"Anthony's story of men fighting for mastery of wandering tribes, with sword, club and rope in the ceremonial `Great Circle,' has its own internal conviction - its own grandeur, even.... a rigorous masculine power, rare in any kind of novel nowadays." - The London Observer.

SOS The Rope
The kill spirits of the blast were retreating and Sos was pledged to begin an empire, to build a dream - the same dream which had been built so many times aeons before.

Var The Stick
Var was the chosen one - half-man, half-animal, a mutant victim of the blast - called upon to rescue the Empire in a battle he was secretly afraid of winning.

Neq The Sword
An age of darkness was upon the Empire and Neq, the greatest of warriors was embarked on a quest that would decide the future of the world!