Battle Circle · Book 1
Sos the Rope
- Published
- 1 January 1968
- Pages
- 248
- ISBN-13
- 9781601251947
- Type
- novel
About this book
Sos the Rope opened Battle Circle in 1968 at 248 pages -- the longest of the three -- introducing the post-nuclear tribal ritual of settling disputes through one-on-one combat inside the Battle Circle.
Its place in Battle Circle
Sos the Rope is book 1 in the Battle Circle series. It is followed by Var the Stick. See the full Battle Circle reading order.
Centuries after a nuclear apocalypse, the surviving population lives in scattered tribal camps that have replaced large-scale warfare with a ritualized, one-on-one combat system: disputes and status are settled inside the Battle Circle by trained duelists fighting with primitive weapons, under strict rules meant to prevent the wholesale slaughter that ended civilization the first time. Each of the trilogy's three novels follows a different young man rising through this brutal but rule-bound combat culture…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781601251947