Battle Circle · Book 2
Var the Stick
- Published
- 1 January 1972
- Pages
- 191
- ISBN-13
- 9780552097369
- Type
- novel
About this book
Var the Stick followed four years later, in 1972, at 191 pages, following a new young man rising through the same post-apocalyptic Battle Circle combat culture Piers Anthony introduced in Sos the Rope, wrestling with the same tension between the tribes' need for order and the violence the system is built on.
Its place in Battle Circle
Var the Stick is book 2 in the Battle Circle series. It follows Sos the Rope. It is followed by Neq the Sword. 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 9780552097369