"The Horseclans" is a series of novels by Robert Adams. They take place in a post-apocalyptic world, in North America.

Tropes used in Horseclans include:
  • After the End: When the stories mostly take place (with a few flashbacks to 20th-century America here and there).
  • Amazon Brigade: The Moon Maidens
  • All Amazons Want Hercules: After losing their valley home, they tend to pick the manly men
  • Alliterative Name: Milo Morai
  • Author Appeal: Addams liked Armenians enough to write them into the book.
  • Author Existence Failure: Robert Adams died before the series could be wrapped up.
  • Bigfoot, Sasquatch, and Yeti: The Kleesahk
  • Blessed with Suck: While being Undying has lots of good things about it — immortality, for one — it does have drawbacks. Like sterility. And being very prone to amnesia after a few centuries.
  • Blind Seer: Blind Hari Krooger
  • Brother-Sister Incest: One of the pairs of Undying.
  • Canon Sue: Milo Morai is treated that way in the first chapter, which is dedicated to showing how awesome he is.
  • The Chosen One: Milo Morai not only wrote the prophecies, he made sure to choose himself to fill it.
  • Combat by Champion: Featured in the first book between Milo Morai and Lord Demetrios
  • Cool Horse: They are called the Horseclans.
  • Corrupt Church: Several of these — Adams did not like churches, it seems.
  • Depraved Bisexual: Quite a few of the Ehleen nobles.
  • Did Not Do the Research: "New Greece" should be "Nea Ellas," not "Kenooryos Ellas."
  • Eternal English: Averted, though mostly shown in names.
  • Girl-On-Girl Is Hot: Male homosexuality or bisexuality is treated as disgusting, but sex scenes among the "Moon Maidens" are portrayed as awesome -- and in great detail.
  • Ghostapo: Hitler was one of the Undying, with incredible psychic powers.
  • Grand Theft Me: The Witchmen do this quite a bit — with mechanical assistance at first, but later on, at will.
  • Hidden Elf Village: Milo Morai spends a couple of centuries looking for one of these.
  • Humans Are Psychic in the Future: Also the cats, horses, and whales.
  • Incest Is Relative: The Horseclans culture has no such taboo. The father of the brother-sister Undying couple mentioned above states that he sees nothing wrong with his son and daughter being in love, and adds that two of his grandparents were also a brother-sister pairing — who were evidently permitted to marry each other. (At least, Undying being sterile means there's no danger of inbreeding.)
  • Keep Circulating the Tapes: Most of the books have not been reprinted.
  • Magical Negro: The Zartogahn characters are almost always doctors.
  • Martyrdom Culture: The Sword Cult
  • New Age Retro Hippie: The Ganiks.
  • No One Could Survive That: How many of the Undying are revealed.
  • Omniglot: Several of the older Undying, especially Milo Morai.
  • Panthera Awesome: The Prarie Cats especially when garbed for war
  • Really Seven Hundred Years Old: All of the Undying eventually, but in particular Milo Morai and Clarence Bookman
  • Self-Fulfilling Prophecy: Milo Morai wrote his own prophecies.
  • Sequelitis: Some of the books fall into this.
  • A Threesome Is Hot: Several characters have more than one wife at a time. Not so much the other way.
  • The Women Are Safe with Us: Averted, captured women are given as slaves. Not Children though.
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