The Horse Keeper, Another Zipper Chronicle
The Zipper Chronicles are standalone books but share some characters and are about traveling between dimensions.
In The Horse Keeper by Robyn Braemer we start out in another dimension, a land where plagues devastated the world and set back progress, leaving them in a medieval state.
Women have few rights. Ladies are expected to behave in a certain way. Medicine is archaic. The times are forgotten where women could pursue careers or live their lives as they wish. It's a time when women die in childbirth far too often, when a simple infection from a cut can mean a death sentence, and when childhood illness can be fatal.
It's about redundancy. Imagine if a sickness wiped out three quarters of the people in your town. A town can only support so many careers. By that I mean, so many bakers, auto mechanics, clothes hanger manufacturers, etc. A plague that takes out so many people at once also destroys skill sets, knowledge, and craft knowledge. Add to the removal of so many people at once with a generation or two of people struggling to survive as more illness and disease comes through in waves or sporadic pockets, the result is a lot of loss of knowledge. Google would be the first fatality in such a scenario. All those tech guys manning the servers are gone. The internet is broken. There's no one left to fix it. With everything online instead of in books, how can anyone access it to learn anything?
The Horse Keeper is an apocalyptic story but after enough time has passed for humankind to claw its way back up from the destruction. Technology is gone, but a whisper of a hint of something in the past. Horses are necessary for all aspects of life once again and the best of the breeds are worth their weight in gold.
In The Horse Keeper by Robyn Braemer we start out in another dimension, a land where plagues devastated the world and set back progress, leaving them in a medieval state.
Women have few rights. Ladies are expected to behave in a certain way. Medicine is archaic. The times are forgotten where women could pursue careers or live their lives as they wish. It's a time when women die in childbirth far too often, when a simple infection from a cut can mean a death sentence, and when childhood illness can be fatal.
It's about redundancy. Imagine if a sickness wiped out three quarters of the people in your town. A town can only support so many careers. By that I mean, so many bakers, auto mechanics, clothes hanger manufacturers, etc. A plague that takes out so many people at once also destroys skill sets, knowledge, and craft knowledge. Add to the removal of so many people at once with a generation or two of people struggling to survive as more illness and disease comes through in waves or sporadic pockets, the result is a lot of loss of knowledge. Google would be the first fatality in such a scenario. All those tech guys manning the servers are gone. The internet is broken. There's no one left to fix it. With everything online instead of in books, how can anyone access it to learn anything?
The Horse Keeper is an apocalyptic story but after enough time has passed for humankind to claw its way back up from the destruction. Technology is gone, but a whisper of a hint of something in the past. Horses are necessary for all aspects of life once again and the best of the breeds are worth their weight in gold.
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