Contents • • • • • • • • • • • Backstory [ ] In AD 2015, the old world was destroyed in a nuclear war, known in the books variously as 'The Holocaust' and 'The War of a Thousand Suns'. The United States and were involved in this nuclear war but who fired the first shot is not known. The resulting war lasted only a few hours, but between the nuclear exchange and the years of that followed, the overwhelming majority of the human race was annihilated. The most organised band of survivors were the Amtrak Federation. Four hundred American citizens survived the nuclear war in a vast underground bunker beneath. They established additional underground bunker-cities (known as divisional bases) linked by a.

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Ruled by a self-perpetuating dynasty known as the First Family, the Federation expanded slowly in numbers and territory. By AD 2989, when the novels begin, the Federation sprawls across much of the south of the United States, from and to. It is technologically advanced, employing and ', massive, 600-foot-long vehicles that act as land-based and mobile HQs for heavily armed personnel.

Statistical Techniques Statistical Mechanics. The Amtrak Wars is a series of novels written by British author Patrick Tilley. The series is a post-apocalyptic science fiction with some fantasy elements such as the existence of magic. Six novels and an illustrated companion guidebook were published between 1983 and 1990, with additional books planned but never.

The Federation's personnel are heavily susceptible to above-ground and rarely live past their fortieth birthdays as a result. Ordinary citizens of the United States who managed to survive the nuclear war and adapt to the radiation mutated into a clan-based warrior society known as the Mutes. Adopting a warrior ethos and tribal society similar to, the Mutes are primitive, employing spears and knives in combat. They are affected by a variety of radiation-induced infirmities, such as somewhat short-term memories and deformities varying in severity by individual. There are exceptions, Mutes with excellent recall who keep the tribe's traditions alive through an oral tradition of story-telling. These Mutes are known as wordsmiths.

The Mutes would not present a significant threat to the Federation's vastly superior technology and weapons except for the existence of Mutes known as 'seers', who can foresee their moves, and 'summoners', who can use magical forces that the Federation has no defence against. The Federation leadership does not publicly acknowledge the existence of Mute magic and outlaws all discussion of its existence, to the anger of front-line combat veterans, who have seen it in action. The third major surviving faction is known as the Iron Masters, though they refer to themselves as the Sons of. According to their legends, the Iron Masters fled the destruction of their homeland of in vast floating cities that drifted into Antarctic waters and then up into the, eventually landing on the of the former United States.

They founded a country known as the Shogunate of Ne-Issan, stretching from to and inland as far as the and. The Iron Masters have developed and great steam-powered ships, but custom, religion and political decree forbids them from developing technology based on the 'Dark Light' (). Due to the growing threat of the Amtrak Federation, some Iron Masters believe that without embracing the Dark Light, their nation stands little chance against the Federation's superior technology and will be destroyed, but official policy is to maintain the edict. Plot summary [ ] In AD 2989, a 17-year-old, newly qualified Amtrak pilot named Steve Brickman joins the Lady from Louisiana, a wagon-train in its first major assault on the Plainfolk Mutes.