Endworld is a best-selling science fiction

Science fiction

Science fiction is a genre of fiction dealing with imaginary but more or less plausible content such as future settings, futuristic science and technology, space travel, aliens, and paranormal abilities...

 series by David L. Robbins. The first book was published in 1986. There have been 28 novels so far. David Robbins also wrote a 13 novel sequel to Endworld called Blade.

Endworld is post-apocalyptic fiction. It details the efforts of a survivalist group called The Family to endure in a world overrun with horrors spawned by a global conflict involving nuclear, biological and chemical weapons.

Endworld is notable for its themes

Theme (literature)

A theme is a broad, message, or moral of a story. The message may be about life, society, or human nature. Themes often explore timeless and universal ideas and are almost always implied rather than stated explicitly. Along with plot, character,...

. One of the most obvious is its emphasis on the family and the home as the foundations of civilization.

Endworld also has a distinct political subtext. In many of the novels, the Family's protectors, known as the Warriors, travel to cites and territories where different forms of government hold sway. Democracy, communism, aristocracy, technocracy, metrocracy, theocracy, autocracy, oligarchy, hierarchy and more are shown as various post-war societies---and what those societies have done to the people they control.

But perhaps Endworld's most notable theme is its examination of the warrior ethos. Each warrior stands as an archetype of a particular warrior ethic. For example, there is Geronimo, who represents the Native American warrior. There is Rikki, who typifies the martial spirit of the samurai

Samurai

is the term for the military nobility of pre-industrial Japan. According to translator William Scott Wilson: "In Chinese, the character 侍 was originally a verb meaning to wait upon or accompany a person in the upper ranks of society, and this is also true of the original term in Japanese, saburau...

. There is Ares, the purist devoted to war. There is Yama, who takes it one step further and seeks to become the personification of Death. There is Samson, the warrior who fights for God. And there is Blade, the 'everyman' warrior. All told, there are eighteen warriors, male and female, human, hybrid and mutant

Mutant

In biology and especially genetics, a mutant is an individual, organism, or new genetic character, arising or resulting from an instance of mutation, which is a base-pair sequence change within the DNA of a gene or chromosome of an organism resulting in the creation of a new character or trait not...

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Novels

1. The Fox Run
   The Fox Run
   The Fox Run is a novel that was written by David L. Robbins in 1986. It is the first novel in the Endworld series, and was published by Leisure Books....
   
   (1986)
2. Thief River Falls Run
   Thief River Falls Run
   Thief River Falls Run is a science fiction novel written in 1986 by David L. Robbins. It is the second book in the Endworld series and was published by Leisure Books....
   
   (1986)
3. Twin Cities Run (1986)
4. Kalispell Run (1987)
5. Dakota Run (1987)
6. Citadel Run (1987)
7. Armageddon Run (1987)
8. Denver Run (1987)
9. Capital Run (1988)
10. New York Run (1988)
11. Liberty Run (1988)
12. Houston Run (1988)
13. Anaheim Run (1988)
14. Seattle Run (1988)
15. Nevada Run (1989)
16. Miami Run (1989)
17. Atlanta Run (1989)
18. Memphis Run (1989)
19. Cincinnati Run (1989)
20. Dallas Run (1990)
21. Boston Run (1990)
22. Green Bay Run (1990)
23. Yellowstone Run (1990)
24. New Orleans Run (1991)
25. Spartan Run (1991)
26. Madman Run (1991)
27. Chicago Run (1991)
28. Doomsday (2009)