Matches in DBpedia 2016-04 for { ?s ?p "The Sword of the Spirits is the unofficial title of a trilogy of young adult novels written by Sam Youd under his pseudonym John Christopher. The stories are set in the South of England in a post-apocalyptic future where, due to a worldwide ecological (not military) catastrophe, life has reverted to a militaristic, medieval setting of walled cities and perpetual warfare. Christians are a despised minority, as spiritual matters are in the hands of a priestly class of monastic \"Seers\" who interpret the will of the \"Spirits\". There are signs of the past existence of the modern world in the ruins of great cities and \"high roads\" which dot the harsh landscape, but the Seers have made the technology of the \"ancients\" anathema, and anyone dabbling in \"Science\" is immediately put to death.The catastrophe has also resulted in a greatly increased number of birth defects. People with dwarfism constitute a separate caste to \"true\" men and fulfill the mythical role of forging weaponry, along with other metal work. People called \"polymufs\", who have other disfiguring mutations, are the lowest caste, as menial workers and wage slaves, regardless of whether they are actually physically or mentally disabled."@en }
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- Sword_of_the_Spirits abstract "The Sword of the Spirits is the unofficial title of a trilogy of young adult novels written by Sam Youd under his pseudonym John Christopher. The stories are set in the South of England in a post-apocalyptic future where, due to a worldwide ecological (not military) catastrophe, life has reverted to a militaristic, medieval setting of walled cities and perpetual warfare. Christians are a despised minority, as spiritual matters are in the hands of a priestly class of monastic \"Seers\" who interpret the will of the \"Spirits\". There are signs of the past existence of the modern world in the ruins of great cities and \"high roads\" which dot the harsh landscape, but the Seers have made the technology of the \"ancients\" anathema, and anyone dabbling in \"Science\" is immediately put to death.The catastrophe has also resulted in a greatly increased number of birth defects. People with dwarfism constitute a separate caste to \"true\" men and fulfill the mythical role of forging weaponry, along with other metal work. People called \"polymufs\", who have other disfiguring mutations, are the lowest caste, as menial workers and wage slaves, regardless of whether they are actually physically or mentally disabled.".