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When terrorists succeed and the world oil spigot is turned off it is a world wide disaster. Now two, possibly three hundred years after the end of civilization Rory's new world is slowly rediscovering some of the knowledge of the "ancients". A major problem in this new Dark Age is a population imbalance; there are too few females. Nothing will be ever be like it was before.