The novel “The Company of Glory” by Edgar Pangborn was published for the first time in 1974 serialized in the magazine “Galaxy” and in 1975 as a book.

Demetrios still remembers what the world was like before the Twenty Minute War war devastated it. In the post-apocalyptic world born from the ashes of that war, he’s appreciated for his tales of the wonders of the past that are lost. For some, he’s appreciated too much.

The survivors of the apocalypse formed new communities but atomic weapons were only a tool and the negative sides of humanity also survived. New struggles for power happen to take control of the cities and people like Demetrios become a trouble because of the truths they tell. Demetrios and a small group of freedom-loving people have to flee.