Have you ever heard of the The Society for Creative Anachronism or perhaps been to a Renaissance Festival? Imagine a future where the SCA owns a large valley in California. If you choose to live there you step back in time to the middle ages, not the way they were, but the way they should have been (indoor plumbing for starters). A murderer on the run from the police gets fake id papers and joins the community. Will he be able to climb the social ladder without giving himself away? Phil Farmer began this novel in the early 1970s, writing the first chapters and an outline of the remainder, and his grand-nephew Danny Adams finished writing the story in 2005.