Any help you can provide, greatly appreciated. I don't remember the title, I thought it might be , "The Last Citadel", but now I don't think so...but the story begins in Victorian England where a gentleman somehow forms a physic connection to a future descendant in the far future. The story quickly moves out of Victorian England after a chapter or two.
The story shifts to a future where, at some point, scientists inadvertently had opened a portal to another world. Many strange and terrible animals and things came through. As a result, the world is vastly changed. Humans live in great citadels. Some of the creatures from the other world have the ability to affect human minds, but in the citadels, I think, some type of electrical barrier helps to keep the humans safe from being mind manipulated and misled into opening gates to allow the creatures in. There are farming activities in the citadel and anything needed has to be produced within the confines of the citadel.
The story centers around the last citadel. The main character, in the future, is lamenting the impending loss of another citadel, which is not responding to, I think, radio calls, to that citadel. The main character goes on a journey across a fantastic landscape to see what happened to that citadel, and his had a lady love there. He finds that he is too late to help save that citadel, but he does manage to find his lady and rescue her. They then journey back to his home citadel where that citadel is losing it's fresh water supply, but I don't remember how the story ends. I think I read this paperback novel in the early 1990's.
Once out of the Victorian era, the future description of the earth and what has happened to it is very compelling as a road trip type of story, although he is walking. At one point he travels through a place of relative peace, where it is tropical, and simple humans or something like humans live, but there is a raft and a fight and I believe he is injured for a time. Most of the world he travels through is very desolate with danger everywhere and a foreboding sense of evil, including a strange house.
The story shifts to a future where, at some point, scientists inadvertently had opened a portal to another world. Many strange and terrible animals and things came through. As a result, the world is vastly changed. Humans live in great citadels. Some of the creatures from the other world have the ability to affect human minds, but in the citadels, I think, some type of electrical barrier helps to keep the humans safe from being mind manipulated and misled into opening gates to allow the creatures in. There are farming activities in the citadel and anything needed has to be produced within the confines of the citadel.
The story centers around the last citadel. The main character, in the future, is lamenting the impending loss of another citadel, which is not responding to, I think, radio calls, to that citadel. The main character goes on a journey across a fantastic landscape to see what happened to that citadel, and his had a lady love there. He finds that he is too late to help save that citadel, but he does manage to find his lady and rescue her. They then journey back to his home citadel where that citadel is losing it's fresh water supply, but I don't remember how the story ends. I think I read this paperback novel in the early 1990's.
Once out of the Victorian era, the future description of the earth and what has happened to it is very compelling as a road trip type of story, although he is walking. At one point he travels through a place of relative peace, where it is tropical, and simple humans or something like humans live, but there is a raft and a fight and I believe he is injured for a time. Most of the world he travels through is very desolate with danger everywhere and a foreboding sense of evil, including a strange house.
