A man awakens in a rain-slicked field in what appears to be medieval England with nothing but a few scraps of scorched paper and a total lack of memory. He does not know his name, his profession, or why his clothing seems to be from a century far in the future. As he navigates a landscape of mud, iron-age politics, and local superstition, he is forced to reconstruct his identity from zero while evading a group of high-tech pursuers who clearly know more about his past than he does.

The central conflict hinges on the tension between the protagonist’s desperate need for survival and the piecemeal revelations provided by the fragments of a guidebook. This manual, "The Frugal Wizard’s Handbook for Surviving Medieval England," suggests that the world around him is not a historical recreation, ...

A man awakens in a rain-slicked field in what appears to be medieval England with nothing but a few scraps of scorched paper and a total lack of memory. He does not know his name, his profession, or why his clothing seems to be from a century far in the future. As he navigates a landscape of mud, iron-age politics, and local superstition, he is forced to reconstruct his identity from zero while evading a group of high-tech pursuers who clearly know more about his past than he does.

The central conflict hinges on the tension between the protagonist’s desperate need for survival and the piecemeal revelations provided by the fragments of a guidebook. This manual, "The Frugal Wizard’s Handbook for Surviving Medieval England," suggests that the world around him is not a historical recreation, ...