The Steel Remains

Zusatztext   "Bold! brutal! and making no compromises—Morgan doesn't so much twist the clichés of fantasy as take an axe to them."—Joe Abercrombie "The award-winning author of Altered Carbon and Market Forces brings the same iconoclastic approach to his fantasy debut as he did to his sf technothrillers. . . . [Richard K.] Morgan's storytelling talent and his atmospheric! hard-hitting prose make this a strong addition to mature fantasy collections."— Library Journal "Spellbinding . . . There's so much to like about the adventure."— Star-Ledger "Morgan has taken traditional sword and sorcery tropes and given them a hard! contemporary kick. The antithesis of the cosy fairytale! this one is for big boys."— Times ! London   "[A] dark! gritty tale . . . The well-developed characters and realistic battle scenes ring true."— Publishers Weekly   Informationen zum Autor Richard K. Morgan Klappentext "Bold, brutal, and making no compromises-Morgan doesn't so much twist the clichés of fantasy as take an axe to them."-Joe AbercrombieA dark lord will rise. Such is the prophecy that dogs Ringil Eskiath-Gil, for short-a washed-up mercenary and onetime war hero whose cynicism is surpassed only by the speed of his sword. Gil is estranged from his aristocratic family, but when his mother enlists his help in freeing a cousin sold into slavery, Gil sets out to track her down. But it soon becomes apparent that more is at stake than the fate of one young woman. Grim sorceries are awakening in the land. Some speak in whispers of the return of the Aldrain, a race of widely feared, cruel yet beautiful demons. Now Gil and two old comrades are all that stand in the way of a prophecy whose fulfillment will drown an entire world in blood. But with heroes like these, the cure is likely to be worse than the disease. Praise for The Steel Remains"The award-winning author of Altered Carbon and Market Forces brings the same iconoclastic approach to his fantasy debut as he did to his sf technothrillers. . . . [Richard K.] Morgan's storytelling talent and his atmospheric, hard-hitting prose make this a strong addition to mature fantasy collections."-Library Journal "Spellbinding . . . There's so much to like about the adventure."-The Star-Ledger "Morgan has taken traditional sword and sorcery tropes and given them a hard, contemporary kick. The antithesis of the cosy fairytale, this one is for big boys."-The Times (London) "[A] dark, gritty tale . . . The well-developed characters and realistic battle scenes ring true."-Publishers Weekly Chapter One When a man you know to be of sound mind tells you his recently deceased mother has just tried to climb in his bedroom window and eat him, you only have two basic options. You can smell his breath, take his pulse, and check his pupils to see if he's ingested anything nasty, or you can believe him. Ringil had already tried the first course of action with Bashka the Schoolmaster and to no avail, so he put down his pint with an elaborate sigh and went to get his broadsword. "Not this again," he was heard to mutter as he pushed through into the residents' bar. A yard and a half of tempered Kiriath steel, Ringil's broadsword hung above the fireplace in a scabbard woven from alloys that men had no names for, though any Kiriath child could have identified them from age five upward. The sword itself also had a name in the Kiriath tongue, as did all Kiriath- forged weapons, but it was an ornate title that lost a lot in translation. "Welcomed in the Home of Ravens and Other Scavengers in the Wake of Warriors" was about as close as Archeth had been able to render it, so Ringil had settled on calling it the Ravensfriend. He didn't like the name especially, but it had the sort of ring people expected of a famous sword—and his landlord, a shrewd man with m...

Product details

• Authors: Richard K Morgan, Richard K. Morgan
• Publisher: Del Rey
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 12.01.2010
• EAN: 9780345493040
• ISBN: 978-0-345-49304-0
• No. of pages: 432
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 234 mm x 24 mm
• Series: A Land Fit for Heroes; A Land Fit for Heroes; Land Fit for Heroes
• Subject: Fiction > Science fiction, fantasy