The Steel Remains: This is fantasy - just harder, faster and bloodier

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title The Steel Remains: This is fantasy - just harder, faster and bloodier
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Richard Morgan
SeriesLand Fit for Heroes
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:400
Dimensions(mm): Height 198,Width 128
Category/GenreFantasy
ISBN/Barcode 9780575084810
ClassificationsDewey:823.92
Audience
General

Publishing Details

Publisher Orion Publishing Co
Imprint Gollancz
Publication Date 9 July 2009
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

Ringil, the hero of the bloody slaughter at Gallows Gap is a legend to all who don't know him and a twisted degenerate to those that do. A veteran of the wars against the lizards he makes a living from telling credulous travellers of his exploits. Until one day he is pulled away from his life and into the depths of the Empire's slave trade. Where he will discover a secret infinitely more frightening than the trade in lives. Archeth - pragmatist, cynic and engineer, the last of her race - is called from her work at the whim of the most powerful man in the Empire and sent to its farthest reaches to investigate a demonic incursion against the Empire's borders. Egar Dragonbane, steppe-nomad, one-time fighter for the Empire finds himself entangled in a small-town battle between common sense and religious fervour. But out in the wider world there is something on the move far more alien than any of his tribe's petty gods. Anti-social, anti-heroic and decidedly irritated, all three of them are about to be sent unwillingly forth into a vicious, vigorous and thoroughly unsuspecting fantasy world. Called upon by an Empire that owes them everything and gave them nothing.

Author Biography

Richard Morgan is 39 and was, until his writing career took off, a tutor at Strathclyde University in the English Language Teaching division. he has travelled wiely and lived in Spain and Istanbul. He is a fluent Spanish speaker. he is married and lives in Glasgow.