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The Sword of Happenstance by Steven Brust, Skyler White
From the best selling, award winning, masters of fantasy, comes a charming story about a prince who wasn't, a king …
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From the best selling, award winning, masters of fantasy, comes a charming story about a prince who wasn't, a king …
Told from the perspective of a rather stick-in-the-mud assistant investigator to a genius detective who has been banished to the hinterlands for unspecified faux pas against powerful people of the Empire, we follow as their investigation goes from strange to dangerous as it threatens powerful people and the very walls the Empire is founded on.
The primary conceit for the universe he creates this time is that genetic alterations are but a flask of chemicals away and the whole Empire is largely run by various highly modified individuals. The narrator has just been given his first modification, making him an engraver, which means he has perfect memory of anything he views or hears or smells. He is the eyes and ears for the investigator, relaying the physical clues to her from which she deduces the rest.
Strongly recommended read! Really well plotted, great characters and a fascinating world for them …
Told from the perspective of a rather stick-in-the-mud assistant investigator to a genius detective who has been banished to the hinterlands for unspecified faux pas against powerful people of the Empire, we follow as their investigation goes from strange to dangerous as it threatens powerful people and the very walls the Empire is founded on.
The primary conceit for the universe he creates this time is that genetic alterations are but a flask of chemicals away and the whole Empire is largely run by various highly modified individuals. The narrator has just been given his first modification, making him an engraver, which means he has perfect memory of anything he views or hears or smells. He is the eyes and ears for the investigator, relaying the physical clues to her from which she deduces the rest.
Strongly recommended read! Really well plotted, great characters and a fascinating world for them to run around and get in trouble in.
An eccentric detective and her long-suffering assistant untangle a web of magic, deceit, and murder in this sparkling fantasy reimagining …
An eccentric detective and her long-suffering assistant untangle a web of magic, deceit, and murder in this sparkling fantasy reimagining …
A good read about end of the world problems in his Craft work universe, but I feel like I almost should have reread all his past stuff before reading it b/c he practically brought back every single character from anything he’s written before and I was having trouble even remembering them let alone everything they’d been through in previous works.
All her life, Kyr has trained for the day she can avenge the destruction of planet Earth. Raised on Gaea …
All her life, Kyr has trained for the day she can avenge the destruction of planet Earth. Raised on Gaea …
All her life, Kyr has trained for the day she can avenge the destruction of planet Earth. Raised on Gaea …
It kind of feels like a couple of authors in recent years have taken up the challenge of John Steakley’s amazing book Armor, and L M Sagas definitely joins them. A fierce, tight-knit crew comprised of an AI spaceship, a retired soldier and a fixit girl (both ships and humans) accidentally (or maybe not so) take on a new passenger and promptly stumble into a whole bunch of crazy intertwined mysteries while dealing with old wounds.
A great read with fun characters. Well worth the time if you like a good action story with fun heroes.
Viv’s career with the renowned mercenary company Rackam’s Ravens isn’t going as planned. Wounded during the hunt for a powerful …
Viv’s career with the renowned mercenary company Rackam’s Ravens isn’t going as planned. Wounded during the hunt for a powerful …
Viv’s career with the renowned mercenary company Rackam’s Ravens isn’t going as planned. Wounded during the hunt for a powerful …
Fetter was raised to kill, honed as a knife to cut down his sainted father. This gave him plenty to …