Brian Ruckley, Author . Orbit $14.99 (541p) ISBN 978-0-316-06769-0
Scottish author Ruckley’s outstanding fantasy debut, the first installment of the Godless World trilogy, introduces a sprawling realm abandoned by the gods after two races united to destroy a third. The peoples left behind struggle with...
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Brian Ruckley, Author Orbit $14.99 (531p) ISBN 978-0-316-06770-6
This awkward middle volume, the second installment of Ruckley's Godless World trilogy (after 2007's acclaimed Winterbirth
), lacks the thematic impact and emotional intensity of its predecessor. As the armies of the Black Road, a...
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Brian Ruckley. Orbit, $14.99 trade paper (368p) ISBN 978-0-31607-996-9
Scottish fantasy author Ruckley (the Godless World trilogy) ventures successfully into the gothic with this horrific thriller set in 1828. When an unidentified man is savaged to death, apparently by a wild beast, in Old Town, an impoverished...
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Brian Ruckley. Orbit, $15 trade paper (480p) ISBN 978-0-316-23349-1
Ruckley’s tightly focused return to epic fantasy, wherein history and mythology gradually emerge with logical precision, is mesmerizing, magical, and human. Yulan is the leader of a legendary and weary band of mercenaries known as the Free....
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