Books by Paul Kearney and Complete Book Reviews
Paul Kearney, Author . Bantam Spectra $12 (303p) ISBN 978-0-553-38361-4
In this gritty fantasy swashbuckler from Kearney (Hawkwood's Voyage
), the first in a new series, the inhabitants of Umer, a world forsaken by its creator, live passionately, with no hope of life after death. Legends speak of an elder race, the...
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Paul Kearney, Author . Bantam Spectra $12 (317p) ISBN 978-0-553-38363-8
At the start of Kearney's rousing sequel to The Mark of Ran
(2005), Rol Cortishane, the youthful captain of the privateer Revenant
, captures a slaver and frees its chained slaves. Back in the harbor of Ganesh Ka in the land of Umer, Rol...
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Paul Kearney, Author . Solaris $7.99 (473p) ISBN 978-1-84416-573-5
Kearney (This Forsaken Earth
) retells Xenophon’s Anabasis
with great attention to detail but little novelty. The Macht, a race of mercenaries, are hired to sail across the oceans and serve as a conquering army for Arkamenes, who is bent on...
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Paul Kearney. Solaris, $7.99 mass market (416p) ISBN 978-1-781-08189-1
Exquisite prose meets paint-by-numbers fantasy in this reissue of Kearney's 1992 novel. Newly widowed author Michael Riven finds himself drawn into the world he created, and learns that only by saving that world can he save himself. If the premise...
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