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Del Rey
April 2011
On Sale: March 22, 2011
368 pages ISBN: 0345493060 EAN: 9780345493064 Kindle: B003F3FJZK Hardcover / e-Book
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Fiction Family Life | Thriller
With The Steel Remains, award-winning science fiction
writer Richard K. Morgan turned his talents to sword and
sorcery. The result: a genre-busting masterwork hailed as a
milestone in contemporary epic fantasy. Now Morgan continues
the riveting saga of Ringil Eskiath—Gil, for short—a
peerless warrior whose love for other men has made him an
outcast and pariah. Only a select few have earned the right to call Gil friend.
One is Egar, the Dragonbane, a fierce Majak fighter who
comes to respect a heart as savage and loyal as his own.
Another is Archeth, the last remaining daughter of an
otherworldly race called the Kiriath, who once used their
advanced technology to save the world from the dark magic of
the Aldrain—only to depart for reasons as mysterious as
their arrival. Yet even Egar and Archeth have learned to
fear the doom that clings to their friend like a grim shadow
. . . or the curse of a bitter god. Now one of the Kiriath’s uncanny machine intelligences has
fallen from orbit—with a message that humanity faces a grave
new danger (or, rather, an ancient one): a creature called
the Illwrack Changeling, a boy raised to manhood in the
ghostly between-world realm of the Grey Places, home to the
Aldrain. A human raised as one of them—and, some say, the
lover of one of their greatest warriors—until, in a time
lost to legend, he was vanquished. Wrapped in sorcerous
slumber, hidden away on an island that drifts between this
world and the Grey Places, the Illwrack Changeling is
stirring. And when he wakes, the Aldrain will rally to him
and return in force—this time without the Kiriath to stop them. An expedition is outfitted for the long and arduous sea
journey to find the lost island of the Illwrack Changeling.
Aboard are Gil, Egar, and Archeth: each fleeing from ghosts
of the past, each seeking redemption in whatever lies ahead.
But redemption doesn’t come cheap these days. Nor, for that
matter, does survival. Not even for Ringil Eskiath. Or
anyone—god or mortal—who would seek to use him as a pawn.
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