Morlock Ambrosius Has Arrived!

James Enge’s Blood of Ambrose is now in stock at Amazon,and at B&N.com. Brick and mortar stores will soon follow!

“James Enge’s work is like Conan as written by Raymond Chandler: rich, witty, aware of its genre’s traditions but not bound by them, with a new surprise of plot or turn of phrase every moment.” —Paul Cornell, Hugo-nominated writer of Doctor Who and Marvel comics

Behind the king’s life stands the menacing Protector, and beyond him lies the Protector’s Shadow…

Centuries after the death of Uthar the Great, the throne of the Ontilian Empire lies vacant. The late emperor’s brother-in-law and murderer, Lord Urdhven, appoints himself Protector to his nephew, young King Lathmar VII and sets out to kill anyone who stands between himself and mastery of the empire, including (if he can manage it) the king himself and his ancient but still formidable ancestress, Ambrosia Viviana.

When Ambrosia is accused of witchcraft and put to trial by combat, she is forced to play her trump card and call on her brother, Morlock Ambrosius—stateless person, master of all magical makers, deadly swordsman, and hopeless drunk.

As ministers of the king, they carry on the battle, magical and mundane, against the Protector and his shadowy patron. But all their struggles will be wasted unless the young king finds the strength to rule in his own right and his own name.

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Free Online Reading: James Enge’s "A Book of Silences"

April will see the release of James Enge’s swords & sorcery novel, Blood of Ambrose,an epic work featuring Morlock Ambrosius, wandering swordsman and master of all magical makers. The book is a stand-alone adventure, but Morlock returns in the (already-delivered) follow-up, This Crooked Way, and we’ve just signed for a third Morlock novel, the wonderfully-titled The Wolf Age. But Morlock Ambrosius already has a significant following, as Enge has been chronicling his adventures in short fiction for some time prior to his novel debut. One such tale,”A Book of Silences,” first appeared in the pages of Black Gate magazine. We are pleased to reprint it in its entirety at the Pyr Sample Chapters page. What’s more, we will shortly be presenting “Fire and Sleet,” which follows directly on the events of “A Book of Silences” and is an original novelette that will debut at the Pyr website for the first time anywhere. So, read and enjoy!

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BSFA Award Shortlist Discussion

Readers of this blog who live near, or will be travelling to, London next Wednesday (25 March) might be interested in that evening’s discussion of the four BSFA Award shortlisted titles featuring Jon Courtenay Grimwood, Alastair Reynolds and myself hosted by the BSFA themselves. The three of us have been asked to consider the great question “What do the BSFA Awards mean to you?” in The Antelope (22 Eaton Terrace, London, SW1W 8EZ) from 6pm onward. All welcome: there’s no entry fee or tickets and BSFA non-members are just as welcome as members.

Regarding the titles on the BSFA shortlist, I have previously expatiated online, here, here, here and here.

Nearest Tube: Sloane Square.

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Books Sold: James Enge’s The Wolf Age

As SFScope, agent Michael Kabongo, and the author himself have already reported, we’ve just completed an agreement with James Enge (via the OnyxHawke agency), to publish a third Morlock Ambrosius novel, this one titled The Wolf Age. The Wolf Age is a third stand-alone adventure featuring his wandering swordsman/master maker Morlock, after the forthcoming This Crooked Way, and the coming-really-soon Blood of Ambrose.

These novels are swords & sorcery at its best, and I’m eager to unleash Morlock on the wider world. Meanwhile, there are a host of Morlock Ambrosius shorts and previews online and aggregated here.

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Nuts & Bolts: Tom Lloyd

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Genreville’s Rose Fox posts Nuts & Bolts: Tom Lloyd today. This interview with the author of The Twilight Heraldwas conducted back when his first novel, The Stormcaller,was just coming out, so we are very glad to see it finally posted.

Here’s a taste: “The idea evolved over several years. I’d had the first scene stuck in my head for a while, a dream originally, so it was the natural start for the book, but I didn’t actually have a plot to begin with. When I started writing I just started sketching out ideas for the world and how I’d like it to be populated. I’ve always loved the quarrelsome gods of Norse mythology and decided that I wanted more involvement from gods than most books I’d read.”

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