K. J Parker
Author
Series
Corax trilogy volume 3
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
If you're going to get ahead in the battlefield salvage business, you have to regard death as a means to an end. In other words, when the blood flows, so will the cash. Unfortunately, even though war is on the way, Saevus Corax has had enough. There are two things he has to do before he can enjoy his retirement: get away with one last score, and get away with murder. For someone who, ironically, tends to make a mess wherever he goes, leaving his affairs...
Author
Publisher
Subterranean Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"As the ironic title indicates, Parker's latest tells the story of an individual life that takes extraordinary turns. As the story begins, the nameless, dying narrator takes us back to his childhood home in a remote corner of the ubiquitous Empire. The second of three sons, he lives there with his mother in a state of unrelieved poverty. Life eventually becomes so dire that the mother -- who can only find work as a prostitute -- is forced to sell...
Author
Publisher
Subterranean Press
Pub. Date
c2014
Language
English
Description
Academic Exercises is the first collection of shorter work by master novelist K. J. Parker, and it is a stunner. Weighing in at over 500 pages, this generous volume gathers together thirteen highly distinctive stories, essays, and novellas, including the recent World Fantasy Award-winner, "Let Maps to Others". The result is a significant publishing event, a book that belongs on the shelf of every serious reader of imaginative fiction.--provided by...
Author
Publisher
Subterranean Press
Pub. Date
©2017
Language
English
Description
"An Imperial legate is called in to see his aunt, who just happens to be the empress running the civilized world while her husband's in his sick bed. After some chastisement, she dispatches her nephew to take care of the dreaded Land and Sea Raiders, pirates who've been attacking the realm's monasteries. So begins a possibly dommed tour of banished relatives and pompous royals put in charge of monasteries like Cort Doce and Cort Malestan, to name...
25) The long game
Author
Publisher
Subterranean Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
The unnamed narrator of The Long Game is an Adept, a member of an Ecclesiastical order charged, among other things, with opposing a race of immaterial demons, creatures capable of possessing and controlling human minds. Complicating the narrator's life is the fact that, over time, he has developed a cordial "relationship" with one of the demons. Complicating matters further is the unexpected arrival of Amalasomtha, a young woman with impossible abilities...
26) The big score
Author
Series
Saloninus volume 3
Publisher
Subterranean Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Saloninus is a man with two distinct professions. In idle moments, he dashes off immortal masterpieces philosophical treatises, musical compositions, dramas of Shakespearean range and depth - that never manage to turn a profit. His primary profession - that of thief, grifter and itinerant con man - is equally unprofitable, and he spends his life in constant flight from the encroaching forces of the law. The story opens in the aftermath of Saloninus's...
27) Savages
Author
Publisher
Subterranean Press
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
An unnamed man wakes to find himself facing the loss of everything that matters most to him. Against all odds, he escapes with his life and heads out into the trubulence of the wider world, recreating himself, step by step, as he goes along. That wider world is dominated by an empire that has existed for decades in a state of near perpetual war. A host of colorful characters will help to shape the destiny of the empire, and its constantly shifting...
29) The company
Author
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
Hoping for a better life, five war veterans colonize an abandoned island. They take with them everything they could possibly need: food, clothes, tools, weapons, even wives. But an unanticipated discovery shatters their dream and replaces it with a very different one. The colonists feel sure that their friendship will keep them together. Only then do they begin to realize that they've brought with them rather more than they bargained for.
30) Purple and black
Author
Publisher
Subterranean Press
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
"When his father, brothers and uncles wiped each other out in a murderous civil war, Nicephorus was forced to leave the University and become emperor. Seventy-seven emperors had met violent deaths over the past hundred years, most of them murdered by their own soldiers. Hardly unsurprising, then, that Nico should want to fill the major offices of state with the only people he knew he could trust, his oldest and closest friends. But there's danger...
Author
Publisher
Subterranean Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
A collection of stories and novellas set in the world of Parker's fantasy novels, including one with his most iconic character, the philospher Saloninus -- the greatest liar, trickster, and cheat the world has ever known -- who will finally finish what he started many years ago.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
The first season of the Tor.com Collection includes the following Tor.com audiobooks originally published separately in the Fall of 2015:
• The Sorcerer of the Wildeeps by Kai Ashante Wilson
• Witches of Lychford by Paul Cornell
• Sunset Mantle by Alter S. Reiss
• Binti by Nnedi Okorafor (2016 Hugo award winner for Best Novella)
• The Last Witness by K.J. Parker
• Of Sorrow & Such by Angela Slatter
• Envy of Angels by Matt Wallace
•...
Publisher
Solaris
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
A fascinating collection of new and classic tales of the fearsome Djinn, from bestselling, award-winning and breakthrough international writers. Imagine a world filled with fierce, fiery beings, hiding in our shadows, in our dreams, under our skins. Eavesdropping and exploring; savaging our bodies, saving our souls. They are monsters, saviours, victims, childhood friends. Some have called them genies: these are the Djinn. There is no part of the world...