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K. J. Parker
Saevus Corax Deals With the...
ISBN: 0-316-66890-7, 978-0-316-66890-3 Год издания: 2023 Издательство: Orbit Язык: Английский Аннотация
There’s no formal training for battlefield salvage. You just have to pick things up as you go along. Swords, armor, arrows – and the bodies, of course.
Over the years, Saevus Corax has picked up a lot of things. Some of them have made him decent money, others have brought nothing but trouble. But it’s a living, and somebody has to deal with the dead.
Something else that Saevus has buried is his past. Unfortunately, he didn’t quite succeed. -
K. J. Parker
A Practical Guide to Conque...
ISBN: 9780316498616 Год издания: 2022 Издательство: Orbit Язык: Английский Аннотация
A Practical Guide to Conquering the World can be read by itself, but for those who like endings it can also be considered the refreshingly pragmatic conclusion to World Fantasy Award-winning author K.J. Parker’s acclaimed sequence of novels that began with Sixteen Ways to Defend a Walled City and continue with How to Rule an Empire and Get Away with It .
This is the true story of Aemilius Felix Boioannes the younger, the intended and unintended consequences of his life, the bad stuff he did on purpose, and the good stuff that happened in spite of him.
It is, in other words, the tale of a war to end all wars, and the man responsible. -
K. J. Parker
Pulling the Wings Off Angels
ISBN: 1250835763 Год издания: 2022 Издательство: Tordotcom Язык: Английский Аннотация
Long ago, a wealthy man stole an angel and hid her in a chapel, where she remains imprisoned to this day. That’s the legend, anyway. A clerical student who’s racked up gambling debts to a local gangster is given an ultimatum—deliver the angel his grandfather kidnapped, or forfeit various body parts in payment. And so begins a whirlwind theological paradox—with…
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К. Дж. Паркер
Шестнадцать способов защиты...
ISBN: 978-5-17-122324-3 Год издания: 2022 Издательство: АСТ Язык: Русский Аннотация
Приближается осада, и у города очень мало времени, чтобы приготовиться. Нет еды, нет оружия, а противник поклялся вырезать всех, кто остался за крепостными стенами. Чтобы спасти город, нужно чудо, но у местных жителей, так получилось, есть только Орхан. Полковник инженерной части, он больше сведущ в постройке мостов, чем в битвах, а еще он — вор и лжец, к тому же по…
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K. J. Parker
How To Rule An Empire and G...
ISBN: 978-0-356-51438-3 Год издания: 2020 Издательство: Orbit Язык: Английский Аннотация
This is the story of how the City was saved, by Notker the professional liar, written down because eventually the truth always seeps through.
The City may be under siege, but everyone still has to make a living. Take Notker, the acclaimed playwright, actor and impresario. Nobody works harder, even when he's not working. Thankfully, it turns out that people appreciate an evening at the theatre even when there are large rocks falling ou -
K. J. Parker
How to Rule an Empire and G...
ISBN: 9780316498678 Год издания: 2020 Издательство: Orbit Язык: Английский Аннотация
This is the story of how the City was saved, by Notker the professional liar, written down because eventually the truth always seeps through. The City may be under siege, but everyone still has to make a living. Take Notker, the acclaimed playwright, actor and impresario. Nobody works harder, even when he's not working. Thankfully, the good citizens of Classis…
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K. J. Parker
Prosper's Demon
ISBN: 9781250260505 Год издания: 2020 Издательство: Tor.com Язык: Английский Аннотация
In the pitch dark, witty fantasy novella Prosper's Demon, K. J. Parker deftly creates a world with vivid, unbending rules, seething with demons, broken faith, and worse men. In a botched demonic extraction, they say the demon feels it ten times worse than the man. But they don’t die, and we do. Equilibrium. The unnamed and morally questionable narrator is an…
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K. J. Parker
Sixteen Ways to Defend a Wa...
ISBN: 0316270792, 9780316270793 Год издания: 2019 Издательство: Orbit Язык: Английский Аннотация
This is the story of Orhan, son of Siyyah Doctus Felix Praeclarissimus, and his history of the Great Siege, written down so that the deeds and sufferings of great men may never be forgotten.
A siege is approaching, and the city has little time to prepare. The people have no food and no weapons, and the enemy has sworn to slaughter them all.
To save the city will take a miracle, but what it has is Orhan. A colonel of engineers, Orhan has far more experience with bridge-building than battles, is a cheat and a liar, and has a serious problem with authority. He is, in other words, perfect for the job. -
K. J. Parker
The Father of Lies
ISBN: 9781596068520 Год издания: 2018 Издательство: Subterranean Press Язык: Английский Аннотация
Bringing together K.J. Parker’s recent novellas and novelettes, totaling over 500 pages of wry, twisty fiction, Father of Lies delves into the arcane as never before. Set amid the world of Parker’s critically acclaimed novels and award winning stories, as well as our own, this volume reveals a side rarely glimpsed in his other works. Contained herein are the tales of creatures that pluck the strings of existence, exposing the seedy underbelly of ultimate power as only Parker can.
It begins with love, as it often does. In The Things We Do for Love, Parker demonstrates the age old proverb ‘be careful what you wish for, you just might get it.’ It continues with a fall from grace, in Downfall of the Gods, where a daughter of heaven unwittingly pits herself against her divine family. Demonic pacts are everywhere, in The Devil You Know, where Parker returns to Saloninus, his iconic character who will finish what he started so many years ago. It ends with a beginning, in No Peace for the Wicked, as a New Pope is chosen to push back the darkness.
Filled with Parker’s hallmark wit and biting humor, Father of Lies is an essential collection, not just for the dedicated fantasist, but for anyone committed to a great story well told. Like all of K.J. Parker's brilliant fiction, these stories whisper the truth.
Just ask yourself, can you trust the Father of Lies? -
K. J. Parker
The Two of Swords: Volume One
ISBN: ISBN-10: 0316177725 (ISBN-13: 978-0316177726) Год издания: 2017 Издательство: Orbit Язык: Английский Аннотация
"Why are we fighting this war? Because evil must be resisted, and sooner or later there comes a time when men of principle have to make a stand. But at this stage in the proceedings," he added, with a slightly lopsided grin, "mostly from force of habit."
A soldier with a gift for archery. A woman who kills without care. Two brothers, both unbeatable generals, now fighting for opposing armies. No one in the vast and once glorious United Empire remains untouched by the rift between East and West, and the war has been fought for as long as anyone can remember. Some still survive who know how it was started, but no one knows how it will end. Except, perhaps, the Two of Swords.
World Fantasy Award-winning author K. J. Parker delivers the first volume of his most ambitious work yet-the story of a war on a grand scale, told through the eyes of soldiers, politicians, victims, and heroes.