Лучшие книги К. Дж. Паркера

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 самым разным причинам не слишком любит собственное командование. В общем, идеальный кандидат для такой работы. Ведь история далеко не всегда плод великих и благородных дел. Иногда приходится тяжело поработать и кое-кого обвести вокруг пальца.

Добро пожаловать в мир, где в славной столице Перимадее исход судебных разбирательств решают адвокаты — наемные фехтовальщики, силою клинка доказывающие правоту своих нанимателей... В мир, где магия — это прежде всего природный дар изменять реальность. В мир, судьба которого сейчас висит на волоске. Потому что у кланов равнинных варваров, издавна мечтавших покорить Перимадею, появился новый вождь — полководец, равных коему нет и не было. И теперь спасти родной город от натиска кочевников может лишь один-единственный человек — Бардас Лордан, лучший, легендарнейший из адвокатов Перимадеи.

'Well, let me see,' I said, as the innkeeper poured me a beer. 'In the morning I discovered the secret of changing base metal into gold. In the afternoon, I murdered my wife.'

For a man as remarkable as the philosopher Saloninus, just another day.

Of course, we only have his word for it, and Saloninus has been known to be creative with the truth. Little white lies are inevitable expedients when you're one jump ahead of the secret police and on the brink of one of the greatest discoveries in the history of alchemy. But why would a scientist with the world's most generous, forgiving patron be so desperate to run away? And what, if anything, has blue got to do with gold?

При сдаче выпускного экзамена молодой волшебник не набрал достаточно баллов, чтобы остаться при школе и заниматься наукой. Ему пришлось заняться полевой работой — оказывать магические услуги крестьянам. Однажды волшебника попросили помочь упокоить мертвеца, который по ночам убивает животных и людей.

Добро пожаловать в один из оригинальнейших миров "меча и магии" за всю историю фэнтези! В мир, где в славной столице Перимадее исход судебных разбирательств решают АДВОКАТЫ - наемные фехтовальщики, силою клинка доказывающие правоту своих нанимателей... В мир, где высоким боевым искусством восстанавливает справедливость легендарнейший из адвокатов - Бардас Лордан. Однажды Бардас спас Перимадею от нашествия варваров-кочевников. Но теперь ему придется сражаться с ИНЫМИ врагами... в войне этой не будет ни правил, ни чести, ни правых, ни виноватых. Только - погибшие и уцелевшие...

Добро пожаловать в один из оригинальнейших миров "меча и магии" за всю историю фэитези! В мир, где в славной столице Перимадее исход судебных разбирательств решают АДВОКАТЫ - наемные фехтовальщики, силою клинка доказывающие правоту своих нанимателей... В мир, где живет - и. бьется - Бардас Лордан, легендарнейший из адвокатов Перимадеи. Теперь клинок и воинский талант Бардаса продаются за звонкое золото - и лучшую цену предлагает далекая могущественная Империя Сынов Солнца, ведущая долгую жестокую войну с дикарями-кочевниками. Но, увы, именно эта война может оказаться для великого бойца - ПОСЛЕДНЕЙ... Здесь ему не поможет никто. Здесь…

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 exorcist with great follow-through and few doubts. His methods aren’t delicate but they’re undeniably effective: he’ll get the demon out—he just doesn’t particularly care what happens to the person.

Prosper of Schanz is a man of science, determined to raise the world’s first philosopher-king, reared according to the purest principles. Too bad he’s demonically possessed.

Добро пожаловать в один из оригинальнейших миров «меча и магии» за всю историю фэнтези! В мир, где в славной столице Перимадее исход судебных разбирательств решают АДВОКАТЫ — наемные фехтовальщики, силою клинка доказывающие правоту своих нанимателей… В мир, где магия — это прежде всего природный дар изменять реальность. В мир, которому угрожает множество опасностей — от равнинных варваров-кочевников до плетущих темные, тайные интриги царедворцев. И спасти этот мир в силах лишь один-единственный человек — Бардас Лордан, легендарнейший из адвокатов Перимадеи, боец, продающий за звонкое золото свой клинок — но не свою воинскую честь!..

When you need a memory to be wiped, call me.

Transferring unwanted memories to my own mind is the only form of magic I've ever mastered. But now, I'm holding so many memories I'm not always sure which ones are actually mine, any more.

Some of them are sensitive; all of them are private. And there are those who are willing to kill to access the secrets I'm trying to bury...

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 the student at its center—in which the stakes are the necessity of God, the existence of destiny—and the nature of angels.

A new stand-alone novel from the acclaimed author of The Company and The Folding Knife.

Gignomai is the youngest brother in the current generation of met'Oc, a once-noble family exiled on an island for their role in a vaguely remembered civil war.

On this island, a colony was founded seventy years ago. The plan was originally for the colonists to mine silver, but there turned out not to be any.

Now, an uneasy peace exists on the island, between the colonists and the met'Oc. The met'Oc are tolerated, in spite of occasional cattle stealing raids, since they alone possess the weapons considered necessary protection against the island's savages.

Gignomai is about to discover exactly what it is expected of him, and what it means to defy his family. He is the hammer who will provide the spark that will ignite a brutal and bloody war.

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 appreciate an evening at the theatre even when there are large rocks falling out of the sky.

But Notker is a man of many talents, and all the world is, apparently, a stage. It seems that the Empire needs him - or someone who looks a lot like him - for a role that will call for the performance of a lifetime. At least it will guarantee fame, fortune and immortality. If it doesn't kill him first.

The greatest philosopher of all time is offering to sell his soul to the Devil. All he wants is twenty more years to complete his life’s work. After that, he really doesn’t care.

But the assistant demon assigned to the case has his suspicions, because the philosopher is Saloninus – the greatest philosopher, yes, but also the greatest liar, trickster and cheat the world has yet known; the sort of man even the Father of Lies can’t trust.

He’s almost certainly up to something; but what?

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.

K.J. Parker received critical acclaim for his Fencer Trilogy, and "Shadow" is the first book in the Scavenger Trilogy--a series that takes fantasy fiction into remarkable new territory. A man wakes in the wilderness, amid scattered corpses and inquisitive crows. He has no memory of who he is or how he came to be there. The only clues to his former existence lie in his apparent skill with a sword and the fragmented dreams that permeate his sleep.

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's new novel is a perfectly executed tale of intrigue and deception. For the first time in nearly forty years, an uneasy truce has been called between two neighbouring kingdoms. The war has been long and brutal, fought over the usual things: resources, land, money... Now, there is a chance for peace. Diplomatic talks have begun and with them, the games. Two teams of fencers represent their nations at this pivotal moment. When the future of the world lies balanced on the point of a rapier, one misstep could mean ruin for all. Human nature being what it is, does peace really have a chance?

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 turbulence 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 array of allies and adversaries; among them, a master military strategist, a former pacifist who inherits his father's moribund arms business, a beautiful forger and a very lucky counterfeiter. Each of them, together with corrupt bureaucrats and the nomadic 'savages' of the title, plays a part in a gradually unfolding drama of conflict and conquest played for the highest of stakes.

A story of war, politics, intrigue, deception, and survival, ''Savages'' is a hugely ambitious, convincingly detailed novel that is impossible to set aside. Filled with schemes, counter-schemes, sudden reversals of fortune, and brilliantly described accounts of complex military encounters, it is, by any measure, an extraordinary entertainment, the work of a writer whose ambition, range, and sheer narrative power have never been more thoroughly on display.

В окрестностях селения Меребартон появился дракон (которых не существует), и старый рыцарь (не найдя возможности избежать этого) вынужден выполнять обязанности, налагаемые его статусом — попытаться избавиться от чудовища (не имея ни малейшего представления, как это полагается делать).