Octopus Overlords

Taking place nearly a century before the events of A Game of Thrones, A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms compiles the first three official prequel novellas to George R. R. Martin’s ongoing masterwork, A Song of Ice and Fire. These never-before-collected adventures recount an age when the Targaryen line still holds the Iron Throne, and the memory of the last dragon has not yet passed from living consciousness.

Before Tyrion Lannister and Podrick Payne, there was Dunk and Egg. A young, naïve but ultimately courageous hedge knight, Ser Duncan the Tall towers above his rivals—in stature if not experience. Tagging along is his diminutive squire, a boy called Egg—whose true name is hidden from all he and Dunk encounter. Though more improbable heroes may not be found in all of Westeros, great destinies lay ahead for these two . . . as do powerful foes, royal intrigue, and outrageous exploits.

Featuring more than 160 all-new illustrations by Gary Gianni, A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms is a must-have collection that proves chivalry isn’t dead—yet.

El Guapo wrote: ↑Fri Nov 03, 2017 9:52 am I pick up a Kindle First each month since, you know, it's free, but I have yet to actually read any of them. Does anyone read them?

Meanwhile A Clash of Kings is $4 today.

El Guapo wrote: ↑Fri Nov 03, 2017 9:52 am I pick up a Kindle First each month since, you know, it's free, but I have yet to actually read any of them. Does anyone read them?

With characters depicted in precise detail and wide panorama—a kept-woman’s parlor, a contentious interracial baseball game on the Fourth of July, and the tragic true events of the Omaha Race Riot of 1919—Kings of Broken Things reveals the folly of human nature in an era of astonishing ambition.

During the waning days of World War I, three lost souls find themselves adrift in Omaha, Nebraska, at a time of unprecedented nationalism, xenophobia, and political corruption. Adolescent European refugee Karel Miihlstein’s life is transformed after neighborhood boys discover his prodigious natural talent for baseball. Jake Strauss, a young man with a violent past and desperate for a second chance, is drawn into a criminal underworld. Evie Chambers, a kept woman, is trying to make ends meet and looking every which way to escape her cheerless existence.

As wounded soldiers return from the front and black migrant workers move north in search of economic opportunity, the immigrant wards of Omaha become a tinderbox of racial resentment stoked by unscrupulous politicians. Punctuated by an unspeakable act of mob violence, the fates of Karel, Jake, and Evie will become inexorably entangled with the schemes of a ruthless political boss whose will to power knows no bounds.

Written in the tradition of Don DeLillo and Colum McCann, with a great debt to Ralph Ellison, Theodore Wheeler’s debut novel Kings of Broken Things is a panoramic view of a city on the brink of implosion during the course of this summer of strife.

El Guapo wrote: ↑Fri Nov 03, 2017 9:52 am I pick up a Kindle First each month since, you know, it's free, but I have yet to actually read any of them. Does anyone read them?

Meanwhile A Clash of Kings is $4 today.

Smoove_B wrote: ↑Sat Nov 11, 2017 12:46 pm It might be; I never looked. This story has a definite beginning and end. I didn't feel anything was unresolved when it finished.

El Guapo wrote: ↑Mon Nov 13, 2017 11:39 amBut it's called Forever War. I feel cheated.

Carpet_pissr wrote: ↑Mon Nov 13, 2017 11:43 am Starship Troopers $2
https://www.amazon.com/Starship-Trooper ... eba7fc0INT

Isgrimnur wrote: ↑Mon Nov 13, 2017 1:11 pm

Carpet_pissr wrote: ↑Mon Nov 13, 2017 11:43 am Starship Troopers $2
https://www.amazon.com/Starship-Trooper ... eba7fc0INT

Sold.

Carpet_pissr wrote: ↑Mon Nov 13, 2017 5:19 pm Lord Foul's Bane $1, or is that 1$ !?
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B007WKEM9Q?ta ... b22c260INT

Isgrimnur wrote: ↑Mon Nov 13, 2017 5:44 pm

Carpet_pissr wrote: ↑Mon Nov 13, 2017 5:19 pm Lord Foul's Bane $1, or is that 1$ !?
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B007WKEM9Q?ta ... b22c260INT

I've tried to read that book at least a couple times. Never could get through it.

The first book in one of the most remarkable epic fantasies ever written, the Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, Unbeliever.

Isgrimnur wrote: ↑Mon Nov 13, 2017 5:44 pm

Carpet_pissr wrote: ↑Mon Nov 13, 2017 5:19 pm Lord Foul's Bane $1, or is that 1$ !?
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B007WKEM9Q?ta ... b22c260INT

I've tried to read that book at least a couple times. Never could get through it.

Moliere wrote: ↑Tue Nov 14, 2017 11:14 am

$1.99

Jag wrote: ↑Tue Nov 14, 2017 8:43 pm The Death of Dulgath (Riyria Chronicle) by Michael J. Sullivan free for three days.

Free is good. On my to read list.

And yes, I follow r/Fantasy

Pyperkub wrote: ↑Tue Nov 14, 2017 9:10 pm I got partway into that and just never went back to it. I think I got about 150 pages in when I decided that the Dune series begins and ends with Dune (and I've re-read that probably 5-10 times).

Moliere wrote: ↑Wed Nov 15, 2017 11:02 am

Pyperkub wrote: ↑Tue Nov 14, 2017 9:10 pmI then read almost all of the son's prequels and sequels once. I liked getting a backstory to things like the Butlerian Jihad or the Bene Gesserit.

I enjoyed them but you definitely needed to check your brain at the door. Too much of a linear connection to latter characters when the time spans more than 1000 years. It's as if Italy elected a Julio-Claudian president today.

Moliere wrote: ↑Wed Nov 15, 2017 11:02 amI then read almost all of the son's prequels and sequels once. I liked getting a backstory to things like the Butlerian Jihad or the Bene Gesserit.