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The Steel Remains

This is fantasy - just harder, faster and bloodier

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The Steel Remains

Yazan: Richard Morgan
Seslendiren: Simon Vance
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Ringil, the hero of the bloody slaughter at Gallows Gap is a legend to all who don't know him and a twisted degenerate to those that do. A veteran of the wars against the lizards he makes a living from telling credulous travellers of his exploits. Until one day he is pulled away from his life and into the depths of the Empire's slave trade. Here he will discover a secret infinitely more frightening than the trade in lives.

Archeth - pragmatist, cynic and engineer, the last of her race - is called from her work at the whim of the most powerful man in the Empire and sent to its farthest reaches to investigate a demonic incursion against the Empire's borders.

Egar Dragonbane, steppe-nomad, one-time fighter for the Empire finds himself entangled in a small-town battle between common sense and religious fervour. But out in the wider world there is something on the move far more alien than any of his tribe's petty gods.

Anti-social, anti-heroic, and decidedly irritated, all three of them are about to be sent unwillingly forth into a vicious, vigorous and thoroughly unsuspecting fantasy world. Called upon by an Empire that owes them everything and gave them nothing.

Richard Morgan brings his trademark visceral writing style, turbo-driven plotting and thought provoking characterisation to the fantasy genre and produces a landmark work with his first foray.

Read by Simon Vance

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Ringil Eskiath, wielder of The Raven’s Friend. Ask a half-dozen people to describe him and you'll get ten answers. Noble by birth; warrior by training; hero by accident; legend despite himself; perverted, degenerate, twisted abomination to many of his countrymen; outcaste and viciously proud of it; drunkard, because of all of the above. Every bit of it true, depending on who you ask. All HE asked was to be left alone. He’d done his bit. He’d saved his people... and then been rejected by them once the cheering died down. When his mother came to him for help, all of his instincts told him to run. He certainly didn’t want to go off on some stupid search for a missing cousin, sold into slavery and abandoned by her immediate family, simply because his mother felt guilty about it. He would have been even more vehement in his refusal if he had known exactly where the search would take him. But mothers always know what levers will move their recalcitrant children. And so begin his first steps into a world where myths and gods of ages past walk the streets.



I believe this is Richard Margan's first foray into fantasy and it is an excellent debut into the genre. I've read his SF for years, though I lean towards fantasy. Simon Vance's narration is perfect. There are a handful of audiobook narrators that can almost make me ignore the author & genre simply for the pleasure of listening to his narration. I lost hours listening to this and I suspect that reading the book would be one of those times when I start reading in the evening and realise that the sun is coming up just as I finish it. The sequel, The Cold Commands, is calling to me now.



So, to sum up... An entertaining story with excellent narration that kept drawing me into another world

Entertaining story, fantastic narration,

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I am by no means homophobic but I am not a fan of the gay sex parts in this book and have to say TNA they greatly detracted from what was otherwise a decent story

Gay sex

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One of the best books I've listened to this year. A raw, gritty fantasy with a touch of sci-fi invasion.

Brilliant, gritty fantasy!

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The themes, characterisation and narrative are very grown up. Homosexuality, bigotry and power are intrinsic to the story and often depicted graphically and uncompromisingly. In my view, this is utterly justified, as this is what gives the book such a edgy and for once, fresh take on a familiar story.
I say familiar but there are enough twists to keep me intrigued and keen to get book 2.
Simon Vance just terrific as always, he doesn't hold back at all and gives every expletive just the right amount of venom when it's being spat in a bad guy's face.

Excellent

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what a great story. If you're a fan of gritty, dark fantasy, this is the book for you. The characters are all interesting and the story won't let you put this down until finished. thank God there are another two books!

Awesome!!

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