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Strong world-building, a few surprises, an original main character but delivered at a pace that dragged. There's a lot to like in this book. It creates a credible empire, with a rich history and a believable social structure. It makes clever use of pre-industrial military technology and military...
“’I’ve done a lot of bad things.’‘Define bad.’He looked at me, then nodded. ‘A lot of illegal things,’ he amended. ‘I’ve told a lot of lies, defrauded a lot of people out of money, cheated, stolen. Never killed anyone—’ I cleared my throat. ‘Deliberately,’ he amended, ‘except in self-defense.’‘That’...
The main character, Gignomai met'Oc, is as memorable as was Bassianus Severus. Gignomai is the youngest member of a sentenced family of exiles on account of the political betrayal of an aristocratic family and he's clearly different from his relatives - he does not enjoy the birth privileges due to ...
This book in particular, and K. J. Parker’s SF in general, reminds me of a quote by Yevgeny Zamyatin: “It is an error to divide people into the living and the dead: there are people who are dead-alive, and people who are alive-alive. The dead-alive also write, walk, speak, act. But they make no m...
The best we can do is seek to transform ourselves and those around us into kinder, gentler versions of ourselves. This is a struggle that never ends and begins anew every time a new child is born. Success is only ever temporary and only ever a mitigation not a total victory. For all that it is an ef...
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