![]() They have a bank to rob, a sea to cross, and a kingdom to infiltrate. Meanwhile, our heroes have their own problems. As she clambers across hill and dale with her quill, journal, and dwindling coin purse to untangle the mystery, she’ll need plenty of luck to find the right clues and the right sort of help. A very unusual asteroid (one constructed as a cage for dragons) is headed straight for the planet, and Xenon is the only person in the world who knows. ![]() When a lone goblin researcher stumbles across an artifact containing a terrifying message - that the world is in grave and immediate peril - she scrambles to find help. Asteroid Made of Dragons will be released by Sword & Laser in trade paperback next week. That’s the kind of notice that makes a guy sit up and pay attention. Adams’s flippant tone recalls Terry Pratchett, taking the skewering of tropes down a very dark path as he establishes a fantasy world built from the ashes of a technological one. ![]() ![]() So when do you make of a small press, Kickstarter-funded fantasy novel that gets a write-up like this in Publisher’s Weekly?Īn unlikely band of heroes - some of whom are trying to kill one another - must gather together in order to save their world from the return of an ancient menace in an excellent, irreverent mix of sword-and-sorcery fantasy and SF. I love the small press - that’s where a lot of the most creative and innovative work is being done today - but you do have to dig a bit to find the really good stuff. ![]()
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