A story in the vein of Gene Wolfe and Jack Vance, A Murder of Knights digs deeply in the rich traditions of Sword & Sorcery and Space Fantasy to produce a dark tale of eldritch horror and knightly honor, in a world so far in the future that humanity has forgotten itself.
The sun has died, the stars fade, and the world has fallen to darkness. But for the Raven Knights of the Oracle at Murdermont, their duty never dies. Two of their number have been sent to the village of Halfspire, to investigate the broken tower at the center of town, to find and fight and kill the Kimera that is haunting the shadows.
What they find is a corruption that could spell their own end. They must face the horrors of the Kimera as well as the fickle vengeance of their all-seeing god if they're going to survive, in this tale of dark magic, high technology, and a humanity so changed as to be unrecognizable.
This story originally appeared in the anthology Sword and Planet, by Baen Books
Genre: Science Fiction
The sun has died, the stars fade, and the world has fallen to darkness. But for the Raven Knights of the Oracle at Murdermont, their duty never dies. Two of their number have been sent to the village of Halfspire, to investigate the broken tower at the center of town, to find and fight and kill the Kimera that is haunting the shadows.
What they find is a corruption that could spell their own end. They must face the horrors of the Kimera as well as the fickle vengeance of their all-seeing god if they're going to survive, in this tale of dark magic, high technology, and a humanity so changed as to be unrecognizable.
This story originally appeared in the anthology Sword and Planet, by Baen Books
Genre: Science Fiction
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