He's the author of the Land Fit for Heroes series (2008's The Steel Remains, 2011's The Cold Commands, and last year's The Dark Defiles), which casually straddles the lines between quest fantasy, political thriller and science fiction. Some, like Joe Abercrombie, have embraced the term (his Twitter handle is Others see it as a dismissive term for fantasy that's dismantling tropes, a stamp unfairly applied. Martin? Kameron Hurley? Shakespeare? - and whether the nickname is a useful genre marker or just a needle. But there are arguments over who fits the definition - George R.R.
It's become shorthand for a subgenre of fantasy fiction that claims to trade on the psychology of those sword-toting heroes, and the dark realism behind all those kingdom politics. "Well, irony really does better unelaborated, but if you insist."Īh, grimdark. Your purchase helps support NPR programming. Dispatched one hundred eighty light-years from home, re-sleeved into a body in Bay City (formerly San Francisco, now with a rusted, dilapidated Golden Gate Bridge), Kovacs is thrown into the dark heart of a shady, far-reaching conspiracy that is vicious even by the standards of a society that treats “existence” as something that can be bought and sold.Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title The Dark Defiles Author Richard K. envoy Takeshi Kovacs has been killed before, but his last death was particularly painful. Now, assuming one can afford the expensive procedure, a person’s consciousness can be stored in a cortical stack at the base of the brain and easily downloaded into a new body (or “sleeve”) making death nothing more than a minor blip on a screen.Įx-U.N. While divisions in race, religion, and class still exist, advances in technology have redefined life itself.
In the twenty-fifth century, humankind has spread throughout the galaxy, monitored by the watchful eye of the U.N.
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