'synopsis' may belong to another edition of this title. The Subterranean Press edition of The Steel Remains will feature a full-color dust jacket and full-color endsheets by Vincent Chong, and be printed in two colors throughout. Called upon by an Empire that owes them everything and gave them nothing. But out in the wider world there is something on the move far more alien than any of his tribe's petty gods.Īnti-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.

Where he will discover a secret infinitely more frightening than the trade in lives.Īrcheth - 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.Įgar Dragonbane, steppe-nomad, one-time fighter for the Empire finds himself entangled in a small-town battle between common sense and religious fervour. Until one day he is pulled away from his life and into the depths of the Empire's slave trade. A veteren of the wars against the lizards he makes a living from telling credulous travellers of his exploits. I admit to being confused, but at the same time, saddened because now I won't be recommending his works, I won't be buying whatever he does next and also glad because i now know his bigotry, so can avoid, but it's not as if there aren't a lot of other fantastic writers, who aren't middle-aged white bigots that aren't worth supporting.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. And who both wrote a gay fantasy protagonist, and talked about the important of representation in fantasy fiction. Sadly this is another milkshake duck, but a particularly weird one, because it's an author who presented a setting where bodies were fluid, a transhumanist world. I don't get how it makes any sense, even for terfs, but then that's also the problem with their arguments in the first place. I wasn't familiar with this weird 'scientific materialism=transphobia' argument he's made until I did a bunch of googling, and it seems very fringe but that there is some history of bigotry behind it. I'm not going to link any more here, it's all available to be read now.

Richard morgan the steel remains