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The Steel Remains (2008) is a fantasy novel by British writer Richard K. Morgan. It is the first fantasy book by Morgan, a noted science fiction author known for the Takeshi Kovacs trilogy and the standalone novels Market Forces and Black Man.
Aug 7, 2008 · The Steel Remains opens in a scene familiar to many; an aging, somewhat slovenly former war hero being drafted into helping a scholarly friend. The setting seems solidly medieval, with intriguing hints of strangeness encroaching into inhabited lands.
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Ringil is first introduced while he is living in Gallows Water, a small village. He is a war hero, but is living only on his stories. Ringil is approached by his mother, Ishil, who he hasn't seen in three years. She asks him to help rescue his cousin, Sherin, who has been sold into slavery due to debts incurred by her dead husband. Ishil cannot do ...
Egar is the clanmaster of the Skaranak. He is first introduced as he is herding buffalo. A surprise attack of 'ware runners kills a young boy named Runi who is helping with the herd. Egar and another helper named Klarndefeat the runners. Egar takes Runi's body home. Runi's mother is distraught, and is hit by the shaman Poltar. Egar, who does not ha...
The emperor of the Yhelteth Empire summons Archeth, who is at the docks working on an old Kiriath fireship. The emperor is in the Chamber of Confidences, and sends Archeth on a quest to Khangset. There are incoherent reports of an attack on Khangset, possibly involving sorcery. The emperor decides to send a harem girl, named Ishgrimto Archeth's bed...
In Pranderghal at an inn, Ringil is there with Sherin and the dwenda when they run in to Egar. Egar explains to Ringil that a dark figure (Takavach) sent him here to save Ringil. Seethlaw tries to use magic to make Egar go away. Ringil upends the table and a fight breaks out. Egar and Ringil grab Sherin and run. Egar kills a couple dwenda. They the...
The three heroes decide to make a stand against the dwenda. They make preparations with Faileh Rakan and his men. Ringil uses krinto enhance his speed. During the fight, they kill many of the dwenda. Rakan and many of the men are killed. Ringil is injured with a scar across his face. Ringil battles Seethlaw and kills him. Afterwards, the heroes tal...
Milacar awakes from a dream involving Kelgris. Ringil is hiding in the room. Ringil has realized that when he awoke after the first encounter with Seethlaw that it was at Milacar's old place at Replete Cargo Street. Ringil now knows that Milacar was involved with Seethlaw. Milacar claims not to be part of the cabal, but that everyone is involved in...
Jul 9, 2009 · Richard K. Morgan is the acclaimed author of The Dark Defiles, The Cold Commands, The Steel Remains, Black Man (published in the US as Thirteen), Woken Furies, Market Forces, Broken Angels, and Altered Carbon, a New York Times Notable Book that won the Philip K. Dick Award in 2003.
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The Steel Remains is a gripping fantasy novel by Richard K. Morgan that follows the story of a former war hero named Ringil Eskiath. Set in a world filled with dark magic and political intrigue, the book delves into themes of identity, power, and the consequences of war.
So Richard K. Morgan, the firebrand Scots writer who took a cattle prod to the gonads of stodgy post-cyberpunk SF noir with his edgy and violent Takeshi Kovacs trilogy and his edgy and violent exegesis on racism and xenophobia, Thirteen, now trains his sights on heroic fantasy.
Jul 9, 2009 · Archeth - 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.
