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Deathless Gods: Volume 7
By (Author) P.C. Hodgell
Baen Books
Baen Books
26th September 2023
United States
Paperback
512
Width 105mm, Height 171mm, Spine 28mm
277g
A New Kencyrath Novel!
Jamethiel Knorth, Priest's Bane and Dream-Weaver, has returned victorious from Tai-tastigon, but trouble dogs the Kencyrath.
There is intrigue among the Highborn. The Randir and his allies want the larger houses to decide for all nine, which would strip the Highlordship from the Knorth. At Omiroth, a senile king struggles against his venal son-in-lawbut if neither of these can rule, the next in line is a mother-dominated child. Kindrie Soul-Walker is captured and thrown in a secret dungeon, a political prisoner. And a Kendar administrator, dissatisfied with the use that Jame is making of the gates, schemes against her, and then against her house and her brother, Torisen Black Lord, Highlord of the Kencyrath.
While Tori defends Gothregor and Kindrie rots a secret captive, Jame rides south to Bashti. Here she confronts an unready and presumptuous heir, a withholding and manipulative paymaster, and invisible assassins. Her formal errand, meanwhile, is to compete in martial games with secret stakeswhich she fears are a cloak for a massacre, or worse.
Praise for Deathless Gods:
"Hodgells intricate web requires careful readingand extensive knowledge of the previous booksto follow, but the author repays her fans with a saga that flows neatly between the mythic and the mundane. Theres plenty of life left in this series." Publishers Weekly
Praise for The Gates of Tagmeth:
"The Kencyr live in one of the most deeply realized worlds in fantasy, a rich and complicated space that includes many cultures and riveting, three-dimensional characters. Full of dark wonder, wry humor, and the quirks of James inimitable personality, the newest installment in Hodgells lifes work demonstrates why it can be worthwhile for a writer to spend 40 years writing the same series." Publishers Weekly
Praise for P.C. Hodgells Kencyrath Saga:
P.C. Hodgell writes the most strikingly weird and wonderful stories in epic fantasy today. Charles Stross
Hodgell has crafted an . . . intricate fantasy with humor, tragedy, and a capable and charming female hero. Library Journal
"There's a joyful creativity to Hodgell's writing . . . some of the best fantasy novels of the last 30 years." Black Gate
The Kencyrath Saga
Seekers Bane
Bound in Blood
Honor's Paradox
Sea of Time
The Gates of Tagmeth
By Demons Possessed
Omnibus Editions
The Godstalker Chronicles
Contains Kencyrath prequel novels God Stalk and Dark of the Moon
P.C. Hodgellearned her doctorate at the University of Minnesota with a dissertation on Sir Walter Scott'sIvanhoe, and is a graduate of both the Clarion and the Milford Writers Workshops. Recently retired, she was a lecturer at the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh in modern British literature and composition, and she teaches an online course on science fiction and fantasy for the University of Minnesota. Hodgell lives in her familys ancestral nineteenth-century wood-framed house in Oshkosh, Wisconsin.