The Steel Remains

The Steel Remains

Cover of the first British hardcover edition
Author Richard K. Morgan
Country Great Britain
Language English
Series A Land Fit For Heroes
Genre Fantasy
Publisher Victor Gollancz Ltd
Publication date
 August 7, 2008
Media type Print (Hardcover)
Pages 352 pp (Hardcover)
ISBN 0-575-07792-1 (Hardcover)
OCLC 229464032
Followed by The Cold Commands

The Steel Remains (2008) is a fantasy novel by 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.

The Steel Remains is the first book of a planned trilogy named A Land Fit For Heroes, a series title also used by Phillip Mann. A Land Fit For Heroes was originally the working title of the first volume, and was retained as the series title after first Morgan and the UK publisher, and then the US publisher, decided to use the current title The Steel Remains.[1] The following two volumes, The Cold Commands, and The Dark Defiles, were published in 2011 and 2014 respectively.

Plot

Almost ten years after the Human-Kiriath Alliance repelled the invading Scaled Folk in a terrible war, three of the war heroes still have difficulty adjusting to the uneasy peace and the renewed conflict between the northern League and the Yhelteth Empire.

Ringil Eskiath lives in self-imposed exile from his native Trelayne, exchanging war stories for board and lodging in a small village's inn; to most people he is the hero of Gallows Gap, but his own family shuns him because he is gay. Lady kir-Archeth Indamaninarmal, the only human-kiriath half-breed, was left behind when the Kiriath abandoned the world, and finds herself more and more unable to tolerate the decadent court of the Yhelteth Emperor. Egar Dragonbane, a Majak mercenary, returned to his people after the wars, but having seen the wonders of the civilized world he feels out of place as a nomad clan leader in the steppe.

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References

  1. ↑ Interview with Richard Morgan

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