K.J. Parker - The Fencer Trilogy

K.J. Parker -- The Fencer Trilogy

Colours In The Steel och The Belly of The Bow är de två första delarna i K.J. Parkers Fencer-trilogi. De finns i skrivande stund endast på Farsta bibliotek. Del tre, The Proof House, är på ingång men är just nu slut hos förlaget. Vi meddelar här på bloggen när den finns för utlån.
Böckerna beskrivs som annorlunda fantasyböcker där filosofiska resonemang blandas med torr humor, och vi får bland mycket annat en grundläggande insikt i hur pilbågar fungerar i strid gentemot hillebarder. Fantasyfans har sagt att det enda som liknar övriga böcker i genren är att det är en trilogi...

Eftersom böckerna är på engelska följer här beskrivningarna på just detta språk (stulna direkt från Amazon):

Colours In The Steel:
Perimadeia: the famed Triple City and the mercantile capital of the known world. Behind its allegedly impregnable walls, everything is available—including information that will allow its enemies to plan one of the most devastating sieges of all time. The man called upon to defend Perimadeia is Bardas Loredan, a fencer–at–law, weary of his work and the world. For Loredan is one of the surviving members of Maxen’s Pitchfork, the legendary band of soldiers who waged war on the Plains tribes, rendering an attack on Perimadeia impossible. Until now… But Loredan has problems of his own. In a city where court cases are settled by lawyers arguing with swords not words, enemies are all too easily made. And by winning one particular case, Loredan has unwittingly become the target of a young woman bent on revenge. The last thing he needs is the responsibility of saving a city.

The Belly of The Bow:
The city of Perimadeia has fallen. Bardas Loredan, the man who was chosen to save it, is now on the Island—a recluse living in the mountains, away from his family, with only a young apprentice for company. His life as a fencer–at–law is over. Instead, Loredan spends his days perfecting the art of bow making. But his isolation will not last forever, and when the Island comes under attack, his skills as a soldier and leader are once again called into play. The second installment in The Fencer Trilogy, The Belly of the Bow firmly establishes K.J. Parker in the top rank of fantasy writers.

The Proof House:
After years spent in the saps under the defenses of the apparently impregnable city of Ap’Iscatoy, Bardas Loredan, sometimes fencer–at–law and betrayed defender of the famed Triple City, is suddenly hero of the Empire. His reward is a boring administrative job in a backwater, watching armor tested to destruction in the Proof House. But the fall of Ap’Iscatoy has opened up unexpected possibilities for the expansion of the Empire into the land of the Plains people, and Bardas Loredan is the one man Temrai the Great, King of the Plains tribes, fears the most… The Proof House is the gripping, hugely entertaining conclusion of K.J. Parker’s Fencer Trilogy.