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Lord of Stone - Keith Brooke Fiction Book

Description:ISBN 1587153327 / Author: Keith Brooke / Genre: Fiction

Newest Review: ... easy enough for him to join one of the more ramshackle revolutionary factions, pick up a rifle and start learning about the ... more

 ... ugly, confused, morally distorted reality of the war. Bligh is also, periodically, prone to delusive fits or dreams in which he imagines himself to be a mountain, or a boulder falling off said mountain, or finds himself melding into stone. Is he mad? Or is he an avatar for one of the reawakening Elemental Lords? Bligh may have his doubts, but Captain Merc Domenech of the Unification Party of the People (a proto-fascist with king-making ambitions just incase you hadn`t guessed) is pretty convinced not only of Bligh'...more

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Lord of Stone - Keith Brooke: Lights! Cameras! but sadly a lack of action. (658 words)
by - written on 19/08/03, updated on  19/08/03 (Very useful, 17 readings)
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It is the Year of Our Lords (yes, I meant the plural it`s not a typo for a change) 3964, and the nation of Trace is wracked by civil war. It's an odd war in some ways. The technology and tactics are very 'first world war'; trenches, no-man's land, that sort of thing. But the politics is straight 'Spanish civil war'; factions, mini-coups, Internationalist Volunteers, Royalists versus Revolutionaries, Right versus Left... Into this bitter broil wanders a young man named Bligh. Bligh doesn't really fit into the civil war scene in Trace. For one thing, he's foreign, a Wederian. For another, he's a Jahvean monotheist, unlike the ...  Read the complete review

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