Swords & Dark Magic: The New Sword and Sorcery anthology (June 2010) and in Sharp Ends.įeatures Curnden Craw and his dozen in events prior to The Heroes. There are a total of 13 stories, of which five were original to the collection and eight previously published.

Published works SeriesĪll short fiction is collected in Sharp Ends: Stories from the World of the First Law (April 2016). The stand-alone novels remain with Gollancz in the UK but were published by Orbit Books in the United States. The original trilogy is published by Gollancz in the UK and Pyr in the United States. The full series consists of a trilogy, three stand-alone novels, short stories, and a second trilogy, titled The Age of Madness, of which the third book was published in September 2021. The First Law is the title of the original trilogy in the series, but is also used to refer to the series as a whole. Murderous conspiracies rise to the surface, old scores are ready to be settled, and the line between hero and villain is sharp enough to draw blood.The First Law is a fantasy series written by British author Joe Abercrombie. A bald old man with a terrible temper and a pathetic assistant, he could be the First of the Magi, he could be a spectacular fraud, but whatever he is, he's about to make the lives of Logen, Jezal, and Glotka a whole lot more difficult. His latest trail of corpses may lead him right to the rotten heart of government, if he can stay alive long enough to follow it.Įnter the wizard, Bayaz. But then Glokta hates everyone: cutting treason out of the Union one confession at a time leaves little room for friendship. Inquisitor Glokta, cripple turned torturer, would like nothing better than to see Jezal come home in a box. But war is brewing, and on the battlefields of the frozen North they fight by altogether bloodier rules. Nobleman Captain Jezal dan Luthar, dashing officer, and paragon of selfishness, has nothing more dangerous in mind than fleecing his friends at cards and dreaming of glory in the fencing circle.

Caught in one feud too many, he’s on the verge of becoming a dead barbarian – leaving nothing behind him but bad songs, dead friends, and a lot of happy enemies. Logen Ninefingers, infamous barbarian, has finally run out of luck.

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