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The Year of Our War (Fourlands #1)

Steph Swainston

Paperback | Pages: 385 pages

Rating: 3.62 | 1331 Users | 103 Reviews

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Original Title:	The Year of Our War
ISBN:	0060753870 (ISBN13: 9780060753870)
Edition Language:	English
Series:	Fourlands #1
Literary Awards:	IAFA William L. Crawford Fantasy Award (2005), Tähtifantasia Award Nominee (2011)

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Unique among his fellow immortals and mortal folk alike, Jant Comet can fly. His talent is a gift and a curse that has earned him a place in the Castle Circle as Messenger to the Emperor San -- soaring high and free above the bloody battlefields of his world, carrying word back to his master of progress and regress in the ever-escalating conflict between man and the awful armies of giant, flesh-devouring insects.

But while Jant's duty is to remain neutral in the petty squabbles and power plays of the fifty who will neither age nor die naturally, bitter rivalries that have festered for centuries now threaten to incite a savage civil war. And Jant may be the only being alive capable of stemming the onrushing tide of destruction and the unstoppable insect infestation. For only he can gain entrance -- through extreme doses of the narcotic that owns his soul -- into a place of darkest wonders and revelations; a strange and horrific alternate reality that none but Jant Comet believes exists.

A literary triumph of the first water -- bold, stylish, and breathtakingly original -- Steph Swainston's The Year of Our War ascends like a rocket to the upper reaches of the imagination and loudly heralds the arrival of a true modern master of the fantastic.

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Title	:	The Year of Our War (Fourlands #1)
Author	:	Steph Swainston
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 385 pages
Published	:	January 18th 2005 by Voyager (first published April 2004)
Categories	:	Fantasy. Fiction. Weird Fiction. New Weird. Science Fiction

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Ratings: 3.62 From 1331 Users | 103 Reviews

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Gloriously imagined world but the story fails to grab me until the end.

I read the first two Fourlands when they came out, but they fell off my radar somehow, which is annoying, because I really liked them, and now I like them all the more after years of Grimdark fantasies all over the place. So it's great to revisit the Castle and the Circle and rediscover what made them so fresh and exciting. Set in a world under attack from hordes of giant insects, united by an emperor who grants immortality to fifty individuals chosen for excellence in a particular field or

7/10The Year of Our War is a second world fantasy series set in a medieval like country, that is ruled over by an emperor who grants immortality to 50 of the worlds best. These immortals rule their lands and lead the fight against the invading insects. The novel follows Jant, the immortal court messenger, and drug addict.To start with, this was a book that took me a bit to get into, but maybe half way through I suddenly started really enjoying it and rushed through. The writing is fun, the

Fantasy novels say nothing to me about the real world or about my life; real people don't act like the characters in those epics. Tolkien said that fantasy ideas were 'endlessly combined' he knew that fantasy means boundless imagination and reinvention, not clinging to staid ideas.-- Steph Swainston, HarperCollins interview, undated Like discovering alien-made artificial worlds in space with such entries like Ringworld, Orbitsville, and Titan, fighting arthropodic aliens has certainly become a

No summary of the plot, because I didn't finish. I hardly managed to get through more than the first 50 pages, and that was a slog.So, reasons. The opening is the worst I've read in a long time. We begin with our protagonist buying a newspaper in the first sentence. Which he then reads for the next page. This is info-dump at a wince-worthy level (and to make matters worse, the article he's reading isn't even interesting). Why not start in the middle of---or at least closer to---the battle that

I didn't think I'd like this book at first, but the longer I read, the more it started to grow on me.The basic premise is a world overrun by ant-like Insect creatures. God has left the world to men, but before he left, he gave an Emporer immortality. In turn, the Emporer granted a few mortals immortality. Their job is to fight the insects.The main protagonist, Comet Jant Shira, is an Immortal, who because of his ability to fly, is named The Emporer's Messenger. Oh, and Comet's also addicted to

This is one of my all-time favoutrite books - the characters are intersting and develop thorught the book and then the series - my Husband is of the opinion that the trilogy is in fact about Lightning and not Comet at all, and any book which has such good character progression in someone who is not (at least nominally) the main character shows fantastic care from the author.Along with the character development, the world itself, as well as the concept of a select immortal few (no spoiler here,