Rat is no ordinary thief. A feral, filthy and malnourished child; he haunts the streets of the medieval city Anistigh and survives on what he can steal. When he tries to steal a purse and bungles it, a mob wants to cut off his hand as punishment, so to save himself he slips into a convenient shadow to hide. Rat thinks it's just another warm and comfortable shadow cast by the sun, but a clan wizard sees him create the shadow with his magic, an instinctive act of which Rat is unaware. Rat's magic is subtle, but potentially quite powerful, so he is adopted into the greatest of the Lesser Clans, adopted into a family, and given the name Morgin. Morgin quickly grows into manhood and the clan teaches him wizardry and sorcery and swordsmanship. Having survived the streets of Anistigh, Morgin is inclined to avoid conflict, would be content to remain on the sidelines in the ever present clan rivalries. But as a clansman he inherits the enemies of the clan, and his shadowmagic proves to be a potent weapon. And when he comes into possession of a powerful talismanic sword, he's thrust into the forefront of the clan rivalries. As the ancestral conflict between the Greater and Lesser Clans once again leads to war, not even the clans realize that their petty little war is spawned by the primeval battle between the righteous gods of the Celestial Plane and the fallen gods of the Nether Plane. And Morgin learns that it is upon the Mortal Plane, with mortal lives, and mortal pain and suffering and death; it is upon the Mortal Plane that the gods meet and fight their wars.
Child of the Sword - The Gods Within
J.L. Doty
Telemachus Press
2012
443 páginas
14h 46m
ISBN-10: B0091RV9GM
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J.L. Doty
I was born in Seattle, but I've lived most of my life in California, though I did live on the east coast and in Europe for a while. From a very early age I made up stories in my head, but I never considered writing. In my family you went to college, got a degree in something useful and got a real job. So I got a Ph.D. in optical engineering, and went to work as a research scientist. But I was still making up those stories in my head, so I wrote the first draft of A Choice of Treasons, and it was 250,000 words of pure, unmitigated crap. It was terrible: poorly written, poorly plotted, shallow characters that no reader could come to care about. It was the hardest decision I ever made, but I literally threw it away and turned to other projects. I spent more than a year writing the first draft of Child of the Sword. Then I went back to A Choice of Treasons and started again, from scratch, a complete rewrite from the get-go. I worked on it for several years before releasing it, and now I think it's one of my best works. Child of the Sword also went through a number of rewrites, and I think it too is one of my best works. Science has always been a passion of mine, but writing is an addiction. I've finished four books now, with four more that are in various stages of completion. In the next six to twelve months I intend to release The SteelMaster of Indwallin, book 2 in The Gods Within, and Still Not Dead Enough, book 2 in The Dead Among Us. I have a big pet peeve regarding lasers as weapons in science fiction. I spent decades working in the laser and electro-optics industry, even did some research on laser weapons in the 80's. I've read hundreds of science fiction stories, and I can honestly say that every time a writer has used a laser as a weapon in a story, it was done wrong. Most often they violated the basic laws of physics regarding light. So you'll never see a laser weapon in any of my science fiction.
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