tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23145750554985676302011-11-07T02:11:30.816+10:30About the fictional work of sword and sorcery writer James Enge.Blue Tysonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01090584083476832111noreply@blogger.comBlogger1191100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2314575055498567630.post-57910182588161756842011-10-19T22:42:00.001+10:302011-10-19T23:04:18.316+10:30

"SPCC: What’s next for Morlock? What are you working on currently?JE: The Wolf Age did well enough that Pyr signed me to another 3-book deal. Currently I’m finishing up an origin story for Morlock. It’s called A Guile of Dragons and is due out next summer. It’s very old school fantasy in some ways — dwarves, dragons, Merlin and Nimue. (No elves, though. Everyone has to draw the line somewhere.)

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"SFFWRTCHT: Awesome! Who are some of your favorite classical writers?JE: I like Virgil–The Aeneid is like a fantasy novel in verse, with gods and magic and murder and treachery and all the good stuff. Also Seneca–the same stuff as Virgil, but with extra doses of cannibalism and murder."3.5 out of 5http://www.graspingforthewind.com/2011/07/07/sffwrtcht-a-chat-with-author-james-enge/

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A twitter convo.3.5 out of 5http://bryanthomasschmidt.blogspot.com/2011/04/science-fiction-and-fantasy-writers_20.html

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"James Enge will be showing readers more of the life and times of Molock Amrosius thanks to a new three book deal with Pyr. His first novel, Blood of Ambrose, was released in 2009, and was among the nominees for the World Fantasy Award. The new three-book set will be titled "A Tournament of Shadows". Book one will be A Guile of Dragons. Enge is represented by Michael Kabongo at the OnyxHawke

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"Pfundstein tried several times to get his work published, but it seemed there wasn't a market for the genre he was writing. Pfundstein writes sword and sorcery books. Sword and sorcery is a sub-genre of fantasy some may call the "dark side." There wasn't a market for sword and sorcery until 2005, when a new adventure fantasy magazine came out, and his first short story was published."3.5 out of

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"Enge's fiction stands out primarily for its rich, witty prose and its juxtaposition of human characters with outrageous situations. Conflict, weirdness, cruelty, and supernatural forces beset the protagonists (Morlock and whomever is unfortunate enough to be with him), but not for the shock value or for gory distraction. Enge creates circumstances where people have to draw on their human

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"After Tolkien, I guess the biggest influence on me would be American writers of sword-and-sorcery (and the allied genre of sword-and-planet): Fritz Leiber, Roger Zelazny, Jack Vance and Leigh Brackett. They are explicitly and unapologetically writing adventure fiction in fantastic worlds, but the adventures and the risks in their fiction are not merely material, and each one is a brilliant

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Cover art for the story.3.5 out of 5

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NoveletteNumber of words : 8500Percent of complex words : 9.1Average syllables per word : 1.4Average words per sentence : 16.5READABILITY INDICESFog : 10.2Flesch : 68.0Flesch-Kincaid : 7.9CHARACTERSMorlockA travelling master maker and swordsman. Scary legends of him abound.WyrthMorlock's dwarven maker apprentice.SunlarThe

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Cow-beetle meat in various cuts.4 out of 5

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Buttermilk.4 out of 5

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People that are likely to dine and dash.3 out of 5

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Dwarven deity.3 out of 5

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A messenger for Morlock, who can talk to them. 4 out of 5

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Cattle modified to be more beetle-like.4 out of 5

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Morlock's magical sword that comes when he calls.4 out of 5

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The inn at Boulostreion.4 out of 5

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A small depopulated run down town south of the Dholich Khund.4 out of 5

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Iuinoe lies about him.3 out of 5

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Raelio's sister, taken by Kyrkylio and turned into a spider-ape hybrid monstrosity.3 out of 5

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Morlock's sister. The dark eminence behind the imperial throne of Ontil.3 out of 5

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Kyrkylio's swordsman enforcer, a hybrid creation with six arms and insect-like carapace protection.3 out of 5

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A lifemaker experimenting on the children of the town.3.5 out of 5

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The hosteller's daughter and waitress.3.5 out of 5

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Old woman who owns the local stream.3 out of 5

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The Travellers' Rest hostetler who runs the place with his wife.3.5 out of 5

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Morlock's dwarven maker apprentice.4.5 out of 5

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A travelling master maker and swordsman. Scary legends of him abound.5 out of 5

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"In the 35th episode of the Functional Nerds, we welcome back Blake Charlton & James Enge to talk dyslexia, Latin, Greek & why other languages have fewer folks suffering from dyslexia versus English, then break out into a fantastic chat on music, instruments and how language plays a huge part in how music has developed over centuries, then onto mythology and how it influences Fantasy works today,

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A multi-author round-table interview/discussion in some depth."JE: There are so many great books out there that I’ve never heard of, I’m more eager to sponge on other people’s experience and get new recommendations than I am to make them. But, tossing these vain scruples aside, one book I like to recommend is Gibbon’s Decline & Fall of the Roman Empire. Gibbon, in some ways, was a racist,

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"Also, in This Crooked Way, you take the story from various view points, giving it a mosaic feel that’s very unlike most classical Sword and Sorcery. Why did you chose to do this? What were you trying to accomplish?I think you’re right that the shifting point-of-view is very different from classic S&S, which has normally been restricted 3rd person. Maybe Fafhrd is the POV character in one story

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"In our 27th episode, John & I are joined by James Enge – author of Blood of Ambrose, This Crooked Way, and the upcoming The Wolf Age. With James we chat about Latin, Morlock, sword & socrcery, Blood of Ambrose, The Crooked lady, Merlin, publishing, Popular Science, Norse mythology, Mickey Zucker Reinhurt, Jack Vance, Fritz Lieber, Roman & Greek mythology, Thor, Beta Ray Bill, Dwarves, creating

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"A growing number of Black Gate authors have moved on to book deals, and some were published novelists before they appeared in the magazine.Two of us, James Enge and myself, landed book deals featuring recurring characters that had appeared in Black Gate short stories.They were the Dabir & Asim stories for me (”Whispers from the Stone” and “Sight of Vengeance“) and the Morlock tales for James (

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"1. Ghost-powered zeppelins are the safest kind of airship. Unless you’re a werewolf."3 out of 5http://suvudu.com/2010/09/take-five-with-james-enge-author-the-wolf-age.html

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An online novel excerpt.4 out of 5http://pyrsamples.blogspot.com/2010/09/wolf-age-by-james-enge.html

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2009 World Fantasy Award nomination for best novel.4.5 out of 5

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"I always present myself as the soul of innocence, the better to further my works of corruption."4.5 out of 5

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Online, but ISFDB doesn't cover some of his publications, as policy.3.5 out of 5http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?James_Enge

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jamesenge@gmail.com

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Onlne encyclopedia entry:James EngeFrom Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Redirected from James enge)James M. PfundsteinPen name James EngeOccupation Lecturer, AuthorLanguage EnglishNationality AmericanEducation PhD in ClassicsAlma mater University of MinnesotaPeriod 2008 - PresentGenres fantasy,sword and sorceryNotable work(s) Morlock the Maker series.Influences[show]Official websiteJames Enge

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First Place "It was a dark and ion-stormy night, as you know, Bob, and as you also know ion-storms are especially dangerous in the orbit of Tau Deltoid IV." "I do know it, Brent, and I would also add that proton-showers can have a nasty effect on a ship's trichometers anywhere in the Tau Deltoid system." "God, how I hate you!" simmered Brent, who resented any mention of shipboard trichometers

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Appears he just signed up :-4 out of 5http://twitter.com/jamesenge

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Short StoryNumber of words : 2000Percent of complex words : 5.7Average syllables per word : 1.4Average words per sentence : 17.5READABILITY INDICESFog : 9.3Flesch : 73.5Flesch-Kincaid : 7.4 : Blood From A Stone - James Enge CHARACTERSMorlock the Maker : Blood From A Stone - James EngeItinerant sword and sorcerer.ANIMALSStone

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Morlock's next destination.3 out of 5

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The River of Skulls, in Dwarvish.3.5 out of 5

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Has a palindromic ancient script.3.5 out of 5

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Under these mountains Morlock grew up.3 out of 5

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Useful for making ropes.3.5 out of 5

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Morlock's magic sword.4 out of 5

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Morlock's horse.3.5 out of 5

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Morlock's opponent, but not a golem. Possible horse eater. Apparently constructed.4 out of 5

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Itinerant sword and sorcerer.5 out of 5

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VignetteNumber of words : 508Percent of complex words : 6.1Average syllables per word : 1.4Average words per sentence : 16.4READABILITY INDICESFog : 9.0Flesch : 73.3Flesch-Kincaid : 7.1 : Gordian Stone - James Enge CHARACTERSMorlock the Maker : Gordian Stone - James EngeAn itinerant swordsman-wizard.Stone : Gordian Stone - James

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Wants to know the meaning of existence.4 out of 5

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An itinerant swordsman-wizard.5 out of 5

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A short interview about 13 minutes in.Unseen.http://media.rawvoice.com/fpm_shouldbewriting/media.farpointmedia.net/isbw/isbw_show140_100120.mp3

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Swords from the EastHarold LambEdited by Howard Andrew Jones Introduction by James Enge paperback2010. 496 pp.2 illustrations, 1 appendix978-0-8032-1949-6$24.95 t Unseen.http://www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/product/Swords-from-the-East,674193.aspx

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Morlock the Maker and pet.4 out of 5http://www.blackgate.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/morlock2.jpg

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"So he sat down again and took off his shoes. After writing his name and a few other words on the heel of his left shoe, he trimmed a strip of leather from the sole and tied it around his bare left foot at the arch. He did the same with the other shoe (and foot). He muttered a few more words (familiar to those-who-know). Then he picked up the shoes, one in each hand, and tossed them onto the path

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Illustration from the story.4 out of 5http://www.blackgate.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/morlock4.jpg

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"“Ten days law — that’s what you got, eh?” the thug whispered. “Ten days to reach the border, then if they catch you inside it — zzccch! When’d your time run out, uh, was it twenny days ago? Thirty?”“Two months.”“Sure. Call a Keep, scut-face. By sunrise they’ll have your head drying on a stake upside the Kund-Way Gate.”“I won’t be calling the Keepers of the Peace,” Morlock agreed. The crooked

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"It went on for a while longer until the Enemy gave up and the illusion-bait disappeared. Left behind (because it was real, not illusion) was an immense man-trap — or horse-trap, really, since it was made to catch our horses as we gallopped to the rescue. I dismounted and went forward to move the thing out of the way and break it with my truncheon. Liskin remained on his horse as look-out, which

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Morlock is no vermophobe.4 out of 5http://www.blackgate.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/lawless2.jpg

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"You know that guy, Austin Tappan Wright, who spent his entire life writing a massive utopian novel Islandia, a fantastic work in every sense, which only saw print after his death?I hate that guy.Not because there was anything wrong with him, a fine person by all accounts, or his masterpiece, a cleanly written and intensely imagined fantasy. No, it’s just that one tends to hate what one fears and

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If you look, not quite sure why it is called OnyxHawke? Cooler than beige?3.5 out of 5http://www.onyxhawke.com/index.php

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"Virginia: Please snap out of it. The world is drenched in things that don’t exist. I could mention the evergreen genre of “what I shoulda told him was…” conversations, or all those stories about “the fish (or the mastodon or the mating prospect) that got away.” But just because it’s fresh in my mind–and seasonal, too–I’d rather discuss the Attack of the Glittering Trees."3.5 out of 5http://

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"I recently reread Le Guin’s Language of the Night, and for a while I thought it might be a mistake. The book is a hodge-podge: printed versions of short speeches, introductions to her earlier Hainish novels, full essays with footnotes to provide that added kick, and a light frosting (in the edition I was using to reread) of Le Guin’s own second thoughts (mostly about issues of gender). Even back

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"Here’s Horace’s advice to the apprentice storyteller: lie like a rat-bastard. I wish more young people would take it to heart."3.5 out of 5http://www.blackgate.com/2009/02/18/back-away-from-the-egg-or-getting-straight-to-it/#comments

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"I thought I was done with this series of posts on planetary romance, a.k.a. sword-and planet, at least until the new edition of Kline’s Outlaws of Mars comes out. But then I came across a reference to James Blish’s Sword of Xota (a.k.a. The Warriors of Day). I had a hard time believing it was for real. Blish, the hardnosed “‘Sour Bill’ Atheling”, the apostle of modernism in literature and

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Morlock the Maker and his horse.4 out of 5http://www.blackgate.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/silences.jpg

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"As to the “perfect book”–the new issue from Paizo Press’ Planet Stories line, Henry Kuttner’s Robots Have No Tails, may not be perfect in some absolute sense (although it comes pretty close) but it’s certainly one that I and others have been looking forward to for years. And it’s only the latest (hopefully not the last) in a series of Kuttner reprints from Planet that now includes Elak of

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"Don A. Stuart’s “The Elder Gods” is a fantasy novella from the late 1930s that reads a lot like the science fiction being written around the same time. That’s no accident: the author behind the pseudonym is John W. Campbell, once a leading light in the “super science” stories of the 1930s, later a pioneer of a more sophisticated form of speculative fiction, and (by the time the work under review

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"Blood of Ambrose has been out for a while now and it’s starting to be reviewed, rather generously on the whole (a not-uncommon reception for first novels, so I’m trying not to be an egomaniac about it). The reviews somehow make the publication more real to Enge-the-reader (as opposed to Enge-the-writer; these guys aren’t usually on speaking terms). I was looking at the review in Romantic Times

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"I thought I got off easy this year, as the Bunny brought me something I’d often thought about getting myself: the complete Spider-Man (complete at least through 2005). I haven’t been reading a lot of comics lately, but the Sam Raimi movies reminded me of how much I liked Spider-Man as a kid, and I’d often thought about having another look at them to see if they stood up to rereading."3.5 out of

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"Everyone who loves imaginative fiction should raise their voice, frequently, in praise of NESFA, the venerable fan group whose press has been doing great work, putting out archival collections of classic sf in hardcovers. I was reminded of this earlier this week when reading Frederik Pohl’s pleasant reminiscence of his onetime collaborator Cyril Kornbluth (the fierce and witty genius who, too

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"The cross-genrefication of all genres has produced some interesting work. It’s true that if someone describes a book as “steampunk slash horror slash fantasy slash splatterpunk slash slash with a pinch of oregano” I’m likely to quietly sidle away,"3 out of 5http://www.blackgate.com/2009/05/20/there-wolf-dreadful-skin-by-cherie-priest/

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"Dreams with Sharp Teeth was more than a quarter of a century in the making; the first footage was shot in the early 1980s and was used in a PBS special; the film-makers kept coming back for more until they had a feature-length documentary (including lots of older material) which premiered in April 2007. It’s about someone named Harlan Ellison. "3.5 out of 5http://www.blackgate.com/2009/05/28/

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"This is a strange book about a strange event in a strange time. In the summer of 1835, the first successful penny paper in New York published a series of articles documenting an extraordinary series of discoveries by the most famous astronomer in the world, John Herschel (son of the even-more-famous William Herschel). With the aid of a new optical technology and the pristinely clear skies over

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"But without question the novel that addicted me to serial fiction was Analog’s summer serial from 1974, Stargate by Tak Hallus. Except it wasn’t really by Tak Hallus at all: eventually the author dropped his false whiskers and started publishing under his real name, Stephen Robinett. The word “takhallus” is apparently used in Farsi and other languages to mean “pseudonym”, which seems sufficient

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"If genre fiction wants to go on being creative, productive of new ideas and new dreams and new stories, it should steer clear of the respectable. That way blandness lies."3 out of 5http://www.blackgate.com/2009/10/08/sff-field-or-dangerfield/#more-3618

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"Robert E. Howard wrote a lot of stuff worth reading, but for me his central importance lies in the invention of sword-and-sorcery (as the genre was later named by Fritz Leiber). Not in the Conan stories, though: I go along with those who argue that sword-and-sorcery actually begins with the Solomon Kane stories (some of which are online, having battled their way past Mickey Mouse into the public

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Illustration for the story.4 out of 5http://www.blackgate.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/bg_12_payment_in_full.jpg

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"“You can tell?” I asked faintly.“I taught Charis how to make a decent eyeball,” Morlock grumbled. He unrolled the sheet in his hand and glanced at it, adding, “The life-scroll isn’t in his handwriting. And the stupid thing couldn’t even speak properly. Not the product of the establishment’s greatest wonder-worker.” “But maybe,” I guessed, “the chief assistant master thaumaturge-in-training?”“

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"As SFScope, agent Michael Kabongo, and the author himself have already reported, we've just completed an agreement with James Enge (via the OnyxHawke agency), to publish a third Morlock Ambrosius novel, this one titled The Wolf Age. The Wolf Age is a third stand-alone adventure featuring his wandering swordsman/master maker Morlock, after the forthcoming This Crooked Way, and the

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Apparently an audible version, with the usual dodgy DRM rubbish.http://www.audible.com/adbl/site/products/ProductDetail.jsp?BV_SessionID=@@@@2139856400.1261469665@@@@&BV_EngineID=ccchadejegljghdcefecekjdffidffj.0&productID=BK_ADBL_000747

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Forthcoming in Swords & Dark Magic: The New Sword and Sorcery, edited by Jonathan Strahan and Lou Anders.I am just guessing the length.

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Author photo.5 out of 5http://photos-h.ak.fbcdn.net/photos-ak-snc1/v794/218/32/1244191220/n1244191220_266261_4471.jpg

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Live author updates.4 out of 5http://www.facebook.com/james.enge

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"Fantasy is most effective when it acts through symbols that rest pretty deep in the awareness (or beneath the awareness, if you buy into the whole subconscious thing). At the center of every adult’s emotional life is a struggle for autonomy that occurs in adolescence. One may be struggling against well-meaning (or not so well-meaning) caregivers who are reluctant to surrender their authority.

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Online story.4 out of 5http://freesf.blogspot.com/2009/10/war-is-over-james-enge.html

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Online story.4 out of 5http://freesf.blogspot.com/2008/06/red-worms-way-james-enge.html

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Online story.3.5 out of 5http://freesf.blogspot.com/2008/07/payment-in-full-james-enge.html

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Online story.4 out of 5http://freesf.blogspot.com/2009/10/payment-deferred-james-enge.html

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Online story.3.5 out of 5http://freesf.blogspot.com/2009/10/interlude-telling-tale-james-enge.html

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Online story.3.5 out of 5http://freesf.blogspot.com/2008/11/gordian-stone-james-enge.html

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Online story.4.5 out of 5http://freesf.blogspot.com/2009/10/fire-and-water-james-enge.html

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Online story.4.5 out of 5http://freesf.blogspot.com/2009/03/fire-and-sleet-james-enge.html

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Online story.3.5 out of 5http://freesf.blogspot.com/2008/06/covenant-with-death-james-enge.html

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Online story.3.5 out of 5http://freesf.blogspot.com/2009/03/book-of-silences-james-enge.html

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Online novel excerpt.5 out of 5http://freesf.blogspot.com/2009/04/blood-of-ambrose-1-3-james-enge.html

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