Katharine Kerr
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The Gold Falcon
Book Four of The Dragon Mage
The powerful dweomermaster Nevyn has been reincarnated, but young Neb knows nothing of his previous life. Orphaned following a cholera epidemic, Neb and his younger brother arrive at the desolate farm of their last living relative and soon learn that a worse plague lurks beyond the western border of Deverry.
The savage Horsekin tribes are raiding the villages and taking slaves as the first step in their plans to destroy both the nomadic Westfolk and the Deverrian farmers. Neb and his soulmate Branna are drawn inexorably into a war for the survival of the kingdom itself.
Although they have powerful allies in the Westfolk dweomermasters, they are also facing mighty enemies, enemies that they have fought before in the past lives that they no longer remember...
Intricately interweaving human and elven history over several hundred years, Katharine Kerr’s enthralling tale of extraordinary characters living their many lives through exceptional times is epic fantasy on a truly grand scale.
‘Kerr is a master of her trade’ Vector
‘A lyrically written and enchanting tale of love, politics and magic’ SFX
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The Fire Dragon
Ancient hatreds, ancient wrongs - stronger than dwarven steel, their chains bind together Rhodry Maelwaedd, the mad beserker, and his bloodsworn enemy, Raena, shape-changer and prophet of a new goddess come into the world. Both have glimpsed the great secret of the dweomer, that each soul leads many lives. Neither understands what they have seen.
They forged their chain of hatred during Deverry's civil wars, when they lived as Maddyn the bard and Lady Merodda, a dabbler in poisons and forbidden magicks. The evil that Merodda worked then claimed lives that Maddyn held dear. Not even the mighty dweomermaster Nevyn and his apprentice, Merodda's daughter Lilli, could undo the harm she worked or prevent Maddyn from swearing a vengeance-vow that smouldered down the centuries.
Now Rhodry and Raena are to meet again in the northern borderlands, far from the settled Kingdom of Deverry. It is here that their bloodfeud threatens to destroy the peaceful city of Cerr Cawnen. The elven dweomermaster Dallandra must summon every power and ally at her disposal to break the chains of their Wyrd and save thousands of innocent lives.
Praise for Katherine Kerr and the Deverry novels:
'An unusually scholarly writer of fantasy' The Telegraph
'Much as I dislike comparing anything to The Lord of the Rings, I have to admit that on this occasion it's justified' Interzone
‘Kerr is a master of her trade... She has created a world that might very well go on for ever, and this one reader sincerely hopes it does' Vector
'An extensive and complete world, whose endlessly fascinating details grow book by book' Starlog
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Polar City Nightmare
and Kate Daniel
The Republic: a human-run interstellar government caught between the Carli Confederation and the H'Allevae Coreward Alliance, trying to maintain its independence in the face of two huge galactic powers.
A political incident is brewing on Polar City, Hagar, which might cost the Republic its autonomy. A Carli artefact is missing along with a bureaucrat from the Confederation Embassy. And Yosef Mbaye, a troubled athlete from the successful Polar City Bears, is being blackmailed to carry something with him to the Galactic Series on Sarah, the capital planet of the Republic.
When Yosef refuses to let Bobbie Lacey help him find the blackmailer, and the blackmailer turns up dead, Bobbie can't leave it alone. Whatever Yosef is carrying could lose the Bears - and everyone else - a whole lot more than the Galactic series ...
Polar City Nightmare is an unputdownable thriller set in a future at once familiar and alien, an intricate setting brought alive by the brilliant combined talents of Katharine Kerr and Kate Daniel
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First British Edition Voyager (1999) |
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The Black Raven
The second in The Dragon Mage series and the tenth in the Deverry cycle, continues the tales begun in The Red Wyveryn.
At the end of the Civil Wars, Prince Maryn stands on the brink of bringing peace at last to the torn kingdom, but powerful magics threaten his reign and his life. Only Nevyn's young apprentice, Lilli, can see the horrifying power of the curse, her dead mother's legacy of evil, that could bring disaster upon them all. But she has only untried magic for a weapon as she fights to save her beloved prince.
Centuries later, this ancient evil rises again, threatening a raging tide of war that could destroy Deverry forever. Out in the lonely Northlands the savage Horsekin are gathering their armies to march west and conquer the kingdom promised them by their blood-maddened goddess, Alshandra, and her human priestess, Raena. Directly in their path lies the peaceful city of Cerr Cawnen, trembling in anticipation of war.
Yet Cerr Cawnen has powerful allies rushing to its aid: the elven sorceress Dallandra, the half-mad beserker Rhodry Maelwaedd, and his dangerous friend Arzosah, a black dragon of the fire mountains. With them comes another prince, Daralanteriel of the Westfolk, to offer an alliance against the ancient enemies of his people. What few understand, however, is the chain of evil Wyrd that binds Raena and Rhodry together, the result of many lives of malice and violence. Little do they know that the fate of the city and of a kingdom - lies balanced on the knife's edge of their hatreds, so well honed over the long years...
'An unusually scholarly writer of fantasy' The Telegraph
'Much as I dislike comparing anything to The Lord of the Rings, I have to admit that on this occasion it's justified' Interzone
'An extensive and complete world, whose endlessly fascinating details grow book by book' Starlog
About The Author
Katharine Kerr was born in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1944 to a family which considered itself British-in-exile far more than American. In 1962, she moved to the San Francisco Bay Area, and has lived there ever since. After leaving Stanford University she worked in a number of low-paying jobs while she read extensively in the fields of classical archaeology and literature, medieval and Dark Ages history, and modern fiction Eventually she met up with an old friend from school, Howard Kerr, who loved cats, books and baseball as much as she did, they were married in 1973. In 1979 a friend gave Katharine her first fantasy role-playing game. She became so intrigued with gaming and with the fantasy field that she began writing articles for gaming magazines, and for some time was a contributing editor to Dragon magazine, as well as devising gaming modules. Now, however, she is devoting herself exclusively to fiction, for the simple reason that there are only twenty-four hours in a day.
Bibliography
N.B. dates and publishers in dark red indicate British First Editions. Dates and publishers in black indicate recent reprints.
The Gold Falcon
(Harpercollins Pbk,
2006)
The Fire Dragon
(Voyager,
2000)
Polar City Nightmare
(Gollancz Millenium Pbk,
2000)
The Black Raven
(Voyager,
1999)
The Gold Falcon
by Katharine Kerr
