- Kings and rulers, Wizards, Magic, Fiction
Desiring to be emperor of the Broken Empire, young King Jorg Ancrath of the seven nations must face an adversary standing in his way, a necromancer unlike any he has ever challenged -- a figure hated and feared even more than himself: the Dead King.
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Classical in form, grave, epic and earnest.
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- intimateepic
- earnestironic
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- Author
- Mark Lawrence
- First published
- 2012
- Pages
- 435
- Publisher
- Ace, HarperCollins Publishers, Minotauro
- Editions
- 9
- Language
- tur, English, Spanish
- ISBN
- 9781956000498
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Mark Lawrence was born in 1966, in the United States. While he was still young, his parents moved to the United Kingdom. Lawrence has a degree in physics and holds a PhD in mathematics. He is married and has four children. Lawrence is the primary carer of his disabled child Celyn, and for this reason he does not travel to promote his books or attend conventions. He works as a novelist and was a research scientist in the field of artificial intelligence. He has held secret level clearance with both US and UK governments. Since 2015, Lawrence operates the annual Self-Published Fantasy Blog-Off, a literary contest intended to bring greater visibility to self-published English-language fantasy a
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