Yes you, you television-watching-lazy-bones.
Have you readA Song of Ice and Fire?
If not, rectify this immediately.
Its basically, right,Game of Thrones, but a book.
Quite a few books actually.
If you have readA Song of Ice and Fire; wasnt it good?
Would you like to know a few more books that we think you might like?
If not, you should probably stop reading this article now.
Thats basically all it is.
Welcome to the Everyone is an Incredible Bastard Fantasy subgenre.
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No-one is a hero.
The reader is invited to root for torturers, cowards, and the psychotically violent.
Magic is a primal, aggressive force.
If something starts looking up for someone, odds are something horrible is imminently about to happen to them.
This is because Abercrombie has noted that, once youre dead, your problems are basically over.
There are so many more horrible things you’ve got the option to do to the living.
Look, George R. R. Martin fans!
A complex, epic fantasy with a vast array of characters comprising ten volumes!
Do you like that oh-so-many characters inA Song Of Ice and Firebasically have a terrible time of it?
Then look no further than Robin Hobbs excellentFarseer Trilogy.
Published almost twenty years ago (No, I hear you cry, No-one was alive then.
Also there is a talking dog.
Its a flippin masterpiece, basically.
Simon is a lowly kitchen boy who dreams of greater things.
And its something to pass the time with if you ever get stuck in a pot washing job.
Basically the world is going to end.
Our heroes have to save it.
Things do not go smoothly.
Death, despair, broken hearts, amnesia.
These books have got it all.
Yes, its a comic.
Marshal Law is a hero hunter.
Pat Mills does not like superheroes.
Here is his polemic against them, as they are taken to task via thinly veiled guises.
Its funny, twisted, violent and as finely honed a-spleen-venting as one could hope to see.
Well, thats our list.
