Academic Exercises

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Academic Exercises

Academic ExercisesÂ is the first collection of shorter work by master novelist K.J Parker, and it is a stunner. Weighing in at over 500 pages, this generous volume gathers together thirteen highly distinctive stories, essays, and novellas, including the recent World Fantasy Award-winner, â€œLet Maps to Othersâ€. The result is a significant publishing event, a book that belongs on the shelf of every serious reader of imaginative fiction.
The collection opens with the World Fantasy Award-winning â€œA Small Price to Pay for Birdsong,â€ a story of music and murder set against a complex mentor/pupil relationship, and closes with the superb novella â€œBlue and Gold,â€ which features what may be the most beguiling opening lines in recent memory. In between, Parker has assembled a treasure house of narrative pleasures. In â€œA Rich, Full Week,â€ an itinerant â€œwizardâ€ undergoes a transformative encounter with a member of the â€œrestless dead.â€ â€œPurple and Black,â€ the longest story in the book, is an epistolary tale about a man who inherits the most hazardous position imaginable: Emperor. â€œAmor Vincit Omniaâ€ recounts a confrontation with a mass murderer who may have mastered an impossible form of magic.
Rounding out the volumeâ€”and enriching it enormouslyâ€”are three fascinating and illuminating essays that bear direct relevance to Parkerâ€™s unique brand of fiction: â€œOn Sieges,â€ â€œCutting Edge Technology,â€ and â€œRich Menâ€™s Skins.â€
Taken singly, each of these thirteen pieces is a lovingly crafted gem. Together, they constitute a major and enduring achievement. Rich, varied, and constantly absorbing, Academic Exercises is, without a doubt, the fantasy collection of the year.

Country	USA
Author	K. J. Parker
Binding	Kindle Edition
EISBN	9781596066441
Format	Kindle eBook
IsAdultProduct
Label	Subterranean Press
Manufacturer	Subterranean Press
NumberOfPages	536
PublicationDate	2014-07-26
Publisher	Subterranean Press
ReleaseDate	2014-07-26
Studio	Subterranean Press

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