Triumff: Her Majesty's Hero (Angry Robot)
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.75 (529 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0857660225 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 384 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-09-27 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
The author lives in Maidstone, England. His comicbook scripts, for major publishers such as Marvel, DC Comics and the UK's 2000AD, have attracted critical plaudits and strong sales on both sides of the Atlantic. Dan made his name in the tie-in SF and Fantasy fiction field, selling more than 1.2 million copies in English language of his Warhammer and Warhammer 40,000 novels for Games Workshop's Black Lib
Sir Rupert Triumff, the swashbuckling hero-or crude anti-hero-and one-time explorer, must ingratiate himself with the Queen in order to get permission for future voyages, and is commandeered to protect Her Majesty. But fans of more intellectual fantasy will enjoy Abnett's misadventures and hope for future installments. Queen Elizabeth XXX is the monarch in an alternative history of Great Britain where Queen Elizabeth I married her brother-in-law, Philip II of Spain, resulting in a union that created world domination; since then all female monarchs have been named after her. The concept is clever and creative, and magic, treason, and Spanish grandees make for an entertaining read, yet the pacing-either bewilderingly fast or inert thanks to arch description-may throw readers off. From Publishers Weekly British author Abnett, best known for his graphic novel collections and Warhammer 40,000 novel series, offers a ribald, rolli
Adventurer. Great Britain's vast Empire is run by Alchemy and Superstition. Throughout its rollicking pages, Sir Rupert Triumff drinks, dines and duels his way into a new Brass Age of Exploration and Adventure.File Under: Fantasy Alternate History Wild Magic Swashbuckling Unforgivable Puns! E-book ISBN: 978-0-85766-023-7. Drinker. NO, REALLY.Her Divine Majesty Queen Elizabeth XXX sits upon the throne. IT IS THE YEAR 2010. Sir Rupert Triumff. Saviour? Pratchett goes swashbuckling in the hotly anticipated original fiction debut of the multi-million selling Warhammer star. Fighter. Triumff is a ribald historical fantasy set in a warped clockwork-powered version of our present day ! a new Elizabethan age, not of Elizabeth II but in the style of the original Virgin Queen
"Both laughs and groans await the reader" according to Wulfstan. This is a rollicking swashbuckling pastiche or parody, set in a modern alternate history where the technology never went much past the time of Queen Elizabeth the First. A form of magic has taken it's place, mostly run by the Church. Of course, this has been done before (and much, much better) by Randall Garrett, with his Lord Darcy pastiche fantasy mysteries (and if you haven't read them- NOW! is the time, these are by far the best in the genre). However, not being as good as Randall Garrett isn't much of a complaint.This book does h. Some neat ideas but not enough of a plot Kid Kyoto Set in a magical world where the Elizabethan age never ended, this book tells the story of Sir Rupert Triumff, an explorer recently returned from his discovery of Australia. Triumff is a drunk, a liar and a lout but quickly finds himself in the center of a conspiracy to bring down the United British and Spanish Empires and kill Queen Elizabeth XXX.Abnett begins on a dark and stormy night, with prose more purple than anything Edward Bulwer-Lytton ever came up with. The first 5 pages are spend on an epic description of the rain.From ther. "You have to either love the genre or the author to really enjoy this book" according to JohnGuad. I bought this book mostly because I read a different book (Embedded) by this author which I liked. The descriptions / reviews of this book gave me the impression that it would be funny. I figured that the mixture of alternative history and humor would make this a quick and fun read, but after only a couple chapters I got bored.Now I'm not the kind of guy that can only focus on short stories I've read quite a handful of seriously deep stories with hefty page counts per book (for example, Wheel of Time, Malazan Book of the Dead, Baroque