Book description
In this sequel to the bestselling INTO THE DARKNESS, the country of
Algarve is successful in its blitzkrieg tactics, but becomes bogged down
in the desolate winter of Unkerlant, its main enemy.
Algarve's king decides to undertake blood magic, which amounts to
genocide, in order to break the deadlock; when it is seen to work, its
use elsewhere cannot be long coming. On a small island, a theoretical
sorcerer may hold the only answer to this horror . . .
Harry Turtledove has taken events similar to those from Earth's wars
and transplanted them to a wonderfully imagined fantasy world. Harry
Turtledove (1949 - ) Harry Turtledove was born in Los Angeles in 1949,
and has a PhD in Byzantine history. He has taught ancient and medieval
history at a number of universities including UCLA, and has published a
translation of a ninth-century Byzantine chronicle, as well as several
scholarly articles. A full-time science fiction writer since 1991, he is
best known for his rigorously researched alternative history, such as
the classic The Guns of the South, in which the Confederacy wins the
American Civil War. Harry Turtledove is married to novelist Laura
Frankos, and lives in Los Angeles.
