![]() ![]() ![]() His eyes have seen plenty bad things and survived the seeing. But these books are all about how one character sees the world, and, in Warden’s case, viewing is a pretty jaundiced experience. Sure, the Low Town novels form a trilogy, sure there are imagined worlds, Rigus and the Thirteen Kingdoms, and they’re inhabited by exotic people. He’s a man with shivs aplenty, not least the eponymous Straight Razor. ![]() In the Low Town novels that man is Warden, embittered war veteran, disgraced secret agent, drug lord, with baggage as big as a mountain, as big as the bag of Pixie’s Breath and Choke he’s about to flog to his equally disenfranchised clients on his blighted turf, a turf he will fight to the nails for. To my mind at least, in recent times, the landscape of secondary world fantasy has turned inwards, to the dystopic, disenfranchised of society: the new protagonist is an anti-hero. ![]() The map and the journey back then were huge: the roads went ever on, through trilogies, tetralogies and more… It’s nearly 80 years since Middle Earth arrived with its exotic landscapes populated by reluctant yet noble heroes, a myriad different races, histories older than time. The topography and culture of fantasy has changed. ![]()
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