![]() of Silence (forthcoming) THE GRIMNOIR CHRONICLES Hard Magic Spellbound. Doctors resent and admire Healers for being able to reattach limbs and cure cancer with a wave of the hand and Torches do most of their work putting fires out. BAEN BOOKS by LARRY CORREIA No Game for Knights (anthology edited with Kacey. ![]() the alternate history alone makes this worth the read. ![]() ![]() The world building is top notch and well researched. Some German starving artist got himself killed rabble-rousing and zeppelins fill the skies. This is part of the review I wrote about Hard Magic, book one in the Grimnoir Chronicles by New York Times bestseller, Larry Correia: 'Imagine X-Men crossed with the 1920s period show by HBO, Boardwalk Empire. The Great War is over, the veterans are home and times are hard for the haves. IN A WORLD where superpowered folks started showing up in the mid-1800s, the year is now 1932. Solid fun work with the best-written fight scenes I've seen since the Mistborn trilogy.Īside from the fact that the events of Hard Magic are made of rampant awesome, the setting is what really makes me tingle. Telekines are Movers, teleporters are Travelers, bricks are Brutes, gadgeteers are Cogs and so on. Stars a big stolid smarter-than-he-looks hombre by the name of Jake Sullivan with gravity powers. ![]() Cover your ears, Sullivan ordered as he drew his 1911 Colt. It's Philip Marlowe meets X-Men with magic as the backstory instead of pseudoscience. The dirigible was rising, loose cables whipping about it in the wind. ![]()
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