The Best Science Fiction And Fantasy Of The Year-Volume Four - Plot & Excerpts
It was quickly followed by debut fantasy novel, A Scattering of Jades, which won him considerable acclaim. The winner of the Locus, International Horror Guild, and Crawford awards, Irvine has published two further fantasy novels, One King, One Soldier, and The Narrows, and two collections of short fiction. His most recent novel is Buyout. A versatile writer, Irvine has also written a number of comic and media-related works, including Daredevil Noir and The Vertigo Encyclopedia. I: The TombThey brought the singer to the obsidian gate and waited. A sandstorm began to boil in the valley that split the mountains to their west. Across the miles of desert, they watched it rear and approach. Still the singer did not sing. She was blind, and had the way of blind singers. They were as much at the mercy of the song as anyone else. All of them were going to die in the sandstorm. At least the guard captain, Paulus, hoped so. If the sandstorm did not kill them, whatever was in the tomb would. Of the two deaths, he much preferred the storm.
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