The Heroes

ebook / ISBN-13: 9780575105690

Price: £10.99

ON SALE: 10th May 2012

Genre: Fantasy / Historical Adventure

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This enhanced eBook contains:
# An introduction from Joe Abercrombie
# The full text of THE HEROES
# THE HEROES Audio edition
# A critical afterword from the editor
Plus:
# THE FOOL JOBS short story, featuring characters from THE HEROES
# A 20,000 word ‘planning’ document which contains all of Joe’s behind-the-scenes notes, plans and timeline for THE HEROES
# A before-and-after chapter showing the first draft, the last draft, and many stages in between if one of the most critical chapters of the book
# A full behind-the-scenes interview with Joe Abercrombie covering the writing process, the importance of maps, the genesis of and influences on the novel, the six main characters and their story arcs, and the cover . . . amongst other things!
# ‘Blog archive’ – all of Joe’s blog posts from the period when he was writing THE HEROES. This is half-diary, half book progress updates, and includes illustrations, links to interviews, events, award ceremonies and reviews of games and books from Joe as well as incidents from his life
# Cover file: view the several elements of the cover in all their final and rough stages, plus the different stages the cover itself went though during the design process. Comes with commentary from Joe Abercrombie, Dave Senior, Didier Graffet and Laura Brett – teh design team that won a publically-voted design award for the cover of BEST SERVED COLD
# A full author biography, and an author photo gallery

Reviews

[The Heroes is a] blood-drenched, thought-provoking dissection ofa three-day battle is set in the same world as Abercrombie's First Law Trilogy but stands very well alone . . . Abercrombie never glosses over a moment of the madness, passion, and horror ofwar, nor the tribulations that turn ordinary people into the titular heroes
Publishers Weekly
The Heroes is an indictment of war and the duplicity that corrupts men striving for total power: bloody and violent, but never gratuitously so, it's imbued with cutting humour, acute characterisation and worldweary wisdom about the weaknesses of the human race. Brilliant
Guardian
Highly recommended - a funny, finely-wrought, terrifically energetic work of high fantasy. Seek it out
Joe Hill