Line #17 Creator/PaulKearney


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2	->''"Memories are important, like the bones of the mind. We build ourselves upon them, flesh and blood moulded around the pictures of what is past."''
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4	A fantasy-author from Northern Ireland who was born in 1967.
5	He is best known for his "Literature/TheMonarchiesOfGod" series, which is his greatest success, prompting Creator/StevenErikson to say in an [[http://www.sfsite.com/06a/se82.htm interview]] that it was the best series he has read in years.
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7	A thing worth noting is his time at the military (nine years) and his great interest in history. Both of it is flamboyant when reading about the strategies employed by the characters of his books. They are very sensitive and show that the author knows the wielded weapons and their best use in battle. HollywoodTactics are a very good way to get yourself killed in his works, as some characters have to find out. Through a lot of books his interest in historic seafaring is also eminent.
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11	!!Bibliography:
12	'''Stand Alone Novels'''
13	* ''The Way to Babylon (1992)''
14	* ''A Different Kingdom (1993)''
15	* ''Riding the Unicorn (1994)''
16	* ''Primeval: The Lost Island (2008)''
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18	'''Literature/TheMonarchiesOfGod'''
19	* ''Hawkwood's Voyage (1995)''
20	* ''The Heretic Kings (1996)''
21	* ''The Iron Wars (1999)''
22	* ''The Second Empire (2000)''
23	* ''Ships from the West (2002)''
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25	** ''Hawkwood and the Kings, a rerelease of "Hawkwood's Voyage" and "The Heretic Kings", published in 2010.''
26	** ''Century of the Soldier, a rerelease of "The Iron Wars", "The Second Empire" and "Ships from the West", published in 2010''
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28	'''The Sea Beggars'''
29	* ''The Mark of Ran (2004)''
30	* ''This Forsaken Earth (2006)''
31	* ''Storm of the Dead (unpublished)''
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33	'''The Macht'''
34	* ''The Ten Thousand (2008)''
35	* ''Corvus (2010)''
36	* ''Kings of Morning (2012)''
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38	'''Anna Francis'''
39	* ''The Wolf in the Attic''
40	* ''The Burning Horse''
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43	!!Tropes present in Kearney's works:
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45	%%* AnyoneCanDie: Nobody is safe in his books.
46	* CrapsackWorld: While not every World is this, they all are very dirty and generally inhabited by selfish humans who do not care very much about others. Expect the most ruthless and pragmatic characters to win, or at least to survive.
47	* HistoricalFantasy:
48	** The Anna Francis books, taking place in Oxford University in TheRoaringTwenties, and featuring Creator/CSLewis and Creator/JRRTolkien in minor roles.
49	** ''The Macht'' trilogy falls in here, featuring retellings of ''Literature/{{Anabasis}}'' and the life of UsefulNotes/AlexanderTheGreat.
50	* HollywoodTactics: Not generally [[AvertedTrope averted]] as some characters make use of them. But their life expectancy is [[TooDumbToLive rather short]].
51	* MagicFromTechnology: it's mentioned briefly in ''Corvus'' that the Macht people came from the stars and that their first city had walls of metal. Chances are good that they're meant to be a remnant of a spacefaring civilization, and the "Curse of God" cuirasses are leftover pieces of a more high-tech sets of armor.
52	* NoHistoricalFiguresWereHarmed: Corvus is clearly meant to be UsefulNotes/AlexanderTheGreat.
53	* ShownTheirWork: All the historical terms are used correctly. The use of the word Polemarch for Strategist is one of the milder examples. Some military authorities you will only recognice if you are familiar with the military organisation of the Persian Empire. But where it really gets hardcore is the seafaring in sailing ships. Even if English is your first language you will have some problems with the denomination of parts of the ships and the names of different kinds of wind.
54	* VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory: As allready mentioned the author is a huge history buff (his own words). Therefore there are a lot of similarities to historic events. A very good example is "The Ten Thousand", which is basically a renarration of the Anabasis of Xenophon. The author only added magic and new races. If the reader knows his history he will have a lot of unexpected fun.

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