6/20/2023 0 Comments Bell Hammers by Lancelot Schaubert![]() ![]() ![]() The addition of a family-life, loving daughter, personal history and internal monologue for our Jack Dawes/Mclean/jackdaw character adds a lot of depth to the frame of the plot. "One of the best atmospheric elements in the text is the clear reverence the author has for the inspirational material. "Either way, I feel like this is really more genre-bending fiction than fantasy, but will excite fiction enthusiasts who need a familiar story to finally understand the appeal in the fantasy genre. This feels like Moorcock's Second Ether series, or even Jasper Fforde's stuff. "This is an author indulging in some pretty amazing tongue-and-cheek metatextual analysis - in one short text, they've recognized that Die Hard is a Western, that Westerns have solid story beats that can be abstracted into any genre, and then kneaded those story beats into a fantasy narrative that has more to say about family, growth, and excitement than any of the original material. Will he make it out clothed, reunited, and unsinged?Ĭonceived as a genre-bending - even Nabokovian - satire of Die Hard, one Canadian booksellers thought this fantasy novella will start a new genre named Die Bard: ![]() Separated from his clothes and family, he must wield a lightning wand against an invading army in hopes to set the fantastic world's diplomats free. A cowboy separated from his wife visits an ambassador's gala above an active volcano. ![]()
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