The Healthy Dead: A Tale of Bauchelain and Korbal Broach
The Tales of Bauchelain and Korbal Broach, Book Two
- Publisher
- Night Shade Books
- Initial publish date
- Dec 2005
- Category
- General
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Hardback
- ISBN
- 9781597800068
- Publish Date
- Dec 2005
- List Price
- $32.00
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Description
Things are going all too well in the city of Quaint. So well, in fact, that something has to be done. The zeal for goodness can be catastrophic, and no-one knows this better than Bauchelain and Korbal Broach, two stalwart champions of all things bad. For the innumerable citizens of Quaint, driven to neurotic distraction and overwhelmed with good living, desperation breeds nefarious bed-mates, and before long the two homicidal necromancers — and their beleaguered and substance-addled manservant, Emancipor Reese — find themselves ensnared in a scheme to bring goodness into disrepute, if not utter ruination. To Reese's bemusement, laudable motivations are, in a bizarre twist, uncharacteristically relevant to Master Bauchelain, although, of course, the payment of a chest filled with gold helps. Even so, sometimes, it turns out, one must bring down civilization... in the name of civilization.
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About the author
Steven Erikson is a New York Times bestselling author renown for writing The Malazan Book of the Fallen, a ten-volume series that has sold millions of copies worldwide and is recognized as number two of the top 10 fantasy books by Fantasy Book Review and one of 30 best fantasy series of all time by Paste Magazine. He is a trained archaeologist and anthropologist who has published over twenty books, most of which explore notions of privilege, power hierarchies, and the rise and fall of civilizations, or take the piss out of the same. Erikson has been nominated for the Locus Award four times and the World Fantasy Award twice. His next novel Rejoice, a Knife to the Heart, is an SF First Contact story, due out in October, 2018. He lives in Victoria, B.C. with his lovely wife Clare.
Other titles by
Gardens Of The Moon
(Malazan Book Of The Fallen 1)
Midnight Tides
(Malazan Book of the Fallen 5)
The Bonehunters
Malazan Book Of Fallen 6
House of Chains
Malazan Book of the Fallen 4
Reaper's Gale
The Malazan Book of the Fallen 7
Deadhouse Gates
Malazan Book of the Fallen 2
Memories of Ice
(Malazan Book of the Fallen: Book 3)
The Second Collected Tales of Bauchelain and Korbal Broach
Three Short Novels of the Malazan Empire
The God is Not Willing
The First Tale of Witness
The God Is Not Willing
Book One of the Witness Trilogy: A Novel of the Malazan World