![]() ![]() Pretty much anything you care to imagine can happen in a fantasy, which in turn means you can really crank up the intensity of the tale you're telling.'' ''And there certainly are advantages to that particular form - for one thing, you're able to go all-out on the imaginative front, with a lot less concern for the usual unities of time and space and character. ![]() ''I'd always had a hankering to write some old-school sword and sorcery,'' he says. Maniacally fast-paced and frequently violent, the book features both elements of sci-fi and fantasy, with drug-addicted aliens rubbing shoulders with Druid-like religious fanatics and not-so-noble emperors, a creative exercise that even Morgan found liberating. ![]() ![]() The second in a trilogy, the book centres on three characters: an exiled warrior named Ringil Eskiath, a lesbian court adviser, Archeth Indamaninarmal, and her bodyguard, Egar the Dragonbane, all of whom are finding their way in a world set in the distant past that has been torn by war and discord. Now, Morgan is back with The Cold Commands, a breakneck blockbuster that extends his ambit into the realm of fantasy. ![]()
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