{"id":4069,"date":"2015-11-10T10:20:14","date_gmt":"2015-11-10T15:20:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/?p=4069"},"modified":"2015-11-10T10:20:14","modified_gmt":"2015-11-10T15:20:14","slug":"new-paperback-editions-of-matthew-hughes-fools-errant-and-fool-me-twice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/2015\/11\/10\/new-paperback-editions-of-matthew-hughes-fools-errant-and-fool-me-twice\/","title":{"rendered":"New paperback editions of Matthew Hughes’ Fools Errant and Fool Me Twice"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\"Fools<\/a>\nMatthew Hughes has just published new paperback editions of his earliest Archonate novels, Fools Errant<\/a>\"\"<\/em> and Fool Me Twice<\/a>\"\"<\/em>. I’m always happy to do the layouts for his books and I’m especially happy to do the print layouts. Say what you like: I really do like paper.<\/p>\n

As with most of Hughes’ self-published editions, the cover paintings are by Ben Baldwin. I just adapted them to the book’s shape, which I did here with knotwork borders.<\/p>\n

From the description of Fools Errant<\/a>:<\/em><\/p>\n

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Wise, witty and just a little weird, Fools Errant<\/em> wryly strolls the satirical path laid down by Douglas Adams, Terry Pratchett and Jack Vance, heralding the brilliant debut of a gifted new voice.\n<\/p>

\nFoppish young Filidor Vesh wants only to dally among his shallow pastimes. But a simple errand for his uncle, the vaguely all-powerful Archon of those parts of Old Earth still populated by human beings, becomes a frenetic odyssey across a planet speckled with eccentric nations pursuing odd aims with intense determination.\n<\/p>

\nHarried at every step by the irascible dwarf, Gaskarth, and frequently at the peril of wild beasts, enraged mobs and a particularly nasty thaumaturge, Filidor makes a relucant progress toward a final encounter with an ancient and possibly world-ending evil.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\n\"Fool\nFool Me Twice<\/a><\/em> continues the adventures of Filidor – who we’ll see again, in the Hapthorn novels and elsewhere – in his new position as apprentice to his uncle, the Archon. Once again we have travels to far and peculiar corners of Old Earth – in what’s remarkably like the last age before Jack Vance’s Dying Earth – while Filidor “must cope with philosophical pirates, prophet-seeking aliens, light-fingered mummers, and a tiny, bothersome voice in his left ear<\/em>.”\n<\/p>\n

As always, lots of fun. If you’re more of an ebook reader – I don’t judge – you can also get the books in electronic form through your favorite outlet or at Hughes’ own Archonate Bookstore<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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