{"id":4604,"date":"2017-04-21T15:19:00","date_gmt":"2017-04-21T19:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/?p=4604"},"modified":"2017-04-21T15:19:00","modified_gmt":"2017-04-21T19:19:00","slug":"matthew-hughes-new-book-9-tales-of-raffalon-at-an-introductory-price-of-just-99%c2%a2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/2017\/04\/21\/matthew-hughes-new-book-9-tales-of-raffalon-at-an-introductory-price-of-just-99%c2%a2\/","title":{"rendered":"Matthew Hughes’ new book, 9 Tales of Raffalon, at an introductory price of just 99\u00a2"},"content":{"rendered":"\"9<\/a>\n

Over at the Archonate<\/a>, where Matthew Hughes can be found, you can now get his collection 9 Tales of Raffalon<\/em> as an eBook for the introductory price of just 99\u00a2.<\/p>\n

Seven of these stories have appeared previously in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction<\/em>; one (The Inn of the Seven Blessings<\/em>) was written for the Gardner Dozois\/George R. R. Martin anthology Rogues<\/em>; and one (the novelette Sternutative Sortilege<\/em>) is seen here for the first time.<\/p>\n

It’s a surprisingly long collection, as large as a novel, and since I’m the guy who just formatted it you can believe that I know what I’m talking about. I also got to do the cover for this one – you can see it here.<\/p>\n

Here’s the book’s description:<\/p>
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In an age of wizards and walled cities, Raffalon is a journeyman member of the Ancient and Honorable Guild of Purloiners and Purveyors. In other words, a thief.<\/p>\n

His skills allow him to scale walls, tickle locks, defeat magical wards. He lifts treasures and trinkets, and spends the proceeds on ale and sausages in taverns where a wise thief sits with his back to the wall.<\/p>\n

But somehow things often go the way they shouldn\u2019t and then Raffalon has to rely upon his wits and a well calibrated sense of daring.<\/p>\n

Here are nine tales that take our enterprising thief into the Underworld and Overworld, and pit him against prideful thaumaturges, grasping magnates, crooked guild masters, ghosts, spies, ogres, and a talented amateur assassin.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Like several of Hughes’ recent works this one takes place after the Universe has completed its transformation from a realm of reason into one ruled by Sympathetic Association<\/em> – which we might know better as “magic” – and which, in that state, bears a strong resemblance to Jack Vance’s Dying Earth.<\/p>\n

As always with Hughes, highly recommended. Go get one for less than a dollar!<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Over at the Archonate, where Matthew Hughes can be found, you can now get his collection 9 Tales of Raffalon as an eBook for the introductory price of just 99\u00a2.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-found-on-the-web","category-works-in-progress"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4604\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}