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Fabien Lyraud a écrit :Une des prochaines grosse sortie en Sword and sorcery en 2012 : Seven princes de John R Fultz, un des rares auteurs du courant sword and sorcery moderne à puiser son inspiration chez Clark Ashton Smith. Et on peut déjà jeter un oeil à ,la couverture :http://www.orbitbooks.net/2011/09/26/co ... n-r-fultz/

The premise of Scourge of the Betrayer is fairly simple: a young chronicler named Arkamondos is bored archiving the mundane histories of middling merchants, and agrees to join a foreign military band to record their exploits. Nothing wildly inventive on the face of it-we’re not talking New Crobuzon territory here, so if that is your bag (Bas-Lag?), then you might want to keep shopping.But the thing that provides for some fun twists and misdirection is that Arkamondos is also the narrator. And he has no flipping clue what he’s gotten himself into. While he knows this group of Syldoon soldiers has a nasty reputation, he has no idea what their agenda is. And as it turns out, they not only have one, but it involves subterfuge, political intrigue, blackmail, and plenty of mayhem and murder.Arkamondos does double duty here-sure, he’s his own character, but he also essentially functions as the proxy or surrogate for the reader. As Arki slowly begins to get a handle on what’s actually happening, the reader does as well. And just when Arki (and the reader) feels like he understands and knows what to expect, the ground shifts underneath his feet.