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Ben Peek’s The Godless on Tor.com

The Godless: Chapter Five

Fri Jun 13, 2014 10:00am

Epic Fantasy, Fantasy || The Gods are dying. Fifteen thousand years after the end of their war, their bodies can still be found across the world. They kneel in forests, lie beneath mountains, and rest at the bottom of the world's ocean. For thousands of years, men and women have awoken with strange powers that are derived from their bodies.

Ben Peek’s The Godless on Tor.com

The Godless: Chapter Four

Ben Peek

Thu Jun 12, 2014 10:00am

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Dragonlance

The Dragonlance Reread: Guest Highlord Ben Peek on The God Who Broke the Fourth Wall

Ben Peek

Fri Apr 8, 2016 12:00pm 6 comments 2 Favorites [+]

Illustration by Larry Elmore

Seeing as we’re between books right now, we thought we’d ask another Guest Highlord to bring us their stories of Dragonlance, since part of the joy of rereading Dragonlance is realising how influential and far-reaching they are. Everyone’s read Dragonlance—and, if not, isn’t now the perfect time to start? It is no wonder this series is so influential; it had its sticky claws in all of our childhoods. This week, author Ben Peek discusses the crazed wizard ~~Zifnab~~ ~~Zanfib~~ Fizban.

Caution: unlike our normal reread posts, this contains spoilers for the rest of the Chronicles.

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Series: Dragonlance Reread

That Was Awesome! Writers on Writing

Thirty Years On: Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman and the Legacy of Mortality

Ben Peek

Thu Aug 21, 2014 9:30am 31 comments Favorite This

The best thing Sturm Brightblade ever did was die.

I did not discover literature of any kind until I was about eleven, or ten. I was, without a sliver of a doubt, a no good, lazy slacker of a child, and after I discovered literature, I was totally and utterly a no good, lazy slacker of a child who read books. A lot of books, good and bad, but my favourite—the books I read and reread in my teens—were by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman. Specifically, I had a deep and complete love for the Dragonlance Chronicles. First published in 1984 when I was nothing more than sticks of bone at seven, Dragons of Autumn Twilight began what would be one of the icons of my grunge stained disenchanted childhood. I know it all, back and front, left and right and, thirty years after the first book began the series, I still remember the scenes at the end of Dragons of Winter Night, where Sturm Brightblade slowly and surely, walked to the top of a tower to fight a dragon with little more than the sword his father left him.

[He died, of course.]

Series: That Was Awesome! Writers on Writing

Excerpts

The Godless: Chapter Five

Ben Peek

Fri Jun 13, 2014 10:00am 2 comments 1 Favorite [+]

The Godless, book one of Ben Peek’s exciting new epic fantasy series, publishes August 19 from Thomas Dunne and Tor UK. A new chapter of the book will appear on Tor.com every morning from Monday, June 9 to Friday, June 13. Keep track of them all here, and dig in to Chapter Five below!

The Gods are dying. Fifteen thousand years after the end of their war, their bodies can still be found across the world. They kneel in forests, lie beneath mountains, and rest at the bottom of the world’s ocean. For thousands of years, men and women have awoken with strange powers that are derived from their bodies.

The city Mireea is built against a huge stone wall that stretches across a vast mountain range, following the massive fallen body of the god, Ger. Ayae, a young cartographer’s apprentice, is attacked and discovers she cannot be harmed by fire. Her new power makes her a target for an army that is marching on Mireea. With the help of Zaifyr, a strange man adorned with charms, she is taught the awful history of ‘cursed’ men and women, coming to grips with her new powers and the enemies they make. Meanwhile, the saboteur Bueralan infiltrates the army that is approaching her home to learn its terrible secret…

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