Quillifer

by Walter Jon Williams

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"Walter Jon Williams is always fun, but this may be his best yet, a delight from start to finish, witty, colorful, exciting and amusing by turns, exquisitely written." --George R. R. Martin From New York Times bestselling and award-winning author Walter Jon Williams comes an adventurous epic fantasy about a man who is forced to leave his comfortable life and find his fortune among goddesses, pirates, war, and dragons. Rogue. Joker. Lover. Reluctant soldier. Quillifer is a young man, serially in love and studying law, when a family tragedy throws him into the world to seek his fortune. A charmer rather than a fighter, he soon finds himself embroiled with a bandit gang, caught up in vicious court intrigues, and the plaything of an angry, beautiful, and very jealous goddess. While he struggles to establish himself in the capital, the country finds itself pitched into a civil war, and Quillifer, a unwilling soldier at best, finds himself caught up in the action, and able to tip the scales of fortune. Quillifer, with its engaging hero and his exploits with lovers, brawlers, warriors, and privateers, is a book that bursts with life. It's the first volume in a new epic fantasy by bestselling and award-winning author Walter Jon Williams.… (more)

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I love caper stories. Quillifer isn't one, strictly speaking. But it sort of feels like one. I'm looking forward to a sequel.
[Audiobook note: The reader, Ralph Lister, is excellent.] (

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cshalizi | Jun 21, 2022 |

What a swashbuckling vocabulary treasure grove! I was diverted most by the first third. I had to skim the last battle and aristo scheming. A pleasant meander with a charming young rake (

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Je9 | Aug 10, 2021 |

Williams, Walter Jon. Quillifer. Quillifer No. 1. Saga, 2017.
I know Walter Jon Williams best for his science fiction, but Quillifer shows that he can create a consistent, original fantasy world and use it to tell an engrossing story. Quilifer’s world is a lot like Renaissance Europe, with plenty of minor wars, pirates, untrustworthy aristocrats, and vengeful barons. But it is also a fantasy world in which our quick-witted hero can be bewitched by a nymph if he is not careful. Our hero is a butcher’s son who is an apprentice lawyer. We first meet him making his escape from the bedroom of a woman whose father does not approve of is daughter’s dalliance. Soon, his town is sacked by pirates and he is kidnapped by bandits. He wants to be a sensible coward, but his resolution never lasts for long. When he is offered immortality by a goddess, like Odysseus, he turns it down in the name of autonomy and self-definition. It is a dangerous choice. I am not a big fan of this genre, but I enjoyed this one. (

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Manchess, Gregory	Cover artist	secondary author	some editions	confirmed

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I can hear the waters of the Dordelle chuckling against the hull of our boat, see the silver moonlight glow on the rim of our little window, taste the warm night air.

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"Walter Jon Williams is always fun, but this may be his best yet, a delight from start to finish, witty, colorful, exciting and amusing by turns, exquisitely written." --George R. R. Martin From New York Times bestselling and award-winning author Walter Jon Williams comes an adventurous epic fantasy about a man who is forced to leave his comfortable life and find his fortune among goddesses, pirates, war, and dragons. Rogue. Joker. Lover. Reluctant soldier. Quillifer is a young man, serially in love and studying law, when a family tragedy throws him into the world to seek his fortune. A charmer rather than a fighter, he soon finds himself embroiled with a bandit gang, caught up in vicious court intrigues, and the plaything of an angry, beautiful, and very jealous goddess. While he struggles to establish himself in the capital, the country finds itself pitched into a civil war, and Quillifer, a unwilling soldier at best, finds himself caught up in the action, and able to tip the scales of fortune. Quillifer, with its engaging hero and his exploits with lovers, brawlers, warriors, and privateers, is a book that bursts with life. It's the first volume in a new epic fantasy by bestselling and award-winning author Walter Jon Williams.

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