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Hammer Of God (Miller Novel)
''Hammer of God'' (2008) by Karen Miller. Following ''Empress of Mijak'' and ''The Riven Kingdom ''The Riven Kingdom'' is the second novel in the ''Godspeaker'' series by Karen Miller Karen Miller is an Australian writer. She is best known for ''The Innocent Mage'', the first book in her duology ''Kingmaker, Kingbreaker''. Biography M ...'', it concludes the Godspeaker trilogy. Plot introduction Empress Hekat hears the voice of the god, and it wants the world. In Ethrea, Queen Rhian is finally on the throne, she must convince her counterparts of surrounding nations that Mijak is a very real threat. Should she trust Zandakar, the exiled son of Mijak's Empress? 2008 Australian novels Australian fantasy novels Novels by Karen Miller HarperCollins books References {{2000s-fantasy-novel-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hammer Of God (Miller Novel)
''Hammer of God'' (2008) by Karen Miller. Following ''Empress of Mijak'' and ''The Riven Kingdom ''The Riven Kingdom'' is the second novel in the ''Godspeaker'' series by Karen Miller Karen Miller is an Australian writer. She is best known for ''The Innocent Mage'', the first book in her duology ''Kingmaker, Kingbreaker''. Biography M ...'', it concludes the Godspeaker trilogy. Plot introduction Empress Hekat hears the voice of the god, and it wants the world. In Ethrea, Queen Rhian is finally on the throne, she must convince her counterparts of surrounding nations that Mijak is a very real threat. Should she trust Zandakar, the exiled son of Mijak's Empress? 2008 Australian novels Australian fantasy novels Novels by Karen Miller HarperCollins books References {{2000s-fantasy-novel-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karen Miller
Karen Miller is an Australian writer. She is best known for '' The Innocent Mage'', the first book in her duology ''Kingmaker, Kingbreaker''. Biography Miller was born in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada and moved to Australia at the age of two. After graduating from the University of Technology, Sydney she moved to England for three years before moving back to Australia. Along with being a novelist she has written and directed plays for her local theatre group. In 2005 Miller's first novel was released entitled '' The Innocent Mage''. This was the first novel in the ''Kingmaker, Kingbreaker'' series and was followed shortly after by ''Innocence Lost''. ''The Innocent Mage'' was widely acclaimed on its release in Australia and was a finalist in the 2005 Aurealis Awards fantasy division. Since then she has written several other novels, including two for Fandemonium's ''Stargate SG-1'' series. In 2007, she was shortlisted for the James Tiptree, Jr. Award for her novels ''Emp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Empress Of Mijak
''Empress of Mijak'' (known as ''Empress'' in North America and the United Kingdom) is the first novel in the '' Godspeaker'' series by Karen Miller Karen Miller is an Australian writer. She is best known for ''The Innocent Mage'', the first book in her duology ''Kingmaker, Kingbreaker''. Biography Miller was born in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada and moved to Australia at the age of t ....{{Cite book , last=Miller , first=Karen , url=http://archive.org/details/empressgodspeake00kare , title=Empress , date=2008 , publisher=New York : Orbit , others=Internet Archive , isbn=978-0-316-00835-8 It was published in 2007. Plot summary Hekat, the protagonist, is a girl born unwanted and as a burden to her family. Her father beats his wife and rapes Hekat on the insistence that she should birth him more sons to plough the fields in the dry desert wasteland known as the Anvil. Hekat is sold to the slave traders Abajai and Yagji. Once sold, she begins her journey to the south ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Riven Kingdom
''The Riven Kingdom'' is the second novel in the ''Godspeaker'' series by Karen Miller Karen Miller is an Australian writer. She is best known for ''The Innocent Mage'', the first book in her duology ''Kingmaker, Kingbreaker''. Biography Miller was born in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada and moved to Australia at the age of t .... Plot summary For hundreds of years, the small island kingdom of Ethrea sat in the middle of a precariously balanced treaty agreement that ensured peace. With the king on his deathbed, and no male heirs, Princess Rhian must find a way to keep the kingdom out of the hands of the evil Prolate Marlan, and prevent a war. 2007 Australian novels Novels by Karen Miller Australian fantasy novels Novels set on islands HarperCollins books {{2000s-fantasy-novel-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2008 Australian Novels
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Australian Fantasy Novels
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Novels By Karen Miller
A novel is a relatively long work of narrative fiction, typically written in prose and published as a book. The present English word for a long work of prose fiction derives from the for "new", "news", or "short story of something new", itself from the la, novella, a singular noun use of the neuter plural of ''novellus'', diminutive of ''novus'', meaning "new". Some novelists, including Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Ann Radcliffe, John Cowper Powys, preferred the term "romance" to describe their novels. According to Margaret Doody, the novel has "a continuous and comprehensive history of about two thousand years", with its origins in the Ancient Greek and Roman novel, in Chivalric romance, and in the tradition of the Italian renaissance novella.Margaret Anne Doody''The True Story of the Novel'' New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1996, rept. 1997, p. 1. Retrieved 25 April 2014. The ancient romance form was revived by Romanticism, especially th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
