{"id":99927,"date":"2017-04-16T23:42:13","date_gmt":"2017-04-17T07:42:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gnxp.nofe.me\/?p=174582"},"modified":"2017-04-16T23:42:13","modified_gmt":"2017-04-17T07:42:13","slug":"the-warlord-chronicles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/2017\/04\/16\/the-warlord-chronicles\/","title":{"rendered":"The Warlord Chronicles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B015CLB7KI\/geneexpressio-20\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-174583\" src=\"http:\/\/nofe.me\/razib\/WordPress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/TheWinterKing.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"220\" height=\"336\" \/><\/a>The <a href=\"https:\/\/winteriscoming.net\/2017\/04\/15\/small-council-books-read-wait-winds-winter\/\">Winter is Coming<\/a> website has a post up, <a href=\"https:\/\/winteriscoming.net\/2017\/04\/15\/small-council-books-read-wait-winds-winter\/\">What books should you read as you wait for The Winds of Winter?<\/a> (<i>The Winds of Winter<\/i> is the next <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B000QCS8TW\/geneexpressio-20\">Song of Ice and Fire<\/a> book).<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t have much time for fiction at this point, but the first entry that they suggested was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Bernard-Cornwell\/e\/B000APAB68\/&amp;tag=geneexpressio-20\">Bernard Cornwell&#8217;s<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B015CLB7KI\/geneexpressio-20\">Warlord Chronicles<\/a>. This is a very dark, gritty, and realistic, retelling of the Arthurian legend, written in a fashion more reminiscent of historical fiction than fantasy. I read this series perhaps a year after first reading <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B000QCS8TW\/geneexpressio-20\">Game of Thrones<\/a>, and was struck by similarities of tone.<\/p>\n<p>As it happened this was before George R. R. Martin was quite as famous, and I emailed him at some point in 2000 about various issues relating to his works and inspirations, and asked him about Cornwell&#8217;s series. Martin admitted that he was a huge fan, and appreciated that there were similarities of style and tone.<\/p>\n<p>In any case, I second this recommendation. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B015CLB7KI\/geneexpressio-20\">Warlord Chronicles<\/a> is not the most easy read&#8230;but worth it.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"a2a_button_facebook\" href=\"http:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/add_to\/facebook?linkurl=http%3A%2F%2Fgnxp.nofe.me%2F2017%2F04%2F16%2Fthe-warlord-chronicles%2F&amp;linkname=The%20Warlord%20Chronicles\" title=\"Facebook\" rel=\"nofollow\" ><\/a><a class=\"a2a_button_twitter\" href=\"http:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/add_to\/twitter?linkurl=http%3A%2F%2Fgnxp.nofe.me%2F2017%2F04%2F16%2Fthe-warlord-chronicles%2F&amp;linkname=The%20Warlord%20Chronicles\" title=\"Twitter\" rel=\"nofollow\" ><\/a><a class=\"a2a_button_google_plus\" href=\"http:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/add_to\/google_plus?linkurl=http%3A%2F%2Fgnxp.nofe.me%2F2017%2F04%2F16%2Fthe-warlord-chronicles%2F&amp;linkname=The%20Warlord%20Chronicles\" title=\"Google+\" rel=\"nofollow\" ><\/a><a class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\" href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share#url=http%3A%2F%2Fgnxp.nofe.me%2F2017%2F04%2F16%2Fthe-warlord-chronicles%2F&amp;title=The%20Warlord%20Chronicles\" data-a2a-url=\"http:\/\/gnxp.nofe.me\/2017\/04\/16\/the-warlord-chronicles\/\" data-a2a-title=\"The Warlord Chronicles\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Winter is Coming website has a post up, What books should you read as you wait for The Winds of Winter? (The Winds of Winter is the next Song of Ice and Fire book). I don&rsquo;t have much time for fiction at this point, but the first entry that they suggested was Bernard Cornwell&rsquo;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[119],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99927","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99927"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99927\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":99928,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99927\/revisions\/99928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}