Dog's Life
Sunday, February 5. 2012

So, today I bought two new books that should hopefully be good.
I got, The Court of the Air and The Kingdom Beyond the Waves. Both books are written by Stephen Hunt.
(The Court of the Air commenced Hunt's Jackelian fantasy series, and was the first of his works to be published by HarperCollins, also the publisher of J. R. R. Tolkien and C. S. Lewis in the UK. The Court of the Air was one of the ten books selected by the organisers of the Berlinale Film Festival/Co-Production Market for presentation to US and European film producers. HarperCollins' elevator pitch for The Court of the Air was summarized as Charles Dickens meets Bladerunner.
In November 2008, his second book in the Jackelian series, The Kingdom Beyond the Waves, was nominated for the long-list of the David Gemmell Legend Award for Fantasy. The second novel continues the misadventures of u-boat privateer Commodore Jared Black, as the commodore goes in search of the ruins of a lost ancient utopia.)