The Vagrant
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3.9 • 62 Ratings
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- $10.99
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- $10.99
Publisher Description
The Vagrant is his name. He has no other.
Years have passed since humanity’s destruction emerged from the Breach.
Friendless and alone he walks across a desolate, war-torn landscape.
As each day passes the world tumbles further into depravity, bent and twisted by the new order, corrupted by the Usurper, the enemy, and his infernal horde.
His purpose is to reach the Shining City, last bastion of the human race, and deliver the only weapon that may make a difference in the ongoing war.
What little hope remains is dying. Abandoned by its leader, The Seven, and its heroes, The Seraph Knights, the last defences of a once great civilisation are crumbling into dust.
But the Shining City is far away and the world is a very dangerous place.
Reviews
★★★★★ 'For fans of classic science-fiction literature, this is a must-read.' – SciFi Now
★★★★ 'Come visit this brilliantly imaginative land of winged swords and broken solar cells.' – SFX
‘The Vagrant is a joy to read: an original and engrossing world, a strong story and a protagonist who is intensely charismatic despite – or because of – his silence. Newman’s debut is written with confidence, flair and imagination, bringing his dark world to marvellously macabre life’
Adrian Tchaikovsky, Author of Shadows of the Apt series
‘A stunning and ambitious debut novel set in a unique and imaginative world where the only hope rests on the capacity of human beings to love’ Melinda M. Snodgrass
About the author
PETER NEWMAN is the author of the critically acclaimed, award-winning Vagrant Trilogy: The Vagrant, The Malice, The Seven. He sometimes pretends to be a butler for the Tea and Jeopardy podcast, which he co-writes and for which he won a Hugo Award in 2017. His first book, The Vagrant, won the David Gemmell Morningstar Award in 2016 for best Fantasy Debut of the Year. Peter writes for George R.R. Martin’s Wild Cards series and will first appear in Knaves Over Queens. He has also written for the computer game Albion Online. He lives in Somerset.
www.runpetewrite.com
Twitter: @runpetewrite
Customer Reviews
The vague
Seems more vague than vagrant.
I’ll read part 2 to see if it improves as it has potential (and because i’ve read pretty much everything else), but there is simply no time given to building depth in anything from places to people, so you struggle to form a vision from the words.
Finished the book and utterly confused.
Needs another 100 pages to fill in detail and bond you more to the characters.
Ambitious
Ambitious and starts with promise, but is ultimately unsatisfying. Worth checking for yourself if you are looking for a twist on the lone warrior formula, but for myself it felt like an attempt at trying too many ideas at once and never excelling at any of them.
Beautiful and heart rending
An amazing masterpiece, with a unique main character the breaks the general roles authors seem to place upon them.