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Автор Ричард Скотт Бэккер
R. SCOTT BAKKER
THE GREAT ORDEAL
THE ASPECT-EMPEROR, BOOK THREE
With over 175,000 copies in print, the high fantasy novels of R. Scott Bakker, one of the godfathers of Grimdark, have dazzled fans around the world. With
As Fanim war-drums beat just outside the city, the Empress Anasûrimbor Esmenet searches frantically throughout the palace for her missing son Kelmomas. Meanwhile untold leagues away, Esmenet’s husband’s Great Ordeal continues its epic crusade ever northward, where their first encounter of the Consult and their alien
The Aspect-Emperor series follows Bakker’s Prince of Nothing saga, returning to the same world twenty years later.
Also by R. Scott Bakker
THE PRINCE OF NOTHING SERIES
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Copyright
This edition first published in hardcover in the United States in 2016 by
The Overlook Press, Peter Mayer Publishers, Inc.
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ISBN 978-1-4683-1351-2
Contents
Chapter 1:
Chapter 2:
Chapter 3:
Chapter 4:
Chapter 5:
Chapter 6:
Chapter 7:
Chapter 8:
Chapter 9:
Chapter 10:
Chapter 11:
Chapter 12:
Chapter 13:
Chapter 14:
Chapter 15:
Chapter 16:
Chapter 17:
Appendices
What Has Come Before …
Wars,
as a rule, fall within the compass of history. They mark the pitch of competing powers, the end of some and the ascendancy of others, the ebb and flow of dominance across the ages. But there is a war that Men have waged for so long they have forgotten the languages they first used to describe it. A war that makes mere skirmishes out of the destruction of tribes and nations.
