The Steel Remains

Fans of Morgan's noir scifi stories, and there should be legions of them, will be surprised by this swords and magic novel. The 'hero' is a tough, cynical man with a big chip on his shoulder -a typical Morgan hero- and surprisingly he's also gay in a world even less tolerant of that than ours. The various subplots that converge as the story unfolds are hard to keep track of in the audio version - perhaps seeing the weird names and places in print would have helped. But this audio version Does give you the incomparable Simon Vance as the reader - NO ONE is better at reading a Morgan novel than this man. He could probably hold your interest by just reading the phone book out loud. Overall, this audiobook is worth a listen.

I have too much to write about The Steel Remains to put it all into a coherent paragraph by paragraph review, so I am just going to ramble around a bit and write what I need to write. Mind-Blowing: That's my instant reaction after finishing this book. But the mind-blowingness began in the midst of th......more

"Los hombres eran como hojas, todos se rompían tarde o temprano, incluido tú. Pero cuando mirabas a los hombres a tu mando veías en sus ojos el acero con el que debías luchar, cómo había sido forjado y templado y qué golpes resistiría, si es que podía resistir alguno" El autor británico, Richard Morg......more

The Steel Remains is the story of Ringil "Angeleyes" Eskiath, the hero of Gallows Gap and wielder of Ravensfriend, and is set a decade after the end of the war with the lizard folk. We join him at the novel's beginning in a backwater town where he resides in an inn living off his fame as a warrior.......more

An engrossing read. Sometimes fate just won't leave you alone. Excellent.......more

I really wanted to like this book more than I did. I loved his Sci-Fi stuff, but this fell flat to me. It felt like he was trying to break the cliches of fantasy novels but just doing the opposite of the cliche, rather than dig deep into the characters to make them real and believable. I wanted to l......more