Numenera, Monte Cooke
Numenera, Monte Cooke
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Numenera
The Night Clave

Author: Monte Cooke, Shanna Germain

Narrator: Carly Robins

Unabridged: 9 hr 54 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 02/12/2019

Categories: Fiction, Fantasy, Epic

Synopsis

Science fiction adventure in a decaying far-future setting, in the new tie-in novel from the popular Numenera tabletop and PC roleplaying games

In the far-future Ninth World, claves of Aeon Priests help their community understand and use the mysterious technologies of the past. But what happens when a group of these priests uses this knowledge and power to exploit the people who depend on them?

In the region of Steremoss, a group of brave individuals are determined to resist this oppression from the shadows. They call themselves the Night Clave.

About Monte Cooke

Monte Cook has worked as a professional writer for more than twenty years. As a fiction writer, he has published numerous short stories and two novels. As a comic book writer, he has written a limited series for Marvel Comics called Monte Cook's Ptolus: City by the Spire, as well as some shorter work. As a nonfiction writer, he has published the wry but informative The Skeptic's Guide to Conspiracies.

His work, however, as a game designer, is likely most notable. Since 1988, he has written hundreds of tabletop roleplaying game books and articles and won numerous awards. Monte is likely best known for Dungeons & Dragons 3rd Edition, which he codesigned with Jonathan Tweet and Skip Williams. In 2001, he started his own game design studio, Malhavoc Press, and published such notable and award-winning products as Ptolus, Arcana Evolved, and the Book of Eldritch Might series. As a freelance game designer, he designed HeroClix and Monte Cook's World of Darkness, and he has worked on the Pathfinder RPG, the Marvel Comics massively multiplayer online game, and numerous other games and related projects.

He is the designer of Numenera.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Joel on March 11, 2018

The Night Clave tells the story of a small band of rebels (the titular Night Clave) seeking to remove a despot from power. Kyre and Aviend live in the Steremoss forest, some of the last who haven't joined the new priest Rillent's cult. Rillent has either convinced people to join him willingly, or ki......more

Goodreads review by Chris on December 24, 2017

I love Monte Cook and Shanna Germain, but man this book was a slog. It’s got good opening and closing sequences, but everything in-between is a muddle. The plot in unconnected, there is a lack of drama or conflict, the main villain of the piece barely shows up, and it’s never really clear why anyone......more

Goodreads review by Daniel on April 25, 2019

This review originally published in Looking For a Good Book. Rated 1.5 of 5 Whereas I enjoyed Shanna Germain's The Poison Eater ... also a Numenera novel ... The Night Clave, by Germain and Monte Cook just doesn't engage at all. It reads like a story that's from a different medium ... oh, wait...that......more

Goodreads review by Fernando on November 21, 2023

This book had a few good ideas, but overall it kinda sucked. I read it primarily because I'm interested in the Numenera campaign setting for tabletop RPGing, and figured reading a novel set in that universe would be a fun and useful way to get to know the setting better. Unfortunately this book didn......more

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