{"id":11317,"date":"2012-01-25T06:30:21","date_gmt":"2012-01-24T17:30:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=11317"},"modified":"2012-01-22T18:25:09","modified_gmt":"2012-01-22T05:25:09","slug":"just-arrived-seven-princes-by-john-r-fultz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2012\/01\/25\/just-arrived-seven-princes-by-john-r-fultz\/","title":{"rendered":"Just Arrived: &#8220;Seven Princes&#8221; by John R Fultz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2012\/01\/25\/just-arrived-seven-princes-by-john-r-fultz\/seven-princes\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-11320\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-11320\" title=\"Seven Princes\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Seven-Princes-202x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"202\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Seven-Princes-202x300.jpg 202w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Seven-Princes-101x150.jpg 101w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Seven-Princes.jpg 270w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 202px) 100vw, 202px\" \/><\/a>I have been posting a fair amount on epic fantasy lately, both here and on <a href=\"http:\/\/sfsignal.com\/\">SF Signal<\/a>&#8212;and with a tagline of &#8220;an age of legends, an age of heroes, an age of war&#8221; the recently arrived <strong><em>Seven Princes<\/em>, Books of the Shaper Volume 1<\/strong>, by <a href=\"http:\/\/johnrfultz.wordpress.com\/\">John R Fultz<\/a> promises to be epic fantasy in its most heroic form.<\/p>\n<p>I should also add that I am hoping to feature an interview with John here\u00a0 as soon as I have the book read&#8212;so I had better pick up my current slow pace of reading and &#8220;get on with it!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, here&#8217;s what the backcover blurb says:<\/p>\n<h3><em>&#8220;Seven Princes. Seven Destinies, All Will Be Legend.<\/em><\/h3>\n<p><em>A sorcerer slaughters the King and his entire court in front of the disbelieving eyes of young Prince D&#8217;zan. From that moment, D&#8217;zan is driven by one thought &#8212; the need to regain his father&#8217;s stolen throne.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The lives of six foreign princes are tied to D&#8217;zan&#8217;s fate as he seeks allies for his cause. In a land where Men and Giants battle side by side against ancient monsters and chilling sorcery, only one thing is certain &#8212; war is coming. Kingdoms will clash and blood will run.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>To find out more, check out publisher Orbit&#8217;s\u00a0 <em><strong>&#8220;Seven Days for Seven Princes&#8221;<\/strong><\/em> feature series, starting <a href=\"http:\/\/www.orbitbooks.net\/2012\/01\/01\/seven-days-for-seven-princes-the-preview\/\"><strong>here<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>There have also been a\u00a0 few reviews already that I know of, which I&#8217;ve linked to immediately below:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/io9.com\/john-r%27-fultz\/\">io9: An Epic Fantasy That Doesn&#8217;t Hold Back on the Epic<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thebookbag.co.uk\/reviews\/index.php?title=Seven_Princes:_Books_of_the_Shaper:_Volume_1_by_John_R_Fultz\">The Bookbag UK<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.graemesfantasybookreview.com\/2012\/01\/seven-princes-john-r-fultz-orbit.html\">Graeme&#8217;s Fantasy Book Review<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have been posting a fair amount on epic fantasy lately, both here and on SF Signal&#8212;and with a tagline of &#8220;an age of legends, an age of heroes, an age of war&#8221; the recently arrived Seven Princes, Books of the Shaper Volume 1, by John R Fultz promises to be epic fantasy in its [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-justarrived"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11317"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11317\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11330,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11317\/revisions\/11330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}