Making History - Parker, K J
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KJ Parker's new novella is a darkly witty fantasy. A group of scholars must do the impossible for a ruthless king. The cost of refusal being death, of course. History isn't truth..it's propaganda. Academics can be cocky. Atop their perches of authority high above the unquestioning world they can fancy themselves gods. Rarely, if ever, is this authority tested. But a command from an idiotic, power-hungry king-that'll do it. Our narrator is one of a dozen professors at the University of the Kingdom of Aelia. Early one morning, he and his colleagues are rounded up for an audience with their…mehr

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KJ Parker's new novella is a darkly witty fantasy. A group of scholars must do the impossible for a ruthless king. The cost of refusal being death, of course. History isn't truth..it's propaganda. Academics can be cocky. Atop their perches of authority high above the unquestioning world they can fancy themselves gods. Rarely, if ever, is this authority tested. But a command from an idiotic, power-hungry king-that'll do it. Our narrator is one of a dozen professors at the University of the Kingdom of Aelia. Early one morning, he and his colleagues are rounded up for an audience with their dictator, Gyges. You see, Gyges is new to the job-he only just invaded Aelia last year-and like any good tyrant, he's looking to expand his empire. But his public image can't take the hit of (another) unjustified assault. No problem, he's come up with a plan-the scholars will simply build a fake ancient city from scratch to justify his next invasion. Now these bookworms must put their heads together to do the impossible. They must make history. Because if they don't, they'll lose their heads altogether.
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Having worked in journalism, numismatics and the law, K. J. Parker now writes for a precarious living. He is the author of Devices and Desires, Evil for Evil, The Devil You Know, and other novels, and has won the World Fantasy Award twice. Parker also writes under the name Tom Holt.