Enemy Glory

Prometheus Award nominee 2002.

Cover art by Todd Lockwood. Click here to see the new cover art by Dave Labbs.

A new fantasy saga in the dramatic tradition of George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones begins in Enemy Glory. It is set in a dark, atmospheric fantasy world where the realm of the supernatural lies in the north while warring kingdoms and a complex religion devoted to gods and goddesses of good and evil dominate the south. This is a fantasy realm of bizarre, lurid adventures.

Young Llewelyn is an unhappy child in the southern city of Sunnashiven, estranged from his parents and solaced by an ailing local hedge witch, who lies to him but teaches him and makes him happy by promising great things in his future. After she bears an unusual child, Lord Cathe, and dies, Llewelyn conceives a desire for further learning and is allowed to enter school and train to be a religious magician.

This education is interrupted by a war that precipitates a revolution in his homeland, and Llewelyn, now a young man, flees to another kingdom. He joins a strange revolutionary cadre, led by young Duke Walworth, and lives for a while an idyllic and idealistic life filled with love and magic. But after another revolution, he ends up a student in a monastery, an angry, disillusioned young magician in trouble with the law and ready to fight the world. And the war goes on. Filled with memorable characters, abundant lush imagery, and true strangeness, Enemy Glory is the impressive launch of a new fantasy world.

"A complex, colorful saga." – David Drake

"Epic, mythic and yet grounded in real emotions, Enemy Glory is the best kind of fantasy, a sprawling, multi-layered saga of war, gods, intrigue, and magic. Karen Michalson creates worlds within worlds and manages to light them all with loving detail. This is a writer ready to explode on the fantasy scene. Disconnect the phone, cancel your appointments, and stock the fridge for the long haul: Enemy Glory will make you want to wallow in the pure joy of reading, all over again." – Jack O'Connell, author of The Skin Palace and Word Made Flesh

"A colorful, broad-ranging fantasy, with unusual twists." – Samuel R. Delany