To celebrate the release of Steel Gods, Richard Swan (Empire of the Wolf, The Great Silence) is sitting down with the wonderful Kell Woods (After the Forest, Upon a Starlit Tide) at the Galaxy Bookshop in Sydney.
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Graphic titled The Right Reader for: THE INFINITE STATE featuring the book cover of The Infinite State by Richard Swan centered on a gray textured background. The cover shows a stylized gold and red eagle over a starry black sky, with the subtitle “The Decurion Saga — Book 1.” Below, a comparison row highlights similar reads and themes: • 1984 by George Orwell — “A dystopian future with lush worldbuilding” • The Collapsing Empire by John Scalzi — “A thrilling tale of survival” • The Expanse — “An eviscerating examination of totalitarianism” • Red Rising by Pierce Brown — “An ember of hope in the long shadow of oppression” • The Deep Sky by Yume Kitasei — “A sci-fi that will have you on the edge of your seat from start to finish” • A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine — “A galaxy-spanning empire with high-stakes space politics” Tor logo appears in the bottom right corner.
Are you the right reader for THE INFINITE STATE? 👀
This blistering sci-fi epic begins at a flashpoint in the lives of a widowed party member, a disgraced investigator, and a hypersled pilot—entangled in a plot to escape the suffocating authority of a fascist state.
Out on 8/4 🚀
Melbourne I am in you
@thebrokenbinding.bsky.social has done it again. FYI The Steel Gods by @richardswanauthor.bsky.social was still available at time of recording and it comes with an amazing collector's card.
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Nils returns to Richard Swan's fantasy horror series The Great Silence in his sequel to Grave Empire, STEEL GODS:
"thrilling, jaw dropping and left me desperately wanting more"
Read more: tinyurl.com/m3ssnf43
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Strongly agreed
The Great Silence won't silence me. Steel Gods is an absolute unsettling blast and Goldsboro has done this edition right.
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Sydneysiders, another event for your calendar 📆
Thanks mate much appreciated
Steel Gods, second book in the Great Silence series by @richardswanauthor.bsky.social (pub by @orbitbooks.bsky.social) is all you could have asked for the second instalment in the series blurring the line between fantasy and horror in top of superb characterization.
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Thanks man that's great 🙏🏽
I'm usually too slow to reviews arcs! Not the case for @richardswanauthor.bsky.social's new and incredible Spy-Fi The Infinite State. Here's my seditious findings... The Infinite State, Decurion saga book 1 by Richard Swan fanfiaddict.com/the-infinite...
If you'd like a chance to win one of 50 copies of The Infinite State head on over to Goodreads. If you wouldn't like that chance, then do not do that
Thanks Caitlin 🤝
I have found my third five-star of the year.
A sci fi book that is sure to become a classic. 🪐📚💙
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I’m currently reading Steel Gods by @richardswanauthor.bsky.social which is the sequel to Grave Empire.
I always love Swan’s blend of supernatural horror and fantasy and so far there has been a few really unhinged scenes involving the arcane (a possession and a seance!) I’m a happy reader! 🤣
Too late they're all dead
Damn, solid advice
Another day, another tag in a dismally lukewarm review. Just irritating enough to wheedle its way into my grey matter, not irritating enough to do something ill-advised. I am full of unspent irritation and my characters will pay for this.
You might say they're spring-loaded 😏
Poster for Twisted Fiction reading event at the Shakespeare Hotel, with pics of the authors Richard Swan, Garth Nix, Tim Weavers, and Ally Burnham.
I'll be reading in company with some great authors at TWISTED FICTION at the Shakepeare Hotel, Sydney on May 4th.
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Huh, that's weird... our Pub Rodeo profile seems to have gotten a make over 🤔 Wonder what that's about, eh? 😜
We have two more Pub Rodeo episodes coming in the next couple of months... and then the launch of something completely new. Stay tuned!
It *is* a dude surfing on a whale
Pleased to share the two incredible endpapers for the @thebrokenbinding.bsky.social edition of STEEL GODS, both by the talented René Aigner. STEEL GODS is officially published tomorrow!
6 days to go for the Steel Gods release. You ain't ready! But you can get ready by preordering
It's a 5 ⭐️ read. My full review is up on Goodreads.
The cover art is also never not on point!
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The next novel by Richard Swan @richardswanauthor.bsky.social, Steel Gods, is coming out. Here are the maps I created for Grave Empire, the first in the series which reappear in Steel Gods.
Previously self-publishing a set of space opera novels called The Art of War Trilogy, @richardswanauthor.bsky.social has now conquered fantasy with his Empire of the Wolf series. His new fantasy series The Great Silence has its second volume, Steel Gods, out next week! supa.fans/RSwan
Graphic reads “The Fresh Start Bouquet” above a bouquet made of books and flowers. Books include The Infinite State, Seek the Traitor’s Son by Veronica Roth, and These Immortal Truths. Tag reads: “The first in a series to get you hooked!”
Graphic reads “High Concept. Big Feelings. Bouquet” above a bouquet made of books and flowers. Books include Green City Wars by Adrian Tchaikovsky, The Traveler by Joseph Eckert, and Platform Decay by Martha Wells. Tag reads: “Sci-fi with a lot of heart and found family <3.”
Graphic reads “The Blake Bouquet” above a bouquet made of books and flowers. Features DREAMLAND and Girl Dinner by Olivie Blake. Tag reads: “What’s better than one Olivie Blake release?”
Graphic reads “Don’t Mess With Them Bouquet” above a bouquet made of books and flowers on a blue background. Books include Lessons in Magic and Disaster by Charlie Jane Anders, The Girl with a Thousand Faces by Sunyi Dean, and Warbreaker by Brandon Sanderson. Tag reads: “Fantasy with bold & unforgettable FMCs.”
springtime in the realm means one thing: choose thy bouquet 📚💐
A book cover showing a futuristic dystopian city and a snowy river bank with a hovering police car and investigators inspecting a murder victim
An illustration showing a futuristic dystopian city and a snowy river bank with a hovering police car and investigators inspecting a murder victim
My illustration for the cover of 'The Infinite State' by Richard Swan, with The Orion Publishing Group.
Fun to do something grim and industrial :)