Steel survives (What’s left of the heroes)

The aristocrat Ringil Eskiath, a young hero of the resistance, lives in voluntary exile, despised for his homosexuality. Egar Ruin of the Dragon, leader of the barbarians of the steppes, does not find peace among the comforts of the South but not even in the simple warlike life of his old homeland. Archeth Indamaninarmal, the latest heir to the Kiriath aliens and their prodigious technology, seeks to advance the Empire of mortals and drowns his sense of abandonment in drugs. Three loneliness, three disowned and misunderstood heroisms, three broken lives that have known each other during the conflict, binding in a friendship that will now have to face a new shocking threat.

Like his bestsellers cyberpunkwith this sinister and superb fantasy trilogy Richard K. Morgan has created a masterpiece that has set the school and pushed the grimdark towards new shocking borders, contaminating it with noir and science fiction, merging Le Guin, Moorcock and Murakami. A ghostly journey through a sumptuous and ferocious world, in which however the tension towards something to cling to in the storm that overwhelms everything resists.