Ken Scholes’ Lamentation is a Romantic Times Top Pick
This is fantasy as it should be. Scholes’ subtle and complex plotting are the breadwinners here, but his world building and political scheming bring home the bacon as well. This reader has never read a...
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Ken Scholes’ Lamentation (The Psalms of Isaak) As an ancient weapon destroys the city of Windwir, a young apprentice watches from a nearby hilltop, mourning the death of the city and his father. When...
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Lamentation (The Psalms of Isaak) In his first novel, a vividly imagined sf-fantasy hybrid set in a distant, post-apocalyptic future, Scholes, already highly praised in the speculative-fiction...
View ArticleCanticle gets Starred Review from PW
Canticle (The Psalms of Isaak) The sequel to Scholes’s stellar debut 2008′s Lamentation ingeniously fuses epic fantasy and postapocalyptic science fiction. Magicked assassins kill numerous leaders from...
View ArticleCanticle gets Starred Review from Kirkus
Canticle (The Psalms of Isaak) The conspiracy deepens in this sequel to Scholes’ epic, marvelously complex fantasy debut (Lamentation, 2009). In the previous installment, ancient spells of the Wizard...
View ArticleKen Scholes’ Canticle reviewed by Booklist
Canticle (The Psalms of Isaak) In the second Psalms of Isaak volume, civil war rages across the Named Lands. Following the annihilation of Windwir, an ancient metropolis preserving precious Old World...
View ArticlePW Starred Review for new Ken Scholes book
Antiphon by Ken Scholes The third installment of Scholes’s grand-scale Psalms of Isaak saga (after 2009′s Canticle) expands the genre-blending narrative in glorious style. The secret revival of the...
View ArticleStarred PW review for Scholes collection
Diving Mimes, Weeping Czars and Other Unsusual Suspects by Ken Scholes A mysterious voice, an alien songstress, a postapocalyptic Santa Claus, and a host of other bizarre creatures come together in...
View ArticlePW on 4th book in Scholes’ fantasy series
Requiem by Ken Scholes After three books (Lamentation, Canticle, and Antiphon) and a three-year break, Scholes resumes the Psalms of Isaak series with this intricate adventure. Rudolfo, the Gypsy King,...
View ArticleRT gives latest Scholes fantasy 4 Stars
Requiem by Ken Scholes The battle of the Named Lands is in full swing, and seems to have been dominating the lives of Winters, Rudolfo, Jin Li Tam, Petronus and Neb for much longer than the mere 18...
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