Crack’d Pot Trail – A peek at Steven Erikson’s new novella

If you’re a regular (and especially if you have a real monitor–if not do every webmaster a favor and take advantage of Thanksgiving sales!) at BSC you’ll notice that we are all about Crack’d Pot Trail this week! This is the latest novella by Steven Erikson chronicling the adventures of Bauchelain and Korbal Broach, coming to us from PS Publishing. I touched on it briefly back in August, and now that PS has it ready for pre-order (available in two editions, the hardcover and signed traycase), BSC is pleased to present two images from the December release. These are by Dick Berger, and as far as I know this is the first time most people will have seen them. I love me some Steven Erikson and anything in the Malazan setting.

Synopsis for Crack’d Pot Trail :

It is an undeniable truth: give evil a name and everyone’s happy. Give it two names and . . . why, they’re even happier.

The intrepid necromancers Bauchelain and Korbal Broach, scourges of civilization, raisers of the dead, reapers of the souls of the living, devourers of hope, betrayers of faith, slayers of the innocent and modest personifications of evil, have a lot to answer for and answer they will. Known as the Nehemoth, they are pursued by countless self-professed defenders of decency, sanity and civilization. After all, since when does evil thrive unchallenged? Well, often: but not this time.

Hot on their heels are the Nehemothanai, avowed hunters of Bauchelain and Korbal Broach. In the company of a gaggle of artists and pilgrims, stalwart Mortal Sword Tulgord Vise, pious Well Knight Arpo Relent, stern Huntsman Steck Marynd, and three of the redoubtable Chanter brothers (and their lone sister) find themselves faced with the cruelest of choices. The legendary Cracked Pot Trail, a stretch of harsh wasteland between the Gates of Nowhere and the Shrine of the Indifferent God, has become a tortured path of deprivation.

Will honour, moral probity and virtue prove champions in the face of brutal necessity? No, of course not. Don’t be silly

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