Weary's

No wonder - it takes place in the same world as previous Swanwick stories like the superb "Lord Weary's Empire" and the also-excellent "King Dragon".

REVIEW: 2008 Hugo Award Short Fiction Nominees 2008

Notes: Kubiak said Weary's injury and a knee injury for backup offensive lineman Chris White would end their seasons.

USATODAY.com 2007

The comfort provided by Lord Weary's Army of Night suits Will's skills and he quickly advances through the ranks by outsmarting the surface dwellers that descend down to the depths of the johatsu ( "nameless wanderers" who live underground).

REVIEW: 2007 Hugo Award Short Fiction Nominees 2007

Lowell was 29 when they met and was soon to win the Pulitzer Prize for "Lord Weary's Castle," his first major publication.

A Friendship in Letters Dinitia Smith 2008

The Latin prayer which you quote at the beginning of Lord Weary's Castle expresses this very well, and shows that your time, in this direction also, was not wasted over your Latin.

'The Letters of George Santayana' 2008

In the absence of the prequel and sequel stories, and given that the framing segments of "Lord Weary's Empire" are so brief, it is difficult to determine whether my reading is correct, and if it is, Swanwick is still subjecting us to tens of thousands of words of turgid prose and dull story, just for the sake of making a point which he, and other authors, have already made more than once.

The 2007 Hugo Award: The Novella Shortlist Abigail Nussbaum 2007

I found Dragon's plot aimless and its protagonist unappealing, and this might go some way towards explaining why I was disappointed by "Lord Weary's Empire".

The 2007 Hugo Award: The Novella Shortlist Abigail Nussbaum 2007

Michael Swanwick's "Lord Weary's Empire" appears to take place in the same setting as that of Swanwick's 1993 novel The Iron Dragon's Daughter--an industrialized Faerie in which elves carry credit cards and technology stands side by side with magic as a tool for making life easier or more interesting.

The 2007 Hugo Award: The Novella Shortlist Abigail Nussbaum 2007

A major theme of "Lord Weary's Empire" is illusion--the kind forced on the characters through magic and the kind they force on themselves by buying into myths of nobility and glorious triumph on the field of battle common fantasy tropes, in other words.

The 2007 Hugo Award: The Novella Shortlist Abigail Nussbaum 2007

That's a hell of a lot to ask from your readers, and to my mind there's little in "Lord Weary's Empire" to make up for our sacrifice.

The 2007 Hugo Award: The Novella Shortlist Abigail Nussbaum 2007