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A Cookbook for the Besieged: and other tales
The deeds of heroes rarely are as simple as the songs in taverns suggest. The true story is almost always nastier, more brutal, and more absurd. This tome tells eight tales of heroes in the Fourth Age of Olkhar, told as they truly happened with all the nastiness, brutality, and absurdity included.
95 pages, Kindle Edition
Published August 17, 2020
About the author
Ian Welke
23 books79 followersIan Welke writes science fiction, fantasy, and horror. His short stories have appeared in KZine, spacewesterns.com, Arcane II, Zombie Jesus and Other True Stories, and the American Nightmare anthology among others. His first novel, The Whisperer in Dissonance, was published by Omnium Gatherum in 2014. End Times at Ridgemont High is his second novel and has been nominated for a Bram Stoker Award.
Before writing full time, Ian worked in the computer games industry. He was lucky enough to work at Blizzard Entertainment and at Runic Games. These days, when he’s not at his desk writing, Ian enjoys a variety of games. His favorites tend to be elaborate board games with many pieces and rules to confuse, though he’s happiest going mad with his characters in the Call of Cthulhu RPG.
Ian lived in Seattle for six years, enjoying the rain, but has returned home to Long Beach, California, where he schemes to find shelving to house all of the books he reads.
Before writing full time, Ian worked in the computer games industry. He was lucky enough to work at Blizzard Entertainment and at Runic Games. These days, when he’s not at his desk writing, Ian enjoys a variety of games. His favorites tend to be elaborate board games with many pieces and rules to confuse, though he’s happiest going mad with his characters in the Call of Cthulhu RPG.
Ian lived in Seattle for six years, enjoying the rain, but has returned home to Long Beach, California, where he schemes to find shelving to house all of the books he reads.
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August 27, 2020
Fun. Funny. Articulate. A terrific idea, well executed. If the Monty Python guys and Douglas Adams has combined to write some sword and sorcery short stories, I imagine they’d be a lot like these.
February 8, 2021
A fun and biting collection of fantasy short stories. I don't usually get into short stories, but these all flowed and came together in a satisfying way.
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