"In Quillifer, Williams has presented us with a picaresque novel in
the grand tradition of Fielding's Tom Jones, big as life and three
times as amazing and affecting." (Locus Magazine)
From New York Times best-selling and award-winning author Walter Jon
Williams comes an adventurous epic fantasy about a man who is forced to
leave his comfortable life and find his fortune among goddesses,
pirates, war, and dragons.
Quillifer is young, serially in love, studying law, and living each day
keenly aware that his beloved homeport of Ethlebight risks closure due
to silting of the harbor. His concerns for the future become much more
immediate when he returns from a summery assignation to find his city
attacked by Aekoi pirates, leading to brigands in the streets and his
family and friends in chains.
First he has to survive the night. Then he has to leave his home behind
and venture forth into the wider world of Duisland, where he can find
friends and allies to help avenge his losses and restore Ethlebight to
glory. His determination will rock kingdoms, shatter the political
structure of Duisland, and change the country forever.