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Joe Abercrombie

Дата рождения: December 31, 1974 – Lancaster, Lancashire, England

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Joe Abercrombie is an English fantasy novelist best known for The First Law universe, including The Blade Itself, Best Served Cold, and the Age of Madness trilogy. His fiction focuses on gritty, morally complex epic fantasy, and he is widely regarded as a leading contemporary voice in grimdark literature.

Биография и Путь Автора

Joe Abercrombie was born in Lancaster, England, on December 31, 1974, and educated at Lancaster Royal Grammar School before studying psychology at the University of Manchester. In his own account, he was the kind of teenager who played video games, rolled dice, and drew maps of imaginary places, habits that would later feed directly into his fiction. After university he moved to London, started out in TV post-production, and then spent about a decade working as a freelance film editor on documentaries, music projects, and live events. That period gave him the time and discipline to return seriously to fiction. ((https://joeabercrombie.com/author/))

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You write the end the way that feels right, that feels true, that feels honest
-Why so Cynical?
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Confidence and doubt, therefore, are the bipolar yin and yang of the writerly life
-When is it Good Enough?
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Good fantasy does not have to gaze wistfully over its shoulder at an imagined past, it can cast its uncompromising eye on the now…
-The Value of Grit
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I started from the standpoint that young adults are, above all, adults. Just young ones
-He Killed the Younglings!
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In the end, if given the choice, I much prefer things that are good, to things that are original
-Innovative-ni-ness
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When I read off a screen I tend to get a faint sense of work-in-progress
-The Authority of Print
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You have to write for yourself first
-Zounds! Swearing in Fantasy
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Now comes the (relatively) fun bit, polishing that turd till it shines
-Progress Report February ’26
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I think the combination of violence and humour wasn’t an immediate easy sell
-The Guardian interview
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I’m here by mistake, can’t read? Pull up a chair
-Am I Genre Enough?

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"Joe Abercrombie is doing some terrific work"

George R. R. Martin

"Say one thing for Joe Abercrombie, say that he's a master of his craft"

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"Joe Abercrombie takes the grand tradition of high fantasy literature and drags it down into the gutter, in the best possible way"

Time

"No one writes with the seismic scope or primal intensity of Joe Abercrombie"

Pierce Brown

"If you're fond of bloodless, turgid fantasy ... Joe Abercrombie is really going to ruin your day"

Scott Lynch

"Joe Abercrombie is a master of the genre"

Lev Grossman

"Joe Abercrombie's powerful voice raises the bar in any literary genre"

Myke Cole

"Joe Abercrombie has written the finest epic fantasy in recent memory"

Junot Díaz

"Joe Abercrombie is probably the brightest star among the new generation of British fantasy writers"

The Times

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