Saevus Corax Deals with the Dead
by K J Parker (Orbit, 2023)
Parker’s insistence on crafting non-romanticised secondary-world historical settings with intertwined military, economic, religious and political interests, results once again in a downbeat, fate-pummelled tale. The humour is black at best, wrung from its jaded—and in this instance openly unreliable—first-person narrator.