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A while ago I asked a lot of my Canadian SF/Fan friends to help me put together a list of essential Canadian Spec Fic (yes, KD a list) for RevSF. Dave Duncan’s name kept coming up. This made me want to go back and re-read some of this great Canadian’s work, hense the review below. (And look for the list/article sometime around the end of June.)
Edward is a typical young British man in Edwardian England. The child of British colonial workers who were murdered in Africa, he has gone to a private (called public) school to be trained to be the next generation to run the empire. So when the drums of war start to pound, Edward feels compelled to sign up to fight for king and country.
The problem is that in another place and another time, Edward is the proficized Liberator. His destiny in the other world is to kill death. And the Gods from that world have no intention of letting him die for England when they could kill him or use him to their own ends.
Dave Duncan is one of the best fantasy authors out there. His novels are engaging and well thought out. The cleverness of the title refers to grammar tenses, something the main character Edward wold have learned at grammar school, which again references the time that Edward comes from. Solid bit of writing. Well worth the effort.