{"id":10618,"date":"2012-10-17T15:33:45","date_gmt":"2012-10-17T23:33:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aidanmoher.com\/blog\/?p=10618"},"modified":"2012-10-17T16:00:45","modified_gmt":"2012-10-18T00:00:45","slug":"free-readin-red-country-by-joe-abercrombie-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aidanmoher.com\/blog\/2012\/10\/news\/free-readin-red-country-by-joe-abercrombie-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Free Readin&#8217;, <em>Red Country<\/em> by Joe Abercrombie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/aidanmoher.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/red-country-by-joe-abercrombie.jpg\" alt=\"Red Country by Joe Abercrombie\" title=\"Red Country by Joe Abercrombie\" width=\"648\" height=\"175\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10619\" srcset=\"https:\/\/aidanmoher.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/red-country-by-joe-abercrombie.jpg 648w, https:\/\/aidanmoher.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/red-country-by-joe-abercrombie-300x81.jpg 300w, https:\/\/aidanmoher.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/red-country-by-joe-abercrombie-500x135.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 648px) 100vw, 648px\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/aidanmoher.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/red-country-by-joe-abercrombie21.jpg\" alt=\"Red Country by Joe Abercrombie\" title=\"Red Country by Joe Abercrombie\" width=\"175\" height=\"171\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-10621\" \/><br \/>\n<em>Red Country<\/em>, Joe Abercrombie&#8217;s sixth novel, and third standalone novel, might have been delayed by a few weeks in the US, but lucky for fans (or those interested in sneak peeks, at least&#8230;), his UK publisher, Gollancz, has released an excerpt of the first three chapters of <em>Red Country<\/em> for readers to ogle.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n\u2018I have suffered many disappointments.\u2019 Nicomo Cosca, captain general of the Company of the Gracious Hand, leaned back stiffly upon one elbow as he spoke. \u2018I suppose every great man faces them. Abandons dreams wrecked by betrayal and finds new ones to pursue.\u2019 He frowned towards Mulkova, columns of smoke drifting from the burning city and up into the blue heavens. \u2018I have abandoned very many dreams.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\u2018That must have taken tremendous courage,\u2019 said Sworbreck, eyeglasses briefly twinkling as he looked up from his notes.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Indeed! I lose count of the number of times my death has been prematurely declared by one optimistic enemy or another. Forty years of trials, struggles, challenges, betrayals. Live long enough . . . you see everything ruined.\u2019 Cosca shook himself from his reverie. \u2018But it hasn\u2019t been boring, at least! What adventures along the way, eh, Temple?\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Temple winced. He had borne personal witness to five years of occasional fear, frequent tedium, intermittent diarrhoea, failure to avoid the plague, and avoiding fighting as if it was the plague. But he was not paid for the truth.<\/p>\n<p>Far from it.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Once you&#8217;ve had your fill of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gollancz.co.uk\/2012\/10\/red-country-chapter-one\/\" title=\"Chapter One of Red Country by Joe Abercrombie\" target=\"_blank\">Chapter One<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gollancz.co.uk\/2012\/10\/red-country-chapter-two\/\" title=\"Chapter Two of Red Country by Joe Abercrombie\" target=\"_blank\">Chapter Two<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gollancz.co.uk\/2012\/10\/red-country-chapter-three\/\" title=\"Chapter Three of Red Country by Joe Abercrombie\" target=\"_blank\">Chapter Three<\/a>, you can sit patiently on your hands, waiting for <em>Red Country<\/em> to release on November 13th, 2012 (if you&#8217;re in America), or you can rush to your nearest bookstore in the UK and probably find a copy now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Red Country, Joe Abercrombie&#8217;s sixth novel, and third standalone novel, might have been delayed by a few weeks in the US, but lucky for fans (or those interested in sneak peeks, at least&#8230;), his UK publisher, Gollancz, has released an excerpt of the first three chapters of Red Country for readers to ogle. \u2018I have&#8230;  <a class=\"excerpt-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/aidanmoher.com\/blog\/2012\/10\/news\/free-readin-red-country-by-joe-abercrombie-2\/\" title=\"ReadFree Readin&#8217;, <em>Red Country<\/em> by Joe Abercrombie&#8221;>Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[38,25,98,95,107,288,181],"class_list":["post-10618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-fantasy","tag-free-readin","tag-gollancz","tag-joe-abercrombie","tag-orbit-books","tag-red-country","tag-the-first-law"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v14.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/aidanmoher.com\/blog\/2012\/10\/news\/free-readin-red-country-by-joe-abercrombie-2\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Free Readin&#039;, Red Country by Joe Abercrombie - A Dribble of Ink\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Red Country, Joe Abercrombie&#8217;s sixth novel, and third standalone novel, might have been delayed by a few weeks in the US, but lucky for fans (or those interested in sneak peeks, at least&#8230;), his UK publisher, Gollancz, has released an excerpt of the first three chapters of Red Country for readers to ogle. \u2018I have... 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