The Dragons of Dorcastle

Jack Campbell

Apr 2015 · Jabberwocky Literary Agency, Inc.

About this ebook

Dematr is a world ruled by the diametrically opposed Mage and Mechanic Guilds. For centuries, the two Great Guilds have been bitter rivals. But now a Storm approaches, one that could sweep away everything that humans have built. Only one person has any chance of uniting enough of the world behind to stop the Storm.

Mari is a brilliant young Mechanic, just out of the Guild Halls, where she has spent most of her life learning how to run the steam locomotives and other devices of her Guild. Alain is the youngest Mage ever to learn how to change the world he sees with the power of his mind. Each has been taught that the works of the other's Guild are frauds.

But when their caravan is destroyed, they must join forces. Their union could save the world from the approaching Storm, but it could also upend the Great Guilds who will stop at nothing to preserve their power. Mari and Alain will have to choose between protecting their lives and their Guilds, or risking everything to protect Dematr from the coming Storm.

Ratings and reviews

New ideas and fun characters, and it caught my attention. BUT-the way he writes, the book talks AT you. It's like it's all written as exposition at the beginning of a movie. The dialogue is forced and clunky. The characters say everything they feel and have a penchant for being inhumanely aware of themselves and exactly what they need and feel. Not a bad read, per say, but not one I'll really recommend.

Was a great fantasy novel, but not fantasy in the way of princesses and such reading the description will go very far

Great book. As expected from Campbell! I have read several of his books and series, and have yet to be disappointed.

About the author

Jack Campbell is the pseudonym for John G. Hemry, a retired Naval officer who graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis before serving with the surface fleet and in a variety of other assignments. He is the author of The Lost Fleet military science fiction series, as well as the Beyond the Frontier continuation of The Lost Fleet, spin-off series The Lost Stars, the Stark's War series, and the Paul Sinclair/"JAG in space" series. His short fiction appears frequently in Analog magazine, and many have been collected in the three Jack Campbell ebook anthologies, Ad Astra, Borrowed Time, and Swords and Saddles. The Pillars of Reality is his first epic fantasy series. He lives with his indomitable wife and three children in Maryland.