Series
Macedon
David Gemmell · 2 novels · 1990–1991
David Gemmell's Lion of Macedon and its sequel Dark Prince follow Parmenion, a gifted but despised half-Spartan general in ancient Macedon, whose military genius is bound up with a dark, supernatural pact that threatens to consume him. Gemmell layers his heroic-fantasy staples - flawed, morally compromised heroes and mystical forces at war - onto a loosely historical Macedonian setting adjacent to the era of Philip and Alexander. The duology sits alongside Gemmell's more purely secondary-world fantasy as one of his forays into history-inflected fantasy.
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By decade
- 1990s2
Shape
2 novels
1 author · completed series
reads like:fantasyredemptionmediterraneanancient worldadventurousadult
Mood
Grim and intense: 100% of this series' placed works, the catalog's 46%.
this series · the catalog · one dot = one book2 of 2 works carry a tone
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- Dark Princedarkest · calmest
- Lion of Macedonbrightest · most intense