At An Uncertain Hour [Paperback]

Nyki Blatchley (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: April 20, 2009

As two armies stand poised for the final battle of a millennium-long war, the immortal, charismatic leader known only as the Traveller reflects on what led him, long ago, to begin this war of liberation. Amid the alarms and encounters of a sleepless night, he thinks back over three thousand years of life: the loves and hates, the victories and disasters, the moral dilemmas - and the lost love he still mourns. As battle is joined, the tale has a few more twists to throw at the Traveller.

Product Details

• Paperback: 368 pages
• Publisher: StoneGarden.net Publishing (April 20, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1600761291
• ISBN-13: 978-1600761294
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,705,071 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Nyki Blatchley is a British author and poet who graduated from Keele University in English and Greek and now lives just outside London. He has had about two dozen stories published, mostly fantasy or horror, in various magazines, webzines and anthologies, including Aoife's Kiss, AfterburnSF, Chimaera Serials and The Thirteenth Fontana Book of Great Horror Stories. His novel At An Uncertain Hour was published by StoneGarden in April 2009, and his novella The City of Ferrid was published by Crystal Codices later the same year. He's currently working on a fantasy trilogy.

Nyki is an administrator for the online fantasy writers' group fantasy-writers.org. He has also had many poems published, and has performed poetry and music at various venues around London, including frequent appearances at the legendary coffee-house Bunjies, which in the 60s featured artists such as Bob Dylan, Paul Simon and David Bowie.

For more information on Nyki and his writing, please visit http://www.nykiblatchley.co.uk/

Customer Reviews

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Fantastically entertaining, July 10, 2009

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Jens M. Hieber (Houghton NY USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: At An Uncertain Hour (Paperback)

I was looking forward to reading this book since I heard that it came out, and was highly satisfied when I finally found the money to purchase it.

As a stand alone, this book is special in a genre where often you have to read a whole series in order to get a story. A world that has obviously been created with much care and thought lurks behind the events that Nyki Blatchley paints.

The story skips around 3000 years of history, and yet is not in the least confusing. One doesn't find oneself being bored by finding oneself with a different character or in a different time. The story flows so smoothly, that I found myself excited every time I picked it up. The flow is matched by a pace that is not so fast as to lose the reader, but certainly such that it becomes hard to stop reading.

In a genre often riddled with cliche's, this book stands out as one that is most definitely within that genre, but uses its ideas in such a way that the story feels not only authentic but original. Sure, there are times when one reads something and thinks, "this seems familiar" but always in a way that leaves one without a doubt that it fits into the story.

Well worth buying and reading and leaving on ones shelf to be reread in future years.