This enhanced eBook contains:
# An introduction from Joe Abercrombie
# The full text of THE HEROES
# A critical afterword from the editor
Plus:
# THE FOOL JOBS short story, featuring characters from THE HEROES
# A 20,000 word ‘planning’ document which contains all of Joe’s behind-the-scenes notes, plans and timeline for THE HEROES
# A before-and-after chapter showing the first draft, the last draft, and many stages in between if one of the most critical chapters of the book
# ‘Blog archive’ – all of Joe’s blog posts from the period when he was writing THE HEROES. This is half-diary, half book progress updates, and includes illustrations, links to interviews, events, award ceremonies and reviews of games and books from Joe as well as incidents from his life
# A full author biography, and an author photo gallery
# An introduction from Joe Abercrombie
# The full text of THE HEROES
# A critical afterword from the editor
Plus:
# THE FOOL JOBS short story, featuring characters from THE HEROES
# A 20,000 word ‘planning’ document which contains all of Joe’s behind-the-scenes notes, plans and timeline for THE HEROES
# A before-and-after chapter showing the first draft, the last draft, and many stages in between if one of the most critical chapters of the book
# ‘Blog archive’ – all of Joe’s blog posts from the period when he was writing THE HEROES. This is half-diary, half book progress updates, and includes illustrations, links to interviews, events, award ceremonies and reviews of games and books from Joe as well as incidents from his life
# A full author biography, and an author photo gallery
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Reviews
Highly recommended - a funny, finely-wrought, terrifically energetic work of high fantasy. Seek it out
The Heroes is an indictment of war and the duplicity that corrupts men striving for total power: bloody and violent, but never gratuitously so, it's imbued with cutting humour, acute characterisation and worldweary wisdom about the weaknesses of the human race. Brilliant
[The Heroes is a] blood-drenched, thought-provoking dissection ofa three-day battle is set in the same world as Abercrombie's First Law Trilogy but stands very well alone . . . Abercrombie never glosses over a moment of the madness, passion, and horror ofwar, nor the tribulations that turn ordinary people into the titular heroes
