And lo, we have uttered “Dinosaur Knights” three times and THEY HAVE APPEARED!
We’re very excited to be revealing the Richard Anderson cover for Victor Milán’s next book The Dinosaur Knights, the sequel to this year’s The Dinosaur Lords.
What is this book even about? Besides knights riding dinosaurs? BUCKLE UP.
From the cover:
Paradise is a sprawling, diverse, often cruel world. There are humans on Paradise but dinosaurs predominate: wildlife, monsters, beasts of burden, and of war. Armored knights ride dinosaurs to battle legions of war-trained Triceratops and their upstart peasant crews.
Karyl Bogomirsky is one such knight who has chosen to rally those who seek a way from the path of war and madness. The fact that the Empire has announced a religious crusade against this peaceful kingdom, the people who just wish to live in peace anathema, and they all are to be converted or destroyed doesn’t help him one bit.
Things really turn to mud when the dreaded Grey Angels, fabled ancient weapons of the Gods who created Paradise in the first place come on the scene after almost a millennia. Everyone thought that they were fables used to scare children. They are very much real.
And they have come to rid the world of sin…including all the humans who manifest those vices.
If riding a dinosaur is a sin, then we guess we’ll just have to accept being sinners. See you guys at the Boom Boom Bar later?
Just look at this…
Victor Milan’s The Dinosaur Knights arrives on shelves on July 5, 2016. But not at night, because that would be too appropriate.
I’m judging this book by its cover, and I love what I’m seeing! I didn’t know about The Dinosaur Lords, but after reading the cover blurb for this one, I’ll be going back and checking it out!
I really wanted to like Dinosaur Lords. Because, well, dinosaurs and instant cover love. It ended up a DNF for me because of the lack of dinosaurs. They were just substituted for horses and other domestic animals and I just wanted more….
The story itself wasn’t interesting enough and since the dinos weren’t essential to the story my interest just trailed off. I plan on trying it again in a year or two–sometimes my perspective changes. Plus I was expecting a lot from the press and lead in so my sense of disappointment was probably overblown.
But the covers are epic.
There is no according to taste I suppose, but I must say I liked it a lot. Sure, it is book about knights riding dinosaurs, and by definition nobody is going to mistake it for great literature, but it is a lot of fun IMHO.
I also liked the way the central mystery is presented – the real nature of the world and its “gods”, even if I am often sceptical about such twists.
Awesome! Finishing up Dinosaur Lords now. Can’t wait!
Absolutely love the cover art. Kudos to the artist, whoever it may be.