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Revealing Jay Kristoff’s Empire of the Vampire

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Published on February 4, 2021

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It has been twenty-seven long years since the last sunrise…

We’re thrilled to share the cover for Empire of the Vampire, the start of a new epic fantasy trilogy from Jay Kristoff—publishing September 14th with St. Martin’s Press.

From holy cup comes holy light;
The faithful hands sets world aright.
And in the Seven Martyrs’ sight,
Mere man shall end this endless night.

It has been twenty-seven long years since the last sunrise. For nearly three decades, vampires have waged war against humanity; building their eternal empire even as they tear down our own. Now, only a few tiny sparks of light endure in a sea of darkness.

Gabriel de León is a silversaint: a member of a holy brotherhood dedicated to defending realm and church from the creatures of the night. But even the Silver Order couldn’t stem the tide once daylight failed us, and now, only Gabriel remains.

Imprisoned by the very monsters he vowed to destroy, the last silversaint is forced to tell his story. A story of legendary battles and forbidden love, of faith lost and friendships won, of the Wars of the Blood and the Forever King and the quest for humanity’s last remaining hope:

The Holy Grail.

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Empire of the Vampire
Empire of the Vampire

Empire of the Vampire

Cover art by Jason Chan; Typography by Meg Morley; Cover design by Young Lim

Jay is giving away three Advanced Reader Copies of Empire of the Vampire. For more details, visit his site.

Jay Kristoff is a #1 international, New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of fantasy and science fiction. He is the winner of eight Aurealis Awards, an ABIA, has over half a million books in print and is published in over thirty five countries, most of which he has never visited. He is as surprised about all of this as you are. He is 6’7 and has approximately 11,500 days to live. He does not believe in happy endings.

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10 years ago

Only a 6? With the two brilliant episodes that get mentioned over and over (“Far Beyond the Stars” and “In the Pale Moonlight”), I would bump this to at least a 7 or 8. As long as I never have to watch “Profit and Lace” again.

— Michael A. Burstein

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DougL
10 years ago

The war gets a bit more interesting next season, and I think a 6 is deserved, there were plenty of lowpoints for me in s6.

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10 years ago

A Donnie Darko riff would actually make a pretty good O’Brien Must Suffer episode. I think you mean Donnie Brasco.

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10 years ago

To me, the whole season lost a point due to “Profit and Lace”, and another point due to the silly ideas of the Pah-Wraiths and of Dukat getting all mustache-y Evil-with-a-capital-E. So a 6 is well deserved.

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Rancho Unicorno
10 years ago

@1 – I think that exception is what makes the 6 worth while.

If I were told that I could never watch Season 6 again, unless I watched the whole thing, how likely would I be to endure Profit and Lace and One Little Ship in order to get In the Pale Moonlight and Far Beyond the Stars? I’d say the chance I would say ok is closer to 60% than 80%.

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10 years ago

I will admit that I had stopped watching DS9 regularly during its on-air run around season 5, because the serialized nature meant that if I missed an episode, I was completely lost – lacking today’s ability to program my DVR from my phone, I just sort of quit watching. Now that I have the DVD box set and can call up any episode on Netflix any time I please, I take a very different approach to seasons 5 and beyond. With binge-watching, it becomes a more engrossing story, punctuated by nearly-out-of-timeline episodes like “Far Beyond the Stars” and “Profit and Lace.” As a whole entity, I think season 6 holds up quite well, and it’s only when you try to look at the episodes individually that the weaknesses show through. So a 6 for the whole season works for me, and you just have to hold your nose through the stinky parts.

I’m not sure if offsite linking is frowned upon, but your selection of “In the Pale Moonlight” for Favorite Plain, simple reminded me – reddit’s Daystrom Institute is currently having an interesting, if short, discussion entitled Was Garak playing Sisko? that might be worth a peek for those looking to explore that issue further.

“the world was assuredly not desperately crying out for a return engagement”

Speak for yourself, DeCandido – Philip Anglim is welcome on my TV screen any time. :)

ChristopherLBennett
10 years ago

I’ve been surprised to realize how weak the sixth season was. I did feel the show lost a step in its last two seasons — the veterans seemed to be getting a bit tired, and I never cared for the addition of David Weddle & Bradley Thompson to the staff — but I’d forgotten just how badly it faltered.

I wonder how different it would’ve been if Robert Hewitt Wolfe had stuck around.

ChocolateRob
10 years ago

Well why would anyone want to go to old Bajor in a holosuite, Bajor’s hat was peaceful agrarians followed by conquered resource, Bajor is just boring. They were a standard static peaceful low-tech society until the Cardasians mixed things up a bit. Now those Earthican folks they’ve had an interesting few centuries. They’ve been meticulously recording all their fads as they went and now they’ve got holodecks just brimming with exciting new old things, how exotic can you get.

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10 years ago

The beauty of rewatching a show is you can skip the junk and just watch the best. And while the best of this season is very good, it’s a much shorter season than some others because of all the episodes to leave out. Still, I’d give it a 7 or 8 as well.

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Eduardo Jencarelli
10 years ago

The binge-watching Netflix comment reminds me of how I felt watching House of Cards based on my cousin’s praise. Now that was a disappointment.

Watching season 6 of DS9 feels a lot like Cards’ second season. It starts full of promise, delivering some truly ambitious work, and then it squanders a lot of that on asinine stories that go nowhere. But at least DS9 got to year six before starting to use stupid ideas such as shrinking the Runabout, having a Ferengi undergo sex-change, etc.

I can forgive Ira, Hans and the whole team for these missteps. They spent a lot of time trying to get that opening six-part arc to work. Naturally, there were going to be duds this season. With 26 episodes, in season 6, it was bound to happen. Might as well get them out of the way, so we can focus on the final run.

A 6 feels about right. Not as good as TNG season 6, even though it has the better written episodes (Pale Moonlight, Rocks and Shoals, and Far Beyond, obviously). The worst ones drag it down, sadly.

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