The Aurora-award-winning author of Graveyard Mind and Thunder Road continues the Shared World series by welcoming you to Khyber...city at the centre of theShared World. Home to rakes and reavers, sorcerers and slayers, undead kings and undying things.Khybercollects Chadwick Ginther’s previous groundbreaking Shared World stories in a new collection, alongside new works available for the first time in paperback.In the Shared World, the power humanity once wielded to make themselves as unto gods was grasped and scrabbled over, until it was lost and slipped into legends and stories. Now, ancient powers linger and clutch at the heart of heroes. Perhaps a new torchbearer may relight the flames of mystery, magic, and wonder and drive back these shadow emperors to the dark places between worlds…
Aurora Award–winning author Chadwick Ginther returns to the Shared World with Khyber, the dark city at its heart. Home to reavers, sorcerers, undead kings, and undying horrors, this collection gathers his groundbreaking Shared World stories alongside new works appearing in paperback for the first time.
Chadwick Ginther is the author of theThunder Road trilogy, Graveyard Mind, and over thirty short stories. His story “All Cats Go to Valhalla” won the 2021 Prix Aurora Award for Best Short Story, and his short fiction has appeared in numerous magazines and anthologies.Chadwick’s novels have won the Mary Scorer Award for Best Book by a Manitoba Publisher and the Michael Van Rooy Award for Genre Fiction and been nominated for the Prix Aurora Award for Best Novel, the Eileen McTavish Sykes Award for Best First Book by a Manitoba Author, the Carol Shields Winnipeg Book Award, and the Margaret Laurence Award for Fiction.A bookseller for over twenty years, when he’s not writing books he’s reading them. Chadwick lives and writes in Winnipeg, Canada, spinning sagas set in the wild spaces of Canada’s western wilderness,where surely monsters must exist.
