Angry Robot Books has posted excerpts from several of their forthcoming releases, including The Hammer and the Blade.  Below is the first fifty pages of the book.  If you’ve been reading the excerpts I’ve been posting over the last several months, you’ve read some of this already, but most of it will be new.

As this is the opening of the novel, there are no spoilers, so please read, and share far and wide (if you’re so inclined :-)).