Adrian Cole
(1949- )
Adrian Cole was born in Plymouth, Devonshire in 1949. He is currently the Director of College Resources in a large secondary school in Bideford, where he now lives with his wife, Judy, son Sam, and daughter Katia. He remains best known for his Dream Lords trilogy as well as his young adult novels, Moorstones and The Sleep of Giants. He also wrote the science fiction epic
Star Requiem and several stand-alone novels. He has also contributed to the
Eberron series.
A Place Among the Fallen by Adrian Cole
In the world of Omara, belief in gods or magical power can be punishable by death. But when Korbillian arrives from out of a storm-tossed sea, there is no denying something is at work that’s beyond explanation. Korbillian hails from another world and he’s on a mission to destroy the evil growing from an earthen mound in the distant land of the east. However, as powerful as Korbillian is, he can’t do it alone. Along the way, he must recruit as many others to the cause as he can. Korbillian must convince the non-believers that if they do not help, Omara will meet the same demise as his home world. Out of misfits, ruthless enforcers, fellow refugees, rival soldiers, and even Omara’s animals and plant-life, an army is formed. But will they be enough? And are they really Korbillian’s allies or just fodder to be sacrificed for the cause?
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More books by Adrian Cole
Dream Lords — (1975-1976) Publisher: Heroic fantasy in the tradition of Robert E. Howard.
Star Requiem — (1989-1990) Publisher: Fleeing the destruction wrought by the alien Csendook, humanity settles on the planet Innasmorn, an inhospitable, stormswept world inhabited by hostile sorcerers.
Voidal — (2005-2011) Publisher: Sword & sorcery at its best and first of the Voidal trilogy, assembled from the author’s short stories.
Stand-alones:
Moorstones — (1982) Young adult.
The Sleep of Giants — (1983) Young adult.
Blood Red Angel — (1993) Publisher: A new elite, the Angel Guards of the Provider thrive on the fury of the elements and prey on the Externals, renegade warriors who have come to the Provider’s world.
Storm Over Atlantis — (2001)
Night of Heroes — (2011) Publisher: Assigned to administer the closure of a crumbling inner city Athenaeum, Mears finds himself caught up in an extraordinary cross-worlds venture, where the heroes of his comic books, pulp magazines, and fantastic novels fill its landscape. His only route back to the sanity of his own world lies in coordinating these disparate heroes into an unlikely team, banding them to oppose a fiendishly evil master-mind’s plot to unleash unspeakable dark gods upon the world. Drawn from a vast trove of pulp and super-hero sources, from H. Rider Haggard through Edgar Rice Burroughs and Robert E. Howard to H. P. Lovecraft and Sax Rohmer, NIGHT OF THE HEROES plunges the reader into a bizarre world where anything ever read about becomes very much alive — and invariably kicking!
