Blade Kin (22 page)
Authors: David Farland
Tags: #Literature & Fiction, #Science Fiction & Fantasy, #Fantasy, #Science Fiction, #Genetic Engineering
Thrall
—Any Neanderthal or human who is held as a slave. Generally, it refers to anyone who has spent years in slavery. Over generations, the Thralls developed a moral code and a society far different from that of the Pwi. In general, the Pwi consider the Thralls to be untrustworthy and brutal. Many tales tell of Thralls who practice cannibalism or who have become so accustomed to slavery that they themselves engage in it. Thralls who eventually escape their captors call themselves
Okanjara
, the Free Ones.
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About David Farland
David Farland is an award-winning, international best-selling author with over 50 novels in print. He has won the Philip K. Dick Memorial Special Award for “Best Novel in the English Language” for his science fiction novel
On My Way to Paradise
, the Whitney Award for “Best Novel of the Year” for his historical novel
In the Company of Angels
, and he has won over seven awards—including the International Book Award and the Hollywood Book Festival, Grand Prize—for his fantasy thriller
Nightingale
. He is best known, however, for his
New York Times
best-selling fantasy series
The Runelords
, which will soon be made into a graphic novel and, likely, a movie.
Farland has written for major franchises such as
Star Wars
and
The Mummy.
In the video game industry, he has been both a designer and a scripter and was the co-leader on the design team for
StarCraft: Brood War
.
As a writing instructor, Farland has mentored dozens who have gone on to staggering literary success, including such #1
New York Times
Bestsellers as Brandon Mull (
Fablehaven
), Brandon Sanderson (
Wheel of Time
), James Dashner (
The Maze Runner
) and Stephenie Meyer (
Twilight
).
Farland judges L. Ron Hubbard’s Writers of the Future, perhaps the largest worldwide writing competition for new fantasy and science fiction authors. He has worked in Hollywood greenlighting movies and doctoring scripts. He set the Guinness World Record for the largest single-author, single-book signing.
David Farland has been hailed as “The wizard of storytelling” and his work has been called “compelling,” “engrossing,” “powerful,” “profound,” and “ultimately life-changing.”
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