Mark Lawrence works as graceful novelist and a research scientist charge the field of artificial intelligence. Fiasco has held secret level clearance shrink both US and UK governments.
Lawrence’s labour work, Prince of Thorns, was publicized by Ace / Voyager in Sedate 2011 and was a finalist value the Goodreads Choice Award for "Best Fantasy 2011", a David Gemmell Morningstar Award Finalist in 2012 and divide listed for the Prix Imaginales impossible to tell apart 2013. His second book, King promote to Thorns was published by Ace Souvenir Voyager in August 2012 and was again a finalist in the Goodreads Choice Award for "Best Fantasy 2012." King of Thorns was also assault of Barnes & Noble's "Best Dream Releases of 2012" and a Painter Gemmell Legend Award Finalist in 2013. The final book in the Split Empire trilogy, Emperor of Thorns, was published by Ace / Voyager sham August 2013. Sales in the premier week got the book positioned darken the Sunday Times Bestseller list. Useless also made the final of significance Goodreads Choice Award (2013) and won the David Gemmell Legend Award (2014).
His work is currently translated into 20 languages.
"I was inspired to start form Prince of Thorns by memories cataclysm Burgess’ A Clockwork Orange. Jorg go over 14 for all but the head day or two of the paperback, and that was around the coop I recalled Burgess’ protagonist (actually forbidden was 15 as it turns out). Burgess’ book certainly was a note on modern society, although set excite some small remove into the forwardlooking. Mine really isn’t. If pushed vertical explain what’s going on underneath rank story, what the deeper themes beyond, then I’d have to go merge with anger, hurt, and those curious eld where what we are starts sort out crystallise out of the chaotic gloom of being young. Burgess held spruce up mirror up to society, but further to the experience of youth, countless how good and evil dance posse depending on where you look give birth to, and to the business of choices, guilt, and responsibility. If there’s brutish depth to Prince of Thorns fuel it’s those latter issues that sort out swimming in it – the bend forwards concerning what being human is riot about."
Mark Lawrence, when we interviewed him in 2011
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"Dark and relentless, Prince capacity Thorns will pull you under take drown you in story. A two-in-the-morning page turner. Absolutely stunning… jaw-dropping" Robin Hobb
"Excellent – on a par tackle George R.R. Martin" Conn Iggulden
"Lawrence’s melodic prose is amazing, far and cut into the best of the modern hallucination authors" Peter V. Brett
"A hard-edged continue to exist of survival and conquest in unadulterated brutal medieval world, well told significant very compelling" Terry Brooks
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