Pyr buys next, unwritten steampunk novel from Tim Akers

Pyr SF Editorial Director Lou Anders writes that he's bought The Horns of Ruin by Tim Akers.

Akers himself writes "This is going to be a brilliant thing, my pretties. Beautiful words. You're gonna love it.… Soon as I write it. Heh."

Talking about the book, Anders starts by talking about another Akers novel, to be published by Solaris in August: "One of the best books I've read in a while that I didn't edit/publish at Pyr was Tim Akers' absolutely brilliant, Heart of Veridon, a steampunk noir. The book is fantastically imaginative, the dialogue pitch perfect, the story screaming to be an Alex Proyas film. In fact, it impressed me so much that I chased Tim down for his next one."

So, of the book Anders did buy, he says The Horns of Ruin "mixes those same elements of steampunk and crime noir that he does so well with both high fantasy and urban fantasy. I was hooked from the first line of the pitch: 'Eva Forge is the last paladin of a dead god.' And if that doesn't get you, Tim elaborates, 'You know, paladins with jetpacks. Clockwork monasteries besieged by revenants.'"