Vertical has just the thing to offset those winter blues: The Guin Saga, Book Three: The Battle of Nospherus and The Guin Saga Manga: The Seven Magi, Volume 3. Both books are on sale now and both will most assuredly warm the cockles of your heart and stave off the late-winter cold until spring arrives. As the third chapter of the five-part “Marches Episode,” The Battle of Nospherus makes the high-octane excitement of the two previous volumes seem like a PBS pledge drive as the mighty Guin rallies the disparate tribes of the Sem against the invading Mongauli Army, and the secret of Cal Moru and the real reasons for Lady Amnelis’s interest in Nospherus are revealed.
Meanwhile, the third and final volume of The Seven Magi explodes with sword-wielding action, as King Guin finally learns the identity of the powerful sorcerer that has crippled Cheironia and threatens the very existence of reality. Monsters and mayhem, death and destruction, all captured in pen-and-ink by the Michelangelo of Manga, Kazuaki Yanagisawa, whose work Randal Strock of SFScope calls “stunning.” The Guin Saga, Book Three: The Battle of Nospherus and The Guin Saga Manga: The Seven Magi, Volume 3… the perfect antidote for the Ides of March!
