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Steel Gods

the Sunday Times bestselling epic fantasy series of gunpowder, arcane powers and dark prophecy (Book Two of The Great Silence)
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INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION BECKONS. SPIRITUAL CATASTROPHE LOOMS. AND THE EMPIRE OF THE WOLF TEETERS ON THE BRINK The true horror of the Great Silence has been revealed. As nation after nation succumbs to the mind-plague and Sova scrambles to enlist help from across the globe, Ambassador Renata... Read More
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Steel Gods

Steel Gods is the second novel in the Great Silence trilogy, which began with the Sunday Times bestseller Grave Empire - a dark flintlock fantasy filled with epic adventure, arcane mysteries and creeping dread

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INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION BECKONS. SPIRITUAL CATASTROPHE LOOMS. AND THE EMPIRE OF THE WOLF TEETERS ON THE BRINK The true horror of the Great Silence has been revealed. As nation after nation succumbs to the mind-plague and Sova scrambles to enlist help from across the globe, Ambassador Renata Rainer has been given a simple task: save the world. While she travels to the Principality of Casimir to enlist the help of the Empire's oldest enemy, Lieutenant Peter Kleist returns to the haunted forests of the New East to search for ancient answersβ€”and finally confront the terrible fate that awaits him. In their wake, a task force of engineers, soldiers, and arcane experts will try and unpick the final secrets of the Great Silenceβ€”on both sides of the mortal plane. But time is running out. Count Lamprecht von Oldenburg has returned to the capital, armed with a terrible vision and enough madness to see it through. Those who stand in his way face a simple choice: join the revolution, or die. As the world tips towards chaos, all paths converge on the Eye of the Sea, where the fabric of reality wears thinβ€”and where the Empire of the Wolf must confront the most terrible enemy it has ever known. Steel Gods is the second novel in the Great Silence trilogy from Sunday Times bestselling author Richard Swanβ€”a dark flintlock fantasy filled with epic adventure, arcane mysteries and creeping dread. Praise for the series 'Dazzling and immersive epic fantasy' Publishers Weekly (starred review) 'An absolute treat . . . crammed with imagination, horror, epic scale, and characters I simply could not put down' Grimdark Magazine 'A truly remarkable page-turning, flintlock fantasy horror' Fantasy Hive The Great Silence Grave Empire Steel Gods The Empire of the Wolf The Justice of Kings The Tyranny of Faith The Trials of Empire

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780356523910

Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 31 March 2026

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Orbit

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 22.0mm

Width: 153.0mm

Height: 234.0mm

Weight: 0g

Pages: 576

About the Author

Richard Swan is a critically acclaimed British genre writer. He is the author of the Sunday Times bestselling Empire of the Wolf and Great Silence trilogies, as well as fiction for Black Library and Grimdark Magazine. His work has been translated into nine languages.

Richard is a qualified lawyer, and before writing full-time spent ten years litigating multi-million-pound commercial disputes in London. He currently lives in Sydney with his wife and three young sons.

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