The bestselling author of Altered Carbon takes on the world of fantasy - and tears it to shreds.

Morgan turns his trademark visceral writing style, turbo-driven plotting, thought provoking characterisation and cynical noir flair to the epic world of fantasy and, as you would expect from this genre-bending author, conjures up a unique and exciting adrenalin-fuelled rush of a novel. The Steel Remains is the tale of three anti-social, anti-heroic and deeply irritated protagonists - a Steppe-nomad, a cynical engineer, and a man desperate to escape small-town entanglements - and propels them unwillingly into a vicious and unsuspecting fantasy world where terrifying spirits are abroad and a decadent empire which owes them everything, and gave them nothing, needs them once more.

The Steel Remains is a hip, sleek, cinematic and very cool book that moves beyond traditional swords and sorcery into an exploration of darker moral territory with unlikely heroes and subversion of traditions. This is dark, brooding, bloody, visceral stuff filled with Barbarian violence, superior genre-bending and brutal fantasy fun. This is not safe, old fashioned fantasy with knights and fair maidens and princes and wizards that lived in some idyllic pre-modern pastoral past. This is an edgier, grittier and more morally ambivalent world filled with dysfunctional characters. This is retro-dystopic noir fantasy. It's vicious. It's cynical. It's sexy. It's rock 'n' roll.

Friday May 8th
Minotaur Books
Address: 121 Elizabeth Street, Melbourne
Time: 12pm

Dymocks Southland
Address: Shop 3067-8 Westfield Southland, 1239 Nepean Highway, Cheltenham
Time: 2pm

Melbourne Science Fiction Club
Address: St David's West Brunswick Uniting Church, 74 Melville Rd, Brunswick West
Time: 9pm

Saturday May 9th
Nova Mob
Address: Community Room, Northcote Library, 32-38 Separation St, Northcote, Melbourne, VICTORIA
Time: 12pm