内容简介
守护最后的文明火种，靠智慧？靠勇气？
敌人有巨弩，我们有戏剧与偶像。
从龙套到配角再到冒充皇帝，这就是诺克尔扶摇直上的演艺生涯。他曾混迹于都城各大剧院。如今，敌人大军压境，都城岌岌可危。而他临危受命，把整个帝国变成了他的剧院，把漫山遍野的敌军变成了他的观众。
一个假皇帝要如何守护帝国？无非是画好脸上的油彩，磨砺袖中的剑，在一片欢声笑语中为死神开一扇门。
作者简介
ThomasCharlesLouisHolt(born13September1961)isaBritishnovelist.Inadditiontofictionpublishedunderhisownname,hewritesfantasyunderthepseudonymK.J.Parker.
HoltwasborninLondon,thesonofnovelistHazelHolt,andwaseducatedatWestminsterSchool,WadhamCollege,Oxford,andTheCollegeofLaw,London.HeworkedasasolicitorinSomersetforsevenyearsbeforewritingfull-time.
Hisworksincludemythopoeicnovelswhichparodyortakeastheirthemevariousaspectsofmythology,history,orliteratureanddeveloptheminnewandoftenhumorousways.HehasalsowrittenanumberofhistoricalnovelswritingasThomasHolt.SteveNalloncollaboratedwithHolttowriteI,Margaret,asatiricalautobiographyofMargaretThatcherpublishedin1989.
K.J.ParkeristhepseudonymunderwhichHolthaspublishedfantasyfiction.Holt’sassumedidentityasK.J.Parkerwaskeptsecretfor17years,untilApril2015.
WhileParker’sstoriestakeplaceinsecondaryworldswithfictionalgeographiesandworldhistory,someofthetypicalfeaturesoffantasyfictionsuchasexplicituseofmagicarenotpresentinhisnovels.Hisshortstories,ontheotherhand,frequentlydealwithmagicandtheproblemsitbringsforsorcerers.Thestoriestendtohavetragicthemeswithcharacterswhoseactionsareunintentionally,ultimatelyself-destructive.Othermajorthemesinthebooksarepolitics,technology(especiallydisruptiveinnovation),andeitherorbothoftheformerasameanstopower.
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