The First Law: Difference between revisions

The author continues writing stories set in this world: He has announced that he's signed a contract for 4 more stories, which at present he predicts will be a third stand-alone story followed by another trilogy, though he notes he might change his mind. The first of these contracted books—[https://web.archive.org/web/20120115140328/http://www.joeabercrombie.com/2011/03/01/can-you-tell-what-it-is-yet/ some sort of fantasy western]—will likely be out in mid-2012, and is titled ''(A) Red Country'' (America isn't getting the "A" part for some unknown reason). In addition, none of the following novels will feature the same cast (at least not in main character roles <ref> Though ''A Red Country'' may or may not be the exception as one major character is suspected to be none other than the very-much alive Logen Ninefingers; it is possible he is just in a big supporting role, however</ref>) and each story is set several years after the last, so the next trilogy may be more than a decade ahead of ''The First Law'' trilogy.

*** Not quite, since Bayaz at least seems to consider the Maker's work as [[ClarksClarke's Third Law|sufficiently advanced science]]; magic is explicitly power drawn from The Other Side, and the Maker's work is explicitly ''not'' from The Other Side. And Mammun states that the magic ''is'' going away even if he and his fellow Eater's are not affected by it (yet). And given how [[Ax Crazy]] [[I'm a Humanitarian|Mammun]] is, he could be an [[Unreliable Narrator|unreliable source]], either outright lying or too insane to notice his slowly fading power. But even if they are the exception, the trope is still otherwise in effect.