Under My Skin

-anyone who reads the right book has an ally

Here is the right book. Under My Skin, K.J. Parker's superb new collection, includes almost 700 pages of novelettes and novellas, some appearing here for the first time anywhere, with one completely new novel-length tale, Relics.

These stories are everything readers have come to expect from Parker, populated by con men and kings, magicians who don't do magic and messiahs who don't offer redemption, by holy men and holy fools. But be warned, not onl...