Under captain Stryke, the Wolverines decide they must garner four more of the artifact ‘stars’ to bargain their freedom. Sent to retrieve an artifact, the Orcs are delayed and Jennesta believes herself betrayed, so she sends a second warband to pursue them. The orcs also hate the humans for bringing advancement and technology to the land, and draining the magic of Maras Dantia (the world).

They are set against the Unis (humans whom worship one god), their master being a ‘Mani’ (worshiping many gods). Orcs is the story of the Wolverines, an Orc warband enslaved by an evil queen ‘Jennesta’. I’d reccommend this to anybody looking for a good read. This book caught my eye in Waterstones (I do most of my shopping in brick and mortar stores, not online), and turned out to be a really good novel. We have no knight in shining armour, nor silver elven lord. Find out more about the orcs at Nicholls’ ‘Orcs’ is a book that definitely strums a different string to most other fantasy books. He received the LeFantastique Lifetime Achievement Award for Contributions to Literature in April 2007. A journalist for national and specialist publications, and the Internet, he was the science fiction and fantasy book reviewer for London listings magazine Time Out for six years, and subsequently reviewed popular science titles for the magazine.

He was also Forbidden Planets first manager, and helped establish and run the New York branch. Before taking up writing full-time in 1981, he co-owned and managed West London bookstore Bookends, and managed specialist SF bookshop Dark They Were and Golden Eyed. His books have been published in over twenty countries. About the Author Stan Nicholls is the author of more than two dozen books, most of them in the fantasy and science fiction genres, for both children and adults. This book will change the way you feel about Orcs forever. Thankful to the orcs born to fight, destined to win peace for all.

Thankful that it was me, not you, who bore the sword. A creature to be hunted down and slaughtered like a beast in the fields. To you I am a monster, a skulker in the shadows, a fiend to scare your children with. About the Book Fantasys bad guys finally get their due in this fast moving, action-packed tale of Orc valor and human treachery.Orbit Book Synopsis Fantasys bad guys finally get their due in the first book of this action packed tale of Orc valor and human treachery.

Orcs by Stan Nicholls