

When assassins try to murder the singer, Indrajit and Fix and the opera star find themselves hunted across the city, and increasingly drawn into a dark plot involving some of its most powerful people. Our heroes, Indrajit Twang and Fix, meet because they’re both hired by the risk-merchant Holy-pot Diaphernes to bodyguard an opera singer whose life Diaphernes has insured. So, what is In The Palace Of Shadow And Joy about, and in what kind of world is it set? I always like to begin with an overview of a novel’s plot. But as he explains in the following email interview about it, there’s actually a bit of science fiction in this story’s foundation.


Butler’s new novel In The Palace Of Shadow And Joy ( paperback, Kindle) looks like a Conan-esque adventure story, and sounds like an epic fantasy tale.
