Heroes Die
is the first book in the Matthew Woodring Stover’s Acts of Caine trilogy. The author
created a world that consists of the future dystopian Earth
and a parallel world called Overworld, which is actually a fantasy setting bearing
the characteristics of the majority of books published in this genre after
Tolkien. This provides for a very interesting dichotomy – on the one side we have
a science fiction milieu in which there is an overcrowded Earth, the population
of which is divided into castes, with very strict rules and harsh system of
punishment. On the other side is a fantasy world rich with magic, all kinds of
creatures, and filled with adventures.
This is not a new thing.
