The Beast of Calatrava: A Foreworld Sidequest

3.5 stars Originally posted at FanLit.

Mark Teppo???s The Beast of Calatrava is one of the ???sidequest??? stories associated with the FOREWORLD SAGA universe shared by Neal Stephenson, Greg Bear, Mark Teppo, and others. (Bill recently reviewed the novels in the series.)

This story is set in the Iberian Peninsula during the Reconquista. The Knights of the Templar have arrived to cleanse the land of the Muslims who took the region twenty years earlier. Ramiro Ib????ez de Tolosa, a former knight who was grossly disfigured in that losing battle, has been living in the area as a goatherd while secretly killing ... Read More:
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