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This grounded, gritty, almost nihilistic optimism struck a chord worldwide, but particularly in Russia and Eastern Europe. In a culture that revered literature of suffering and endurance (from Dostoevsky to the war poets), Gemmell’s themes of standing firm against a horde resonated on a spiritual level.

In 1976, David Gemmell was a journalist who had never published fiction. He was undergoing tests for what doctors feared was terminal cancer. To cope with the stress of the one-month wait for his diagnosis, he began writing a story originally titled Against the Hordes The Metaphor: legend david gemmell vk