WRITER

Joe Abercrombie

1974 - Today

Joe Abercrombie

Joseph Edward Abercrombie (born 31 December 1974) is a British fantasy writer and film editor. He is the author of The First Law trilogy, as well as other fantasy books in the same setting and a trilogy of young adult novels. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Joe Abercrombie has received more than 1,612,505 page views. His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia. Joe Abercrombie is the 4,460th most popular writer (down from 4,028th in 2019), the 3,182nd most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 2,973rd in 2019) and the 362nd most popular British Writer.

Memorability Metrics

1.6M
Page Views (PV)
49.13
Historical Popularity Index (HPI)
28
Languages Editions (L)
5.54
Effective Languages (L*)
2.64
Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Best served cold

Fantasy, Fiction

War may be hell, but for Monza Murcatto, a solider of considerable fortune; it's a damn good way of making money too. Her victories have made her popular - a shade too popular for her employer's taste. Betrayed and left for dead, Murcatto's reward is a broken body and a burning hunger for vengeance. Whatever the cost, seven men must die."Joe Abercrombie takes the grand tradition of high fantasy literature and drags it down into the gutter, in the best possible way." --- Time"Abercrombie is both fiendishly inventive and solidly convincing, especially when sprinkling his appallingly vivid combat scenes with humor so dark that it's almost ultraviolet." --- Publishers Weekly"A satisfyingly brutal fantasy quest. BEST SERVED COLD? Modern fantasy doesn't get much hotter than this." --- Dave Bradley, SFX"Abercrombie has written the finest epic fantasy trilogy in recent memory. He's one writer that no one should miss." --- Junot Diaz on The First Law Trilogy

2009

The Blade Itself

Logen Ninefingers, infamous barbarian, has finally run out of luck. Caught in one feud too many, he’s on the verge of becoming a dead barbarian – leaving nothing behind him but bad songs, dead friends, and a lot of happy enemies. Nobleman Captain Jezal dan Luthar, dashing officer, and paragon of selfishness, has nothing more dangerous in mind than fleecing his friends at cards and dreaming of glory in the fencing circle. But war is brewing, and on the battlefields of the frozen North they fight by altogether bloodier rules. Inquisitor Glokta, cripple turned torturer, would like nothing better than to see Jezal come home in a box. But then Glokta hates everyone: cutting treason out of the Union one confession at a time leaves little room for friendship. His latest trail of corpses may lead him right to the rotten heart of government, if he can stay alive long enough to follow it. Enter the wizard, Bayaz. A bald old man with a terrible temper and a pathetic assistant, he could be the First of the Magi, he could be a spectacular fraud, but whatever he is, he's about to make the lives of Logen, Jezal, and Glotka a whole lot more difficult. Murderous conspiracies rise to the surface, old scores are ready to be settled, and the line between hero and villain is sharp enough to draw blood.

2006

The Blade Itself (The First Law

2007

Sharp ends

2016

Last argument of kings

2008

The First Law Book One

2006

Page views of Joe Abercrombies by language

Over the past year Joe Abercrombie has had the most page views in the English wikipedia edition with 240,945 views, followed by Russian (101,655), and Spanish (50,102). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Estonian (58.72%), Ukrainian (57.36%), and Hebrew (36.36%)