Villains by Necessity

Villains by Necessity is a fantasy novel written by Eve Forward, daughter of Robert L. Forward.

Villains by Necessity
Cover of first edition (hardcover)
AuthorEve Forward
Cover artistDarrell K. Sweet
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
GenreFantasy novel
PublisherTor Books
Publication date
1995
Media typePrint (Hardcover & Paperback)
Pages446 pages

Synopsis

Over a century after the ultimate triumph of good over evil, the world's last assassin and the world's last thief discover from a druid that, without more evil, the world will be destroyed. With the help of an evil sorceress and a black knight, the party sets out to save it from the misguided forces of good.

Reception

Kirkus Reviews called it "frothy and ingenious", and praised its "agreeable, mildly humorous streak", but ultimately judged it "unsuspenseful and too long".[1] At the SF Site, Steven H. Silver considered it to have been "ambitious", but too reminiscent of a Dungeons & Dragons campaign, with "anachronistic" humor, and evil characters whose evilness lacks "any real depth".[2]

gollark: How can drones damage you?
gollark: Unless they just use the internet to download a big program for control. That would work fine.
gollark: Firstly, you can just pick up drones with screnches. Secondly, they can't actually fire weapons or anything as far as I know (maybe they could drop radioactive material, that would be !!FUN!!). Thirdly, I doubt the drones are very secure.
gollark: Anyway, don't worry much about killer drones, they make poor weapons.
gollark: I wonder if you could automatically try and trilaterate/triangulate radiation sources using a network of Geiger counters.

References
  1. VILLAINS BY NECESSITY by Eve L. Forward, reviewed at Kirkus Reviews; published January 1, 1995; archived online May 20, 2010; retrieved October 27, 2018
  2. VILLAINS BY NECESSITY by Eve Forward, reviewed by Steven H. Silver, at the SF Site; first published no later than April 17, 1999 (date of earliest version on archive.org); retrieved October 27, 2018

See also
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