Joe Abercrombie: Heroism and villainy are often matters of where one stands PanARMENIAN.Net - British fantasy writer Joe Abercrombie regularly delights readers with new novels and a fresh take on the genre. What are some of your favorite books on history that you would recommend to readers who love your novels? I don’t think specific heroes or characters that map exactly in quite that way, but certainly events, details, situations. I tend to think that right and wrong are complex constructions rather than absolutes, that everyone has complex mixtures of motives, and that heroism and villainy are often matters of where one stands. And they had good plumbing so that’s a plus.I don’t think specific heroes or characters that map exactly in quite that way, but certainly events, details, situations.