The Healthy Dead

Bauchelain and Korbal Broach arrive in a city governed by a Wellness Council that has banned every conceivable vice — drink, meat, sloth, sin — in the name of civic virtue. The population is miserable.

When the necromancer and his companion set up practice, the collision between their complete moral freedom and the city's totalitarian wellness doctrine produces Erikson's most sustained piece of political satire. The Healthy Dead is a comedy of ideas disguised as a horror novella: a skewering of moral paternalism, prohibitionist thinking, and the violence inherent in enforced virtue.

Emancipor Reese suffers, as always.