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An edition of The Book of Swords (2017)

The Book of Swords

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Publisher
Bantam Books
Language
English
Pages
562

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First Sentence

"One day in 1963, I stopped in a drugstore on the way home from high school (at the time, spinner racks full of mass-market paperbacks in drugstores were one of the few places in our town where books were available; there was no actual bookstore), and spotted on the rack an anthology called The Unknown, edited by D.R. Bensen."

Table of Contents

vi. Introduction -- by Gardner Dozois
3. The best man wins -- by K. J. Parker
33. His father's sword -- by Robin Hobb
61. The hidden girl -- by Ken Liu
89. The sword of destiny -- by Matthew Hughes
121. "I am a handsome man," said Apollo Crow -- by Kate Elliott
153. The triumph of virtue -- by Walter Jon Williams
185. The mocking tower -- by Daniel Abraham
213. Hrunting -- by C. J. Cherryh
243. A long, cold trail -- by Garth Nix
275. When I was a highwayman -- by Ellen Kushner
299. The smoke of gold is glory -- by Scott Lynch
345. The colgrid conundrum -- by Rich Larson
381. The king's evil -- by Elizabeth Bear
415. Waterfalling -- by Lavie Tidhar
453. The sword tyraste -- by Cecelia Holland
477. The sons of the dragon -- by George R. R. Martin.

Edition Notes

2 4 6 8 9 7 5 3 1; First Edition
$30.00; C$40.00

Published in
New York City, New York, USA
Copyright Date
2017

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
813/.0876608
Library of Congress
PS648.F3 B663 2017, PS648.F3B663 2017

Contributors

Book Designer
Caroline Cunningham
Cover Art
Steve Youll
Cover Design
Susan Schultz

The Physical Object

Format
Hardcover
Pagination
xviii, 544 pages
Number of pages
562
Dimensions
24.1 x 16.3 x 3.7 centimeters
Weight
832 grams

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL26929812M
ISBN 10
0399593764
ISBN 13
9780399593765
LCCN
2017011852
OCLC/WorldCat
969372008

Work Identifiers

Work ID
OL19716677W

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