The First Book of Swords (Orbit Books) - Softcover
For a game, the gods have given the world 12 Swords of Power so that they might be amused as the nations battle for their possession. But Vulcan the Smith has had his own little joke: the Swords can kill the gods themselves. What started out as Divine Jest has become all too serious as the gods fight to recover the Swords, and mortals discover that the mantle of power is more delicious and more terrible than anything they could have imagined.
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Fred Saberhagen (1930-2007) is the author of the popular Berserker (tm) Series, the Dracula series and the bestselling Lost Swords and Book of Lost Swords.
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- PublisherOrbit
- Publication date1988
- ISBN 10 0708881491
- ISBN 13 9780708881491
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages320
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