Realm of the Elderlings · Book 4
Ship of Magic
- Published
- 1 January 1998
- Pages
- 699
- ISBN-13
- 9780593724309
- Type
- novel
About this book
Ship of Magic, from 1998, opens the Liveship Traders trilogy and shifts the series to a new cast and setting -- sentient, memory-hungry sailing ships and slave-trade politics -- in the same world Fitz occupied in Farseer. It's the fourth entry in the Realm of the Elderlings at 699 pages, and the trilogy where dragons truly enter the story.
Its place in Realm of the Elderlings
Ship of Magic is book 4 in the Realm of the Elderlings series. It follows Assassin's Quest. It is followed by The Mad Ship. See the full Realm of the Elderlings reading order.
Realm of the Elderlings is Robin Hobb's umbrella name for sixteen novels across five trilogies and quartets, all set in the same world and connected above all by FitzChivalry Farseer — a royal bastard trained as a covert assassin, bonded against every rule of his society to a wolf, and forced across decades to keep choosing duty over the one thing he actually wants. The saga opens with the Farseer trilogy's court intrigue and blood magic, widens into the Liveship Traders trilogy's sentient, memory-hungry sailing…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780593724309
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780007459728
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780553900255