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Realm of the Elderlings · Book 4

Ship of Magic

by Robin Hobb
Published
1 January 1998
Pages
699
ISBN-13
9780593724309
Type
novel
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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.

Key facts about Ship of Magic

Robin Hobb wrote Ship of Magic, a novel on our list. It has been out since 1998. The book has 699 pages.

We list 3 editions of this novel. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9780593724309 to find the main one.

Ship of Magic is book 4 of 16 in the Realm of the Elderlings series. The series has 16 published books. However, the series starts with Assassin's Apprentice (1995).

Additionally, Robin Hobb writes The Ki and Vandien Quartet and The Soldier Son Trilogy as separate series. Those series sit on our fantasy and epic fantasy shelves. Meanwhile, Assassin's Fate is the latest published Robin Hobb book on file, from May 2017.

About Robin Hobb

Robin Hobb is the primary pen name of Margaret Astrid Lindholm Ogden, an American fantasy author best known for the Realm of the Elderlings, a sprawling sequence of interconnected trilogies beginning with the Farseer Trilogy (Assassin's Apprentice, Royal Assassin, Assassin's Quest) and continuing through the Liveship Traders, Tawny Man, Rain Wild Chronicles, and Fitz and the Fool trilogies. See every Robin Hobb book in order.

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…

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