Incarnations of Immortality · Book 4
Wielding a Red Sword
- Published
- 1 January 1986
- Pages
- 320
- ISBN-13
- 9780345322210
- Type
- novel
About this book
Wielding a Red Sword, written by Piers Anthony, is the fourth book in the Incarnations of Immortality series, dated 1986. It spans 320 pages and follows the reluctant new War, who must decide whether conflict can ever be wielded justly.
Its place in Incarnations of Immortality
Wielding a Red Sword is book 4 in the Incarnations of Immortality series. It follows With a Tangled Skein. It is followed by Being a Green Mother. See the full Incarnations of Immortality reading order.
Death, Time, Fate, War, Nature, Evil, and Good are not just abstractions in this series — they are jobs, held by mortals who take on the office (and its immense, world-shaping power) the way someone might inherit a business. Each novel follows a different ordinary person's recruitment into one of these cosmic offices: a suicidal man becomes the new Death and must learn to collect souls with fairness rather than cruelty; a woman with the second sight of Fate must weave the threads of countless lives; the reluctant…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780345322210